NationStates Jolt Archive

WORLD RELIEF FUND ACT

CATEGORY: Social Justice
STRENGTH: Mild

RECOGNIZES that the United Nations is an international body whose purpose is to increase the global well being.

REGRETTING that billions of people around the world continue to live in squalor and poverty with families surviving on $1 per day.

UNDERSTANDING that developed nations have a responsibility to the global community to promote social and economic equality to all nations.

HEREBY calls for the creation of a WORLD RELIEF FUND that will go to funding international relief organizations with the purpose of spearheading small to medium-scale projects aimed for humanitarian missions including, but not limited to, eradicating preventable diseases in areas where said specific disease is especially pandemic, construction of clinics providing affordable health care, propagation of family planning, development of public educational systems, and facilitation of industrial development in targeted nations.

CALLS for the creation of the UN Economic Development Committee responsible for issues including, but not limited to, planning and executing the financial and logistical aspects of projects within targeted nations, and shall be accountable for the efficiency and effectiveness of projects financed by monetary funds from the World Relief Fund.
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Any constructive comments, revisions, etc, will be greatly appreciated.

WORLD RELIEF FUND ACT

CATEGORY: Social Justice
STRENGTH: Mild

RECOGNIZES that the United Nations is an international body whose purpose is to increase the global well being.

REGRETTING that billions of people around the world continue to live in squalor and poverty with families surviving on $1 per day.

UNDERSTANDING that developed nations have a responsibility to the global community to promote social and economic equality to all nations.

HEREBY calls for the creation of a WORLD RELIEF FUND that will go to funding international relief organizations with the purpose of spearheading small to medium-scale projects aimed for humanitarian missions including, but not limited to, eradicating preventable diseases in areas where said specific disease is especially pandemic, construction of clinics providing affordable health care, propagation of family planning, development of public educational systems, and facilitation of industrial development in targeted nations.

CALLS for the creation of the UN Economic Development Committee responsible for issues including, but not limited to, planning and executing the financial and logistical aspects of projects within targeted nations, and shall be accountable for the efficiency and effectiveness of projects financed by monetary funds from the World Relief Fund.
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Any constructive comments, revisions, etc, will be greatly appreciated.

One question: how do we get the $$$ to create the fund?

One question: how do we get the $$$ to create the fund?

Very good question... I was thinking about adding an article ENCOURAGING (NOT MANDATING) that nations set up a foreign aid fund as their finances allow.

You think that would fly?

Very good question... I was thinking about adding an article ENCOURAGING (NOT MANDATING) that nations set up a foreign aid fund as their finances allow.

You think that would fly?

That may work. As long as you do not ask the UN to collect taxes (as that is banned), anything along the lines of your suggestion would be OK. However, if you insert a clause that simply "encourages" rather then mandates, you should not pick the strength of your proposal as very high when you submit it. Make it "mild" or possibly "significant".

REGRETTING that billions of people around the world continue to live in squalor and poverty with families surviving on $1 per day.

Real life reference, I'm afraid, with the use of the dollar sign. I suggest:

REGRETTING that a significant number of people live below the absolute poverty line

(Absolute poverty is below one dollar a day, in RL)

How about encouraging the governments of the countries where such poverty exists to implement policies against official corruption (which is a contributory factor in many RL cases and probably at least some NS ones too), and to introduce economic policies that promote rises in income due to economic growth, too? The current proposal would subsidise nations with dishonest leaders, and those who remained comitted to inefficient economic models on ideological grounds...

i like the basic idea of this and its something that a lot of governments would do already.

its also the type of proposal that would get broad support. keeping this at an 'encouraging' level would give it even more support rather than force nations to set up these funds.

WORLD RELIEF FUND ACT

CATEGORY: Social Justice
STRENGTH: Mild

RECOGNIZES that the United Nations is an international body whose purpose is to increase the global well being.

REGRETTING that billions of people around the world continue to live in squalor and absolute poverty, hindering economic development in many nations.

RECOGNIZES the clear and present danger that poverty presents before the world body.

UNDERSTANDING that developed nations have a responsibility to the global community to promote social and economic equality to all nations.

HEREBY calls for the creation of a WORLD RELIEF FUND that will go to funding international relief organizations with the purpose of spearheading small to medium-scale projects aimed for humanitarian missions including, but not limited to, eradicating preventable diseases in areas where said specific disease is especially pandemic, construction of clinics providing affordable health care, propagation of family planning, development of public educational systems, and facilitation of industrial development in targeted nations.

CALLS for the creation of the UN Economic Development Committee responsible for issues including, but not limited to, planning and executing the financial and logistical aspects of projects within targeted nations, and shall be accountable for the efficiency and effectiveness of projects financed by monetary funds from the World Relief Fund.

ENCOURAGES, but NOT mandates, member nations to establish their own national foreign aid fund with the purpose of contributing said funds to the coffers of the World Relief Fund, as well as encourages governments to solicit financial support from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other beneficent aid agencies to offer financial contributions to the Fund.
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What do you all think?

It seems highly unlikely that this Fund will receive enough donations to alleviate all such poverty. Are there going to be any firmly-defined rules about how it should set priorities?

It would be rather naive of me to think that this would completely eradicate poverty. However, this fund will go to at least alleviate the situation. A little bit of something is a whole hell of a lot better than a whole lot of nothing.

Are there going to be any firmly-defined rules about how it should set priorities?

Perhaps I shall set amendments for the highest priorities that this fund should go to. I was thinking of high-yield, high-observable projects such as:

1) Family planning
2) Building of educational structure
3) Prevention and eradication of easily-preventable diseases (measles, smallpox, malaria, etc)

I was thinking in terms of giving nations that are actually trying to develop priority over those that would just try to live on foreign aid indefinitely, nations whose government finances are properly audited (so that outsiders can see that they're spending money as it "should" be spent) priority over those who keep their accounts secret (and probably divert a lot of money into their leaders' foreign bank accounts), and maybe democratic nations priority over dictatorships...

HEREBY calls for the creation


I would suggest, as someone else might have, doing this



Hereby,

CALLS for the creation



and so forth.