[Gcap-mujeres] THE GCAP E-LETTER - MAY 27 2009 - EDITION #42
Helena Suarez
helena.suarez en whiteband.org
Jue Mayo 28 04:10:24 UYT 2009
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*THE GCAP E-LETTER*
May 27th 2009- Edition #42
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*In this e-letter*
*Letter from the Global Secretariat*
* What's coming up?*
* UN HIGH LEVEL MEETING ON FINANCIAL CRISIS & CIVIL SOCIETY MEETINGS
- Postponed
* STAND UP AND TAKE ACTION
* CLIMATE CHANGE WORKING GROUP
*What's been happening?*
* ANNUAL REPORT 2008 -- Has been distributed to Regional Secretariats
* 'PRESS THE 8' INTERACTIVE TOOL LAUNCH
* FACE TO FACE MEETINGS
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*Regional/Constituency Updates*
* AFRICA
* ASIA
* EUROPE * *
*GCAP Internal Updates*
* INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS REVIEW
* GOOGLE TRANSLATIONS TESTING
* CALL FOR SPOKESPEOPLE AND POLICY EXPERTS
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Letter from the Global Secretariat
Dear friends,
May has been a bittersweet month for GCAP. We begun with an upswing as
the newly formed GCAP foundation kicked off to a new independent start
away from CIVICUS. On May 5 we successfully launched our G8 mobilisation
campaign, 'Press the 8', a smart and interactive online and offline tool
to encourage citizens around the world to send a clear message to the G8
leaders about poverty issues and the MDGs.
But then on May 24, we tragically lost Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem in a fatal
car accident in Nairobi. Taju was a beloved colleague and a dear friend
to many in the GCAP family. As the Deputy Director for the United
Nations Millennium Campaign in Africa he fought for justice and equality
for the world's poorest.
As part of GCAP, Taju in collaboration with the UNMC, played a
leadership role on the 'Stand Up' campaign to take action to end
poverty. For the past three years, millions of people around the world
have stood up to show their support for the fight against poverty and
the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - Taju was a prominent
spokesperson for the MDGs. He was an African visionary whose infectious
laughter, brilliant mind and deep passionate commitment to African unity
and integration will be deeply missed.
Nonetheless, Taju would not want us to mourn his death but to celebrate
his life and values by intensifying our fight for global justice and for
the political and economic liberation for the people of Africa. His
death in the early hours of the morning of Africa Day is a symbolic
reminder of his deep love and affection for the people of Africa as
whole and for the dream of pan-African unity.
If you would like to send your message of condolences, you can do so at
Global Call to Action against Poverty shocked and saddened by the death
of Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem in Nairobi
<http://www.whiteband.org/resolveuid/7824be31d7223a5f38a0b550c12b5e67?utm_source=eletter090528>
Sincerely,
/*The Global Secretariat Staff*/
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What's coming up?
UN HIGH LEVEL MEETING ON FINANCIAL CRISIS -- Postponed
The United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis
and its Impact on Development has been postponed from June 1-3 to June
24 --26 June. The venue remains the UN Headquarters in New York.
Negotiations have begun on the newly revised Draft Outcome Document.
Keep yourself up to date on all Summit documents at:
www.un.org/ga/econcrisissummit/docs.shtml
<http://www.un.org/ga/econcrisissummit/docs.shtml> *
Participation Matters!* Get your country's voice heard at the UN Summit.
Ask your Head of State to sign the lobby letter to the UN, or to attend
the conference. A draft has been created for use by national coalitions
that would like to lobby their governments. The letter is available in
French, Spanish, Arabic and Portuguese.
Please follow this link to letter and download it in your language.
UN Summit on world financial and economic crisis
<http://www.whiteband.org/resolveuid/c0da268d5dab39a356ec4a1a362fe63d?utm_source=eletter090528>
Currently, there is a call to Heads of State to attend the conference
and ensure its success. GCAP could make a contribution by reaching to
national constituencies, on the ground contacts to reach ministers of
finance, ministers of trade and ministers of development cooperation in
capitals, not just the foreign ministries. There is much discussion
about how the success or failure of this Summit will impact the
Copenhagen negotiations and the MDG 2010 Summit. Many view this as a
"now or never" moment for the opportunity to significantly reform the
financial system, including the placement, oversight and review under a
larger global development architecture.
*PEOPLE'S VOICES ON THE CRISIS & Civil Society Forum *
These events were being organised by civil society movements to bring
people from the South and the North, especially women, unemployed
workers and other poor from the global south who have been left affected
and unheard in the financial meltdown.
