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)