Differences: ICCA and UIA

Owned by Dennis Speet [Administrator] (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Jun 22, 2015
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Problem

What are the differences between ICCA and UIA and what is the current relationship between these two organisations?

Solution

The Union of International Associations (UIA) is a research institute and documentation centre based in Brussels, a pioneer in the research, monitoring and provision of information on international organizations, international associations and their global challenges since 1907.

One of the aims and objectives of the UIA is to collect, research and disseminate information on international organizations. Published in the Yearbook of International Organizations this provides an extensive coverage of non-profit international organizations (both international non-governmental –INGOs- and intergovernmental –IGOs-) available today. At present it contains entries on 64523 civil society organizations in 300 countries and territories, in every field of human endeavour.

The International Congress Calendar is a comprehensive source of information on past and future international meetings organized or sponsored by international organizations. The entire database contains 359685 events dating from 1851, and over 15,000 future events are included every year. The meetings data compiled by the UIA is analyzed in great detail in an extensive annual International Meetings Statistics Report provided free to UIA Associate Members as part of their subscription.

There appear to be a number of misconceptions concerning the current relationship between UIA and ICCA which has been in effect since the beginning of 2010. To clarify matters:

1) UIA and ICCA are not merging and have no intention of merging.

2) UIA allows ICCA to display a select amount of UIA data on ICCA's website. 4,500 regularly occurring meetings within ICCA's database of international association events have been enhanced through access to supplementary UIA data. Renting access to these profiles is the only addition to our continued convivial relationship.

3) UIA and ICCA remain two completely distinct organizations with different aims and activities.

Related to statistics, the people who were misinformed and thought that because of the collaboration there was no reason to be communicating meetings information to the UIA – please be aware that is not the case at all! More info: http://www.uia.org