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1 | Timestamp | Name and surname | In which programme track does your proposal fall? | What are the overall objective and concrete expected outcomes of your activity session? | Please explain how your proposal meets the selection criteria. | What is the outline of your activity session and the composition of your panel? | In which language(s) is your activity going to be facilitated? | Affiliation | Your position within the organisation | Your country of residence | Give an evocative title to your activity session. | Please indicate why your activity falls in the track selected above. | Do you intend your activity for: | Your nationality | Your email address | What is the facilication format of your activity session? | What are your whisper translation needs? | ||||
2 | 2/21/2012 4:56:26 | Etienne Renaud-Roy | Building partnerships for social innovation | Overall objective: Start a reflection among youth on the relevance of overseas experiences and start a shift of mind from going overseas to solve problem to learn more deeply about social, cultural and personal aspects of lives of the majority. Concrete outcomes: - Participants will have a clear image of their impact on communities - Participants will have work on guidelines to ensure more ethical partnership with communities hosting youth groups | 1) To promote youth participation within the World Assembly This workshop will be a good introduction for youth where they will have already reflected on their impact abroad and on new ways of interacting with communities easing their participation on the different topics of the World Assembly. 2) To act as a platform for networking and collaboration amongst youth IFMSA-Québec would like to create and share a plateform of ressources for appropriate training to prepare youth to go overseas. We are already running ethical immersions program for medical students and we would like to expand to other disciplines by best practices sharing. 3) To collaboratively express youth opinions and perspectives on World Assembly topics and issues. Same explanation as criteria 1) 4) To strengthen youth engagement in CIVICUS work. Our workshop will try to give a practical way to be engaged: youth cooperation initiative are very popular and are present almost every College or Universities. Having youth working in their local settings to help change way western and developping communities interact is in line with CIVICUS work of building civil society good practices. | Build as a workshop we will position ourselves for as facilitators than panelists. All the presentation parts will be in a form of interaction with participants. The general outline is the following: -15 min introduction to the topic by Etienne Renaud-Roy, National Coordinator on Immersions for IFMSA-Québec. - 20 min reflection activity on the positive and negative impacts of overseas initiatives for youth and for local communities. -15 min presentation on impacts of initiatives by Marc-André Lavallée, medical student and former National Coordinator on Human Rights and Peace for IFMSA-Québec. - 20 min discussion on what are the good practices in ethical immersions overseas. - 15 min presentation on the outcomes of this shift of paradigm in IFMSA-Québec, by Anne-Sophie Thommeret-Carrière, former IFMSA-Québec National Campain coordinator. - 5 minutes Conclusions and main take-away. Collection of youth interrested in getting involved in a best practices sharing network to improve initiatives at their local schools/institutions. | English, French, Spanish | IFMSA-Québec | National Coordinator on Immersions | Canada | From savior to learner: The paradigm of young humanitarian initiatives and its impact here and overseas. | The partnership we want to tackle is the one of initiatives created by well intentionned youth with ressources limited communities around the globe. In our western society, we feel their is an erronous paradigm depicting where developing communities have problems and we, as developed individual ans societies, have solution. Thus the social innovation we want to ignite by this workshop is a new partnership where youth goes in communities to learn from the challenges the members of those communities are facing and what are the very own solutions. As Robert Chambers puts it: put the last first, put the first last. | The Youth Assembly (September 3-4) | Canadian | noi@ifmsa.qc.ca | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | espanol | ||||
3 | 2/29/2012 11:12:01 | Iatamze Verulashvili | Changing nations through citizens | 1The way of protect and promote the rights of youth IDP and minority women and address the marginalisation and gender based violence they are facing, trafficking, domestic violence ,STI ,HIV/AIDS ; 2 Result of the effective implementation of relevant national legislation and on going programs at a regional level ; 3. To empower the minority group to exercise their human rights. | Bringing need of youth in the panel and the way of solve it | Speaker . ME.PH Iatamze Verulashvili topic Track 1 - Changing Nations Through Citizens Presentation The reintegration and inclusion of young offenders in society by advocating for their human rights. | English | N/A | Director | Georgia | Track 1 - Changing Nations Through Citizens Protection and promotion the rights of ethnic minority and internally displaced youth groups from multiple discrimination. The reintegration and inclusion of young offenders in society by advocating for their human rights. | Activity directed on mobilization minority youth and Internally Dispaced Persons (IDP ) for protection their rights and integration to the basic society. To reach this we are planning to create Minority and IDP youth educators group at the level of schools, community , mass-media and other NGOs involvement through training and publication brochures , posters | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Georgian | grc@access.sanet.ge | Flash Presentation (Pecha Kucha) – 1.5 hours | I don't need | ||||
4 | 2/29/2012 11:26:34 | McDonald Chipenzi | Changing nations through citizens | to promote inclusive participation of people in national processes regardless of their race, sex and physical abilities. the outcome will be the promotion of a political culture that promotes effective public participation and population that understands better its political environment in which it operates from. | This proposal require inclusiveness. Among people that have for a long time complained of marginalisation are persons with disability, women and youths more espcially those in rural Zambia. The proposed activity is targeting at the above mentioned goups of people. | Presentation from the representative from persons with disabilities Women presentation Youth Presentation Discussion after each presentation with resolution arrived at. | English | Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP) | Executive Director | Zambia | Inclusive participation in political processes key to national development | This because people's participation in any process leads to ownership which consequently leads to support of a given process. Once mass participation is assured, nothing will be impossible to achieve. It is for this reason that nations can only be changed by effective participation of its citizens in national processes. | The Youth Assembly (September 3-4) | Zambian | chipenzimac@yahoo.co.uk | Training Workshops – 3 hours | nil | ||||
5 | 2/29/2012 14:49:53 | Oludotun Olugbemi | Building partnerships for social innovation | As in many instances, government and civil society are both trying todeal with some of the same social and economic issues; collaboration can bring new ideas and proposals into the policy arena and can empower civil society organizations with new information and resources. Both sides benefit in the long run. | (A) The paper will be presented by three speakers, Two men and a woman from three different countries (B) The Three Speakers are from Three Different Organisations Namely . (1) World Hope Foundation, Nigeria (2) Women Voices Africa, Ghana. (3) Positive Attitude International, South Africa. (C) It will bring together government officials, civil society practitioners as well as private sector on the need to work together for social innovations | Mr Oludotun Olugbemi: Building Bridges Between Civil Society, Government and Private Sector Mr Gadzama Peter: Role of Government in Civil Society Development Mrs Emma Daye: Partnership for Women Empowerment in Africa Presentation for each speaker is 15 minutes each, while time of discussion with the audience is 45 minutes. | English | World Hope Foundation | President/CEO | Nigeria | Building Bridges Across Sectors | It relate to different ways in creating opportunities for civil society organizations to improve their communications with government and the private sector and work together on common agendas. Some of the experiences influenced national policy while others produced impact at the local level. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Nigeria | dotun@whfdn.org | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | Our presentation language will be in English | ||||
6 | 2/29/2012 21:20:53 | SIAYI Soko Nicodemus | Building partnerships for social innovation | CSYM HUDUMA mission is to eliminate the worst forms of Human degradation in life and especially the Youth Women and Child Labor in the in the Rural Communities as well as country at large. -Women, Youth, Indigenous communities voices heard. -Wide sensitizing campaign done using community and the organs around them. -Child rights,particularly for disabled children organized -The Aged forgotten sector in Communities got support -Capacity building and holding panel-discussions help. -Report circulated for sharing with partners | (a)Women, youth, indigenous communities, will be heard through this audience.as we will use all languages within the region and in sectoral diversity). (b) Convening a minimum of 3 different organisations in your activity panel. -Youth Group -Women Groups - The Age Groups organizations. (c) Quality topic triggering innovative reflection, presenting innovative ideas, -Developing a Radio Sensitizing programs within the Communities. -Holding panel-discussions and News Media use and sharing best practices, or consulting and brainstorming with participants (d) Allowing for participation and discussion across participants. - For Youth Assembly activity proposals, please bear in mind the specific objectives of the Youth Assembly;using all the important ways the communities use to be the best. | -The presentation needs speakers who are well organized people and they need their names and contacts kept secret. -All the time will be worked out as the funds are available -The minimum time is agreed. | English | CSYM HUDUMA Tanzania | Director | Tanzania | 1. Educate the public about issues concerning equal rights of children to education and expansion and improving Early Childhood Care and Education, especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children. 2. Support Health issues in awareness about the Life serving of a Child through Vaccination. 3. HV/AIDS provision of essential services, and address stigma and discrimination, prevention efforts including PMTC among the Children of the poorly and disadvantaged communities and those with special needs | Demonstrate the appropriate information channels and communication within the Project management teams;in Building Partnership for Social Innovation with the Global Community to either eliminate the problems or reduce them.The world had been in struggle for more than two decades to fight HIV/AIDS as a life threatening issue.I look forward looking to reach the big audience. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Tanzanian | siayians2008@googlemail.com | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | The translation are agreed and with all languages French, Spanish and English, and French and Spanish and as well Swahili language on my Nation Tanzania panellists to make their presentation in their mother tongue. | ||||
