GLOBAL CITIZEN FESTIVALS IN ACCRA AND NEW YORK
CITY ANNOUNCE OVER $800
MILLION TO EMPOWER GIRLS, DEFEAT POVERTY, DEFEND THE PLANET,
PROMOTE HEALTH, PROTECT CIVIC SPACE AND MITIGATE THE GLOBAL FOOD
CRISIS
CANADA AND
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION COMMIT
$1.6 BILLION TO THE GLOBAL FUND TO
FIGHT AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA
10TH ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL GENERATES
RECORD-BREAKING 2 MILLION ACTIONS FROM GLOBAL CITIZENS
GOVERNMENTS OF GHANA AND SOUTH
AFRICA ANNOUNCE AFRICAN PROSPERITY FUND AT GLOBAL CITIZEN
FESTIVAL: ACCRA
FIVE MAJOR CORPORATIONS SET AMBITIOUS CLIMATE
GOALS
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NEW
YORK and ACCRA,
Ghana, Sept. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global
Citizen is proud to announce the 2022 Global Citizen
Festival campaign has culminated in over $2.4 billion in commitments to end extreme
poverty NOW.
The six-week campaign concluded with a nine-hour festival across
two stages, beginning in Black Star Square in Accra, Ghana, presented by Harith General
Partners, and ending in New York
City's Central Park, presented by Citi and Cisco. The 2022
campaign saw 2 million actions taken by global citizens
as part of Global Citizen's mission to End Extreme Poverty
NOW, more than doubling the record previously set by the
international advocacy organization.
On the Global Citizen Festival: Accra stage, the governments of
Ghana and South Africa announced the African
Prosperity Fund, a joint initiative by the governments of
Ghana and South Africa, which aims to deploy
$1 billion to fund projects for
economic inclusion and financial participation across the
continent. The fund will focus on projects in the African
Continental Free Trade Area, including infrastructure development,
financial access for the participation of women and youth,
education, healthcare, technology, and sustainability, all for the
benefit of Africa's 1.3 billion
people.
Meanwhile, at Global Citizen Festival: NYC, U.S. members
of Congress from both sides of the political aisle stood alongside
world leaders, philanthropists and trailblazers from the private
sector to make announcements worthy of the 10-year history of the
Global Citizen Festival. Over a video message, President Macron
announced France will
reallocate 30 percent of its Special Drawing Rights to the world's
poorest countries, specifically in Africa, to fight extreme poverty, pandemics,
inequalities and climate change.
The days leading into the 10th anniversary Global Citizen
Festival saw major commitments from world leaders, including
Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada and President von der Leyen of the European Commission,
who respectively committed CAD $1.209
billion and €715 million at the seventh replenishment of the
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. During the
Festival, Prime Minister Trudeau and President von der Leyen thanked global citizens for taking
action.
The following commitments were pledged at the 2022 Global
Citizen Festival in Accra,
Ghana and New York
City:
FOR GIRLS
Investments committed for the future of
women and girls include:
Governments
- Belgium committed €2.6
million to the ILO's Global Flagship Programme on Building Social
Protection Floors for All for its second phase in Senegal and Burkina
Faso, extending until 2025.
- Denmark committed
$17 million to UNFPA Supplies and
$30 million to UNFPA over the next
year as part of their broader newly announced three year
partnership.
- The European Commission committed €45 million to
UNFPA.
- Germany, as a
champion for global education, committed €10 million to Education
Cannot Wait's efforts to respond to the education needs in
Ukraine.
- Luxembourg committed to
renew its partnership with the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Program to End
Female Genital Mutilation, with a 70 percent increase of its
funding based on previous contributions over the next three years,
underlining its support for girls and women around the world.
Philanthropic foundations and the private sector
- Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance and Girl Effect announced a
$8 million partnership to fight
against the gender barriers that limit uptake of HPV and other
routine vaccines in Tanzania and
Ethiopia.
- The Global Menstrual Equity Accelerator was launched
with the ambition to advance gender equality for girls and women
through a partnership ranging from combating stigmas, increasing
the availability of period products, raising public awareness and
education around menstrual health and safe disposal, and
beyond.
