[Gcap-mujeres] RE: [Gcap-women] DECLARATION ON WOMEN AND FOOD CRISIS

Lun Sep 22 12:48:36 UYT 2008

Le Monde selon les Femmes is signing the declaration !

Thank you for all the work done !

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De : gcap-women-bounces en lists.apcwomen.org
[mailto:gcap-women-bounces en lists.apcwomen.org] De la part de Ana Agostino
Envoyé : vendredi 19 septembre 2008 18:30
À : GCAP Women
Cc : CCAP Mujeres
Objet : [Gcap-women] DECLARATION ON WOMEN AND FOOD CRISIS

Dear friends, 
queridas amigas (español abajo),

As you know, the HLE on the MDGs is already next week and there is a
particular concern around the lack of progress on MDG 3. 
You will recall the initiative sent by Alejandra inviting us to issue a
statement on women and the food crisis. There has been a lot of progress on
this as a result of the combined effort of several organisations. I am
attaching the final version in English and will circulate the Spanish one a
bit later today. Please indicate if you will like to add your name/ the name
of your organisation. We will give distribute it broadly while in New York
and use it as an important advocacy tool.
We look forward to your signatures, comments and support. Thanks!
Ana 

Queridas amigas,
ya la próxima semana comienza el evento de alto nivel en torno a los ODM con
una preocupación especial por la falta de avances en torno al objetivo 3.
Recordarán que hace poco Alejandra nos convocó a preparar un comunicado
sobre las mujeres y la crisis alimentaria. Hemos avanzado mucho en esto
gracias al trabajo conjunto de varias organizaciones. Les adjunto la versión
final en inglés y la versión en español la enviaré seguramente esta tarde. 
Les agradecemos que nos indiquen si desean sumarse con su firma / la firma
de vuestra organización a esta declaración. Le vamos a dar una amplia
difusión en Nueva York y la usaremos como una herramienta importante de
incidencia. 
Esperamos vuestras firmas, comentarios y apoyo. Gracias!
Un abrazo,
Ana

From: Alejandra Scampini <mailto:Alejandra.Scampini en actionaid.org>  

To: gcap-women-bounces en lists.apcwomen.org ; gcap-women en apcwomen.org 

Cc: RosaenCasa en aol.com 

Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 10:08 AM

Subject: [Gcap-women] WHAT IS AT STAKE FOR WOMEN IN THE CONTEXT OF
FOODCRISIS

Dear women,

As you know the UN Secretary-General and the President of the UN General
Assembly will convene a High-level Event on the Millennium Development Goals
at UN Headquarters in New York on 25 September 2008. 

We are the halfway point towards the target date, some significant progress
has been made, true, but urgent and increased efforts are needed by all
stakeholders in order to meet the Goals by 2015. Does this sound familiar?

Groups such as GCAP, African NGOs and Networks, ActionAid and its HungerFree
Campaign, and others are reuniting again and collaborating since they are
considering this another opportunity to tell world leaders that reviewing is
just not enough, that we need to move towards action NOW.

Some of us are also analyzing how the MDGs specific plans and proposals will
specially target the recent challenge of Rising Food Prices. As we, women,
improve our analysis of this analysis, we are also witnessing sad stories
about how this is impacting on the capacity of children women and men have a
dignified life and their human rights being eroded. Food crisis, among other
things, is impacting on nutritional levels, income of households, and number
of more people suffering from hunger and impoverishment increases too.

In early 2008, the UN Secretary-General assembled a food crisis task force
of UN agencies, which put together and is carrying out a coordinated action
plan to improve agricultural capacity and access to food. This task force is
gender blind and ActionAid is among other civil society groups participating
in it to promote inclusion of a women’s rights analysis. 

Many of us are also actively participating in other issues that are also
interrelated such as Aid effectiveness, Financing for Development and
Challenges to achieve MDGs in Africa. It may be good to unity our efforts
and analysis and prepare some concrete actions for September:

In a context of very limited CSO participation, I see here some concrete
opportunities:

1.	One, bring back again our analysis on MDGs, recover some of that
energy and ask the groups that will be in NY to disseminate our messages and
policy asks. I have tried to make an attempt of a statement we had worked
also with Marcela Ballara from FAO. It would be very good if we pull
together a declaration and ask for sign ons. See drafts attached. We need to
come up with a mixture of MDGs and Food crisis context Experience of WEDO,
DAWN, FTF GCAP, AWID, CGWL and others is very much needed to pull a strong
document that also talks to aid effectiveness, FfD. Also some boxes with
concrete voices from groups working with rural women.  Deadline: 12
September?? 

2.	The second intervention we may have is to comment on the Task force
on Food Crisis document. We have not much time for this. Please see document
attached. It would be good if we have also communication with Agencies
working on this such as UNDP, UNIFEM, FAO, WFP, UNICEF, etc. We could
organize conversations with our friends inside those spaces as to see how we
can more effectively work together and even think of a representation of
women’s groups inside that task force. 

3.	GCAP Tribunals on Poverty. Use that opportunity to showcase our
demands. I am sure you are already planning lots of actions. May be we could
pull together videos, posters, testimonies and send it to FTF GCAP? 

Well hope I have captured your attention and interest. Rosa, Ana we could
also engage GEAR campaign girls in this??

Let´s continue talking

Beijos from sunny Rio

Alejandra Scampini

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