7 | 2/29/2012 21:22:19 | Mohammad Jahirul QUAYUM | Building partnerships for social innovation | The objective of the activity is to show how civic enagagement in the guise of generation of more information for the government revenue offices may generate gretear transparency in the revenue collection process of a developing country, where common people provide useful and relevant informmation to the government revenue agency and the business sector benefits from such engagement of common cittizen with revenue offices which results in better tax payer services. With the assistance of more information provided by the citizens, the governemnt also collects more revenue. | My proposal calls for cross sectoral collaboration, where the traditional roles of the different seectors are viewed with new angles. A paradigm shift in our mind set is also required to make such team building successful. By fostering new ways of developing teams across sectors, such teams may generate more relevant infioration and thus may reduce the burden of lack of transparency in the revenue administration and increase trade freindliness in the government machinery. | There will be a short presentation given by M Jahirul Quayum, to float some discussion points and also to introduce the propossal/ concept, which will be followed by a threadbare discussion session to get opinion and comments from a diverse group of participants from different parts of the world on the proposal. | English | National Board of Revenue, Bangladesh Government | Joint Commissioner of Cusstoms & VAT | Bangladesh | Information for More Transparency & Greater Revenue Collection (in a developing country setting): As I work in the revenue administration, my proposal is to generate more information by building coalition of (a) staff of revenue offices with (b) citizens living in that locality and (c) business enterprises in that area, which is within the jurisdiction of that revenue office, for facilitating (i) greater transparency in the revenue collection process (thus improving tax payer services and reducing bribe taking), (ii) augmentation of revenue collection (with the use of information from local sources) and (iii) empowerment of common people with citizen engagement. The idea is to enagage revenue offices with local citizens and business houses to generate a win-win-win situation where (1) with assistance of the local people the government agency may collect more revenue (as the citizens feed in/ share information with the revenue agency of what businesses take place in their locality and also the likely volume of their business), (2) as the common people are getting engaged with revenue offices, businesses may hope that the undertaking of the reveue office will be relatively free from corruption and thus tax payer services provided by the revenue staff will improve, and (3) the citizen, with such engagement with the governemnt, will feel empowerd that they are playing a useful and actove role in the collection of greater revnue as well as creating more transparency in the activities of the field revenue offices. | My proposed activity calls for creating a coalition of actors from the public, private and civil sectors. It requires a paradigm shift in our mindset in how we view our role. The engagement of common citizen in government revenue administration, a sector considered very corruption prone, by supplying more business related information in their locality may be mutually beneficial for the all three sectors. The government earns more revenue, businesses get better services/ less harassment from the government and the citizen feel empowered with such engagement. As the activity cuts across several sectors I feel "building partnerships for social innovation" is the appropriate sector for this proposed activity. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Baangladeshi | m.j.quayum@googlemail.com | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | The presentation will be made in English, which is not my mother tongue. In case some participicants in that discussion group does not speak/ comprehend English, translation assistance will be needed for them. | ||||
8 | 3/1/2012 4:49:37 | Monika Megyesi | Changing nations through citizens | - learn about the availability of new skills and methodologies to steer complex systems made out of individual decision-makers - participant interaction and sharing of wisdom light of the new information - move around and have fun | (a) The presenter team represents the following diversity: female, male, senior, young adult, American citizenship, Hungarian citizenship, Canadian citizenship, English speaking, French speaking, Hungarian speaking, academia, industry, community. (b) a university, a for-profit business, a non-profit organization (c) provides new information and new skills that can be implemented in every-day life; learning is built on sharing and participant interaction; new concepts are conveyed through experiential exercises (d) training includes presentation, facilitated discussion, individual sharing, interaction among participants and dialogue rounds | The training team includes Francine Proulx-Kenzle, John Buck and Monika Megyesi. The topic of sociocracy includes elements of decision-making, structure, and process. Approximately 70% of the session includes interaction among participants. | English | Governance Alive, LLC | Partner | USA | Sociocracy - The Evolution of Society to Self-Governance | Sociocracy is a model of making decisions and implementing actions that requires no authoritative leadership. It allows the many to function as a unified whole and, still, every individual has a voice. Individuals who become familiar with sociocracy, can use it to make their voices heard and to rewire social structures. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Hungarian | monika@megyesi.org | Training Workshops – 3 hours | That depends on the linguistic composition of the audience. Possibly Spanish. | ||||
9 | 3/1/2012 5:59:03 | Rajeevan Moothal | Changing nations through citizens | The objective of the session is to educate the civil society about the need of alternate sources of energy such as renewable energy. The concrete outcome expected is the complete education and thereby participation of the civil society in such renewable energy programs and the overall development of the nations. | The proposal meets the selection criteria that it can bring quality topic triggering innovative reflection, presenting innovative ideas, sharing best practices or consultingand brainstorming with civil society participants. | Presentation of the topic: 45 minutes. Presentation : Dr. Rajeevan Moothal Title of the topic: Renewable Energy a source for new energy needs and the need for civic society education and participation Discussion with the audience: 45 minutes. | English | Koliyot Institute of Energy and Research | Course Leader in Petroleum Geology | India | Renewable Energy a source for new energy needs and the need for civic society education and participation | The development of a nationa can be increased with the energy savings through civil society participation. For that it require extensive civil society education on energy needs and the need of an alternate energy sources like renewable energy like rain water, wind and carbon. So nations fate can be changed through citizens. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | India | seriraj@gmail.com | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | Volunteers can make whisper translation. | ||||
10 | 3/1/2012 9:53:33 | Dr Peter Carter | Redefining global governance | Communicating the truth of today’s committed global climate change emergency, sharing the pain and empowering ourselves to join the Green (socio-economic-spiritual) revolution for the only future we have. Participants will know the essential facts about climate change commitment, impacts on food security and health, what climate catastrophe means and the zero carbon world. They will be able to access their deep ecology to face the perils and challenge of climate change. They will plan to network real knowledge and positive power to build a global green civilization. | a) Eco-feminism and Nature/Mother Earth rights. b) We have four organizations present. c) This is the issue of all issues of all time d) This is a deep ecology based group experiential activity involving head and heart to form an activist global climate protection global network. | Panel speakers: Julie Johnston of Greenheart Education (facilitator, deep ecology, sustainability, rights for Nature and future generations ) Dr Peter Carter of Climate Emergency Institute (science of committed climate change, climate and food security, planetary emergency, global revolutionary violence-free response) Glenn McIntosh of Ecosanity ( See Act Inspire, personal emergency response, commitment to face the tough climate facts, Intertnetworking ) Cory Morningstar of Canadians for Emergency Action Against Climate Change (Cochabamba Peoples Climate Agreement, dealing with denial, complicity and compromise). All panelists will speak to eco-spirituality and climate activism. | English, French | Climate Emergency Institute, Arctic Methane Emergency Group, Greenheart Education | Environmental health policy and education | Canada | Earth Treck: The Last Generation Exploring the strange new world of climate change | Civilization faces collapse due to committed global warming and climate change impacting on top of ongoing global environmental degradations and socio-economic deprivations Global environmental governance that includes rights to Nature and future generations must be rapidly established for the very survival of our children’s generation, under a planetary emergency global revolutionary time frame. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Canadian | petercarter46@shaw.ca | Training Workshops – 3 hours | Spanish would be good. Thank you for putting this conference on. | ||||
11 | 3/1/2012 14:37:49 | Kiapi K. Frederick | Changing nations through citizens | Information sharing Networking and partnership building Lessons learnt will be replicated at home at the end of the event At least 28-32 young people will have brought together Information sessions will be held at the country level and the outcomes of the meeting shared. | As part of the global voices for the young people, this session is being planned to set pace for world leaders to have the youth be part of the decision making process and have them share their ideas with others without fear or favour. | Opening Remarks -Representative CIVICUS Presentation-Country Programme -Executive Director -CPAUG-Kiapi K. Frederick Discussant- Mr. Nkuusi Livingston-Youth Affair Officer Open Discussion Moderator-Mr. Nkuusi Livingstone Closing Remarks- Kiapi K. Frederick | English | Commonwealth Peoples Association of Uganda | Executive Director | Uganda | Connecting the Youth: Champions of Development to meet the MDGs | Over the past few years the global community has been campaigning for countries to have young people actively get involved in development work by empowering them with resources. | The Youth Assembly (September 3-4) | Ugandan | kkfrederick_15@yahoo.com | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | None | ||||