/For more information on the civil society meetings taking place
pre-Summit, please contact Rosa Lizarde of the Feminist Task Force:
rosaencasa en aol.com <mailto:rosaencasa en aol.com>/
STAND UP AND TAKE ACTION
Stand Up and Take Action will take place this year between October 16th
-- 18th.
A new GCAP working group has started to work on Stand Up and Take
Action, with a view to coming up with creative action suggestions,
creating a toolkit and providing some suggested guidelines on how to
make Stand Up and Take Action better integrated with the overall
mobilisations this year, in particular how to integrate our ongoing
messages and demands -- on the food, fuel and financial crises, climate
change, gender equality, etc. -- within this year's event.
/To find out more about the Stand Up Working Group, please contact
Helena Suarez (helena.suarez en whiteband.org
<mailto:helena.suarez en whiteband.org>)/
The Stand Up and Take Action website has been updated to start gathering
momentum towards this year's event.
www.standagainstpoverty.org
<http://www.standagainstpoverty.org?utm_source=eletter090528>
CLIMATE CHANGE WORKING GROUP
The Mobilisation Task Force has re-convened the Climate Change Working
Group. During the first meeting this year the group discussed our
partnership with the Global Campaign for Climate Action (GCCA) with GCCA
Director Ben Margolis.
Find out about the GCCA in this document outlining GCCA key dates and
possible GCAP involvement:
GCAP GCCA letter to Coalitions and National Partners
<http://www.whiteband.org/resolveuid/2e2cf18d8f0f444fd75ff8d9aabe8678?utm_source=eletter090528>
The working group also discussed ways of working and participation. The
working group hopes to engage with all those GCAP activists with an
interest in Climate Change and in particular those planning their
activities towards the UNFCCC meeting in Copenhague in December.
/ If you're interested in joining the Climate Change Working Group,
contact Helena Suarez (helena.suarez en whiteband.org
<mailto:helena.suarez en whiteband.org>)/
The Climate Change Working Group would like to hear from those planning
Climate Change/Poverty Hearings.
/Please contact Helena Suarez (helena.suarez en whiteband.org
<mailto:helena.suarez en whiteband.org>) if you are involved in planning or
have already staged a Climate Change/Poverty Hearing, or if you would
like to find out more. /
What's been happening?
G8 COMMON POSITION PAPER
During May 3-5, the Civil G8 Dialogue was held in Rome, Italy. The
meeting was organised around thematic groups working on basic rights
(education, health, etc.); World Economy and Resources; Food and
Agriculture; Global Governance; Climate Change and Environment. Each
thematic group presented points to the G8 Sherpas' meeting on May 5th.
The outcome of the meeting was a common policy document that outlines
demands that must be brought to the G8 in July. The CLP can be used by
national coalitions as a guide to your own lobbying and mobilisation
efforts.
GCAP G8 Common Lobbying Positions FINAL - Updated
<http://www.whiteband.org/resolveuid/bb137023706c9a23933269711f1881cd?utm_source=eletter090528>
*G8 'PRESS THE 8' CAMPAIGN'*
As an online action supporting mobilisation around the G8 in July in
Italy, we launched an interactive 'game' and an online petition based on
the concept 'Press the G8' on May 5.
*www.whiteband.org/action/presstheg8
<http://www.whiteband.org/action/presstheg8?utm_source=eletter090528>
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The interactive counts the amount of 'pressure' that individual
activists put on the G8 leaders. Individual activists add their pressure
by literally 'pressing' the G8 leader or leaders of their choice, each
time a leader is 'pressed' the counter goes up.
Individual activists can also sign a petition to further express their
support by adding their names to the cause.
The amount of pressure added and the total number of signatures will be
used to lobby the G8 during their upcoming meeting in July in Italy.
The petition and interactive work independently of each other, and you
can use the petition and/or interactive in your own websites in a
variety of ways.
