[Gcap-mujeres] NGOs at HLE / ONGs en el HLE

[ana]

Queridas amigas, (espanhol en mensaje aparte)
dear friends,
as I mentioned yesterday, in the afternoon we had the coordination meeting of
NGOS with those who will be attending the HLE on behalf of civil society. I
copy below the names and organisations and on which topic they will each talk.
Besides them, Ela Blatt will talk at the HLE itself.
There were several NGOs there, and the meeting was coordinated by Salil Shety
from the Millennium Campaign. The first thing he said is that it had been a
success to get 120 passes for NGOs as observers. Rosa and I asked about the
process by which these passes were granted. Though we registered quite early,
we did not get a pass. He said that it had been difficult as hundred of NGOs
registered. We said that it was important for future occasions to be clear
about the process. Then we also asked that those who will talk at the event
could present what they were going to say, so that we could give inputs. 
There were comments on most of the presentations as many of us felt that
fundamental issues were missing from them. For example on land, no mention was
made about women's acces to it. We provided at the end of the meeting some
language to the NGO representative based on the declaration we prepared. In
education we also called for inclusion of lifelong learning as the focus was
mainly on basic education. We also mentioned on environment, where the NGO
representative said she will focus on climate change (that she said is
happening to the South) that the responsibility of the North as the main
polluters should be mentioned. There were several other interventions and a
fundamental input was made at the end, after all NGO representatives had
talked, that there was an urgent need for civil society to highlight the
financial crisis and that a prerequsite for everything else was a
transformation of the financial institutions. 
The NGO representatives took some notes, not as many as some of us would have
liked. The feeling I got was that their statements were ready and not much was
going to be changed to include the fundamental inputs that came from the room.
I hope I am mistaken and each of them made a powerful statement. We should all
get information after the HLE is finished of what they finally said for
transparency purposes. 
Greetings,
Ana

Civil Society Representatives at the High-level Event on the Millennium 
Development Goals

Roundtable 1 - Poverty and Hunger
Mr. Ndiogou Fall, President of ROPPA, the Network of Peasant and 
Agricultural Producer Organizations of West Africa 
Mr. Ashok Bharti, Wada Na Todo Abhiyan (Global Coalition Against Poverty 
India)

Roundtable 2 - Education and Health
Ms. Dorothy Ngoma, Executive Director of the National Organization of 
Nurses and Midwives of Malawi 
Mr. Charles F. MacCormack, President and CEO, Save the Children U.S., and 
Chairman of the Board, InterAction

Roundtable 3 - Environmental Sustainability
Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez , Archbishop of Tegucigalpo, Honduras / President 
of Caritas Internationalis 
Ms. Barbara Stocking, CEO, Oxfam Great Britain


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