12 | 3/1/2012 21:50:36 | Muderhwa Samuel | Changing nations through citizens, Building partnerships for social innovation | we are focusing in education and support Vulnerable people | women, youth and indigenous communities - our partners NGOs: www.thestrongestoak.org www.meaningfulworld.com www.kor.org.pt | Mediation and counselling, | English, French | Peace and Conflict Resolution (PCR) | President Founder and Coordinator | D.R.Congo | Health, Poverty, Gender with Conflict Resolution | perhaps if you may have time to pass through our website has details www.peaceconflictresolutionproject.webs.com | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Congolese | pastor.samuelm@gmail.com | Training Workshops – 3 hours | I will not need interpretor | ||||
13 | 3/2/2012 8:20:02 | Aleksandra Nasteska | Changing nations through citizens | To share the organising tools and processes, to showcase the civil society dialogues and to pose an important question: what happens after Rio+20? | (a)The panel will be facilitated by the We Canada volunteers who were involved in hosting the discussions on the Montreal stop of the tour. (b)They are immigrants, youth and Canadian. They are also part of three organisations that were working with We Canada in Montreal. (c) Innovative ideas, sharing best practices and consulting with participants (d) Yes | 1. Interactive Presentation 2. Dialogue (evaluation) 3. Action (evaluation) 4. Critical Assessment by the group 5. Best Practises in civil-society oranising 6. Post-Rio+20 | English | We Canada, One Earth, Canada World Youth | Co-founder/ Communications Director | Canada | Dialogue and Action for Earth Summit 2012: What's next? | During the months of February and April We Canada embarked on a nation-wide tour, Dialogue and Action for Earth Summit 2012. On the tour, three youth leaders consulted close to 10.000 (projected) Canadians. We hosted over 70 events across the country in schools and universities. The results from these dialogues will be compiled into a report that will be showcased at Rio+20. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Macedonian / Canadian | aleksandra@earthsummit.ca | Training Workshops – 3 hours | n/a | ||||
14 | 3/2/2012 13:19:26 | Gebremedhine Birega Dagaga | Changing nations through citizens | Raising the awreness of citizens of all nations to internalize the importance of their role as consumers to stand up and say no to any type of unsustainable consumption and influence their respective governments at national level; and join efforts to scale up the same influence at global level is thought to be the main objective of the activity. | As you might agree, we always ignore the role of consumers and the same could be seen in this criteria. We believe it is unsustanable consumption and widespread consumerism driving all environmental and climate change related problems. We believe our presence will bring consumers' voice, hopefully no organization will egnore our argument, we can bring best practices from Ethiopia how ecological and local consumption works towards addressing climate change, fighting back flase solutions; and we have no fear to have shortage of participation as our topic is every body's concern. | Consumers should say no loudly and clearly to unsustainable consumption and production patterns, by Gebremedhine Birega- ETHIOSCOP; 15 min. Liability of Common Inaction by consumers, Ababa Asamere, Probono Legal Adviser, ETHIOSCOP; 15 min MNCs lobby and influence through FDI (Agricultural sector) in Africa, by a speaker to be identified, 15 min; Group discussion 45 min | English | Ethiopian Society for Consumer Protection -ETHISCOP | Director | Ethiopia | Consumer Activist CSOs Need Your support to highten the campaign for Sustainable Consumption and Production | It is believed that through the campaign for SCP citizens will be mobilized to say no to unsustainable consumption and production, which in turn will dectate governemnts and private sectors to change their decion making patterns; and we can lay corner stone for our sustainable future. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Ethiopian | ethioconsumers@gmail.com | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | As we are English speakers, we would not require whisper translation, unless otherwise the organizers insist. | ||||
15 | 3/3/2012 9:12:54 | NGWAMMA ONUOHA | Building partnerships for social innovation | Overall Objective; To potray graphically how lasting/viable partnerships have been created between rural(often illiterate) folk,CSOs,government agencies,FBOs,philanthropists & INGOs.All this with the sole aim of achieing the MDGs-Poverty reduction/alleviation,prevention of HIV/AIDS,girlchild education,value-added agro production/processing & climate change issues.Concrete expected outcomes:Replication of our model by CSOs faced with similar challenges,exchange of ideas on 'the way forward',continued networking within us even after CIVICUS 2012. | (A)2 of the presenters are women.& work with women groups,PLWHIAs & Agro-Reseach Institures in Nigeria,the 3rd speaker is a man from Nepal where girl chil & health issues are being tackled., | 1st Speaker:Ngwamma Onuoha:Overview&Paper(15 mins.),2nd Speaker:Bishnu Bhatta;Paper(20 mins.),3rd Speaker:Gloria Onyeobia(10mins),Discussion session with colleagues(45mins) | English | NONI -DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE | PRESIDENT | NiGERIA | CHANGING FACETS OF DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPSj CURRENT REALITIES IN GLOBALSPACES OF CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES | Some CSOs faced with sustainability challenges,in the face of global economic melt-down,have devised creative solutions via partnerships with other development actors/stakeholders.Our workshop showcases how 3 CSOs - 2 from Nigeria & one from Nepal are doing this.Their similarities,conflicts,success stories along with reseach findings will be discussed. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | NIGERIAN | noni_dev2002@yahoo.com | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | Volunteer translators during the presentation-French/Spanish & sign language. In case we have such folk in our session as we also intervene in such centres in Nigeria. | ||||
16 | 3/3/2012 12:56:38 | Fr.Julius Muranga Gichure | Changing nations through citizens, Building partnerships for social innovation | Our overall objective is make things happen,workable and implemented as force change to happened.Those change brought for our engagement and interventions a must reflect the society want and embrace.That all human being fulfillment and potentials must be respected and upheld. That human being dignity and honor must be realized. | Our issues are universally accepted in totality and our methodologies are very practical to this criteria. | Our activities will be open to dialogue and discussions , shows video short story to stimulate the participants and then edit the resolution and call for action and then initiate the responsibilities . | English | Able. | President | Kenya | We are and Capable for Change!!! Under this slogan, the statement is clearly stipulated in full that common good is committed to change everything for the betterment of the whole world. | Democratic societies are evolving and realizing themselves with different generations.Some of us are committed to see it happening by advocating and initiating programmes of change to make happen through educating agents in the society.This agents are drawn from partners and citizens of change who are able and capable to effect changes in the world. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Kenyan | able_ngo@yahoo.com | Training Workshops – 3 hours | French | ||||
17 | 3/3/2012 17:16:38 | OTUSANYA KAYODE GEORGE | Changing nations through citizens, Building partnerships for social innovation | The overall objective is to give room and hear the cry of those in the street and expected outcome is to have a free environ where our youth will be free from drug related issue,suicide bombing,killing and religion thug etc | My proposal meet the selection base on the yearning and cry of the youth in our world for a voice to heard and recon with. | Speaker Name: Otusanya kayode George Topic: Giving voice back to the street. | English | ILASAMAJA YOUTH FORUM | PUBLIC RELATION OFFICER | NIGERIA | GIVING A VOICE BACK TO THE STREET | Giving voice back to the street is giving hear to the cry and yearning to the youth in the street,and giving hope to the hopeless and mind set of ''I CAN STILL BE WHAT I WANT TO BE'' despite the challenging and other situation surrounding my country. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | NIGERIA | kimzoo376@yahoo.com | social activity | Our whisper translation need will be English Language | ||||
18 | 3/4/2012 21:02:39 | BOLAJI OGUNDEJI | Changing nations through citizens | My main objectives is government to realize the importance of citizens contribution towards the economy growth of the Nations. | This proposal meets the selection criteria because is touches every aspect of Global or millennium goal. Its touches both young and old and their contribution to bring about the economy growth of their Nation, for better life. | My activity session will be combination of both youth and matured candidate in order to benefit from this presentation. At least we are all citizen of one Nation | English | N/A | N/A | NIGERIA | SELF -HELP PROGRAMMES CHANGING NATIONS THROUGH CITIZENS | Because, the contribution of citizens through their self-help programmes cause changes in any nation | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | NIGERIA | bolaji83@yahoo.com | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | The presentation will be in English language which i believe is general Languages | ||||
19 | 3/5/2012 13:34:44 | OKULLU-AYOR VINCENT | Building partnerships for social innovation | 1-Expand Delegates Horizons 2-Create New avenues and critical thinking for mutual partnerships 3-Link Stakeholders and Delegates 4-Improve Funds, Resources and Partnership raising 5-Create Networks, alliance, strategic Programme partnerships 6-Strengthen grassroots organization in South and North. 7-Excite and Motivate Donors and Investors 6-Attract Volunteers and share Best Practices. | Presentation = 20 Minutes Questions = 10 Minutes Panel Discussion/Round Table = 30 Minutes Rounding up and way forward = 10 Minutes | Presentation = 20 Minutes Questions = 10 Minutes Panel Discussion/Round Table = 30 Minutes Rounding up and way forward = 10 Minutes | English | GENEROSITY INTERNATIONAL LIFECARE DEVELOPMENT COALITION www.generosityintl.net | Chief Executive Officer | UGANDA | FORGING ENDURING GLOBAL COOPERATION STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: APPROACHES, METHODOLOGIES, AND OPPORTUNITIES FROM LOCAL, NATIONAL, CONTINENTAL CONTEXTS TODAY AND TOMORROW | Given my involvement since 1880s in global development interractions in Africa and in Europe, I have come to understand the importance of this Topic more than ever, now as CEO of Generosity International Lifecare Development Coalition www.generosityintl.net the need is ever greater than before. In this respect, I see relevance of this topic to present to World Assembly Delegates in Montreal in 2012 if sponsored. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | UGANDAN | globalgenerosity@yahoo.co.uk | Training Workshops – 3 hours | Spanish | ||||