Link to the interactive and petition page on whiteband.org from your website
* www.whiteband.org/action/presstheg8?utm_source=gcappartner
<http://www.whiteband.org/action/presstheg8?utm_source=gcappartner>
(English)
* www.whiteband.org/action/presstheg8/es?utm_source=gcappartner
<http://www.whiteband.org/action/presstheg8/es?utm_source=gcappartner>
(Spanish)
* www.whiteband.org/action/presstheg8/fr?utm_source=gcappartner
<http://www.whiteband.org/action/presstheg8/fr?utm_source=gcappartner>
(French)
* www.whiteband.org/action/presstheg8/it?utm_source=gcappartner
<http://www.whiteband.org/action/presstheg8/it?utm_source=gcappartner>
(Italian)
/Contact Helena Suarez (helena.suarez en whiteband.org
<mailto:helena.suarez en whiteband.org>) for instructions and support to
add the interactive and/or petition directly on your website./
ANNUAL REPORT 2008 - OUT NOW
The Global Call to Action against Poverty Report 2008 is out now, with
information about the past year's mobilisation and actions across the
world. Thank you to all national coalitions for submitting their reports
towards creating this useful account of GCAP's work throughout 2008.
*All regional secretariats have now received copies of the annual
report. Please contact your regional secretariat (see details below) to
find out how you can receive a copy of the annual report.*
Download your copy of the report now!
* Arabic -
www.whiteband.org/resolveuid/26cc0a5d7b83175e68cd153fc9620b05
<http://www.whiteband.org/resolveuid/26cc0a5d7b83175e68cd153fc9620b05?utm_source=eletter090528>
* English -
www.whiteband.org/resolveuid/7f983b26136135211799a4f42ffe7d5c
<http://www.whiteband.org/resolveuid/7f983b26136135211799a4f42ffe7d5c?utm_source=eletter090528>
* French -
www.whiteband.org/resolveuid/9f5413c925856affbf61f6a9e95483de
<http://www.whiteband.org/resolveuid/9f5413c925856affbf61f6a9e95483de?utm_source=eletter090528>
* Portuguese -
www.whiteband.org/resolveuid/96d88908a44f5cf91d2bbc57325080c3
<http://www.whiteband.org/resolveuid/96d88908a44f5cf91d2bbc57325080c3?utm_source=eletter090528>
* Spanish -
www.whiteband.org/resolveuid/0c1b8ac86d448ecf1eec2dce6ec59447
<http://www.whiteband.org/resolveuid/0c1b8ac86d448ecf1eec2dce6ec59447?utm_source=eletter090528>
FACE TO FACE MEETINGS
May 28-29 - *Learning and Accountability (LAG) --* The LAG had its first
face to face meeting in Utrecht, Netherlands. In the meeting the group
extracted core values of GCAP from the Montevideo Declaration. In the
upcoming months, the group will explore making all parts of GCAP
accountable to these agreed upon values. The group also discussed
capacity building. In the past, discussions of accountability and
capacity building within GCAP have been focused on the weakness of the
movement. One important element that arose in the meeting was an
acknowledgement of the huge capacity that exists in GCAP, and the need
to use it better to use our strengths as a source of learning.
Read the whole report: Learning and accountability group
<http://www.whiteband.org/resolveuid/cb0f9899a350491467a58dc2cb88199b?utm_source=eletter090528>
May 28-29 -- *Foundation Board* -- The GCAP Global Foundation Board held
their first face to face meeting the 29th and 30th in Utrecht,
Netherlands to discuss their roles and responsibilities, and
administrative procedures relevant to the secretariat.
June (dates to be confirmed) -- *Mobilisation Task Force (MTF)* -- There
is a scheduled MTF face to face meeting at the end of June in London.
The venue will be confirmed. There is funding for 10 participants from
the Southern coalitions.
We are preparing the agenda and list of participants on this. The main
items of discussions look at longer term planning, how to implement the
strategic directions from a point of view of already planned
mobilisation activities, and then looking strategically at 2009 moments
that are coming up right after June, plus Stand Up and Copenhagen, and
then a look at the ways of working of the group, including participation
and representation of the different regions and constituencies within GCAP.
Regional/Constituency updates
EUROPE
*MALTA* - *EU Election Campaign* - On May 8th the European Development
NGOs launched a campaign '10Days4Development' throughout Europe to raise
awareness about the role of the European Union in the world and to
encourage citizens to vote at the European elections, which will be held
from June 4th - 7th.
The campaign ran from May 9th -- 18th. The campaign was supposed to
encourage citizens to ask their European candidates about their planned
proposals of action --if they are elected -- in order to foster
international development and to act against climate change.
In May / June 2009 elections to the European Parliament will be held in
the 27 Member States of the European Union (EU). Half a billion European
citizens will elect 736 Members of the European Parliament (MEP) in the
biggest trans-national election in history.
Since the subsequent elections will be held in 2014, these 2009
elections are the last chance to elect a European Parliament that will
be committed to put an end to poverty and inequality by the MDG target date.
