Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP)

The Global Call to Action
Against Poverty (GCAP) supports people in their
struggles for justice and brings individuals and organisations together to
challenge the institutions and processes that perpetuate poverty and
inequalities. Together, we defend and promote human rights, gender justice, social
justice, climate justice and the security needed for the dignity and peace for
all.

GCAP is a global civil society movement fighting for global justice to end poverty and inequality with strong leadership from the Global South. GCAP is constituted   by over 18,400 civil society organisations
(CSOs) organized in 66 National Coalitions and in constituency groups of women,
youth and socially excluded people, among others. Main themes: 

Ending poverty and
inequalities: GCAP
fights for social, economic and gender rights and climate justice to end
poverty and inequalities. We advocate and mobilise for the effective
implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their
principle of Leaving No One Behind, challenging practices, institutions
and processes that perpetuate oppression, discrimination and the
structural causes of poverty and inequalities.
People’s voice: GCAP is primarily
formed by many small and medium-sized civil society organisations with a
strong grassroots connection, especially of people facing discrimination
and exclusion. They organise themselves into democratic coalitions and
constituency groups in a bottom-up process at national, regional and
global levels to amplify people’s voices.

Global solidarity: The character of GCAP
is marked by global cooperation and solidarity with a majority leadership
from the Global South to support peoples’ struggles as part of the global
justice movement.