20 | 3/5/2012 16:29:16 | Njie Baldeh | Changing nations through citizens | My overall objective is for my activity session to consume my proposal for eventual endorsement. | My proposal will meet the selection criteria by bringing interesting topics to the participants. The other aspect is to make the participants to understand more about the presentation that I would deliver. | I Njie Baldeh will be speaking on the topic changing nations through citizens followed by a group discussion. | English | The Point Newspaper and Advocacy for Better Environment.ABE | Public Relation Officer | The Gambia, West Africa | My activity proposal will focus on changing nations through citizens, which first of all changing nations through citizens is very significant and that it requires its citizens to be healthy and educated so as to enable them to have the required capacity for sustainable change in nation they belong to. However, changing nations through citizens, there is the need to have strong associations with organizational structures in place for capacity building, so as to pave a way forward to effect meaningful change. In the absence were citizens are deprived of their human rights and even their rights of existence, these citizens can come together to make sure that there is a change to achieve their human rights whether by peaceful negotiation or by other means. | My proposal on the selected topic has significant information. This will definitely inform the participants that the information contained in my proposal will help the participants to know more about what am trying to elaborate. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Gambian | baldehnjie@yahoo.com | Training Workshops – 3 hours | I want my whisper translation in English. | ||||
21 | 3/5/2012 17:54:24 | Khairuzzaman Kamal | Building partnerships for social innovation | - Best practice programme sharing - Sharing information and knowledge sharing - Develop networking for sustainability - Gathers knowledge and input from participants | - Grassroots journalists community based program - New Media Technology used for promoting PG issues - Gender issues are included all programme participation - Media community based network run the programme - Media will be publishing all news for create mass awareness through print, on-line, electronics media | - Multimedia presentation - Open session through Q/A - pANNEL DISCUSSION | English | Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sangbadik Forum-BMSF | Executive Director | Bangladesh | Promote Participatory Governance through New Media Technologies | BMSF is a media community based network in Bangladesh. Since 1991 BMSF working to promote Governance, Human Rights, Press Freedom, HIV/AIDS Prevention, New Media and ICT issues. Program participants are Media, Civil society, Local governments representatives, Government officials, Women's community. Last 4 years BMSF working Media campaign on Participatory Governance with the supported by CIVICUS, PG program. Presently BMSF run to Promote Participatory Governance through New Media Technology. Uses Online, SMS, E-Mailing, Facebook, Cell phone, Web-site, E-groups. Oriented grassroots level journalists on this issues. Develop networking for sustainability. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Bangladeshi | bmsf@dhaka.net | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | N/A | ||||
22 | 3/6/2012 10:45:16 | David Tola Winjobi | Changing nations through citizens | The overall objective is to sharpen and strengthen CSOs participatory strategy in making new channels to express their voices and demand participation in post MDG framework. The expected outcomes include among others: 1. Awareness is created among stakeholders on the imperative of pressuring governments and other stakeholders to look beyond 2015 for justice, peace, human rights and development. 2. Formation of an alliance of CSOs thinking globally but acting locally in ensuring that citizens lead the process of determining the post 2015 development agenda. 3. Participants are well informed of the strategy options that could be adopted in making new channels to express their voices and demand participation in governance. | The issue of MDG is a development issue but post 2015 MDG agenda goes beyond that including issues bordering on good governance, human rights, peace and security affecting everyone. Thus the workshop would attract a cross section of actors including women and youth, and development partners from global north and south. The resource persons are drawn from the global north and south - US, UK and Africa - while topics are not only topical but relevant to the demands of the people looking beyond 2015 MDGs. The presentation will be participatory while a considerable time (60%) is allocated for people to make contributions. | 1. Global Assessment of MDGs Implementation: Progress and Drawbacks (15 minutes) Speakers: Lysa John (GCAP, New York) & Charles Abugrey (Africa Director, Millennium Campaign) Experience sharing from various CSOs on the pitfalls and problems of MDGs achievement in their respective countries (25 minutes) 2. Citizens' Participation Strategy in Post 2015 MDG Framework (15 minutes): Speaker: Leo Williams from Beyond 2015, UK Discussions on new channels to express voices and demand participation in post 2015 MDG agenda (25 minutes) 3. Wrap up (10 minutes) | English, French | 1. Open Forum for Civil Society Development Effectiveness | national Coordinator | Nigeria | Multiple Voices, Better Negotiation: Towards Post 2015 MDG Agenda | The track title is changing nation through citizens where people are making new channels to express their voices and demand participation. This proposed activity falls in this track because the forum is going to bring together people from diverse backgrounds including the youth and women groups,CSOs working in the area of development, human rights, peace and security to devise a strategy of engaging their respective governments on the post MDG2015 agenda. The development of a post-2015 global agenda must not repeat the shortcomings of the MDGs – the process must be participatory, inclusive and responsive to the voices of those directly affected by poverty and injustice. We want them to come up with strategies for making new channels to express their voices and demand participation in post 2015 MDG agenda. The more voices the better advocacy and the better advocacy the better governance for development, peace and security in our world. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Nigerian | tolawinjobi58@yahoo.com | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | Translation from English to French | ||||
23 | 3/6/2012 19:54:43 | GEORGE AHADZIE | Building partnerships for social innovation | THE OVERALL PURPOSE IS TO STATE THE GOOD THING OF PARTNERING WITH GOVERNMENT AND THE CAUTIOUS STEP THAT MUST BE TAKEN BY CIVIL SOCIETY NOT TO COMPROMISE ITS IDENTITY ,TRADITION AND BELEIF . THE THEM AIM AT SHARING EXPERIENCES WITH OTHERS ABOUT THE MERITS AND THE DEMERITS OF PARTNERING WITH GOVERNMENT | THIS PROPOSAL IS EXPERIENCE FROM GRASSROOTS NGOS EXPERIENCE IN GHANA WORKING WITH GOVERNMENT EXPECIALLY WOMEN AND THE YOUTH ON DIFFERENT ACTVITIES . WE WILL SHARE A LOT OF PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES . THE PROPOSAL WILL ALLOW FOR DISCUSSION AND CREATE SPACE FOR PARTICIPANTS TO SHARE EXPERIENCE AND TO ASK FOR CLARIFICATION | THE PANNELL WILL BE 3 PERSONS AND THE PRESENTATION TAKES 40 MINUTES THE MAIN SPEAKER IS GEORGE AHADZIE TO SUPPORTED BY VERONICA AHADZIE AND THERESAH AGYEKUM THE TOPIC IS ;[ CIVIL SOCIETY IAND GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP IN CONTEPORAY GHANA-] THE REALITIES | English | GREEN EARTH ORGANIZATION | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR | GHANA | [1] CIVIL SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP THE CONVERGENT AND THE DIVERGENT LIMIT [2] CIVIL SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP THE ROAD AND THE JUNCTION OF THE ROAD [3] CIVIL SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP GUARDING THE SPACE , THE BELIEF AND THE TRADITION [4] CIVIL SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP JOURNEY THE EXTENT THEY COULD TRAVEL | GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY MUST PARTNER BUT CIVIL SOCIETY IDENTITY TRADITION AND BELIEF SHOULD NOT BE COMPROMISED . THE TWO HAVE A COMMON PURPOSE OF IMPROVING SOCIAL LIVES OF THE PEOPLE BUT SOMETIMES THROUGH DIFERRENT APPROACHES . THIS DIVERSITY MUST BE MAINTAINED TO COMPPLEMENT EACH OTHER BUT SHOULD NOT BE COMPROMISED BY CIVIL SOCIETY AS THEY PARTNER WITH GOVERNMENT | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | GHANAIAN | georgeahadz@yahoo.com | Flash Presentation (Pecha Kucha) – 1.5 hours | WE WILL NEED SOMEONE TO DO VOLUNTEER TRANSLATORS DURING THE PRESENTATION TOASSIST IN THE TRANSLATION TO OTHER LANGUAGES . WE WILL PRESENT IN ENGLISH | ||||
24 | 3/6/2012 23:07:43 | Aya Chebbi | Changing nations through citizens | The presentations will not be just speeches but illustrated with pictures taken by the speakers, videos of moments witnessed by them and specific hints of what really happened and how people can make a change and topple dictatorships. What really makes this panel very interesting is to compare the experiences of people from Tunisia and Egypt who witnessed the movements of their countries and an American poet who has taken the risk to go to the countries of the two other speakers.The audience will deepen the understanding of these movements from the people involved themselves and from an outsider who observed and documented.This panel will engage the audience in a constructive discussion of models for national changes that are inspiring people around the world and showing the power of youth and the will of people to make the difference.The direct outcome of this panel would be a practical experience(not only with words but with incidents, evidence, real stories) on strengthening citizen participation and youth involvement to make changes , speak their minds and shape their societies. | The proposal meets the criteria because the panelists are young people : -from different countries, backgrounds,cultures -speaking different languages -representing different organizations -working in different fields (activist,journalist and poet) -presenting impressive experiences through innovative ideas using videos, pictures and poetry -fostering exchanges in collaborative discussion | The panel will start with presentations of the three panelists for 30 minutes (10 minutes per speaker) -Dina Sadek:a 22 year old Egyptian journalist who witnessed the revolutions in Egypt and Libya http://dinasadek.com/ -Aya Chebbi:a 24 year old Tunisian activist who witnessed the revolution in Tunisia http://aya-chebbi.blogspot.com/ -Kane Smego: a 25 year old American poet(spoken word poetry) who documented about the Arab uprising after his trip to Egypt and Tunisia http://www.ppr2011.org/the-team.php Then the floor will be open for an interactive discussion for an hour between the audience and the speakers. | English | World Peace Initiative | campaign manager in Tunisia | Tunisia | The voice of witnesses | My activity will capitalise on exchanges of good practices in citizen engagement, participation and expression of dissent from different national experiences. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Tunisian | aya.chebbi@gmail.com | Flash Presentation (Pecha Kucha) – 1.5 hours | Though the panelists can speak French and Spanish but they are also proficient in English so it would be better to do it in English and we then won't need translation. | ||||