This represents a key opportunity for pan-European campaigning on
development issues and GCAP national coalitions are taking the lead in
promoting the public visibility of the economic and social justice agenda.
One example is from the GCAP national coalition in Malta. SKOP is the
National Platform of Maltese NGDOs and, in preparation of the coming
elections to the European Parliament, they have just released a
Manifesto on MDGs, which has been disseminated along candidates, in
order to explore their positions regarding development issues.
The Manifesto calls on MEP to ensure that EU policies are in line with
development objectives, especially taking into account issues like
gender equity, climate justice, financing for development, the necessary
reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and trade policy, the
links between migration and development and the importance of democratic
accountability.
*AidWatch Report Launch, Concorde* - On May 14 the European
confederation of 18 international networks and 22 national associations,
representing more than 1600 European development NGOs launched the
AidWatch Report.
European governments provided 60% of global aid flows in 2008 and have
committed to lead donor countries in their fight against poverty and
inequality. Nevertheless, the report shows that the European Union is
failing to deliver on its pledges.
This is the fourth year that development NGOs from all 27 EU countries
have come together through this initiative to produce this report, under
the umbrella of CONCORD.
The full report is available at: www.concordeurope.org
<http://www.concordeurope.org>
For more information on this, you can contact Jasmine Burnley at the
following address: jasmine.burnley en concordeurope.org
<mailto:jasmine.burnley en concordeurope.org>
*AidWatch Report Stunt, Concorde - *On May 18th, CONCORD organised the
EUROVISION AID CONTEST 2009 at the surroundings of the European Council
in Brussels. A new version of the well -- known music contest has been
organised in order to rate the performance of European countries
regarding their aid patterns. The best rated country has been Sweden,
and the worst rated one was Italy.
More information at: www.concordeurope.org <http://www.concordeurope.org/>
To see the video of the stunt, please click the following link:
http://blip.tv/file/2126854
More information available at www.skopmalta.org <http://www.skopmalta.org>
ASIA
*Humanitarian crisis in Pakistan* - According to the UNHCR, Pakistan is
facing the worst kind of human crises of its 62 years history due to
growing extremism and military operation in the northern region -
Malakand Division. This is the biggest displacement in last 15 years
(after Rwanda) in the world.
Independent reports from GCAP-Pakistan Coalition Partners and others
CSOs suggest that over 2.5 million people, mostly women and children,
have been affected due to the military operation with the extremists.
Many homes have been destroyed, so are the means of livelihood including
shops, hotel industry, standing crops (including fruit orchards)
devastated, livestock have been left without any care. Fortunately the
Swat district is among the few districts of the Province Pakhtoonkhwa
which have better literacy rate including of women. Unfortunately,
however a majority of the schools particularly girls' schools and other
educational institutions have been bombed by the militants thus leaving
less opportunity for the future generation to get education.
Read the full statement from GCAP Pakistan on Internally Displaced
People (IDPs)
GCAP Pakistan statement on Internally Displaced People (IDPs)
<http://www.whiteband.org/resolveuid/e5ef2ad9ed80986bba322fae68f43d20?utm_source=eletter090528>
AFRICA
Adelaide Sosseh attended the African Union (AU) - an Experts Meeting on
the Status of Reporting and Implementation of the Solemn Declaration on
Gender Equality in Africa (SDGEA) - from the 6-8 May 2009 in Banjul, The
Gambia.
*The Gambia* - GCAP our very own Co-chair and convener Adelaide Sosseh,
presented a paper at the Sensitization Workshop on Violence against
Women and Girls that was jointly organized by the Women's Bureau and
UNDP as part of the International Women's Day Celebration 2009. The
paper focused on occurrences of violence and subsequent stigmatization,
and it also offered recommendations.
*Kenya* - took the campaign to the countryside, with its prominent
message being one in which it requested that the Ministry of Education
give free sanitary towels to girls in school to avoid unnecessary absences.
*Malawi and Liberia* - national coalitions worked with their Ministries
to hold discussions around important issues that enhance the ever
increasing gender gap. In Malawi this included the marginalization of
women in the decision making process while in Liberia the focus was more
on how poverty continues to impact negatively on women's lives.
*Burkina Faso* - took on a whole different angle through creating
dialogue around the theme of "Women and HIV/AIDS" the discussion focused
on the genderization of the disease and the need to remove stigma around
it. Through sketched and speeches, GCAP Burkina Faso aimed to let the
audience know that HIV/AIDS is indeed everyone's business.
