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ONE Campaign
ONE Campaign.svg
Motto Actions. Speak. Louder.
Formation May 16, 2004
Type Development advocacy
Headquarters Washington, D.C.
Location
  • United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium, South Africa
Membership
7 million[better source needed]
Official language
English, French, German, Dutch
Leader Michael Elliott, CEO since 2011
Key people
Bono (co-founder, spokesperson)
Website www.one.org

The ONE Campaign is an international, nonpartisan, non-profit, advocacy and campaigning organisation that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa, by raising public awareness and pressuring political leaders to support effective[citation needed] policies and programmes that are saving lives and improving futures.

ONE was originally founded by a coalition of 11 non-profit humanitarian and advocacy organizations, including DATA, World Vision, Oxfam America, and Bread for the World, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2007, ONE announced that it would be merging with DATA.

The name ONE was inspired by[citation needed] the belief that one voice, coming together with many others — the political left and right, business leaders, activists, faith leaders and students — can change the world for the better.[1][better source needed]

Overview

ONE is an attempt to mobilize supporters around its issues and organize them into a lobbying force, with the goal of encouraging national leaders to fund more international development and relief programs. As a campaign to fight extreme poverty and global diseases, it supports the Millennium Development Goals.[citation needed]

Although its central talking points center on ending extreme poverty and fighting the AIDS pandemic, ONE supports a broad variety of international development and relief issues, including debt relief, clean water, increasing the quantity and efficiency of aid, lessening corruption in the governments of the aid-recipient countries, providing basic education for all, making trade fairer, reforming the farm bill to make it fairer for farmers in developing countries, slowing deadly diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, and increasing the international affairs budgets in the USA, UK, and European countries.[2][better source needed]

History

ONE was founded by 11 organizations: Bread for the World, CARE, DATA, International Medical Corps, International Rescue Committee, Mercy Corps, Oxfam America, Plan USA, Save the Children U.S., World Concern, World Vision.

The official launch rally was held on May 16, 2004, at Liberty Mall in Philadelphia. About 2,000 people attended, including Bono, Dikembe Mutombo, Michael W. Smith, Richard Stearns (president of World Vision), and David Beckmann (president of Bread for the World).[3]

In December 2004, ONE announced a $3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.[4] Corresponding with this announcement, Mark McKinnon, an adviser to United States president Bush, and Mike McCurry, an adviser to the Kerry Campaign, appeared in CNN's Inside Politics with Judy Woodruff in support of ONE.[5]

On May 22, 2007, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced that it had saved 1.8 million lives since 2002, including a roughly doubling of services in the past year. ONE members had advocated for the increases to the Global Fund in both 2006 and 2007.[6]

In June 2007, ONE launched ONE Vote '08[7] to mobilize American voters to engage the presidential candidates about the issues of global diseases and poverty. ONE Vote '08 seeks to have all the candidates make the fight against global poverty a key part of their national security and foreign policy platform. ONE Vote '08 is co-chaired by former Senate Majority Leaders Tom Daschle (D-SD) and Bill Frist (R-TN). Since the launch, statewide initiatives have been established in each of the four early primary states — Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada.[8][9] In addition, the ONE Vote initiative has produced official and unofficial endorsements from presidential candidates John Edwards and Bill Richardson.[10][11]

In 2008 ONE merged with DATA. The merged entity was run by CEO David J. Lane[12] until his departure in early 2011 to join the Obama administration.[13] ONE's current leadership team includes former editor of Time magazine, CEO Michael Elliott, co-founder and executive director Jamie Drummond, and U.S. executive director Tom Hart.[14]

During the 2008 U.S. presidential election, the organization launched a campaign, called ONE Vote '08, which was co-chaired by former U.S. Senate majority leaders Tom Daschle (D-SD) and Bill Frist (R-TN). Since 2009 ONE has run a series of ONE Vote campaigns around national elections, including ONE VOTE 2010 [15] in the United Kingdom and ONE Vote 2012 in both France [16] and the United States.[17]

In 2010 ONE and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched the Living Proof campaign,[18] with Bill and Melinda Gates hosting events in Washington DC, London, Paris, Berlin and Brussels.

In 2011 ONE and (RED) partnered for World AIDS Day and brought together U.S. President Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Tanzanian President Kikwete, and others at an event in Washington, D.C. In 2012 ONE acquired (RED) as a division of ONE.