25 | 3/7/2012 12:34:54 | jabulani Ndlovu | Building partnerships for social innovation | caring and supporting to infected and affected households aquire health education to educate the community on health lifestyle conducts HIV\AIDS awerness and campaigns to the community identify all people needs and stop stigmatization issuing of refferals to health facilities,home affairs and other relavant places of aid | a.bringing diversity of voices in our panel that includes woman,youth,orphans and valnurable children,aged goverment institutions and all stakeholders | project care giver coordinator project manager financial manager District municipality HIV\AIDS coordinator | English | tsosananghomebasecare | project manager | republic of south africa | tsosanang community development organization is a registered non profit organization registered with the department of health and sosial development [RSA] its registration numbers is 052 -930. the organization's main objective is to care and supporting to people who are living with HIV\AIDS infections in their homes with the support from our local health faciliteis and proffesional nurses | the organization is focusing on an issue that is affecting globally world and needs specially attention. the organization is bound to have strong partnerships either financialy or education to sustain itself | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | black | tsosananghomebasecare@gmail | Training Workshops – 3 hours | ENGLISH | ||||
26 | 3/7/2012 13:44:15 | Olek Netzer | Changing nations through citizens | That maximum participants find that Blueprint suitable for their wish to organize in order to become politically empowered, and decide to apply it in their lives in order to change their political world | (a) It does not meet that criterion. The proposal is designed to serve universal human values such as Equality, Power-sharing, Decency in Human Relationships, Owning their Party rather than being powerless in it, Organizational Effectiveness, Open Resolution of Conflicts, Nonviolence, Psychologically nourishing Friendship. We celebrate the Human Right of all citizens to make decisions that affect their nation, Equality, and Dignity of individuals. We acknowledge diversity as a dynamic and changeable factor meaningful only if applied to individuals, not to groups or categories of people. (b) It does not meet that criterion. We know our Blueprint is something New in the world of political organizations. Although its essential structure was suggested in the past by Erich Fromm there aren't still organizations that adopt it. We are convinced it is necessary for all democratic organizations, and for the Empowerment of Citizen Participation in the political process; necessary if people do not wish not to form yet another Power Pyramid and intend to break the Power Corrupts spell. (c) It DOES meet that criterion 100 per cent. So far we do not know of any political organizations (political Parties, Liberation Movements) that are organized as a web of face-to-face groups that make their decisions directly by all members from the bottom up, and their practices are guided by awareness of Psychological Exploitation! (d) The Organizational Blueprint, and the Egalitarian Group Decision-making Process page, will be handed in print. Introduction of the Blueprint and structured experiences/activities in using the process and simulating decision-making in the person-centered Movement will take half of the time; the other half will be dedicated to discussion across participants. BLUEPRINT ESSENTIALS: STRUCTURE: The Movement is designed like a web, a free partnership of Primary Groups, each group small enough to allow for personal knowledge of everybody and for meeting in an average private home. All decisions regarding individual membership in the Movement will be made in and by the Primary Group. Never any person's dependency on a Party apparatus. Belonging of a Primary Group in the Web will be based on its activity and complying with the Movement's conditions. Decisions regarding belonging, renewal of membership, or cessation of membership of a group, will be made by a committee of people from other groups on a basis of geographic proximity, not by any executive organs of the Movement. DECISION MAKING: All decisions will be regularly and simultaneously made by Primary Groups, communicated directly to a communication center, and the ones made by a majority of groups will become Movement decisions. Executives will not make decisions for the organization, their role will be to implement the decisions made regularly by all members. By these technically simple arrangement the Power Pyramid is demolished and decisions flow directly from all members of the organization. AGENDA will be set by all members. Primary Groups could put items on the Movement's agenda. If there'd be too much items for one decision-making round, the communication center will arrange all items on a list and send it back to all Groups. Members in their Groups will then rank-order items for urgency in decision-making. INSTITUTIONALIZED LEADERSHIP, that source of inequality and Power-Corruption, will be abolished. Instead: All executive roles, without exception, will be rotated. Executives and functionaries will abstain, when in office, from using their positions for participation in the Web decision-making on matters of “ideology”, “party line”, etc. If the Web would send its representatives to national, state, or local administration positions, they will not use their positions as springboards for influencing the Web's internal discussion and decision-making. APPOINTMENTS: A Primary group will choose a member for any organizational job if it had found it has a suitable candidate. Candidates from a number of groups will convene as a small group together, get to know one another, their views, aspirations, plans, skills, etc., and on the basis of that interpersonal data and impressions will choose, by consensus or vote, the candidate or candidates for the post. If there'd be more candidates, the next level of selection will involve those who were chosen in the previous level, in the same interpersonal, direct, open and democratic way. LIBERATION FROM PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPLOITATION: The Blueprint includes an Egalitarian Group Decision Making Process for the Primary Group that takes utmost care to avoid the pitfalls of high rhetoric, over-abstraction in decision-making, and aggressive language in interpersonal problem-solving and in conflicts. The process includes Feedback, reflection time on the work of the group and its members here-and-now, at the closing period of each meeting. | No panel. I shall facilitate the workshop with co-facilitator Tirza Thau, a psychologist. A panel of World Assembly Team will be welcome to provide feedback and participate in the closing discussion. | English | N/A | N/A | Israel | Blueprint for Political Organization Free of Power Corruption | It is about grass-root organization of CITIZENS for changing the governance of their NATIONS. (Please see Blueprint Essentials in the selection criteria section) | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Israeli | olek.netzer134@gmail.com | Training Workshops – 3 hours | If this Proposal is accepted, I shall prepare the printouts in French and Spanish, if you'd instruct me that they'd be needed. | ||||
27 | 3/7/2012 15:05:02 | Pascal Sundi Mbambi | Changing nations through citizens | The Panafrican Peace Movement will aim for popular unity in the struggle for peace in Africa, including for the rejection of foreign military bases in African countries, to advocate for the dissolution of nuclear weapons, and to generally stop the resolution of political problems through the means of war or armed conflicts. | It will bring diversity of voices in the panel: among the three panelists, two women (one from Southern Africa, and one from Western Africa) and one man (Central Africa). | 1. Building Peace in the Continent, a Bottom-Up Approach (Pascal SUNDI, DRC) - 15 minutes 2. The Challenges of Peace In a Region Threatened by Terrorism, and Internal Conflicts (Juliette LAMPONG, Ghana) - 15 minutes 3. Building Peace Through Equitable Redistribution of Resources in the Region (Sylvia VIBETI, South Africa - 15 minutes | English, French | Congonova | Chairperson | South Africa | A Panafrican Peace Movement to Encounter Armed Conflicts in the Continent | The Panafrican Peace Movement intends to be a people's movement; a way of grassroots participation to conflict prevention, management and resolution throughout the continent. It is a way of changing the continent by the people and with the people. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | DRC | pascalsundy@gmail.com | Flash Presentation (Pecha Kucha) – 1.5 hours | N/A | ||||
28 | 3/7/2012 17:28:56 | Mast. Khurshid Mohal Shapla | Changing nations through citizens | - Peoples participatory approaches to involved local elected body funding utilization issues - Conducted social audit by the local peoples groups facilitated by grassroots women journalist - Sharing this grassroots level story to global village | - Local peoples participation with women involvement - Women journalist initiatives to sensitize local peoples to conducted social audit - Involved civil society, peoples and journalist community on the participatory process - Local issues comes to national level through media campaign | - Multimedia presentation - Open discussion and Q/A session -Sharing local level lessons learnt | English | The Daily Gramer Kagoj | Senior Sub-Editor | Bangladesh | Social Audit for Local Elected Council Funding Utilization | I am a journalist based in grassroots level in a Jessore district of Bangladesh. Recently i worked social audit at a local elected union parishad funding utilization involved local peoples. We mobilized local peoples and sensitize social audit issues. Then local peoples conducted social audit of local elected union parishad(body). After that peoples empower to knows rights to information about their budget allocation and utilization.Then after i prepared a story and published local level news paper Daily Gramer Kagoj district based local news paper. The Canadian embassy in Bangladesh selected this news as a best reporting on excellence journalism. This is why i wants to share this case study to CIVICUS WA. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Bangladeshi | shaplarahman@gmail.com | Training Workshops – 3 hours | n/a | ||||
29 | 3/7/2012 18:43:22 | Kazi Eliza Islam | Changing nations through citizens | Overall objective is to share existing knowledge, experiences and best practices around “changing nations through citizens” and develop a set of recommendations for policy makers, donors and practitioners in order to promote these types of approaches at scale. The discussion will also focus on issues related to monitoring, evaluation and impact of these approaches on citizen empowerment. Expected outcomes: • A list of proven best practices/approaches of citizen engagement and changing nations through citizens • A set of recommendations for donors and policy makers highlighting why it is crucial to promote new approaches of citizen engagement and empowerment • A list of potential tools and methods for ensuring quality monitoring and impact of these approaches on fulfilling citizen’s rights | The session will engage participants from various different organizations, sectors, countries and contexts and encourage them to share best practices, ideas and approaches on citizen engagement and its impact on changing nations through citizens. It is expected that the three key note presentations (two male and one female speaker) will stimulate discussions on this topic. The group exercise followed by the presentation will trigger innovative ideas and ways of capturing citizen’s demands and channel those through building new social contract. The output from this exercise can be used as a platform to initiate a global process of working together to protect, promote and realize citizen’s rights in the face of new and emerging global challenges. | The session will start with three presentations: (10 min each, total 30 minutes) Speaker 1- Jamil Ahmed, Chief Executive JATRI, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Topic: “Role of new media in citizen engagement and improving local governance” Speaker 2- – Anowarul Haq, Director Impact, Extreme Poor Program, CARE Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Topic: “Promoting inclusive governance through empowering poor and marginalized: Lessons learned from CARE Bangladesh.” Speaker 3- Kazi Eliza Islam, Program Design Manager, Heifer International, Little Rock, AR, USA Topic: “Empowering poor and marginalized small holders farmers and changing communities through value based development approach”. After the presentations the floor will be opened for discussions on the presentations and sharing best practices from the participants – 15 min Group work: 35 mintues. The participants will be divided into small groups and will be asked to answer 3 questions: 1. How to scale up these kind of approaches from local to national and international level? 