Abbreviation WSD Key people Haruhisa Handa Founded 2008 Official language Japanese | Formation 2008 (2008) Website www.wsd.or.jp Location Tokyo, Japan Type of business Nonprofit organization | |
Purpose International Cooperation, Social Welfare activities, Support for Universities and Academic Organizations | ||
Worldwide Support for Development (世界開発協力機構, Sekai Kaihatsu Kyōryoku Kikō) (WSD) is a not for profit organization in Japan.
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History
Worldwide Support for Development was registered as a specified non-profit juridical person (NPO) by The Metropolitan Tokyo in 2008. It is aimed to assist disadvantaged people and to support international cooperation, social welfare, universities and academic institutions. WSD has hitherto organized three World Opinion Leaders Summits as international conference, inviting former Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, and Collin Powell. It has also co-organized World Sports Summit for Peace in Tokyo together with the International Sports Promotion Society, a general incorporated association, and also has held charity concerts.
Organization
Main Event
It has organized an international conference to discuss on contribution to world peace and other themes.
WSD has been supporting a series of World Sports Summit for Peace since 2012. It co-sponsored the 2013 Summit held in Tokyo with International Sports Promotion Society.
International Social Welfare
International Academic Support
International Conference Support
Main Cooperating Organizations
In September 2013, WSD executed an agreement with the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) on a project for strengthening democracy in the Asia region. The project is focused on promoting the involvement of women in parliament and in youth so as to strengthen the parliamentary potentiality, based on the fact that there are some nations with no female parliamentary members whatsoever.
WSD supports young leaders to be involved in the management of the Pacific Forum CSIS and to accumulate practical experience by participating in international conferences organized by the Pacific Forum CSIS, through WSD-Handa Fellowship Program.
WSD offers support for the Handa Terrorism Political Violence Research Center associated with University of St Andrews to support international conferences to study terrorism and political violence and scholarship for researchers.
WSD has been promoting the initiative of the Election Process Normalizing Initiative with the Kofi Annan Foundation.
WSD support for the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, in order to build a children’s hospital with cutting edge medical facilities in South Africa. In December 11, 2013, WSD organized Toshu Fukami Christmas Charity Dinner Show, and donated all the proceeds to the Fund for the purpose of building the hospital.
Since 2009, WSD has been supporting a project for the Special Consulate of Cambodia in Fukuoka to recruit several students to study in Cambodia for short term overseas study.
WSD supports the Japan International Forum to broadcast discussion programs aimed at policy proposals and opinion advertisements in national newspapers. In 2009, WSD supported Japan International Forum worrying about the negative influence by the government representative’s comment “we should compromise to accept 3.5 islands-return proposal”. on the dispute with Russia over the Kurile Islands, to advertise in several national newspapers. an opinion against it. WSD also supported Mr. Kenichi Ito, director-general of the Japan International Forum and others to advertise policy proposals in newspapers for the discussion program FACE “Thinking about the Return of Kurile Islands” of BS11. In October, 2009, WSD supported the Japan International Forum to submit a policy proposal to the Prime Minister, advertised. a opinion in national newspapers on “Positive Pacifism and the way Japan-US Alliance Ought To Be”.