Overview of RESULTS Global Campaigns for 2010
Education for AllContext and OpportunityCongress has increased funding for basic education nearly ten-fold since 2001, but progress toward universal basic education is too slow. A new Global Fund for Education is an opportunity to leverage additional funding, improve aid effectiveness, and accelerate progress toward reaching the 72million primary school aged children currently out of school around the world. Objectives
ProgressRESULTS has focused its 2010 education campaign on the creation of a Global Fund for Education. To help lay the groundwork this next phase of U.S. leadership on global education, RESULTS volunteers have focused on generating media. To date, we have generated more than 35 pieces of grassroots media calling for a Global Fund for Education. In addition, RESULTS has Global Campaign for Education in building public and political support for a Global Fund for Education. With the U.S. Chapter of the Global Campaign for Education (which RESULTS co-chairs), we have worked to generate political will for the need to establish a Global Fund for Education. During the Global Action Week in April, we helped to organize a Capitol Hill media even with actress Jessica Alba and Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY), along with the NEA and AFT, to bring attention to the issue and launch Ms. Lowey's Education for All Act of 2010, which calls on the U.S. to help establish a Global Fund for Education. We will be working to gather cosponsors for this important bill. Joanne Carter, executive director of RESULTS/RESULTS Educational Fund, also joined Rep. Lowey and Joanna Kuebler, director of the Global Campaign for Education-U.S., on a national media conference call following the event (read more).
Economic OpportunityContext and OpportunityMicrofinance is a successful, cost-effective tool to help the very poor (those living on less than $1.25 a day) lift themselves out of poverty and improve the lives of their families. Despite a strong history of proven accomplishments, sustainable microfinance for the very poor has not been a central focus of U.S. foreign aid or World Bank development assistance. Objectives
ProgressIn addition to funding for microfinance, we are working with the Microenterprise Coalition to improve U.S. policies to most effectively utilize this funding. We are continuing to support congressional leaders in their efforts to urge the World Bank to undertake microfinance initiatives to benefit those living on less than $1.25 a day. Global HealthContext and OpportunityThe TB epidemic, fueled by TB-HIV co-infection and drug-resistance, remains a public health crisis. The Global Fund is the most effective tool the world has in the fight against TB as well as AIDS and malaria, yet it faces critical funding gaps. The 2008 Lantos-Hyde Act provides legislative authority and framework for a major scale-up to fight TB, but resources have not yet matched the need. Objectives
ProgressIn addition to funding for these priorities (see below), we are working to ensure that TB is not neglected by the Obama administration: TB is where the president’s proposed Global Health Initiative departs most dramatically from the Lantos-Hyde Act. The GHI consultation document proposes TB treatment targets that are inexplicably well below what is mandated in the bill. The president’s budget requests $230 million for TB in FY11 — a $5 million increase — well short of a path to reach the five-year $4 billion authorization in the bill and provide investment commensurate with the scale of devastation of this disease. World TB Day (March 24): Working in their local communities, RESULTS activists across the country took part in education and awareness building events for World TB Day. Five RESULTS groups in Sitka, AK; San Jose, CA; Madison, WI; Albuquerque, NM; and Ann Arbor, MI worked with the ACTION project to have TB specific events during the week of of World TB Day. The events used media calls, guest speakers, movie showings, and outreach was to build awareness and support for U.S. bilateral TB funding and for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.
AppropriationsContext and OpportunityPresident Barack Obama has promised to make the Millennium Development Goals the goals of the United States. This commitment will require significant new funding to meet the health, education and economic opportunity needs of the world’s poorest. ObjectivesIn FY11appropriations bills, secure:
ProgressThanks to RESULTS efforts: Senate FY11 Budget: RESULTS joined activists around the country to get 31 Senators to sign a key letter urging the Senate Budget Committee to provide a robust budget for international affairs in this year's (fiscal year 2011) budget. Read the final letter with signatures. Microfinance: 32 representatives signed a letter initiated by Reps. Holt (D-NJ) and Reichert (R-WA) supporting $500 million for microfinance in the FY11 budget. Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria: 98 representatives to signed the letter initiated by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) to the president asking him to include $1.75 billion for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria in his FY2011 budget. Read the final letter and see all the signatures! Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria: 55 representatives signed a letter initiated by Reps. Lee (D-CA) and Payne (D-NJ) supporting $1.75 billion for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria in the FY11 budget Tuberculosis: 41 representatives signed the Payne-Young FY10 TB letter to appropriators requesting $650 million for global TB programs. This letter was key in pushing the Committee to include an additional $50 million over the Subcommittee level for global TB. In addition, 12 senators signed the Sen. Brown (D-OH) letter to Senate appropriators requesting $2 billion for the Global Fund in FY10. Education for All: 22 representatives signed the letter initiated by Reps. Pomeroy (D-ND) and Cao (R-LA) supporting the highest amount possible for basic education in the FY11 budget. For more updates on the appropriations process, please visit our appropriations page. Citizen EmpowermentContext and OpportunitySurveys demonstrate that Americans care about ending poverty and are willing to invest resources to improve people’s lives through global health, education, and other effective types of foreign assistance. We must tap into this desire to make a difference and provide more individuals and organizations in our communities the opportunity to make a difference in ways they are passionate about. Our chapters must have a broad leadership base to do this, and the ability to meet community members where they care — whether it is around education, microcredit, or global health. Engaging community will create political will. Objectives Objectives
ProgressSome of our accomplishments toward the Citizen Empowerment campaign goals so far in 2010 are: Congressional Meetings and Media: In the first quarter of 2010, groups reported the following meetings with members and aides: 18 face-to-face or phone meetings with Representatives, 3 face-to-face or phone meetings with Senators, 23 meetings with House aides, and 15 meetings with Senate aides. In addition, during the International Conference in June 2009, grassroots partners had more than 250 congressional meetings, more than 50 of which were directly with their member(s) of Congress. Among other media successes in the first quarter of 2010, 4 editorials in papers across the country were generated by our partners. Group Building & Training: Groups held 41 outreach events in the first quarter of 2010, effectively rolling out the welcome mat for many potential new partners. We also regularly offer new activists the opportunity to get oriented to RESULTS through a set of national training calls led by our staff. Expansion: In late February, RESULTS gave a presentation at the Sister Giant conference convened in Los Angeles by author and board member Marianne Williamson. Through this partnership, hundreds of new and potential partners heard about RESULTS. Many are joining local groups and an estimated 26 women participated in the Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit in Nairobi, Kenya because of their interest in the power of RESULTS.
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