Nos actions

Program Overview

Acting together to reduce poverty

Uniterra is an international cooperation programme mobilizing partners, volunteers, and the Canadian public to reduce world poverty by 50%, by 2015.

We foster partnerships between organisations and networks in Canada and in the South. We support the mobilization of communities so that they may actively participate in determining development orientations and exercise positive influence on their political leaders and governmental structures.

In Canada, we mobilize the Canadian population in favour of international cooperation and the attaining of the Millennium Development Goals. This challenge requires the participation of every sector in society, both here and on every continent.

Partners

On the ground, Uniterra collaborates with networks of local partners, leaders in their sector of intervention. These partners identify areas for collaborations with organisations at a local, national, and international level.

Uniterra allows exchanges of expertise, knowledge, and know-how, in a multidirectional way, between Southern partners and Canadian organisations willing to contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

We strengthen the capacities of partner organizations in developing countries to successfully conduct their social and economic development initiatives

Volunteers

Our volunteers are professionals who wish to get involved in poverty reduction through concrete actions with our Southern partners.

In collaboration with our partners, volunteers take action to contribute to local development initiatives.

 All Uniterra volunteers take part in sensitizing, educating, and mobilising Canadians towards achieving the MDGs.

Campus

We mobilise youth on campus and colleges towards reaching the MDGs through education, advocacy, and volunteering.

Get involved in Bike for AIDS, a bicycle ambulance project with our partners in Malawi

Join the Make Poverty History Campaign

Take part in the next International Seminar in Botswana, during the summer of 2006.

Program countries and sectors

Uniterra's partners and volunteers are presently engaged in projects on three continents in the following 13 countries:

Uniterra is active in six program sectors:

Our actions contribute to the reduction of poverty in the world and the fulfilment of the UN 's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Uniterra is a joint initiative of the Montreal-based Canadian Centre for International Studies and Cooperation ( CECI ) and Ottawa-based World University Service Canada ( WUSC ).