ONE
The ONE Campaign is a grassroots campaign and advocacy organization backed by nearly 3 million people from around the world and every walk of life who are committed to the fight against extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa.
At ONE, we achieve change through advocacy. We hold world leaders accountable for the promises made to the poorest people, and we press these leaders to support better policies and more effective aid and trade reform. We also support greater democracy, accountability, and transparency in developing countries so these resources can be effectively deployed.
Cofounded by Bono, Bobby Shriver, and other campaigners, supported by Bob Geldof and other high profile activists, ONE is nonpartisan and works with activists from the left, right, and center to mobilize public opinion in support of effective and proven initiatives that are delivering results: protecting families from preventable diseases like AIDS and malaria, putting kids in school, providing economic opportunity, and stabilizing communities. To help ensure the policies we advocate are effective, we seek advice from leading African anti-poverty campaigners and policy experts.
At ONE, we believe the fight against poverty is not about charity, but about justice and equality. We are honored to be part of a greater movement of people and organizations working to end poverty throughout the world.
Mission
The ONE Campaign seeks to raise public awareness about the issues of global poverty, hunger, disease and efforts to fight such problems in developing countries. In furtherance of these purposes, the ONE Campaign will:
- Mobilize people from all 50 states and America's leading non-profit, advocacy and humanitarian organizations to expand awareness of these issues
- Publish educational information about the impact of overseas development assistance and reformation of unfair international trade regimes on global poverty, hunger and disease
- Raise awareness about and promote the framework of the Millennium Development Goals to eradicate poverty and improve public health and education
*The ONE Campaign is organized and operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
Issues
- HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
- In 2007, HIV/AIDS killed 2.2 million people, 1.7 million people died from tuberculosis (TB) and malaria killed another 881,000 people.
- Development Assistance
- Development assistance plays a critical role in the fight against extreme poverty and disease.
- Education
- Research indicates that investment in education may be the highest yield investment available in the developing world, yet 75 million children are currently out of school.
- Water and Sanitation
- Access to clean water and proper sanitation is essential to good health, education and economic productivity; yet over ONE billion people across the world lack access to clean water and 2.6 billion do not have access to basic sanitation.
- Trade
- Development assistance and debt relief are critical to jump-starting development, but developing countries want the opportunity to earn their own resources for fighting poverty.
- Debt Cancellation
- For decades, developing countries spent billions of dollars each year repaying debts to donor countries and international financial institutions.
- Child and Maternal Health
- Across the world, young children and pregnant women are bearing the brunt of deteriorating health systems. Every year, over 9 million children and half a million mothers die, most of them from treatable and preventable causes.
- Agriculture and Food
- Agriculture is a key component of economic growth and poverty reduction in the developing world, where over 900 million people live in rural areas.
Millennium Development Goals
The Millennium Development Goals set a framework for how the world could see the end of extreme poverty. In September, 2000, The United States joined with 188 nations to affirm a set of international development goals in the United Nations Millennium Declaration. The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reflect an understanding of the devastation caused by global hunger and poverty and aim for a world that is free of such suffering. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world's poorest by 2015. Our leaders committed to these goals and it is up to us, as Americans and ONE supporters, to make sure that America keeps its promises to the world's most vulnerable people.
Accountability
Accountability and transparency are essential to the fight against poverty and disease. Success depends not only on scaled-up, high quality development assistance from donor nations, but also on a commitment to accountability and good governance by recipient countries. Development assistance cannot achieve its true impact if it is not implemented in an accountable and harmonized manner and accompanied by an effort to fight corruption and strengthen governance in recipient countries. The role of poor countries and their commitment to fighting corruption and improving governance is critical to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
Climate and Development
Global climate negotiations in 2008 offer international leaders a unique opportunity to address the impact that climate change is having on the world's poor, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Climate change is clearly not a crisis of Africa's making, yet the consequences of global warming will disproportionately hit Africa's poor. Rich countries have an obligation to immediately curb greenhouse gas emissions and help Africa avoid the worst effects of climate change.
