2016 Global Citizen Festival, NYC
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| 2016 Global Citizen Festival In Central Park To End Extreme Poverty By 2030 | Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Global Citizen |
Affair: 2016 Global Citizen Festival
When: Saturday, September 24, 2016 @ 12PM
Hot Spot: Central Park, NYC ~ Watch the LIVE STREAM at globalcitizen.org!
Deets: On Saturday, September 24, the 2016 Global Citizen Festival marked its fifth year on the Great Lawn of New York’s Central Park.World and business leaders, non-profit organizations, socially conscious artists, and thousands of Global Citizens united to further the world’s progress toward achieving the Global Goals for Sustainable Development.
The Festival featured performances by Rihanna, Kendrick Lamar, Demi Lovato, Major Lazer, Metallica, Chris Martin, Eddie Vedder, Usher, Ellie Goulding, Yandel, and Yusuf / Cat Stevens. Approximately 60,000 Global Citizens attended and millions watched live through broadcast partners MSNBC and YouTube.
Ahead of the 2016 Global Citizen Festival, Global Citizens around the world took more than 1.3 million actions over two months that:
-Secured 14 new commitments and 15 announcements from world leaders.
-Ensured accountability and delivery of 6 commitments made in the past on Global Citizen platforms.
-Pushed forward 9 campaigns, which will further action from world leaders to keep their promises to Global Citizen.
Together, these commitments and announcements are worth $1.9 billion, and are set to reach 199 million people, and put the world on track to achieving the Global Goals for Sustainable Development. Global Citizens will continue to use these commitments to hold governments and businesses accountable to deliver on their promises in the years to come.
TOP CAMPAIGN VICTORIES
SANITATION: After Global Citizens took 60,000 actions, the Netherlandscommitted $350 million over 3 years to reach 14.9 million people. This funding will enable them to deliver on the commitment they made to Global Citizens in 2015 to improve sanitation for 50 million people, and water for 30 million people by 2030.
WOMEN’S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT: UPS, Walmart and Johnson & Johnson each committed to purchase $100 million from women owned businesses over the next three years. This total $300 million commitment is set to affect 240,000 lives by 2019, follows 30,000 actions by Global Citizens, and will be delivered through our partners at WeConnect International.
EDUCATION: Global Citizens took 350,000 actions, achieving $40 million in new financial commitments from key donor countries. Canada committed $20 million and Denmark committed $11 million for Education Cannot Wait fund, supporting education for children in emergency and conflict areas.Australia committed $10 million to further girls education in the Asia-Pacific region.
TOP ACCOUNTABILITY UPDATES
SANITATION: The World Bank announced they have disbursed $6 billion of the $15 billion that was committed at Global Citizen Festival 2014 so far, reaching 100 million lives to date. This follows ongoing campaigning by Global Citizen staff and more than 50,000 actions by Global Citizens in 2016, calling on the World Bank to deliver on their commitment.
EDUCATION: Queen Rania of Jordan announced on behalf of UNICEF that the Education Cannot Wait fund’s first disbursal of $42 million will be made in 2017, set to reach 1.5 million children over 2 years.
ACHIEVING GLOBAL GOALS: World Bank President Jim Kim committed to raise at least $52 billion for their International Development Association (IDA) replenishment fund before the end of 2016. This will fulfil their previous commitment to lift 100 million people out of extreme poverty, made at the 2015 Global Citizen Festival.
TOP CALLS TO ACTION
POLIO: The world is 99.9 percent of the way to eradicating polio, with only 26 cases reported in 2016. To end the disease forever, the world needs to mobilize at least an additional $1.5 billion. Global Citizens took 134,470 actions on this issue in the run up to the Festival, securing commitments fromLuxembourg and Malta, and launching a call to action for the United Kingdom and Canada to increase their commitments.
Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded via special video message with Usher. Global Citizens will continue to call on him to match his words with real dollar figures:
“Lately my office has been flooded with phone calls and tweets from many of you. Thanks Rihanna! I've heard your voices loud and clear on a whole range of issues – from supporting the eradication of polio, to ensuring every girl everywhere has the chance to go to school. Canada has long supported efforts to fight polio, which is now 99.9 percent eliminated. And we will be a strong partner through to the end. Thank you for keeping these issues on our global agenda. Keep calling, keep tweeting, keep lighting up our switchboards. We're listening, and we're taking action. You've shown to the world that change starts with you. Together, we will end it for good.” — Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
EDUCATION: The 2016 Global Citizen Festival saw world leaders outline ambitious plans for all children to receive a quality education, particularly girls and children in emergencies . After Global Citizens took 356,054 actions,The Global Partnership for Education launched a campaign to grow their investment in quality education to a $2 billion per year replenishment effort by 2020. To kickstart this renewed focus on education, the 2016 Global Citizen Festival saw 15 commitments and announcements valued at $105 million, that will reach 271,000 people.
In five short years, the Global Citizen Festival has grown into the largest, most visible moment of a year-long movement of engaged Global Citizens working to influence world leaders and decision makers to enact policy changes and commit significant resources to help solve the world’s biggest challenges.
Additionally, the Festival and its action-based model was taken to Canada for the first time on Saturday, September 16 and the Global Citizen Festival India will be held on Saturday, November 19 in Mumbai, India.
Proud core partners of the 2016 Global Citizen Festival include: presenting partner GUCCI and CHIME FOR CHANGE, MSNBC & Comcast NBCUniversal, Live Nation, Caterpillar, Johnson & Johnson, Google’s Made with Code, YouTube, Citi, Clear Channel Outdoor, iHeartMedia, Alex and Ani, and NYC Parks. Associate partners this year include Kirkland & Ellis, Doppler Labs and Riot House.
About Global Citizen
Global Citizen is a social action platform for the global generation who are passionate about learning and taking action on the world’s biggest issues. Global Citizen works in partnership with and supports some of the most effective organizations working to achieve the Global Goals and end extreme poverty. Committed to providing the most interesting stories, effective actions and powerful campaigns, Global Citizen aims to reach and recruit the largest possible number of people who care about global issues.
Spotted: Rihanna, Kendrick Lamar, Demi Lovato, Major Lazer, Metallica, Chris Martin, Eddie Vedder, Usher, Ellie Goulding, Yandel, Yusuf/Cat Stevens, Priyanka Chopra, Bill Nye, Chelsea Handler
Hint For The Average Socialite: For more information about how to join the movement, please visitwww.globalcitizen.org and follow @GlblCtzn on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram using #GlobalCitizen.
UPDATE September 7, 2016:
The next round of tickets for the 2016 Global Citizen Festival are now available.
You can earn your way to tickets by taking action on our new campaign for health, supported by our partner Johnson & Johnson.
For this campaign, you’ll need to download our mobile app on iOS to take action and enter for tickets. Click here to get started.
Beginning July 12, 2016:
Tickets for the 2016 Global Citizen Festival are now available — and you can earn your way to tickets by taking action on our first campaign: girls and women.
Girls and women experience some of the harshest aspects of poverty. For instance, husbands can legally prevent their wives from working in 18 countries around the world. In another 17 countries, women need permission, or a male companion, to travel outside their own home.
By helping girls and women across the world, we will go a long way to end extreme poverty by 2030.
Here's where you come in:
Click here to start taking action to help girls and women. Each action will earn you points which you can redeem for a chance to win tickets to this year’s festival.
How it works:
- You can choose from a range of actions that earn you points.
- Once you earn enough points you can enter the draw for festival tickets.
- Every two weeks we will announce ticket winners and launch a new campaign with a different challenge for Global Citizens to solve.
- Redeeming previous points will not qualify you for the draw
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Get Involved: Global Citizen encourages you to learn more and take action on a range of issues related to extreme poverty, helping to build the movement that will end extreme poverty. Global Citizen and our partners have a track record of running programs and campaigns that have real impact on the lives of the poor – and hope that you’ll join them.
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