The United Nations has granted Special Consultative Status to WealthyGen under the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). WealthyGen received this accreditation in recognition of our expertise and contributions to ECOSOC’s work of Promoting Sustainable Development, through our financial empowerment programs.
As an organization with special consultative status, our voices will be heard globally. WealthyGen will amplify its impact around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) goal #1 – End poverty in all its forms everywhere. We can make written and oral statements relevant to the work of the Council and may be selected to undertake studies or investigations or prepare papers for the Commission.
With this accreditation, WealthyGen can designate official representatives to the UN Headquarters in New York and Offices in Geneva and Vienna. We will bring our expertise and participate in sessions, events, conferences, and activities of the United Nations.
The special consultative status also entitles us to sit as observers at public meetings of ECOSOC and its subsidiary bodies, the Human Rights Council, the General Assembly, and other UN intergovernmental bodies.
WealthyGen will take part in the following ECOSOC bodies/meetings: (i) Commission for Social Development (ii) Commission on the Status of Women
WealthyGen and the Work of ECOSOC and Subsidiary Bodies
Our work contributes to the ECOSOC’s work of Promoting Sustainable Development. We design and develop all our programs and activities around Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) goal #1 – End poverty in all its forms everywhere. We believe that financial education is a catalyst for poverty reduction and sustainable development. Learn more about the SDGs here.
WealthyGen provides financial education to help create financially capable consumers who can bring about competition amongst financial service providers and ensure financial system stability. Financially literate consumers are capable of managing, protecting, and growing their assets. With a viable and strong financial sector, they will ultimately lift themselves out of poverty and support overall macroeconomic stability and growth. This is why financial education is at the core of our work and helps to contribute to the work of ECOSOC.
Also, our women empowerment project (WE Project) for widows helps poor and vulnerable widows to earn a sustainable income. Specific to the widows is the issue of ownership and control over land and other forms of property and inheritance once widowed. Through our awareness and advocacy also, we ensure that widows have equal rights to economic resources.
Our work to empower widows helps to end poverty, one woman and one family at a time. When we empower a woman, she is better able to support and empower her family, give her kids a sound education, and break the cycle of poverty. Our WE Project benefits the women, their children, their entire families, and the society at large.
Learn more about our work here.
