¿Qué es GCAP?

• Social Justice Task Force on Discrimination Based on Work and Descent
• El Grupo de Trabajo de las Organizaciones de Mujeres y de Derechos Feministas (FTF)
• El Grupo de Infancia y Juventud
• El Grupo de Trabajo de Personas Socialmente Excluidas (SETF)
• El Grupo de Trabajo de los Ancianos

África

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  Oumar Sow

  Co-Chair

  Senegal

  GCAP Senegal

  Oumar is the head of GCAP Senegal and is a dynamic and highly experienced person with management and coordination experience. His work with GCAP started in working for GCAP as main person responsible for advocacy. Being responsible for the STAND UP campaign being the focal and coordination point and being a coordinator for the action2015 campaign in Senegal. Ourmar is very familiar in the international NGO sector and has experience leading and coordinating different networks. …Leer mas
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  Salina Sanou

  Co-Chair

  Kenya

  Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development (ACORD)

  Salina Sanou is a renown pan-African expert on education and gender with a particular focus on women, small scale farmers in rural and in conflict settings. She is the Head of Policy and Advocacy at the Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development (ACORD), heading a pan African advocacy programme mirroring four thematic areas: livelihoods, particularly right to food; conflict transformation and peacebuilding; gender justice and women’s rights and the right to health. She is also currently the focal point for the post 2015/SDGs agenda process within the organization. She has more than 17 years’ experience in women’s rights advocacy, research and project management. Prior to joining ACORD, she has worked across the African continent with various organisations including FAWE, CARE, Oxfam and the UN Millennium Project. She has authored many publications and position papers including Pastoralist Education in Mali and Niger; Pastoralist schools in Mali: Gendered Roles and Curriculum Realities and Beyond Access: Transforming Policy and Practice for Gender Equality in Education. She is a graduate of both University of Nairobi, Kenya and McGill University, Canada. …Leer mas

Asia

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  Beckie Malay

  Co-Chair

  Philippines

  Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM) / GCAP Philippines

  Beckie serves as the Chair of the GCAP Global Foundation. She worked with the Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement for more than 20 years during which she worked with farmers, fisherfolk, women, and youth implementing integrated sustainable development programmes. She is in charge of policy, advocacy and campaigns on issues such as political and electoral reform, debt, trade, climate justice, and the nexus between human rights and sustainable development at the local, national and global levels. Beckie studied development economics and enjoys good music and good food.
  
  Since 2015 she has been active in the SDG-related UN processes such as the Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development and the UN High Level Political Forum. She is the Regional Organising Partner for the UN NGO Major Groups for Asia. …Leer mas
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  Nichol Ng

  Singapore

  ONE (SINGAPORE)

  Nichol Ng is currently the President of ONE(SINGAPORE) which aims to eradicate poverty in Singapore and has been actively involved with the organisation since 2009. She co-founded The Food Bank Singapore in 2012 www.foodbank.sg, which aims to end food insecurity in Singapore by 2025. FBSG collects and re-distributes excess food to about 360 non-profit organisations, reaching out to more than 300,000 underprivileged. Professionally ,Nichol is the CEO of the X-Inc group of companies. Personally, she is the mother to 4 young children with her life partner of more than 23 years. …Leer mas

Constituency Groups

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  Paul Divakar

  Co-Chair

  India

  GCAP Social Justice Task Force on Discrimination Based on Work and Descent

  N. Paul Divakar is an advocate for Dalit rights, an expert on Economic Rights, and a Human Rights Defender. He is one of the founding members of the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR). He serves as the Chairperson of the Asia Dalit Rights Forum (ADRF), which works in the South Asia region on inclusion and issues around untouchability and caste-based discrimination. ADRF convenes the Social Justice Task Force (SJTF) of GCAP. He is also the Convenor of the Global Forum on DWD (Discrimination Based on Work and Descent). He has been a key actor in popularising the sustainable development goals and bringing in the aspect of inclusion in the discourse on the new development paradigm. He is a former member of the Executive Board of Amnesty International. He has been recently voted by Outlook magazine as one among the 50 most influential Dalit Leaders in the country.
  
