IACD SEEKING YOUTH REPS AT THE UN – DEADLINE EXTENSION

IACD is looking to appoint two members (between 18-32) to join our team of volunteer representatives able to attend UN NGO consultation meetings in New York and/or Geneva. To be considered as a rep you must be an IACD member, able to attend meetings in New York and/or Geneva and able to commit time to being part of our team of volunteer members who attend UN-NGO gatherings and consultations.

IACD has six member representatives at the UN. Currently these are Paul Lachapelle, IACD President, Anastasia Crickley, IACD VP and current chair of the UN Committee on Racial Discrimination, Tony Kimbowa, who works at the UN, Randy Adams, Esther Farmer and John Stansfield.

IACD is the only global network for professional community development practitioners. We are accredited with the UN and have members across the world.  https://www.iacdglobal.org/

IACD’s overall strategy at the U.N. is to:

  1. Continue to profile the contribution of community development towards addressing the U.N. SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals);
  2. Develop IACD’s strategy for ongoing work on the SDGs and their implementation;
  3. Engage with appropriate international UN civil society coalitions working on the SDGs towards strengthening our contribution to the High-Level Forums and other instruments monitoring their implementation;
  4. Develop further our relations with the UN sections responsible for community development.

Scope of Work:

  • Determining which organizations at the UN are important for IACD to make contact with.
  • Assessing which UN meetings are important to attend.
  • Attending those meetings and networking for IACD
  • Working to raise IACDs profile at the UN
  • Communicating to IACD members the relevant issues at the UN.
  • Preparing written reports on issues we may want to weigh in on.
  • Liaison with the other UN IACD reps

IACD is unable to pay our member reps to attend these meetings, but it would be a rewarding experience for younger members keen to experience more about the workings of the UN and to represent the interests of IACD members at these meetings. IACD’s other UN reps will be available to provide mentoring and other support for our youth representatives.

If you are interested, please send a short 500 word mini CV about yourself and your involvement in community development, together with a brief 100 word statement about why you would like to become part of the IACD team representing the association at UN. This should be sent to IACD President, Paul Lachapelle paul.lachapelle@montana.edu no later than 1st March 2018.

Please mark your e mail IACD UN Youth Rep application.