- LEGO Foundation committed $25
million to Education Cannot Wait in support of its 2023-2026
Strategic Plan, including a commitment to playful learning
opportunities for children affected by emergencies and protracted
crises, that are gender-transformative and reach children in all
their diversity.
- The United Nation Population Fund announced a
$10.5 million contribution from the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to drive improved quality service
provision for the advancement of women and girls' health and
well-being.
- Procter & Gamble committed to advance the Care
Agenda by producing and creating advertisements, digital content,
and communications messaging that portrays a more equitable
division of care work and challenges the gender stereotypes and
societal norms that perpetuate the inequity of unpaid care work in
the home and societies around the globe.
FOR THE PLANET
Commitments made to defend the planet
include:
Governments
- The Peace Corps committed to launch a new climate
initiative to support over 2 million hours of volunteer service in
around 50 countries, including up to 1000 volunteers who will work
with host country partners to identify and implement actions that
contribute to host country climate priorities and national
plans.
The private sector
- Five major corporations signed the United Nations-led Race to
Zero campaign to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050,
including American Eagle Outfitters, Betterfly,
Harith General Partners, Juan Valdez Café, and Global
Citizen Festival: NYC campaign partner World Wide
Technology.
FOR THE GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS
Pledges made to improve
food and nutrition security in response to the global food crisis
include:
Governments
- The Netherlands
committed €25 million towards food and nutrition security in 2023,
topping up the €425 million budget announced earlier this year for
the next five years.
- Norway committed
NOK 100 million towards the African
Development Bank's Africa
Emergency Food Production Facility.
- Slovenia committed
€1.23 million to civil society organizations fighting against
hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The private sector
- Citi announced its continued support to No Kid
Hungry for the next three years, estimated to be equivalent to the
provision of 60 million meals.
FOR GLOBAL HEALTH
Commitments made to eradicate
communicable diseases include:
Governments
- Canada highlighted
their CAD $1.209 billion commitment
made at the Global Fund replenishment
- The European Commission highlighted their €715 million
contribution to the Global Fund
- Malta committed €30,000
to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
Philanthropic foundations
- Rotary International committed $150 million to the Global Polio Eradication
Initiative across the next three years.
TO DEFEAT POVERTY
Additional pledges to act in the
interests of the world's most marginalized populations include:
Governments
- The United Nations in Ghana committed $257 million in funding towards the
implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation
Framework by 2025. This convenes more than 24 United Nations
agencies, funds, and programmes with the ambition of reaching all
regions in Ghana, responding to
the needs of the most vulnerable and seeking to leave no one
behind.
- The United States
committed $138 million to support
human capital development in the areas of health, education,
climate, and peacebuilding and $32.5
million committed to deepening partnerships across
West Africa in Ghana, Benin,
Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, and Togo.
- Lithuania announced they would be
committing €11 million in funding towards rebuilding infrastructure
including schools, homes and a bridge in Ukraine.
Philanthropic foundations and the private sector
- Dutch Postcode Lottery announced a €1 million
contribution to the Legal Empowerment Fund, an initiative of the
Fund for Global Human Rights.
- Ford Foundation announced $30
million towards organizations protecting civic space in the
coming year.
- Google.org committed $1
million to OutRight Action International in support of its
work for LGBTIQ communities around the world.
Click here for more details about the 2022 Global
Citizen Festival campaign impact and outcomes.
At the outset of the campaign, Global Citizen called on
world leaders, major corporations and philanthropic foundations to
End Extreme Poverty NOW and invest $600 million into the future of women and girls;
close the annual $10 billion climate
financing shortfall; deliver $500
million to help African farmers respond to the global food
crisis; reallocate IMF Special Drawing Rights to provide urgent
relief from debts unjustly crushing economies, and defend advocacy.
Though the campaign's outcomes and commitments represent progress
for the most urgent needs facing humanity and the planet, there is
still much work to be done ahead of the G20 and COP27 in November.
"Amidst all the doomsday messages we hear today, hope lies in
the fact that millions of citizens are rising up to take action,
more than any other point in history. 10 years ago, Global Citizen
was just an idea – and 10 years from now we'll see a generation of
global citizens running for office, starting companies, and
transforming communities. The media is pushing us to the extreme
left or to the extreme right, but the solutions lie in the center.