  He has been actively engaging with the communities in strengthening access to justice, gender concerns especially on the intersectionality of Gender and Caste, financial accountability, transparency and participation. His deep interest for the economic empowerment of the Dalits led to initiating a campaign in India for advocating for equity budgeting from the lens of the marginalised. …Leer mas

América Latina y el Caribe

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  Georgina Muñoz Pavon

  Co-Chair

  Nicaragua

  Latindadd

  Georgina es la copresidenta de Latindadd con sede en Nicaragua. Su interés y enfoque de las políticas públicas y el impacto político en las cuestiones de justicia social y económica. …Leer mas
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  César Artiga

  El Salvador

  Movimiento Enlaces por la Sustentabilidad / GCAP El Salvador

  Soy es una persona comprometida con la creación de una sociedad diferente, que manifieste una Paz Sustentable Duradera para las actuales y venideras generaciones, por medio del acompañamiento a procesos organizativos y de incidencia para elevar y amplificar las voces de los pueblos y sus capacidades de propuestas y soluciones.
  
  Formo parte de diversas organizaciones, redes y movimientos nacionales, regionales e internacionales sobre asuntos globales como desigualdades, cambio climático, paz y seguridad, hábitat y ciudades, gestión del riesgo de desastres, financiación para el desarrollo, entre otros.
  He sido fundador de iniciativas nacionales y regionales sobre juventudes, cultura de paz y sustentabilidad, actualmente soy Mentor Joven del Foro Latinoamericano y Caribeño de Juventudes (FLACJ), a nivel nacional soy el Coordinador del Equipo Impulsor Nacional del Acuerdo de Escazú y del Grupo Impulsor Nacional de la Resolución 2250 sobre Juventud, Paz y Seguridad. …Leer mas

Europe

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  Constantinos Machairas

  Treasurer

  Greece

  Organization Earth

  Constantinos is the Executive Director of Organization Earth, a Greek civil society organization that offers transformative learning on sustainability as well as organizing collective action on global citizenship. He is a member of the Steering Committee of SDG Watch EU, Europe’s largest cross-sectoral alliance of NGOs with the goal of holding governments to account for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. He serves as the General Secretary of IFOAM AgriBioMediterraneo, the regional group consisting of the Mediterranean members of the International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movement (IFOAM). Since November 2016, Constantinos has been the President of the Hellenic Platform for Development the Greek coalition of NGOs promoting the SDGs. In addition, he is a Member of the Boards of Directors at ActionAid Hellas, at specialized Vocational Training Center Margarita for people with intellectual disabilities and a member of the temporary Steering Committee of the recently established UN Global Compact Greece. …Leer mas
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  Justina Kaluinaite

  Lithuania

  Lithuanian NGDO Platform

  Current policy, advocacy, and partnership coordinator at Lithuanian NGDO Platform, co-founder of the civic movement "Me for Lithuania" and founder of a global social enterprise on community development and fair trade. From leading executive role to volunteer more than 10 years of civic actions and activism.
  Focus on Lithuanian national - global policies, SDGs, CSOs empowerment in national and global level, experience in variuos global context on social empowerment and developmental focus.
  Professional interest: community inclusion and social work, development architecture and cooperation, mediation and humanitarian education, civic activism, and social entrepreneurship.
  Educational background - Advanced MAS in Humanitarian Education, MAS in Social work with children and youth. Extended long-term educational program on international relation and humanitarian action. …Leer mas

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  Ingo Ritz

  Director

  Belgium

  ingo.ritz@gcap.global

  Ingo is the Director of Global Call to Action Against Poverty since 2013. He coordinates the decentralized Global Secretariat and is based in the GCAP Europe Secretariat in Brussels. As part of his role he supports national coalitions in their work on the Sustainable Development Agenda after 2015 and is active at the regional and global levels to ensure the inclusion of socially excluded groups and gender equality as part of the new framework. A trade economist from Germany, he has been a part of GCAP through GCAP Germany since 2004, and he worked as the Executive Director of the German Civil Society organization NETZ Partnership for Development Justice from 2001 to 2013. In NETZ he worked with local and national development human rights organisations in Bangladesh and India and performed advocacy work in Germany and towards European institutions. The focus of his work in Bangladesh and India was on income generation, education and the rights-based approach of marginalized people in remote rural areas. …Leer mas
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  Kyerewa Asamoah Sekpey