2. What are some of the key recommendations for donors and policy makers for promoting citizen engagement at grass root level. 3. How to measure impact of engaging poor, and marginalized groups especially women in shaping local and national development agenda and fulfilling their and social, political and economic rights One member from each group witll report back the summary of their work to the plenary. Wrap up and conclusion by the facilitator. - 5 minutes | English | Heifer International, 1 World Ave. Little Rock, AR, USA | Program Design Manager | Bangladesh | “Changing nations through amplifying voices of the poor” | This activity will focus on stimulating discussions, sharing knowledge, best practices and innovative approaches on changing nations through citizen engagement. The session will start with three keynote presentations from 3 different organizations ( JATRI, CARE Bangladesh and Heifer International) followed by interactive discussions involving participants from various organizations, countries and contexts. The keynote presentations will highlight 3 innovative approaches on “Changing nations through citizen engagement and empowerment especially poor and marginalized groups to hold duty bearers accountable and claim their social, political and economic rights. ” 1. First keynote speaker Jamil Ahmed, Executive Director of JATRI (Journalism, Training and Research Initiative) will present an innovative approach of using media in ensuring citizen’s rights to information and services as well as amplifying voices of the poor to promote responsiveness and accountability of local government in Bangladesh. The television talkshow “Amader Sthaniyo Sarkar (Our Local Government)” is an interactive platform for Local Government representatives, officials, academics, practitioners, NGOs and wider population of Bangladesh to share their ideas, opinions and views regarding governance in general and local governance in particular. The talkshow supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and facilitated by Jamil Ahmed showcases and highlights local government best practices in Bangladesh and serves as a forum to generate new ideas, raise public awareness and provide policy inputs in regards to local governance issues. 2. Anowarul Haque, Impact Director, Extreme poor program, CARE Bangladesh – will present an effective community empowerment approach through solidarity building and promoting leadership skills among poor and marginalized populations. Groups and Individuals (known as natural leaders) empowered through this approach played the leadership role in changing their communities and ensuring social, political and economic rights of the poor, marginalized and vulnerable populations. This solidarity building and community empowerment approach resulted into: • creating spaces for poor and marginalized to participate and influence the decision making process of local governance • Improving responsiveness, efficiency and effectiveness of local governance and • Establishing a new accountability relationship between state and extremely poor citizens and contributed significantly in sustainable pro-poor development 3. Kazi Eliza Islam, Program Design Manager, Heifer International will present unique Heifer’s value based social mobilization approach with especial focus on institutional capacity building and community value enhancement through their unique approach known as “passing on the Gift (PoG)”. Heifer has been using this approach since 1995 to empower marginalized and vulnerable small holder farmers and build institutional capacity of grassroots community groups to take lead of change initiatives and improve their lives and livelihoods. This value based approach addresses social inequity/ exclusions through 12 cornerstones out of which PoG is the most unique one that focuses on value enhancement, promote sharing and caring attitudes among community members, and encourage passing on knowledge, skills and physical inputs from one generation to other. The PoG ceremony is an extremely powerful event that brings marginalized populations and other powerful members of society such as politicians, govt officials, and village leaders on single platform, highlights the marginalized groups especially women to the whole society and open up the opportunity for changing nations through collaboration and co-operations. These 3 presentations will be followed by discussions, debate knowledge sharing and group exercise with specific focus on how to scale up these types of approaches to create a new social contract and fulfill the rights of the most marginalized and vulnerable populations as per citizen charters. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Bangladeshi | eliza.islam@heifer.org, kazieliza24@yahoo.com | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | French and Spanish | ||||
30 | 3/7/2012 19:11:30 | David Millar | Changing nations through citizens, Building partnerships for social innovation, Redefining global governance | Objective: Youth delegates map their own values in order to find organizations that match those values. Outcomes: - Make the rest of the World Assembly much more meaningful for youth delegates. - Encourage them to seek out specific NGOs embodying their own values and visions. - Encourage them to ask questions about how the NGO implements those values. - Encourage future participation in their home country, internships, and careers. - Implicitly show overlaps between the 3 tracks, Civil society, social entrepreneurs and policy makers may share some goals. Coalition-building to achieve such common goals is a key aim of Civicus. | Youth delegates map their own values in order to find NGOs that match those values. a. Our panel is diverse in age and gender (see biogs below). Several have worked with indigenous communities in Canada and elsewhere. b. Each member is from a different organization (see biogs below). c. consulting and brainstorming: Youth delegates map their own values in order to find organizations that match those values. d. promotes exchange in three languages among youth, and by youth with all NGOs in Civicus | Activity outline: Youth delegates will be asked to - write down 3 of your values, - write down what world you vision for the year 2025 that embodies those values. - using a printed handout map of NGOs (matched by an online display) check off some organizations with those values. At this point the panel will engage in Q&A with individual youth participants. Panelists (we can email photos of each): - David Millar, age 75, grandfather, mapper of Environmental Networks. Canadian, retired professor and active in several N American networks, will moderate in French/English/Spanish but not be a panel speaker. Each of the following will have not more than 5 minutes to talk about their career choices when they were the age of the youth delegates: - Anne Mitchell, age 67, great-grandmother, Scottish born teacher, human rights and anti-apartheid activist, exec dir of CIELAP Canadian Institute of Environmental Law and Policy thinktank 1992-2008, now general secretary of Quaker Earthcare Witness. - Geoff Garver, dual US and Canadian citizen, age 50, environmental law and policy consultant, served 2000-2007 at the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (the NAFTA environment commission), Adjunct Law Professor at Université Laval, now completing McGill PhD in Geography and organizing May 2012 Montreal Conference on Degrowth in the Americas. Co-wrote Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy (Berrett-Koehler 2009). Speaks English/French/ Spanish. - Maggie Knight (if available), Canadian, age 23. Current President of the Students' Society of McGill University, youth climate movement leader with the Sierra Youth Coalition and Canadian Youth Climate Coalition, former President of the McGill Chapter of Journalists for Human Rights, and Millennium scholar. Speaks English. - Carminda MacLorin, Québécoise née au Pérou d'une mère salvadorienne et d'un père français, âgée de 29 ans ; mère d'un enfant, doctorante en Sciences humaines à l'U de Montréal, activiste-chercheure militant à Occupons Montréal en automne 2011. Récipiendaire durant cette même année du Prix Forces Avenir et de la Médaille du Lieutenant Gouverneur. Parle français/espagnol/anglais. | English, French, Spanish | Quaker Earthcare Witness | Treasurer | Canada | Mapping your values, finding NGOs that share them | Instead of preaching to them about a particular organization or its aims, it helps youth identify their own values, find NGOs that share those values and which might offer future internships or careers. The panelists, of different origins and ages, will during this Q&A workshop reply to individual questions, help youth find their own values, and exemplify in their own lives where such choices can lead. Even the third track is implied because UN agencies and MEAs are included in the “mapping” – see the internet document Environmental Networks which will be revised and handed out to youth participants. | The Youth Assembly (September 3-4) | Canadian | fdmillar@gmail.com | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | None – our panel has members who are capable of translating in French, Spanish and English. | ||||
31 | 3/8/2012 1:59:37 | Edouardo Perez | Changing nations through citizens | Overall objective: To create a forum in which diverse (both culturally and socioeconomically) will be able to discuss openly and to reflect upon issues that concern them all as citizens. Concrete outcomes: -Participants will learn about current issues of the city of Montreal -Participants will learn about how problem-solving works within the city of Montreal (municipal parliament) -Participants will learn about the principles of sustainable development -Participants will exchange and collaborate with each other to come to a consensus of a proposed solution | Our activity session (1) falls within multiple of the proposed programmes of content, (2) will have both male and female presenters from different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds (i.e. Colombian, Greek, Canadian, Chinese, Cambodian, Haitian), (3) will have presenters from different organizations that currently work together within the Youth Council of Montreal (i.e. Conseil Jeunesse de Montréal, Youth Parliament of Quebec, YMCA, YWCA, Center for Latin American Families, etc.), (4) we trigger reflection and create a forum for discussion among the participants. | Outline: -Introduction (of participants, panelists, socio-economical context of the city of Montreal, context of the Quebec law on sustainable development, context of parliamentary problem solving, etc.) – 15 minutes -Commissions (separation of participants into groups to discuss their assigned issue and to put together a motion proposing a solution) – 30 minutes -Plenary debate-discussion (return to plenary with all participants to discuss the proposed motions and improve them) – 30 minutes -Vote and conclusion (participants vote on the proposed motions and then the panelists comment on the process, the proposed solutions and the context in which they would be possible) – 15 minutes Composition of panel: Edouardo Perez, Aris Hadjinicolaou, Marie-Gabrielle Bronsard, Charles Marois, Huoy Theam, Cathy Wong | English, French, Spanish | Youth Council of Montreal (Jeune Conseil de Montréal) | Leader of the Opposition and Vice-President of the Board of Directors | Canada | The World, one city: Global solutions to local problems. | Our activity creates a forum in which participants from diverse backgrounds can share their knowledge and propose solutions that would be applicable within their context and reality to a concrete problem of an existing Metropolitan city. Throughout the exercise, the participants must use the principles of sustainable development in order to come to these solutions, creating open-minded and flexible global citizens. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Canadian and Colombian | montreal.helper@gmail.com | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | Spanish | ||||