Ending extreme poverty is not a partisan issue, and those most in
need can not be treated like political pawns. Our job is to not let
our leaders forget that. If you are lucky enough to live in a
democracy, use your voice!" – Hugh
Evans, Co-Founder and CEO, Global Citizen
"We have a limited window of opportunity to act decisively to
lift millions of people out of poverty, promote inclusiveness and
equality, and safeguard the health of our planet. Each one of us
has a sacred and moral obligation to bequeath to the next
generation a healthy planet, free from poverty, conflict,
discrimination, hunger and disease. I call on the youth of the
world, especially, and, in particular, the youth of Africa, to play an active role in achieving
the SDGs. The world needs your creativity, knowledge, reach and
energy to help find innovative solutions to the challenges facing
our world." – H.E. Nana
Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana
"It's great to join you for the 10th year of this festival.
Thank you for building this movement and making big things happen.
Last month, I signed the biggest climate bill in history – the
biggest ever: $369 billion to slash
emissions by nearly half, improve health, advance justice, build a
clean energy economy, and create generations of good paying jobs.
And this past week, the Senate ratified historic Kigali amendment to phase down the use of
super-polluting hydrofluorocarbons. This is a whole new chapter for
America and for the planet. And we have to do a lot more. I pledged
$11 billion a year to help poor
countries fight climate change. Working with Congress and with your
help, we can get this done." – Joe
Biden, President of the United
States of America, via video address.
"Global Citizens, I hear you loud and clear! Europe is answering your call. We must put an
end to hunger. We need to defeat deadly diseases like AIDS or
malaria. We must take care of our girls and women! We must also
take care of our planet. I call on all world leaders to step up!
And I count on you to drive us forward." – Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European
Commission
"Poor countries [are] paying the price for wealthy nations'
errors. So I'm standing here today speaking directly to the leaders
of wealthy nations who received billions of dollars from the
International Monetary Fund through Special Drawing Rights for
COVID-19 relief. Make good on your promise of reallocating some of
those funds. Honor your word and provide at the very least the
$100 billion promised for adaptation
for climate vulnerable countries. I am also here to call on
multilateral institutions like the World Bank to act. The only way
ahead is a just green energy transition. And my friends, our time
is running out." – Mia Mottley,
Prime Minister of Barbados
The 2022 Global Citizen Festival was broadcast and
streamed worldwide on YouTube, Twitter, Amazon Music, the Amazon
Music channel on Twitch, Apple Music, and the Apple TV app. Global
Citizen Festival will also air on ABC, ABC News Live, iHeartRadio,
Hulu, FX and Veeps in the United
States, Albavision in Latin
America, Canal+ in Africa,
Bis in Brazil, Nine Network (9Now)
in Australia, SABC in South Africa, TimesLive across Africa, TV3 in Ghana, and more.
Global Citizen Festival: Accra featured performances by
Usher, SZA, Stormzy, Gyakie, Sarkodie, Stonebwoy, TEMS, and
Uncle Waffles, and was hosted by award-winning actor,
playwright and activist Danai
Gurira. Presenters included Berla Mundi, Joselyn
Dumas, Michaela
Coel, Nomzamo
Mbatha, and Sabrina Dhowre Elba. Global
Citizen Festival: NYC featured performances by Metallica,
Charlie Puth, Jonas Brothers, MÅNESKIN, Mariah Carey, Mickey
Guyton, and Rosalía and special guest
performances by Angélique Kidjo and Billy Porter, and was hosted by actor,
producer, author, and Global Citizen Ambassador Priyanka Chopra Jonas. Presenters included
Amber Ruffin, Antoni Porowski, Bill Nye, Chris
Redd, Connie
Britton, Folake Olowofoyeku, Jay Shetty, Katie
Couric, Katie Holmes,
Misty Copeland,
Rachel Brosnahan,
Scott Evans, Sofia Carson, Tamron Hall, and Van Jones.
