[Ftffacilitationteam] Doha and Accra wome movilization in major global processes.

Lun Nov 3 20:11:14 GMT+2 2008

Dear All I found this interesting and very clear article  in AWID internet
and  would like to share it with all of you. ( sorry is not in spanish)

Marcela. 

How have women's rights organisations mobilized and participated in the two
major global processes that could have the greatest impact on how aid is
delivered to poor people? 

By Kathambi Kinoti 

The arduous work of engaging with the individuals, policies and institutions
that drive the way in which aid flows from donors to less developed countries
has been occupying women's rights advocates for several years now. 

There are currently two key processes that aim to address the ways in which
financial aid from Northern- primarily bilateral and multilateral donors- is
channelled to poor countries for development. One is the Aid Effectiveness
process and the other the Financing for Development process. The Aid
Effectiveness agenda was instituted and is facilitated by the Development
Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD DAC), while the Financing for Development agenda comes
under the auspices of the United Nations. The Aid Effectiveness agenda is
grounded on the Paris Declaration, and the Financing for Development agenda
is grounded on the Monterrey Consensus on Financing for Development. Women's
rights advocates say that the Paris Declaration and the Aid Effectiveness
agenda are gender blind and too technical, attempting to make the delivery of
aid more efficient, but undermining the delivery of development. 

Women's rights organisations have urged that the Aid Effectiveness and
Financing for Development processes be integrated into one regime that makes
development more effective. This regime should be within the United Nations
system which is more democratic, inclusive and development oriented than the
OECD DAC which is a group of donors. Nevertheless, women's rights
organisations have continued to engage with both processes. 
In February this year, women's rights organisations came together in Ottawa,
Canada for a consultation on the Paris Declaration and Aid Effectiveness. The
meeting was hosted by AWID and WIDE. Some representatives from the
consultation went on to attend a multi-stakeholder dialogue on Civil Society
and Aid Effectiveness organised by the Advisory Group on Civil Society and
Aid Effectiveness. AWID and WIDE were later invited to join the Advisory
Group. 

In early September this year, representatives of donor and recipient
governments met at the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra,
Ghana to review the progress made since 2005 in making aid more 'effective.'
Civil society, including women's rights organisations had an opportunity,
albeit a limited one, to input into the performance review and make
recommendations for improvement. The outcome document from Accra, the Accra
Agenda for Action reiterated that 'gender equality, respect for human rights,
and environmental sustainability are cornerstones for achieving enduring
impact on the lives and the potential of poor women.'

In October a series of meetings took place in Paris including an
International Steering Group (ISG) meeting of civil society organisations.
The ISG serves as a watchdog within the Aid Effectiveness and the Financing
for Development processes. The ISG pushes for development cooperation and
development effectiveness and one of its upcoming tasks will be to advocate
for the next High Level Forum to review progress on the implementation of the
Paris Declaration, to be organised within the UN system, thus uniting the two
agendas: Aid Effectiveness and Financing for Development. Civil society
organisations are now working on being included in the OECD Working Party on
Aid Effectiveness. 

In December a meeting will take place in Doha, Qatar to review progress in
the implementation of the Monterrey Consensus. Women's rights organisations
are mobilising to participate in the meeting. One example of this is the
Women's Working Group on Financing for Development which consists of a number
of trade unions and a coalition of women's networks and organisations. The
Working Group participated in interactive hearings that took place in June
this year in New York, and also organised a Women's Consultation around that
time.

The engagement and advocacy of women's rights organisations in the Aid
Effectiveness and Financing for Development processes has opened up spaces
for their participation where previously they were overlooked. However
slightly, it has also influenced the language of these processes, although
not the main documents upon which the processes are based: particularly the
Paris Declaration. At the AWID Forum in Cape Town later this month, women's
rights networks and organisations that have been involved in these processes
will facilitate a session to take stock of their achievements and to discuss
the challenges they have encountered. Their work has been an example of the
value of collaboration and concerted advocacy, but a reminder as well of the
continuous need to struggle for women's voices to be heard at the highest
policy levels. 

Marcela Ballara 
FAO,Oficial Principal Género, Equidad y Empleo Rural 
Oficina Regional de América  Latina y el Caribe 
Dag Hammarskjold 32 41, P.O.Box 10095 
Santiago, Chile 
teléfono: (56 2) 9232206 
Fax: (56-2) 3372101 
http://www.rlc.fao.org/es/desarrollo/mujer 

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Agostino
	Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 9:42 AM
	To: RosaenCasa en aol.com; ftffacilitationteam en listas.chasque.net
	Subject: Re: [Ftffacilitationteam] Strategic plan - request for input

	Dear Rosa,
	querida Rosa,
	here go my comments, in track changes. I marked several things in
yellow and added comments. The whole document needs editorial work, I think. 
	te adjunto mis comentarios, con control de cambios. Marqué varios
párrafos en amarillo y le inserté comentarios. Creo que todo el documento
necesita edición. 

