Issue: 125
“Sports can unleash an incredible amount of positive energy for achieving great causes,” said Cihan Sultanoğlu, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Director of UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) at the signing ceremony. “With support from Galatasaray, the world’s anti-poverty efforts will get an enormous boost,” she added.
Last year, the world adopted the 17 global goals to end poverty and hunger, empower women and girls, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new global development agenda containing specific targets to be achieved over the next 15 years.
“We are proud of the club’s reputation as a world-class football team, as an education institution, and as an international sports brand, and can help tell the world that ending poverty is possible,” said Dursun Özbek, the President of Galatasaray. “This is our chance to get people involved and make a global impact.
By organizing football matches and campaigns, UNDP and Galatasaray will raise funds for a diversity of programmes to tackle poverty, inequalities and exclusion across the world.
At the signing ceremony, UNDP and Galatasaray also unveiled a public service announcement in which four players -- captain Selçuk İnan, goalkeeper Fernando Muslera of Uruguay, Aurélien Chedjou of Cameroon, and the Netherlands’ Wesley Sneijder -- are seen kicking the ball and urging people to “leave no one behind” in four languages.
Galatasaray won the UEFA Cup and UEFA Super Cup in 2000, becoming the first and only Turkish football team to win a European trophy. The club’s logo is adorned with four stars, representing 20 victories in the Super League. Based in Istanbul, it also operates a large network of schools and sports facilities.
The club has a tradition of embracing social causes in Turkey, having for instance set up aid campaigns for victims of a coal-mining disaster and flood-affected communities in 2014 and and 2015 respectively.
UNDP has been using football to highlight important global issues, sponsoring an annual Match Against Poverty under the leadership of football legends Zinédine Zidane of France and Ronaldo of Brazil since 2003. The two players are UNDP goodwill ambassadors.
With 125 million people needing humanitarian assistance as of the start of this year – the highest number since the Second World War – the world is at a critical juncture. Crises are increasingly complex and last longer than ever before, including conflict, disasters and forced displacement. Climate change is making the situation even more volatile.
In response UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will convene the first ever World Humanitarian Summit on 23 and 24 May in Istanbul. The Summit will bring together leaders from government, business, international and regional organizations, humanitarian organizations, first responders, community networks, academia and civil society.
It is one in a series of key events this year that provide an historic opportunity and renewed momentum to meet these global challenges by fundamentally changing how the world deals with crises.
Humanitarian, development and peace and security actors must find new ways to work together, before, during and in recovery from crisis, not in competition or in isolation from one another.
We must invest more in disaster risk reduction and preparedness, preventing need, and building resilience to future shocks. We also need to look at new ways of financing crisis response so that we both meet the urgent, life-saving needs while also investing in the reduction of humanitarian need overall. Where we face protracted crises, we need more flexible, multi-year financing.
Put simply, we have to end need, not just deliver aid. This is essential if we are to meet the ambitious 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.
At the Summit, world leaders from government, business, civil society and the United Nations will announce commitments and launch new initiatives.
The Secretary-General has called for the implementation of commitments to begin immediately following the Summit and for measurable progress within the next three years.
Being a production of joint work by Hatice Gökçe and Zehra Zülfikar, the collection’s face has been the famous actress and model Sema Şimşek.
Argande has been created as a brand to give life for the regional products under the brand coordinatorship of the fashion designer Hatice Gökçe. Hatice Gökçe and Zehra Zülfikar jointly gave life to 2016 Spring-Summer Collection titled “Takdim”of the brand Argande.
The nymphes in the Turkish mitology are to protect water, the essence of creation and the life. The nymphes of the Turkish mitology has been brought back to life through the collection named “Takdim.
Inspired from the only goddess of the Kommagene civilisation of Mesopotamia, Argande has reborn as a brand in the hands of Southeast Anatolian women.
The modern Argande aims the involvement of women in the labour market as well as the brandization of the Southeast Anatolia, creation of new sales and marketing opportunities.
The collection, called ‘Introduction, was designed to honor the water, the source of life, which changes and transforms but stays the same in essence and which is essential for all creatures. The photo shooting of the collection was made in Halfeti by Jerry Stolwijk, renowned hair designer and photo artist. The make up design was made by Meryem Perilhou. The face of the Introduction collection and Argande brand was Sema Şimşek.
The Story of Argande
With the aim of contributing to the social and economic empowerment of women, “Innovations for Women's Empowerment in Southeast Anatolia Project” has been implemented since May 2008 under the partneship of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and GAP Regional Development Administration and financial support of Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). The products of the Project has been gathered under the brand Argande.
Argande aims the involvement of women in the labour market as well as the brandization of the Southeast Anatolia, creation of new sales and marketing opportunities.
“Project Competition on Innovative Solutions for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in Southeast Anatolia Region” aims to reach students at technical, vocational and common highschools and vocational schools in Gaziantep, Şanlıurfa, Kilis, Adıyaman, Diyarbakır, Mardin, Batman, Siirt, and Şırnak. Through the competition it is planned to support the students to develop ideas and proposals that are innovative and applicable in the context of themes defined for renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Proposals for innovative solutions in the area of renewable energy and energy efficiency will be evaluated within two topics: conceptual work and applicable works.
Application form can be reached at www.gapgreen.org
Project Competition on Innovative Solutions for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in Southeast Anatolia Region is initiated within the framework of “Utilization of Renewable Energy Resources and Increasing Energy Efficiency in Southeast Anatolia Region project. Project is being implemented by the Southeast Anatolia Regional Development Administration (GAP RDA) in cooperation with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
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