Global Call to Action Against Poverty
The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing worldwide alliance consisting of national coalitions (or platforms) of campaigns to end poverty.
It is involved with some 38 million people in actions in 2005 in over 75 countries and 23 million people in 2006 in over 85 countries.
GCAP was initially a worldwide alliance committed to making world leaders live up to their promises and to making a breakthrough on poverty during 2005. However due to the success of the campaign during 2005, the 170 members of the campaign’s International Facilitation Group (IFG) met in Beirut in early 2006 and unanimously agreed to continue the campaign up to December 31, 2007. At a global assembly in Montevideo, Uruguay in May 2007 the national coalitions and other constituencies voted to extend the campaigning alliance until at least 2015.
The campaign was founded at a conference in Johannesburg, South Africa in late 2004 and officially launched at the World Social Forum in Brazil on the January 1, 2005. It rapidly grew to earn its status as the largest anti-poverty campaign in the world by building on existing networks, and their strategies and activities. Currently it boasts of more than one thousand member organisations and millions of supporters worldwide.
A l’occasion de la journée mondiale du bandeau blanc, vendredi 1er juillet, la coalition « 2005 : plus d’excuses ! » vous invite à porter un bracelet blanc à votre poignet la semaine précédent le 1er juillet et le jour même, en signe de soutien à l’action mondiale contre la pauvreté. Le Secours Catholique et le Comité Catholique contre la Faim et pour le Développement (CCFD) sont membres de l’opération.