The 2022 Global Citizen Festival campaign is supported by
governments and world leaders including: Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European
Commission; Mia Mottley, Prime
Minister of Barbados; Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana; Hakainde Hichilema, President of
Zambia; Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary General of the
United Nations; Dr. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director of UNFPA;
Andrej Plenković, Prime Minister of Croatia; Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister of
Spain; Frank Bainimara, Prime
Minister of Fiji; Ingrida
Šimonytė, Prime Minister of Lithuania; Nikenike Vurobaravu, President of
Vanuatu; Gaston Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda; Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of
the World Health Organization; Ban
Ki-moon, Former UN Secretary General; Borut Pahor, President of Slovenia; Robert
Abela, Prime Minister of Malta; Micheál Martin, Taoiseach of
Ireland; Alok Sharma, President of the 26th United
Nations Climate Change Conference; Jeff
Radebe, Special Presidential Envoy for President
Cyril Ramaphosa; Shamma al Mazrui, Minister of State for Youth of
the UAE; Elizabeth Cousens,
President and CEO of the UN Foundation; Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives; Stanley Kakubo,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Zambia; Chuck
Schumer, U.S. Senate Majority Leader; Meryame Kitir,
Minister of Development Cooperation and Urban Policy, Belgium; Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon, Secretary of
Foreign Affairs of Mexico;
Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, Minister for
International Development, Norway;
Kingdom of the Netherlands;
Government of Luxembourg;
Government of Peru; Peter Sands, Executive Director of The Global
Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Yasmine Sherif, Executive Director, Education
Cannot Wait; Erna Solberg, Former
Prime Minister of Norway;
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, US
Ambassador to the UN; Ertharin Cousin, Founder, Managing Director
and CEO, Food Systems for the Future.
The 2022 Global Citizen Festival and the End
Extreme Poverty NOW campaign are supported by a coalition
of the world's leading brands and companies including: Global
Partners, Accenture, Cisco, Citi, Delta Air Lines, Harith General
Partners, P&G, Verizon, and YouTube. World Wide Technology,
Campaign Partner for Global Citizen Festival: NYC, Live Nation, and
Tshepo Mahloele, Founder &
Executive, of Harith General Partners, is Patron of Global
Citizen's work in Africa.
Co-chairs of Global Citizen and of this campaign include:
Julie Sweet, Chair and CEO of
Accenture; Chuck Robbins, Chair and
CEO of Cisco; Jane Fraser, CEO of
Citi; Ed Bastian, CEO of Delta Air
Lines; Lorraine Twohill, CMO of
Google; Marc Pritchard, CBO of
P&G; and Hans Vestberg, Chairman and CEO of Verizon. Global
Citizen's co-chairs are private sector leaders making commitments
in support of the UN's Global Goals. They support Global Citizen's
campaigns while helping to drive deeper engagement within the
private sector.
The 2022 Global Citizen Festival has gratefully received in-kind
support from leading media companies, including: AIM GROUP,
Alliance Media, Bandsintown, BellaNaija, Billboard, Boo! Media,
Branded Cities, Captivate, Citi FM, Clear Channel Outdoor, DDP
Outdoor, EIB Network, Global OOH, GSTV, Guide Radio, The Hollywood
Reporter, iHeartRadio, Intersection, Interstate Outdoor, JC Decaux,
MX, New Tradition, OAAA, Orange Barrel Media, Penske Media, Rolling
Stone, Seen Media, Six Flags Theme Parks, Spotify, Variety, VIBE,
Volta, The Wall Street Journal and YFM.
Visit www.globalcitizen.org to learn more about the 2022
Global Citizen Festival campaign issues and continue taking action,
and follow @glblctzn on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and
YouTube.
About Global Citizen:
Global Citizen is the world's
largest movement of action takers and impact makers dedicated to
ending extreme poverty NOW. We post, tweet, message, vote, sign,
and call to inspire those who can make things happen — government
leaders, businesses, philanthropists, artists, and citizens —
together improving lives. By downloading our app, Global Citizens
learn about the systemic causes of extreme poverty, take action on
those issues, and earn rewards, which can be redeemed for tickets
to concerts, events, and experiences all over the world. For more
information, visit www.globalcitizen.org and follow
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