External Event
G7 Summit
15/06/2025
– 17/06/2025
The G7 provides global leadership and serves as a powerful catalyst on issues that are later taken up by other fora with broader global and regional membership. The G7 brings together the world’s advanced economies to influence global trends and tackle pervasive and crosscutting issues, as well as emergent global crises. The G7 has strengthened international economic and security policies, advanced discussion of global issues including climate change and gender equality, brought donors together and supported disarmament programs.
External Event
Empowered Worldview: Evidence of faith-based programming on mindsets and child well-being in rural Tanzania
10/06/2025
– 10/06/2025
Can faith-based mindset shifts improve child health outcomes?
From 2019 to 2024, World Vision International partnered with researchers from the University of Alberta and the Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania to study the impact of the Empowered Worldview (EWV) program. Empowered Worldview is a faith-based behaviour change model that fosters spiritual renewal and mindset transformation. Program leaders, along with researchers from the University of Alberta, will present qualitative and quantitative insights, highlighting the EWV model’s positive influence on hope, self-efficacy, self-reliance and child well-being. The event will also examine how faith, household income and food security shaped participants’ experiences of change.
External Event
8th Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2025)
02/06/2025
– 06/06/2025
The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction is the main global forum to assess and discuss progress on the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
PaRD Event
Webinar: Strategic Religious Engagement in Ecology, Sustainability, and Conservation in Indonesia
22/04/2025
– 22/04/2025
From mid-2024 to early 2025, PaRD undertook a research and learning project with partners at the Indonesian Ministry of Religious Affairs, World Vision Germany and Indonesia, the Joint Learning Initiative (JLI), and the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies. The project aimed to apply a “Strategic Religious Engagement” lens to the topic of environmental action in Indonesia, i.e. how the engagement between governments, development organisations, and religious actors on environmental topics can be promoted. Formative research was conducted on the topic with in-depth interviews and a two-day workshop in Jakarta with key stakeholders was held.
External Event
11th Annual Symposium on the Role of Religion and Faith-Based Organizations in International Affairs (2025)
03/04/2025
– 03/04/2025
Faith-based partners initiated the Annual Symposium on the Role of Religion and Faith-based Organizations in International Affairs as an annual event aiming to foster dialogue on the intricate interplay between religion and international affairs. Since 2016, the founding faith-based organizations established a strong partnership with the UN Interagency Task Force (IATF) on Religion and Sustainable Development, creating an annual policy dialogue involving UN entities, member states, faith-based actors, and civil society to address pressing global challenges. The themes of previous Annual Symposia have included human dignity and human rights, preventing atrocity crimes and violent extremism, just and sustainable peace, migration and displacement, gender equality, human security, sustainable development, and economic justice.
External Event
Nutrition for Growth 2025 (N4G) Summit
27/03/2025
– 28/03/2025
The N4G Paris Summit is a key stepping stone in 2025 towards galvanizing global and national nutrition actions to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Summit will announce political and financial commitments, deliver bold and innovative SMART commitments across thematic areas, and present high-level recommendations to mobilize the global and national community to achieve the renewed World Health Assembly (WHA) Global Nutrition Targets, the 2014 Rome Declaration on Nutrition, and accelerate achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The outcomes of the Summit will be endorsed in the Paris 2025 N4G Global Compact
PaRD Event
ROUNDTABLE Partnering for Change: Working with faith actors to uphold women and girls’ rights
11/03/2025
– 11/03/2025
Join us for a roundtable event with governments, UN representatives, faith-based actors and women’srights organizations to share best practices, challenges and opportunities in working with faith actors toadvance gender equality and uphold the rights of women and girls. Now is the time to address thechallenges and opportunities for faith actors’ engagement in this area for the years to come.
PaRD Event
High-Level Multi-Faith Reception
10/03/2025
– 10/03/2025
Join our High-Level Multi-Faith Reception to mark 30 years since the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women and adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (Beijing+30). .
External Event
CSW69 / Beijing+30
10/03/2025
– 21/03/2025
The main focus of the sixty-ninth session will be on the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcomes of the 23rd special session of the General Assembly.