32 | 3/8/2012 7:06:40 | Jamil Ahmed | Changing nations through citizens | Overall objective is to share existing knowledge, experiences and best practices around “changing nations through citizens” and develop a set of recommendations for policy makers, donors and practitioners in order to promote these types of approach at scale. The discussion will also focus on issues related to monitoring and evaluation of these approaches. Expected outcomes: • A list of proven best practices/approaches of citizen engagement and changing nations through citizens • A set of policy reform agenda and recommendations for donors and policy makers with convincing statement why it is important to promote these approaches • A list of potential tools and methods for ensuring quality monitoring and impact of these approaches on fulfilling citizen’s rights | The session will engage participants from various different organizations, sectors, countries and contexts and encourage them to share best practices, ideas and approaches on citizen engagement and changing nations through citizens. It is expected that the two key note presentations (one male and one female speaker) will stimulate discussions on this topic. The group exercise followed by the presentation will trigger innovative ideas and ways of capturing citizen’s demands and channel those through building new social contract. The output from this exercise can be used as a platform to initiate a global process of working together to protect, promote and realize citizen’s rights in the face of new and emerging global challenges. | The session will start with three presentations: (10 min each, total 30 minutes) Speaker 1- Jamil Ahmed, Chief Executive - JATRI, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh Topic: “Role of Media in Citizen Engagement and Improving Local Governance” Speaker 2- – Anowarul Haq, Director Impact, Extreme Poor Program, CARE Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh Topic: “Promoting inclusive governance through empowering poor and marginalized: Lessons learned from CARE Bangladesh.” Speaker 3- Kazi Eliza Islam, Program Design Manager, Heifer International, Little Rock, AR, USA Topic: “Empowering poor and marginalized small holders farmers and changing communities through value based development approach”. After the presentations the floor will be opened for discussions on the presentations and sharing best practices from the participants – 15 min The last 45 minutes participants will be working in small groups to answer 3 questions: 1. How to scale up these kind of approaches from local to national and international level? 2. What are some of the key policy reform agenda and recommendations for donors and policy makers for promoting these types of approaches? 3. How to measure impact of these approaches on realizing rights of poor and marginalized populations? At the end of the group work, one person from each group will present the summary of work to the plenary. | English | Journalism Training and Research Initiative (JATRI) – BRAC University, TK Bhaban (Level 12), 13 Karwanbazar, Dhaka 1215, Bangladesh, Member,Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB), Fellow – Eisenhower Fellowship, USA; | Chief Executive | Bangladesh | “Changing nations through amplifying voices of the poor” | This activity will focus on stimulating discussions, sharing knowledge, best practices and innovative approaches on changing nations through citizen engagement. The session will start with three keynote presentations from 3 different organizations (CARE Bangladesh, JATRI (Journalism, Training and Research Initiative-BRAC university, and Heifer International) followed by interactive discussions involving participants from various organizations, countries and contexts. The keynote presentations will highlight 3 innovative approaches on “Changing nations through citizen engagement and empowerment especially poor and marginalized groups to hold duty bearers accountable and claim their social, political and economic rights. ” 1. Anowarul Haque, Impact Director, Extreme poor program, CARE Bangladesh – will present an effective community empowerment approach through solidarity building and promoting leadership skills among poor and marginalized populations. Groups and Individuals (known as natural leaders) empowered through this approach played the leadership role in changing their communities and ensuring social, political and economic rights of the poor, marginalized and vulnerable populations. This solidarity building and community empowerment approach resulted into: • creating spaces for poor and marginalized to participate and influence the decision making process of local governance • Improving responsiveness, efficiency and effectiveness of local governance and • Establishing a new accountability relationship between state and extremely poor citizens and contributed significantly in sustainable pro-poor development 2.Jamil Ahmed, Executive Director of JATRI (Journalism, Training and Research Initiative) – BRAC university, will present an innovative approach of using media in ensuring citizen’s rights to information and services and amplifying voices of the poor to promote responsiveness and accountability of local government in Bangladesh. The popular television talk-show “Amader Sthaniyo Sarkar (Our Local Government- Website:www.amadersthaniyosarker.com)” is an interactive platform for Local Government representatives, officials, academics, practitioners, NGOs, Members of Parliaments(MPs), Policy think tank, Media and wider population of Bangladesh to share their ideas, opinions and views regarding governance in general and local governance in particular. The talk-show supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), directed and moderated by Jamil Ahmed showcases and highlights local government best practices in Bangladesh and serves as a forum to generate new ideas, raise public awareness and provide policy inputs in regards to local governance issues. 3.Kazi Eliza Islam, Program Design Manager, Heifer International, Little Rock, AR, USA will present unique Heifer’s value based social mobilization approach with especial focus on institutional capacity building and community value enhancement through their unique approach known as “passing on the Gift (PoG)”. Heifer has been using this approach since 1995 to empower marginalized and vulnerable small holder farmers and build institutional capacity of grassroots community groups to take lead of change initiatives and improve their lives and livelihoods. This value based approach addresses social inequity/ exclusions through 12 cornerstones out of which PoG is the most unique one that focuses on value enhancement, promote sharing and caring attitudes among community members, and encourage passing on knowledge, skills and physical inputs from one generation to other. The PoG ceremony is an extremely powerful event that brings marginalized populations and other powerful members of society such as politicians, govt officials, and village leaders on single platform, highlights the marginalized groups especially women to the whole society and open up the opportunity for changing nations through collaboration and co-operations. These 3 presentations will be followed by discussions, debate knowledge sharing and group exercise with specific focus on how to scale up these types of approaches to create a new social contract and fulfill the rights of the most marginalized and vulnerable populations as per citizen charters. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Bangladesh | ajamilbd@gmail.com | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | English and Spanish | ||||
33 | 3/8/2012 7:37:19 | amir | Changing nations through citizens | Overall objective of the activity session is to strengthen the voices of voiceless people & communities for changing the nation through active participation in decision making (Electoral Process) Sensitize International and national community will be sensitized in order to bring the marginalized and excluded group of the society especially women and youth in main political streams. | Pakistan is multi ethical, racial and ethnical state where sectarian voilens erupted on large scale. therefore this activity will make foundation for the national harmony among these radical and multi ethnical groups of people and will contribute in the social change. | Dr. Rasool Buksh Rais Role of social media in NATION REBUILDING Eng. Gulzaman How to build national harmony among the people of pakistan | English | SMART | Consultant | PAkistan | Strengthening voices of the excluded and marginalized communities through innovative social media interventions | Most of the people in pakistan are living in rural areas where communication is the prominent issue therefore they are totally ignorant and can not participate in the democraic change because they are voiceless. they do not know about their resources, rights and little portion of them are taking part in electoal process. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | PAkistani | Ameer_nassir@yahoo.com | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | Mode of communication will be in english and there is no need of interpreter. | ||||
34 | 3/8/2012 9:24:06 | John Suarez | Changing nations through citizens | Raise awareness on what is taking place inside of Cuba and seeking to engage others in brainstorming session of how to help Cuban citizens realize their objective. | The panel will seek to engage activists in a discussion that results in concrete actions following a presentation and brainstorming session with participants. Spanish and English will be used on the panel. | To be announced. | English, Spanish | N/A | N/A | USA | Cuban citizens working towards a democratic transition in Cuba | Cuban citizens are engaged in a nonviolent struggle to achieve a democratic pluralist society where human rights are recognized and respected. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | US Citizen | john.j.suarez@gmail.com | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | Spanish and English | ||||
