UN Consultative Status

In July 2009, GVN Foundation was granted Special Consultative Status by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

Consultative status opens the door for GVN Foundation to actively engage with the ESOSC and its subsidiary bodies, as well as with United Nations Secretariat, programmes, funds and agencies.

Colin Salisbury, GVN Foundation Chairman and co-founder says that it is a great honour to be recognised by the United Nations and granted special consultative status.

"Achieving NGO status marks a significant moment for GVN Foundation. We feel privileged to be given an opportunity to lend our expertise and contribute to the United Nations’ target of meeting the millennium development goals and ending extreme poverty by 2015,” Salisbury said.

Special Consultative status is granted to NGOs and non-profits that have a specialty in an activity area covered by the ESOSOC. GVN Foundation works to educate the global community about the possibility of ending extreme poverty in our lifetime, ties directly into ECOSOC’s millennium development goal work.

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