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Making Commitments Matter
 Mission/Vision
The Vision: Better Standards of Life in Larger Freedom.
Every year, 192 states commit to hundreds of resolutions and conventions on the level of the United Nations and its Specialised Agencies to achieve better standards of life in larger freedom, as the UN Charter puts it....
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The Vision: Better Standards of Life in Larger Freedom.
Every year, 192 states commit to hundreds of resolutions and conventions on the level of the United Nations and its Specialised Agencies to achieve better standards of life in larger freedom, as the UN Charter puts it. However, the majority of these agreements never enter into force at the state level. MCM's vision is of a world in which these agreements unfold their full potential and have their intended, tremendous positive impact on the lives of people.
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What does the organization do?
The Mission: Making Commitments Matter.
Information is the prerequisite for this vision to become reality: the reason why many UN agreements are not put into force at the national level is a lack of information and awareness. Hence, we seek to support state actors and civil society...
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The Mission: Making Commitments Matter.
Information is the prerequisite for this vision to become reality: the reason why many UN agreements are not put into force at the national level is a lack of information and awareness. Hence, we seek to support state actors and civil society by making information on UN agreements available, easily accessible and usable in the process of implementation.
The Strategy: Improving Information Availability.
To this day, there is no centralised source of information which comprises the whole range of documents issued not only by the United Nations, but also by its Specialised Agencies and the secretariats in a given thematic area. MCM has decided to change this situation and to develop an online source of centralised, reliable and neutral information on UN agreements: UN-informed.org. This database will present the relevant information for domestic implementation in a comprehensive, yet compact way. It will serve as an information tool for everyone to easily get a sound understanding of these agreements. Especially those involved in the implementation process will benefit in their work towards making UN commitments matter.
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Opportunities for Youth
MCM aims at developing an online source of centralised, reliable, and neutral information: a database which will present the information relevant to domestic implementation in such a compact, yet comprehensive way that the necessary research time could be reduced to a minimum. To this end, MCM is...
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MCM aims at developing an online source of centralised, reliable, and neutral information: a database which will present the information relevant to domestic implementation in such a compact, yet comprehensive way that the necessary research time could be reduced to a minimum. To this end, MCM is conducting ground research in three areas. The core research of the project, UN agreements research, is currently focusing on structuring and conceptualizing the information for the database in four thematic issues: Clean Drinking Water; Malaria; Small Arms and Light Weapons; and Women and Education. In addition, target group research is being conducted among civil society and state actors, the key players in the process of domestic implementation. MCM wants to identify the specific information needs of these target groups, so as to ensure the highest possible utility of the database. All our work is done by youth all over the world on a voluntary basis.
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