Global: GCAP scoops IPS award

The Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP), described as the world's largest anti-poverty coalition, is the recipient of the 2005 International Achievement Award for Excellence in Communication given by Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency. Consisting of over a thousand non-governmental organisations (NGOs), grass roots movements and civil society groups representing more than 150 million people worldwide, GCAP is leading an intensive campaign for a substantial shift in national and international policies that will eliminate poverty and achieve and exceed the UN's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the targeted date 2015.