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ECI Secretariat and the University for Peace) and the ECI Secretariat collaborated in a CommunityBuilding workshop in December 2011 focusing on the youth of Ciudad Colon. An overview of theEarth Charter was provided and a series of activities were done with the participants, such as visioningwhat can be done to make the community more sustainable to live in. Due to the success of this pilotworkshop, the Youth Center and Earth Charter youth network have agreed to join forces and conductEarth Charter related activities throughout the month of April, 2012VOLUNTEERSIn 2008, an online mechanism for EC volunteer registration was established on the EC Web site, whereindividuals can register for several projects or focus areas. There are 1,268 registered volunteers from102 different countries as of December 31st, 2011. In total, there were 295 newly registered volunteersin 2011 (See Appendix C) to work on 9 projects (related to translations, creating communication tools,and presentations, and several others). On average, there are 25 new volunteers enrolled each month.The majority of them are from Latin America, especially Mexico. For the first time, volunteersenrolled from the following countries: Algeria, Ivory Coast, Moldova, Saudi Arabia and Oman. It isimportant to note that there are a number of informal volunteers that work with the Earth Charter andare not registered in this data base.The majority of volunteers offer to contribute with translation and dissemination of the Earth Charterlocally. One example to highlight is the translation of the Earth Charter in 10 of the 11 languages ofSouth Africa. Staff members from Zodwa Khoza Foundation are partnering with the South AfricanTranslators Association to develop these translations.ENDORSERSThe ECI Secretariat also has the task of maintaining an online endorsers’ database. The most commonmethod to endorse the Earth Charter is through EC Web site. However, there are instances whereendorsements are done at public events on paper, which makes it difficult to keep such information inthe current database. For example, in Malaysia on October 9th, more than 5,000 people endorsed theEarth Charter during a mass gathering, andthese endorsement groups and many othersare not incorporated in the current database.Only organizational endorsements are madepublic. Among the most recent organizationalendorsers are: the Toronto EnvironmentalAlliance; Sabah Environmental ProtectionAssociation (SEPA); EASLCE (EuropeanAssociation for the Study of Literature,Culture and Environment.8Earth Charter Annual Report 2011
As of December 2011 there were 24,892 registered endorsements of the Earth Charter, out of whichover 5,942 are organizations and nearly 18,950 are individuals. The number of endorsers continues torise steadily, by an average of 2,000 endorsers a year.COMMUNICATION SERVICESThe ECI Secretariat maintains an international Web site, available in English, French, and Spanish. Thesite serves as an information hub for the EC network, offering an overview of activities andorganizations involved with the Earth Charter Initiative, organized by country (there are 100 countrypages) and by topic or focus area.One of the main objectives of the Web site is to allow for the sharing of experiences and goodpractices. For this purpose, specific pages within each focus area were created for the display ofsystematized stories on how different organizations work with the Earth Charter. The internationalWeb site also contains a Virtual Library with over 800 resources available for free and work to improvethem is constantly underway.In June 2011, ECI received a grant from Kalliopeia Foundation to develop and implement an onlinecommunication strategy. This involved the assessment work of the online Earth Charter presence,specially the Web site, which was undertaken with the help of Fenton, a California based organization,as well as the design of a social media strategy and of a new Web site for the Earth Charter Initiative.As of the end of 2011, following the findings of the assessment process, and recommendations drawnfrom that, a new Web site was in the process of being designed, along with a redesigned virtual library,and a new site featuring the results of a study linking the Earth Charter with international laws andconventions. All of this work will be fully completed in the first half of 2012.In 2011 there were over 599,351 visits to the main Earth Charter Web site (as compared with 849,645in 2010, this difference is probably due to the fact that there were major events in celebrations of Earth9Earth Charter Annual Report 2011
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