ONE has worked with Publish What You Pay and a coalition of other non-government organisations[19][better source needed] around the Cardin-Lugar Amendment and the passing of extractives transparency laws in the United States and Europe.[20]

In 2013 ONE ran a pilot consultation in African countries on what the new Millennium Development Goals should be.[21][better source needed]

In 2015 ONE collected signatures for an open letter was addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women as they serve as the head of the G7 in Germany and the AU in South Africa respectively, which will start to set the priorities in development funding before a main UN summit in September 2015 that will establish new development goals for the generation.[22] The following people signed the open letter: Ali Hewson, Angellah Kairuki, Angelique Kidjo, Ann Cairns (president, international markets, MasterCard), Beyoncé, Charlize Theron, Christy Turlington, Cindi Leive (editor-in-chief, Glamour magazine, Danai Gurira, Gesine Schwan, Helene Gayle, Jude Kelly, Jutta Allmendinger (president of the German social science institute, Wissenschaftszentrum), Karen Kornbluh, Karen Ruimy, Lady Gaga, Lauren Bush, Mabel van Oranje, Dr. Maria Furtwangler, Marian Salzman, Mariella Frostrup, Meryl Streep, Michele Sullivan (president of the Caterpillar Foundation, director of Corporate Social Innovation), Mimi Alemayehou, Monica Musonda (CEO and founder of Java Foods (Zambia)), Mpule Kwelagobe, Naisula Lesuuda (senator, Kenya), Rita Wilson, Rosamund Pike, Sabine Christiansen, Sarah Silverman, Sheryl Sandberg, Sheryl WuDunn, Susan Shabangu, and Yvonne Chaka Chaka.[22]

Also in 2015 they launched a report titled "Poverty is Sexist".[22]

Methods

Archbishop Desmond Tutu speaking about ONE in a prerecorded video shown before a U2 performance of "One" during the group's U2 360° Tour in 2009.
An invitation to join ONE, shown at the end of the same show.

ONE uses a number of highly visible methods to reach out to the general public, promote its message, and encourage advocacy actions. ONE does not ask for public donations, stating: "We're not asking for your money. We're asking for your voice."[23]

Celebrity spokespeople are used to speak to the media and undertake trips abroad televised visits to areas suffering from poverty in order to illustrate the issues ONE is attempting to solve. ONE also uses its celebrity supporters for video ads that are released on YouTube.

ONE is a largely Internet-based campaign and therefore has multiple online communities throughout cyberspace. As well as using YouTube, ONE has a significant presence on Twitter, Google Plus, and Flickr,[24] and uses Facebook for its campus organizing.[25]

ONE also has field organizers around the United States to support grassroots mobilization and advocacy. The field staff works with more than 200 local ONE groups[citation needed] that sponsor educational events, organize community awareness events, and lobby their members of Congress.

Legislation[better source needed]

In the United States, ONE announced its support for the Electrify Africa Act of 2013 (H.R. 2548; 113th Congress), a bill that would direct the President to establish a multiyear strategy to assist countries in sub-Saharan Africa develop an appropriate mix of power solutions to provide sufficient electricity access to people living in rural and urban areas in order to alleviate poverty and drive economic growth.[26] ONE said that "this legislation is a bold vision for U.S. engagement in the energy sector in Africa."[27] According to ONE, 589 million people in sub-Saharan Africa lack access to electricity.[27] The lack of electricity makes it difficult or impossible for some healthcare facilities to store drugs (that need to be chilled to certain temperatures, for example) or use life-saving equipment.[27] The lack of electricity also limits business growth, forces people to spend time looking for fuel sources, exposes people to harmful fumes from indoor fires used for cooking, heating, and lighting, and limits safety (due to a lack of night time lighting and telephones).[27]

Controversy

ONE has been criticized[28] for its response to a book by African economist Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa,[29] which was published in January 2009. Moyo accused ONE of mischaracterizing her views. She says that she is against only government aid, not "their kind of aid".[30] However, ONE argues that governmental development assistance "plays a critical role in the fight against extreme poverty and disease".[31] In June 2009 Dambisa Moyo told former U.S. presidential Republican speech writer Peter Robinson during a Hoover Institute sponsored Uncommon Knowledge interview that "the harshest thing that has happened [in terms of responses to her 2009 book Dead Aid], Bono's and Bob Geldof's organization, called One, who I had tried to have a number of meetings with before the book came out, about what the theses of the book were, launched a very vitriolic attack against me. To the point that they were calling organizations ahead of my meetings and media appointments and sent a letter to African NGOs claiming, basically, painting me as a genocidal maniac trying to kill African babies. In other words, trying to get Africans to be against me. To me, that was not really fostering dialogue."[32]

In September 2010, it was reported that ONE used only 1.2% of their funds for charitable causes. However, according to a spokesperson, ONE does not provide programs on the ground but instead is an advocacy campaign for their funding. It was also stated that the organization does not fundraise or accept donations and receives most of its funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.[33]

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