GCAP Internal Updates
*Internal Communications Review* - An internal communications review is
underway with the support of Oxfam GB, and the help of the learning and
accountability interns. The review will study the current internal
communications tools used by GCAP, which is including teleconferences,
the E-newsletter, things like how many coalitions are active in task
forces and working groups, and finally making some recommendations on
how we can improve this. We're currently working on a brief for a TOR
(job description) for an external consultant.
*Google Translations Testing* - We're looking at using Google translator
for shorter items, and perhaps others that need to go in some form in
other languages with an online translator but edited by a native
speaker, and finally for much longer documents we'll use professional
translations. We're going to experiment to compare time it takes versus
the cost of a professional translator. We have requested the Global
Council to feed back on how useful and important this is the quality of
translation; does the council have other suggestions for improvement for
accessibility of documents in other languages without impacting too much
on the resource implications
*Call for Spokespeople and Policy Experts* - We know national coalitions
and constituency groups have excellent spokespeople and policy experts.
However, we don't always know about them at the global level and the
result is we're not always to reflect the diversity of GCAP in our
global events.
/Please send the names, contact information and areas of expertise of
your spokespeople and policy experts to Caitlin Blaser:
caitlin.blaser en whiteband.org <mailto:caitlin.blaser en whiteband.org>/
In the future we hope we hope all parts of GCAP will be able to call on
this as a resource to strengthen their activities
Some useful links:
* Read the whiteband blog
<http://www.whiteband.org/resolveuid/feb4f88eebf570d2d6297acf5acf65a4?utm_source=eletter090528>
* See the photo gallery
<http://www.whiteband.org/resolveuid/00bb6267afc698dbb9f684dcf9701b64?utm_source=eletter090528>
* Surf on GCAP sites
<http://www.whiteband.org/resolveuid/1ab94426dcd6ac80ae9e6618d0f2b806?utm_source=eletter090528>
* Learn about our issues
<http://www.whiteband.org/resolveuid/72bc0968c5bbdb9278c6c770acef3044?utm_source=eletter090528>
Send your national updates to your regional secretariat:
* Africa - Christophe Zoungrana (christophez en whiteband.org
<mailto:christophez en whiteband.org>, gcap.africa en whiteband.org
<mailto:gcap.africa en whiteband.org>)
* Latin America and Caribbean - Viviane Castro
(gcap.lac en whiteband.org <mailto:gcap.lac en whiteband.org>)
* Europe - Ximena Valente (gcapeuropesecretariat en whiteband.org
<mailto:gcapeuropesecretariat en whiteband.org>)
* Middle East and Arab Region - Hamdi Al-Khawaja (hamdi en dwrc.org
<mailto:hamdi en dwrc.org>)
* North America - Dennis Howlett (dhowlett en makepovertyhistory.ca
<mailto:dhowlett en makepovertyhistory.ca>)
* South East, North and Central Asia - Chona Ramos
(chlemara67 en yahoo.com <mailto:chlemara67 en yahoo.com>)
The GCAP Global Secretariat:
* Ciara O'Sullivan, Media and Communication Coordinator (on leave)
* Irene Ndiritu, Media Officer (irene.ndiritu en whiteband.org
<mailto:irene.ndiritu en whiteband.org>)
* Helena Suarez, Web and New Media Coordinator
(helena.suarez en whiteband.org <mailto:helena.suarez en whiteband.org>)
* Caitlin Blaser, Campaign Officer (caitlin.blaser en whiteband.org
<mailto:caitlin.blaser en whiteband.org>)
* Budhi Bahroelim,Learning and Accountability Intern
(budhi.bahroelim en whiteband.org
<mailto:budhi.bahroelim en whiteband.org>)
* Mercedes Alvarez Rudin, Learning and Accountability Intern
(mercedes.alvarez en whiteband.org
<mailto:Mercedes.Alvarez en whiteband.org>)
*GCAP Global Secretariat
*C/O CIVICUS PO Box 933, Southdale 2135 Johannesburg -- South-Africa
Tel: + 27 11 838 0690
Fax: + 27 11 833 9779
/The Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance
of trade unions, community groups, faith groups, women and youth
organisations, NGOs and other campaigners working together across more
than 100 national platforms. GCAP is calling for action from the world's
leaders to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality. The white
band is our symbol and expression of solidarity against poverty./
www.whiteband.org <http://www.whiteband.org>
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