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The Fran Plan: A Women's Cancer Education Initiative Commitment by: Cancer Schmancer Movement Focus Area: Global Health Introduction: Cancer Schmancer is dedicated to lowering cancer incidence and mortality by transforming women from patients into informed medical consumers, teaching the importance and methods of early detection, and shifting this nation's priority from looking for a cure, to prevention and early detection. Read More

United Against Malaria Commitment by: PATH Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation United Nations Foundation Focus Area: Global Health Introduction: United Against Malaria is a partnership founded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Comic Relief, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Malaria No More, ONE, PATH, Populations Services International,the Roll Back Malaria partnership, the United Nations Foundation and the UN Special Envoy for Malaria. The purpose is to engage football teams and heroes, celebrities, health and advocacy organizations, governments, corporations and the public to commit their personal and institutional power, assets and relationships in the lead up to the World Cup 2010 in South Africa and dramatically accelerate progress against malaria. Specifically, united through this "joint venture," these individuals and organizations will use football, the world's most popular sport, to raise global awareness and renew worldwide commitemnt to prioritize and end malaria, as well as to significantly increase the use of prevention tools and malaria treatment in Africa. Read More

Incorporating Fortified Rice in India's School Lunch Program Commitment by: PATH Focus Area: Global Health Introduction: PATH and its partners currently fund the fortification of rice-based meals with iron-rich Ultra Rice® in a catchment area of 60,000 schoolchildren through the Government of India's Mid-Day Meal Scheme, which reaches 120 million beneficiaries each day. (Ultra Rice is a registered trademark in the United States of Bon Dente International, Inc.). To build upon the success of this model, PATH and its implementing partners seek new funding partners to buy the Ultra Rice grains necessary for expanding the fortification program to more than 800,000 schoolchildren. Fortifying schoolchildren's rice-based meals with micronutrient-packed, manufactured Ultra Rice grains, typically blended at a 1:100 ratio, will significantly boost the children's dietary intake of iron for less than $0.40 per child, per year— cost-effectively improving both their cognitive and physical development. This short-term injection of funding will also encourage state governments to adopt Ultra Rice technology for similar meal programs and will help build the market for fortified rice. Increasing the demand for Ultra Rice will enable production partners to reach economies of scale— making the incremental cost of rice fortification more affordable to governments and better enabling them to improve the health of millions of malnourished schoolchildren throughout India. Read More

Social Impact Bonds: Aligning Social & Financial Return Commitment by: Social Finance Focus Area: Economic Empowerment Introduction: In the UK and in many other countries, those that serve prison sentences shorter than a year receive no formal support to help them to resettle successfully into the community. As a result, 73% of these short sentence offenders go on to reoffend within 2 years of release. Social Finance has developed the Social Impact Bond, a powerful new financing mechanism to address this issue. Social Impact Bonds raise investment to fund preventative programs. Investors receive returns from government on the basis of improved social outcomes, such as reduced reoffending, that deliver cost savings to government. This will drive significant investment into addressing the causes of deep-rooted social problems and create a new way of working between government and socially motivated investors. Social Finance commits to work with the UK government to develop this mechanism to break the cycle of reoffending and seeks partners to broaden its application in dealing with social issues around the world. Read More

Medeem: Formalizing Land Rights of the Poor Commitment by: Corporate Initiatives Development Group, LLC Focus Area: Economic Empowerment Introduction: Medeem is a legal empowerment initiative providing an innovative, private-sector led approach to the formalization of land rights of the poor. By leveraging GIS technologies and utilizing existing distribution networks of microfinance lenders, Medeem is able to provide the poor with an affordable and accessible means to formalize their land rights and, as a result, gain greater access to captial. Medeem focuses on building human capital within its Ghanaian partners to create a viable and self-sustaining, in-county solution to transitioning the land assets of the poor from the informal to the formal sector. Building upon a successful pilot program in Ghana, this commitment will expand Medeem's unique paralegal title program nationwide with the goal of providing a quarter-million of Ghana's poor with formal documentation of their land rights. Read More

