The finalists built projects including a build-your-own bracelet kit to help girls feel more safe on their way to school, a mass text service to provide safety to in-migrant girls in Cambodia and an initiative for developing global female STEM leaders through the distribution of hands on, educational content.
One of the key recognition of the themes of the 2015 Tokyo conference was the emergence of science and technology stakeholder's group that collectively brought a number of recommendations such as prompting scientific DRR research; establishing a university and researcher network; sharing data and encouraging open sourcing; developing global standards for DRR.
Viet Nam has made major strides in developing global partnerships for development since 2000, including assession to the World Trade Organization, expanded cooperation with ASEAN, a term as non-permanent member of the UN Security Council (2008-2009), and involvement in a number of new free trade agreements.
In 1995, AIMR formed a GIPS committee to work on developing global standards, and by 1999 the first edition of GIPS had been published.
Instrumental in developing global sports marketing strategy for PepsiCo, enabling different markets across the globe to use a consistent set if metrics to evaluate sponsorship opportunities.
The Institute is dedicated to developing global leaders with contextual intelligence: http://fletcher.tufts.edu/MIB/Ten-Questions.
Norms and standards setting – UNICEF provides leadership in developing global guidelines on infant and young child feeding in the context of HIV/AIDS.
"Children are at the heart of the Millennium Development Goals," she said, "eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education and gender equality, reducing child and maternal mortality, combating HIV/AIDS and other diseases, ensuring environmental sustainability and developing global partnerships for development.
The Codex Alimentarius Commission, as the body responsible for developing global food standards, has been identified by WHO as an important partner in the GSDPAH [ 21].
This requires feedback loops to be built-in to get the information back from the local health centres to national Ministries of Health and to the international organisations developing global guidance in the first place, such as WHO and UNICEF.
The GMI is an incredibly useful roadmap for developing global leadership skills and I utilize this framework in each of the global graduate courses that I teach.
