UNDP-CSO

United Nations Development Programme Civil Society Organizations Advisory Committee (UNDP-CSO) "was set up in 2000 to provide advice to senior management on programme and policy directions, advocacy efforts, and strategic CSO/UNDP initiatives and activities.

"The Committee, which meets once a year in New York, is composed of civil society leaders from around the world."

Committee Members (2005)

Accessed August 2007:

• Sunila Abeysekera, Executive Director Inform, Human Rights Documentation Centre (Sri Lanka)
• Charles Abugre, Executive Director Integrated Social Development Centre, ISODEC (Ghana)
• Hizkias Assefa, Director African Peace Building and Reconciliation Network (Kenya)
• Peter Bakvis, Director, Washington Office International Confederation of Trade Unions (ICFTU) and associated Global Union Federations (Belgium)
• Roberto Bissio, Coordinator Social Watch (Uruguay)
• John Cavanagh, Director Institute for Policy Studies (United States)
• Candido Grzybowski, Director Instituto Brasileiro de Análises Sociais e Econômicas, IBASE (Brazil)
• David Gzirishvilli, Board Member Partnership for Social Initiatives, PSI (Georgia)
• Martin Khor, Director Third World Network, TWN (Malaysia)
• Greetje Lubbi, Chair Jubilee Netherlands (The Netherlands)
• Sunita Narain, Deputy Director Centre for Science and Environment, CSE (India)
• Amanda Romero-Medina, Quaker Representative for the Andean Region American Friends Service Committee (Colombia)
• Ziad Abdel Samad, Executive Director Arab NGO Network for Development, ANND (Lebanon)
• Gita Sen, Research Coordinator on the Political Economy of Globalization Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, DAWN (India)
• Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Executive Director Tebtebba Foundation, Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education (Philippines)