Leadership Launch: 1GOAL World Cup Education Campaign Commitment by: Rania Al Abdullah Focus Area: Education Introduction: A launch and public announcement and commitment of the leadership of the 1GOAL: Education for All Campaign, bringing together humanitarian, government, private sector and NGO leaders in an unprecedented effort to make the lasting legacy of the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa access to education for all children. Read More

Sustainable Solutions to End Hidden Hunger in Haiti Commitment by: The Micronutrient Initiative Focus Area: Global Health Introduction: The Micronutrient Initiative (MI) is commited to improving the nutritional status of women and children in Haiti by supporting evidence-based micronutrient programming at a national scale. MI will fund a coordinator position to join the Government of Haiti's Food and Nutrition Directorate in the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), provide in-kind donations of vitamin A and iodine supplements, and lend MI staff time from key technical experts at MI HQ. This individual will act as the technical focal point for all micronutrient programming, specifically coordinating the re-launch of bi-annual events called Child Health Weeks (CHWs) to deliver vitamin A supplements for child survival, iodine oil supplements for women and child health, and other mother and child health interventions. National CHWs are well-accepted, cost-effective platforms that ensure delivery of essential health services to children and women of childbearing age. This innovative funding arrangement will leverage the strengths and resources of local and international organizations on the ground in Haiti, while equally strengthening the capacity of the MoPH's Food and Nutrition Directorate to effectively implement practical solutions to combat life-threatening and delibitating micronutrient deficiencies in Haiti. MI has been supporting Micronutrient programs in Haiti for a decade and will continue to do so as it is a high priority country given its indicators (highest U5MR in the LAC region and VMD prevalence of public health concern). Through the MoU it has signed with the MoPH MI is committed to funding this position for a period of 3 years – starting 01 Sept. 1st, 2009 to August 31st, 2012. Read More

Football for Hope - 20 Centres for 2010 Commitment by: Fédération Internationale de Football Association Focus Area: Education Introduction: Over the next five years, and as part of the Official Campaign and social legacy of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, FIFA is committing $9 million to create 20 community centers throughout Africa (the Football for Hope Centres). These centres will address social challenges the communities face, including providing public health and education facilities and football-based development programmes. Read More

Free A Village: Achieve Freedom Dividend Commitment by: Free the Slaves Focus Area: Economic Empowerment Introduction: Free the Slaves commits to freeing seven additional Indian villages of slavery within 3 years. After breaking the shackles of slavery, freed villagers begin building new lives of dignity and sustainable freedom. Freed villages are linked together to become a strong force for the eradication of slavery and trafficking in neighboring communities. Their freedom results in a Freedom Dividend, a wide range of social and economic benefits that begins an upward spiral of development for the entire region. Read More

Athletes for the Earth Commitment by: Earth Day Network Focus Area: Environment & Energy Introduction: Athletes are role models, especially for young people, and in the upcoming Olympic year all eyes will be on the world's athletes as they interact with their environment. Earth Day Network will involve athletes around the world as spokespeople for Earth Day as well as raise awareness at global athletic events leading up to Earth Day. Beginning with the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, EDN will record professional and Olympic athletes in public service announcements, both video and audio, about the impacts of climate on their countries and their sports. The program will also illustrate the interaction of athletes with their environment and connect popular athletic activities with environmental stewardship. Earth Day Network will produce a minimum of 180 video and audio public service announcements featuring Olympic, professional, and other athletes. PSAs include athletes perspectives on the impacts of climate on their sports, children, their countries' economic well being, and their future. Earth Day commits to recording and distributing PSAs for all 180 countries that are particiating in Earth Day 40, with a focus on playing videos in K-12 schools, other public events and radio and television stations in 180 countries. More than 15 have been recorded already and are available for review. Read More

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