The Dutch ministry of Foreign Affairs has initiated a possibility for young and innovative organisations to offer a proposal for funding international developmental projects. The Dutch Center for Human Emergence has offered a proposal for this center.

The core group of CHE NL involves around 80 - 100 active volunteers. In 2007 CHE NL  received € 37,830 as private donations. In 2006: € 38.654. The Wisdom Council of CHE NL consists of prominent, leading persons in Dutch society, such as Herman Wijffels and Carlos de Bourbon, Prince de Bourbon de Parma, Prince of Piacenza.

With the initiative "The Hague Center for Global Governance, Innovation and Emergence" the CHE NL aligns, activates and supports MeshWorks of stakeholders needed to design, implement and learn from solutions to the different and interconnected challenges that humanity faces.

Within the field of International Development it will identify partnerships and align initiatives. It will look at the specific qualities of the different partners and how their uniqueness can be enhanced and vitalized through their connection to other unique partners, thereby adding value in terms of a structural higher effectiveness of the partners activities, hence leading to a decrease in poverty.

The "Hague Center" will focus on different countries from the DAC list. Current activities of the CHE NL that will be incorporated within the "Hague Center", take place in Zambia (listed as one of the ‘least developed countries' in the DAC-list) and Kenya (listed as ‘other low income countries' on the DAClist).

Dr Beck refers to the CHE as a MeshWork Foundation. In his words: "This type of foundation uses the power of "mesh" in identifying, integrating, aligning, and mobilizing all available resources. These, in turn, are focused like laser-beam on specific challenges, goals, objectives, or outcomes.

Such a foundation will be less interested in its own image, data banks, financial resources, or proprietary position in a specific professional or public niche. Rather, it is an open system; one designed to aid and assist other efforts, even if they appear on the surface to be competitive, to work for a greater goal, the power of the Third Win. It will accept, as its unique and transcendent role, the enabling and empowering of all of the elements that can contribute to a positive outcome. This new foundation is an inclusive (rather than exclusive) force designed to raise the total national or global capacity for both short and long term solutions to complex problems. It will use both the cyberworld and personal contact summitry to bring all of the other foundations (and other interests) together around common purpose. It will accept a major information sharing and technology transfer role. It will assist other entities to become healthy and vibrant. It has no need to re-invent the wheel since it is wasteful to duplicate resources and absorb capital in unnecessary expenditures, fancy offices, or expensive public relations efforts.

Such an initiative will be relatively lean in stature, with the capability of big-picture thinking cobbled with a quick-response intelligence. It will offer its "good offices" to the academy, marketplace, milieu, or MeshWork that links all of the efforts and resources in a given field or cause. As a result, more is done by less, solutions are both short-term and long-term, and the whole "brain syndicate" continues to learn, get better, improve, and even develop new and imaginative solutions that no specific effort, foundations, or entity could invent on their own."

This is the role that the CHE plays and that we see for the "Hague Center for GlobalGovernance, Innovation and Emergence"

The website with the proposal, partners and possibility for your comment  http://www.thehaguecenter.nl/News/News.html

Partners:

• Independent nodes of the Center for Human Emergence global network in the Middle East, Mexico, Brazil, USA and Germany
• M.CAM - provides Global Technology Assessments, enables the Global Innovation Commons
• Gaiasoft - provides virtual performance, knowledge and collaboration platforms
• Arlington Institute - provides technology for systemic mapping and surprise anticipation
• HolacracyOne - provides advice on the holacractic organisational practice
• Boer & Croon - provide advice on corporate finance and management
• Endemol - provides a partnership in multi-channel media communication for the MDGs
• PrivaServe Foundation - partner in improving the independence and self-reliance of local rural communities in Zambia through local leadership development in a holistic approach, using ICT and communication as important enablers; creating 8 rural competence centers in the coming two years together with local, national and international partners
• LinkNet Zambia - cooperative organization providing for cost based building, operations and maintenance of tailored communications infrastructure and services for special interest groups in rural areas.
• Elemental Africa - provides expertise and experience in the application of ecologically sustainable technologies in Africa (based in South Africa)
• Young Women's Leadership Institute - nurtures young women's leadership and open spaces for women's engagement in policy processes through capacity building, learning, intergenerational dialogues and creating links (www.ywli.or.ke) ( Kenya)
• CHE Kenya i.o - facilitating emergence in Kenya through MeshWorking, dialogues, capacity building and projects - starting with the connection, empowerment and mobilization of the women of Africa in collaboration with Kenyian (for example YWLI) and other organizations, to create the future of Africa and to develop bonds of friendship and mutual learning and support with women (and men) internationally.
• MeshWork Millenium Development Goal (MDG) 5 - A collaboration consisting of 20 partners who joined forces in order to make a real contribution to the reduction of the maternal mortality ratio (Millenium Development Goal 5). The MeshWork consists of the partners: AMREF; BIO Connection B.V.; BioFarmind; Cordaid; DRC; GlaxoSmithKline; ICM; Kenisis; KNOV; Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen; Malaria No More!; Mybody; NCDO; NVOG; NVTG; Organon; Share-net; TI Pharma; TNO Quality of life; World Health Organization.
• NatuurCollege, Lippe-Biesterfeld Foundation - NatuurCollege wants to contribute to the convelescence of the relationship between mankind and nature, by learningactivities, projects, publications, journalistic productions and the development of an interactive international platform.
• Energy4Life - global leader in the field of sourcing, co-developing and validating new distributed energy technologies, know-how and insights to manifest integral solutions for climate change and the global energy, water and food shortages
• The Hunger Project - a global, strategic organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger. The Hunger Project has pioneered low-cost, bottom-up, gender-focused strategies in each region where hunger persists. These strategies mobilize clusters of rural villages to create and run their own programs that achieve lasting progress in health, education, nutrition and family income
• City of the Hague network - network of organisations and government institutions in the Hague