The Global Photography Campaign on Humanizing Development, launched recently, aims to promote and showcase visual examples of people winning the battle against poverty, social exclusion and marginalization by bringing light and life into the above questions.

Development is often portrayed through images of desolation and despair despite the immense number of initiatives, programmes, ideas and partnerships that are changing the lives of millions of people throughout our developing and transitional world. To raise the awareness of these global successes in the development process and share innovative and successful actions, the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG) launches the Global Photography Campaign on Humanizing Development.

Everyone can and is strongly encouraged to participate in this global effort and contribute with a photograph. All photographs should fit into one of the campaign’s fourteen different thematic areas related to the Millennium Development Goals, such as eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, expanding access to food, clean water, sanitation, education and health services for the poor, and promoting women's leadership and equal opportunity in education and employment. It is very simple to upload your photograph onto the campaign's website.

Some of the key outcomes of the campaign will include a photography gallery to be permanently displayed prominently at the IPC-IG office and open for public viewing; a series of photography exhibitions in several cities around the world; and a photography database that will be shared with the campaign partners and several United Nations agencies and departments.

Join us now in showing development through a different lens! Let’s promote and share successful development initiatives! Contribute! Participate!

Visit the campaign website in all United Nations languages and Portuguese at: www.ipc-undp.org/photo