The main aim of the event was to bring together the Governmental, international and regional organizations, private sector, civil society organizations, and foundations, representatives of mass media and NGOs throughout the world displaying their Success Story on the projects related to eradication of poverty and promote the sharing of innovative experiences.<\/p>\n
The International Eurasia Press Fund was also among the 30 NGOs selected out of the organizations with ECOSOC Consultative Status. The International Eurasia Press Fund (IEPF) joined the Innovation Fair with its Success Story on the Project \u201cEstablishing and Functioning of Mine Victims Association in Tartar District of Azerbaijan\u201d launched with the financial support of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement (PM WRA). IEPF was presented in the event by Rahman Mammadov, Head of the Program Department, IEPF.<\/p>\n
In the course of the Innovation Fair there were organized round-tables where the participants got information on mine problem in Azerbaijan, the size of the contaminated areas with mine and UXO, about the collaborations in mine action program with the Azerbaijan Mine Action Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA)-the leading institution in this field and about the projects conducted within this cooperation. Besides, the participators carried out discussions on future joint collaboration to support the eradication of poverty among the mine victims and resolve their family members\u2019 problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
July 02-05, 2007 there was held the Annual Ministerial Review Innovation Fair within the Millennium Development Goals on the \u201cStrengthening efforts to eradicate poverty and hunger, through the global partnership for development.\u201d at the UN Geneva Office. Ban Ki-moon, UN General Secretary, Dalius \u010cekuolis President of ECOSOC, General Secretary of UNESCO, Hanifa Mezoui, Chief of NGO Section Department of Economic and Social Affairs, ECOSOC and other high level officials participated in the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}