	Ana

	Ana Agostino
	ICAE
	International Council for Adult Education
	General Secretariat
	18 de Julio 2095 - Apto  301
	11200 Montevideo - Uruguay
	Tel/fax: 005982 409 79 82
	E-mail: ana en icae.org.uy 
	www.icae.org.uy

		----- Original Message ----- 
		From: RosaenCasa en aol.com 
		To: ana en icae.org.uy ; ftffacilitationteam en listas.chasque.net 
		Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 11:33 AM
		Subject: Re: [Ftffacilitationteam] Strategic plan - request
for input

		Apologies - it seems it was in Word 2007.  Here it is in Word
97-2003.  
		A version in Spanish and Arabic is supposed to be on the
www.whiteband.org website. Una version de este en espanol y arabe deben estar
en el sitio web de gcap.

		Saludos,
		Rosa

		In a message dated 10/31/2008 8:59:44 A.M. Eastern Daylight
Time, ana en icae.org.uy writes:

			Dear Rosa,
			I cannot open the attachment. Maybe this happened to
other colleagues
			Ana
			Ana Agostino
			ICAE
			International Council for Adult Education
			General Secretariat
			18 de Julio 2095 - Apto  301
			11200 Montevideo - Uruguay
			Tel/fax: 005982 409 79 82
			E-mail: ana en icae.org.uy 
			www.icae.org.uy <http://www.icae.org.uy/> 

				----- Original Message ----- 
				From: RosaenCasa en aol.com 
				To: ftffacilitationteam en listas.chasque.net 
				Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 7:33 PM
				Subject: [Ftffacilitationteam] Strategic plan
- request for input

				Dear friends,       (espanol abajo)

				It was great to talk with some of you on this
morning's FTF-FT call.  We missed others who could not join us.  Notes will
be going out but for now I want to follow-up on one of the tasks which is to
send out the GCAP Strategic Framework for your review and input. Some of you
may be familiar with it already and have seen it as part of the material sent
out by the regional secretariats.  The GCAP Global Secretariat has provided
us extra time to review and finalize. I know the Europeans asked for more
time and will be doing a thorough review at their meeting in November. So,
for this and other reasons, the time for review has been extended. The
section on Women's Rights is not comprehensive but it is quite good and
brings in various aspects not previous connected to mainstream GCAP, e.g. the
Beijing Platform for Action, CEDAW and other instruments / agreements. Please
pay particular attention to the part on mobilization, considering our general
view on Stand Up, which is being proposed for the next three years. Also,
perhaps in light of the successes of the most recent mobilizations (or
otherwise), feel free to make comments.  

				Just some quick background, part of the
reason for this document is to submit for the incorporation of GCAP as a
foundation.  Let me clarify--- I specifically asked on today's call of the
Strategic Planning meeting if it is required (the Europeans were arguing that
it is not therefore give more time for review) and the answer was that a very
close to be ready draft can be submitted but that this wouldn't get the most
positive response by funders. Funders particularly prefer a final document
for providing funding for a first time institution. The final draft would
still need to go through the Global Council, most likely in the Dec. 15th
meeting.   

				Please try to get comments back to me by this
Friday or Monday at the latest so I could relay them to the Strategic
Planning Group. The document has been available for a couple of months and
has been translated into other languages.  Here's an attachment in English,
Spanish is on the website.

				Warm regards,

				Rosa

				Espanol:

Queridas colegas, 

Que gusto hablar con ustedes en esta mañana en la llamada de equipo
facilitador del EFT. Algunas no pudieron estar con nosotras. Habra notas pero
por ahora quiero decirles sobre el seguimiento de una del Marco Estratégico
de GCAP. Se los envio para su revisión y de los aportes. Algunos de ustedes
puede estar familiarizado con el reporte enviado por las secretarías
regionales. La secretaría general de GCAP nos ha proporcionado más tiempo
para revisarsloy finalizarlo. Sé que los europeos pidieron más tiempo y haran
un examen al fondo del reporte en su reunión de noviembre. Así, por esta y
otras razones, el tiempo de revisión se ha ampliado. La sección de Derechos
de la Mujer no es exhaustiva, pero es bastante buena y incluye diversos
aspectos no relacionados anteriormente para incorporar la GCAP, por ejemplo,
la Plataforma de Acción de Beijing, CEDAW y otros instrumentos y acuerdos.
Por favor, presten atención en la parte de la movilización, teniendo en
cuenta nuestra opinión general sobre el Stand Up, que se propone para los
próximos tres años. Además, tomen en cuenta los éxitos (o no) de las últimas
movilizaciones para hacer comentarios.

Rápido, unos antecedentes, unos de las razones de este documento fue para la
incorporación de GCAP como una fundación. Permítanme aclarar --- he
preguntado concretamente hoy en la reunión de la planificación estratégica si
era necesario este documento (los europeos hacen el argumento de que no es,
por lo tanto, quieren más tiempo para su revisión), y la respuesta fue de que
es necesario, pero es preferida para tener una respuesta más positiva de los
financiadores. Financiadores en particular prefieren un documento final para
la financiación de una institución naciente. El proyecto definitivo todavía
hay que pasar por el Consejo Mundial, más probable es que en la reunión de 15
de diciembre. Por favor, traten de obtener comentarios antes del viernes o
sino el lunes, a más tardar, para poder retransmitirlo al grupo de la
planificación estratégica. El documento ha estado disponible durante un par
de meses y ha sido traducido a otros idiomas. Aquí está un archivo en inglés,
y en el sitio web hay en español.

Un abrazo,

Rosa

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