  Leave No Woman Behind Project Coordinator of GCAP Africa

  Ghana

  kyerewa.asamoah@gcap.global

  As a team-player and bilingual professional with demonstrated abilities in development program coordination, training/facilitation, the uncanny gift in identifying and harnessing human, capabilities. She has about ten (10) years’ experience in development work with extensive exposure to varied cultures, and good understanding for contemporary development issues especially on gender and youth development issues. Ms Asamoah enriches teams she is privileged to work with. With a previous UNDP Civil Society Resource Center working experience based in Ghana, specifically tasked with Youth Focused issues and volunteer with reputable Youth NGOs, Ms Asamoah has the rich experience in advocacy and forging strategic alliances with governmental agencies, local and foreign partners for effective program implementation. She is a passionate campaigner and advocate for poverty reduction and equality for all. Until recently, she coordinated the activities of over 800 registered organizations in Africa under the campaign named Action2015 campaign which seeks to remind stakeholders and especially governments to fulfil their promises of reducing poverty at all levels and achieving the Millennium Development Goals and also to commit to the new agenda of Sustainable development Goals.
  Kyerewa is currently working with Ghana, Kenya and Mali coalitions on “Leave No Woman behind” project supported by Voice Global led by Ghana Federation of people with Disability (GFD) and GCAP as the project coordinator. …Leer mas
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  Pradeep Baisakh

  Asia Coordinator

  India

  pradeep.baisakh@gcap.global

  Pradeep Baisakh is the Asia Coordinator since July 2015. He coordinates GCAP actions in Asia done by the National Coalition members. He also coordinates the larger civil society platform on SDG, the Asia Civil Society Partnership for Sustainable development (APSD). Pradeep is from India and has nearly thirteen years of experience in development sector. He comes with splendid understanding of the grassroots development from his early years of work. He is also an award winning journalist for his development reporting. and has written columns for some prominent newspapers and websites in India, as well as international journals. His research experience includes among others, being part of a research project on “Material Cultures of Financial literacy among Rural and Urban Poor in India” done by University of California, Irvine. …Leer mas
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  Tanja Gohlert

  Europe Coordinator and Head of Global Communications

  Belgium

  tanja.gohlert@gcap.global

  Tanja Gohlert joined GCAP in the autumn of 2017. She coordinates GCAP's European coalitions and as well as the DEAR project, on behalf of GCAP. She leads GCAP's communications work, and has been responsible for the development of GCAP's new website and identity. In addition, she is co-chair of SDG Watch Europe's Strand 3 working group on communications. …Leer mas
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  Johannes Butscher

  Campaigns Officer

  Colombia

  johannes.butscher@gcap.global

  Johannes studied and worked in Scotland prior to joining the GCAP Brussels Office in 2015 and is part of the Global Secretariat since then. In March 2017 he moved to Colombia to pursue a part time degree in Peacebuilding and to support local peace initiatives. …Leer mas
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  Sandrine De Fru

  Finance and Administration Manager

  Belgium

  sandrine.defru@gcap.global

  Sandrine De Fru joined GCAP in May 2020, to coordinate and manage the Finance and Administration of GCAP Global. During more than 25 years in the private sector she developed strong skills in Managerial Finance, Human Resources, Change management and Process Improvement. She brings her experience to GCAP, combined with a passion for people and a wish to engage for a better future for all. …Leer mas
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  Dorothy Namuyiga

  Finance and Administration Officer

  Belgium

  dorothy.namuyiga@gcap.global

  Originally from Uganda, Dorothy has been living in Brussels since 2002. She has 5 years teaching experience in Uganda. She also has more than 5 years experience in finance, accounting and administration. …Leer mas

GCAP y sus socios han construido conjuntamente estas plataformas globales y regionales y desempeñan un papel clave en su coordinación.

• Action for Sustainable Development (A4SD)

  GCAP está representada en el grupo de facilitación y actúa como agente fiscal de A4SD.

  

• The Africa CSO Working Group

  GCAP Africa es uno de los tres copresidentes.

  

• Asia Civil Society Partnership on Sustainable Development (APSD)

  GCAP Asia está representada en el Comité Directivo de la ADSD y es sede de la Secretaría.

  

• SDG Watch Europe

  GCAP Europa está representada en el grupo directivo, copreside el Panel 3 y codirige la Secretaría en rotación con otros miembros.

  

GCAP es también miembro de los siguientes Grupos Principales de las Naciones Unidas:

• NGO Major Group

  

• Women's Major Group

  

GCAP coopera políticamente con y recibe apoyo financiero de los siguientes socios.

• Bread for the World

  

• UN SDG Action Campaign

  

• VOICE

  

• Unión Europea / EEB

  

• European Union / Diakonie ČCE