35 | 3/8/2012 11:42:01 | SAM EMMANUEL OSEKENY | Changing nations through citizens, Building partnerships for social innovation, Redefining global governance | Overall Goal: To improve the quality of life and reduce threats to morbidity and mortality among orphans and other vulnerable children and adolescents by strengthening community resources and systems to provide sustainable, high-quality essential services. Objective One: To mobilize and strengthen community-based responses to provide care and support, with an emphasis on psychosocial care, to the most vulnerable children and adolescents. Objective Two: To increase the capacity of HIV-affected and other vulnerable children and adolescents to meet their own needs through active participation in district-level programs, policy-development and access to formal and non-formal education. To achieve these objectives, the project will pursue a rights based approach in the implementation monitoring and evaluation to ensure that communities and OVC are actively involved. The project will embark on capacity building, partnership and an integrated service delivery that will overall ensure protection of and ensure the dignity of OVC, the project will also insist on gender equity as a way of ensuring objective attainment. The partnership and capacity building elements will include support to the lower local government structures at village and parish levels through trainings, support to the police child protection unit, other Government departments at the District/Probation and welfare office, Schools and NGOs working for children in the District to ensure that children’s issues are handled by the right bodies and in a manner that ensures their full protection. The program elements will include grassroots planning and action to monitor, protect and facilitate integration of the most vulnerable children and youth such as, children affected by HIV/AIDs, child mothers, children with disabilities, child heads of household and IDP children. Training on psychosocial counseling, children’s rights, succession planning, life skills, care and support, agronomic practices and nutrition as well as basic business skills and the mobilization of communities against child abuse and Voluntary counseling and Testing will be primary in helping people to make healthy choices and reduce their vulnerabilities. The project is expected to benefit approximately 300 OVC households and an estimated 1,800 OVC in and out of school through care and support, scholastic materials, Long Lasting mosquito nets, apprenticeships and business skills trainings. Key program outputs will include the establishment of 12 child rights clubs in 12 schools, 100 OVC trained in apprenticeship and supported with start up kits,12 IGA groups of 25 – 30 members for care givers initiated and engaged in different IGA activities, 1 child protection unit supported, 24 teachers and PTA members trained in children’s rights and advocacy, 24 awareness meetings on HIV/AIDs and Child rights conducted, 10 Radio Talk shows, 12 child rights clubs formed and supported, 60 care givers trained in palliative care, 70 peer educators trained in journey of life (JOL), 36 expert care givers trained in agronomy and nutrition, 143 LCs trained in child rights and advocacy in the 6 Bukedea sub-counties. It is also estimated that up to 1,800 OVC with their families will directly benefit and a total of 7,518 women, children and men will benefit indirectly from this interventions from Bukedea District. Relevance to UAC/CSF and District Priority Areas: Orphans and Vulnerable children have been identified by Uganda AIDs commission as a group that needs urgent attention due to their increasing numbers brought about by the ever increasing impact of HIV/AIDs scourge and other killer diseases and disasters which leaves children without any where to turn to. Thus, the increasing economic strain and successive disintegration of the extended family system which formerly offered copying mechanisms for children have left OVC orphaned by AIDs and other vulnerable children to fate and without any mechanism for ensuring their protection. The primary focus of this program will be to rebuild the family and community structures as a unit to offer love, care and compassion through a framework that will ensure full enjoyment of rights towards realization of full potentials and aspirations by orphans and vulnerable children. This strategy is in realization that the family and community is the first line of action in OVC response. Bukedea District also outlined in its OVC strategy the need for a holistic programme that will ensure a positive and conducive environment for child growth and development that will allow for child participation in programs that affect them Project Implementation Strategy Objective One: To mobilize and strengthen community-based responses to provide care and support, with an emphasis on psychosocial care, to the most vulnerable children and adolescents. 1. Community Mobilization Activity 1.1: Community leaders’ sensitization meetings Community awareness meetings are critical in ensuring that everybody understands the program and shares a common vision for effective and successful program implementation. TEDIWAC will facilitate one–day introductory meetings with sub-county leaders in the 6 sub – counties of Bukedea District. These meetings will comprise the political leadership, community development department and the sub- county authorities in their various capacities. The meeting provides a forum for TEDIWAC to share the program design with local leaders and streamline the various roles of each line department. The meeting will also be an opportunity to raise awareness on OVC needs related to psychosocial care, HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment. The opportunities that exist within the community include the existing Community based groups involved in HIV/AIDs awareness, PLWA groups and the good will of the local leadership to support OVC. The program will also participate in international events ranging from health related events such as World AIDS Day, Day of the African Child, and International Youth Day. 2. Psychosocial Support Activity 2.1: Peer Educators Training A total of 70 youth tutors will be trained to provide tutorial support to OVC in primary schools. The tutors will work directly with Schools to identify and support OVC. Youth who have finished their secondary education will be identified on the basis of their interest and capability to help needy children and will be motivated with stipends The peer tutoring is meant to provide an alternative platform for interaction, information sharing and counseling by enabling children to talk candidly and openly with a ‘peer’ about their feelings and needs. The strategy is also intended to enhance child/youth participation and ensure OVC initiatives are community driven. This approach provides a unique opportunity for children and youth to identify and associate with peers, while creating room for psychosocial and educational support, which may not be practical in the traditional classroom situation. Youth tutors will therefore undergo a 3 days intensive training on tutoring conducted by officials from the District education. The curriculum will cover assessment and performance evaluation, questioning skills, tutoring skills, special education, qualities and attitude of a good tutor and guidance and counseling. In addition, additionally, peer tutors will also be given training on psychosocial support to ensure they are equipped to provide hands on emotional and social support to individual children. Peer tutors will therefore agree on a center for their meeting where they will conduct lessons with OVC at least four times a month. Activity 2.2: Training of District TOT on Psychosocial counseling. Community leaders, teachers, chiefs and members of faith-based organizations, who are essential in influencing the behavior of people around them, will be trained on Psychosocial support and Journey of Life (JOL) to provide care and support to OVC. TOT will conduct training for 60 community members on psychosocial support and nutrition for OVC. Training topics include facilitation skills, Psychosocial Support models, indicators, building resilience in children, dealing with stress, loss, grief, mourning, coping with bereavements, prevention and mitigation of child abuse, counseling and Psychosocial support tools such as memory book/blanket/box/basket and the tree of life. The graduates of the TOT will have the roles and responsibilities of training, monitor, counsel and providing linkages to service providers for orphans seeking care and support. 3. Health Care Activity 3.1: Training of Care givers on palliative care and management of chronicle illness In partnership with the District HIV/AIDs focal office, TEDIWAC will scale up care and support initiatives by training of OVC care givers. Training will cover ART management and adherence including accompanied nutritional requirements, and management of the chronically ill. Training curriculum will also encompass hygiene and hygiene promotion in homes. Specific care modules will also include counseling; management of basic infections; bed bathing for bed ridden patients; care for nails, hair and mouth sores; hygiene (personal and environmental); and collaboration/networking and referrals. Activity 3.2: Support to children under five years and pregnant women with Insecticide Treated Nets (ITN) Malaria is one of the childhood illnesses that continue to cause deaths among children under five years, its effects are even more adverse in HIV affected homes as their vulnerability is increased The project will support 100 OVC households and pregnant mothers with Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Nets (LL/ITNs) for malaria prevention. Activity 3.3: Training caregivers on malaria prevention During the issuance of the ITN, 100 OVC caregivers will be trained on malaria, its causes, prevention and treatment. The training will also cover how to hang mosquito nets and will be conducted in partnership with the health facility personnel. 4. Food and Nutrition Access to affordable nutritious foods is a significant challenge for OVC and their caregivers. This results in child malnutrition, which in turn has multifaceted, negative consequences for child development, including poor health and cognitive development leading to poor school performance, among other effects. The project will therefore try to address food and nutritional challenges in the OVC households. Activity 4.1: TOT for experts in Agronomy and Nutrition education The program in partnership will identify 36 OVC caregivers and train them as TOT on agronomy and nutrition. The training will be done in partnership with the District department of Health and Agriculture. Practical sessions will be held on the demonstration farm to emphasize on the importance of good farming practices in regards to soil management, mulching, pest and disease control and planting. Sessions on nutrition education will also be conducted so that care givers can best utilize their yields. The TOTs will then facilitate agronomy and nutrition education in their respective groups. The focus of this training will also be on ensuring all seasons vegetable growing through kitchen gardening at homes to provide food even during dry seasons. Activity 4.2: Train care givers in agronomy and nutrition education. TEDIWAC will facilitate the TOTs to organize trainings in agronomy for care givers and continue to provide on farm demonstrations to established care giver group farms. The groups will also be supported with farm inputs for use in the group farms and in their homes. Among the inputs, the project will provide tools and improved seeds. 5. Child Protection TEDIWAC will scale up and strengthen child protection activities within the District with emphasis on children’s rights and Advocacy training for local leaders, teachers and community members, awareness meetings, clubs formation, participation/planning, protection as well as on issues of child exploitation, physical and sexual abuse, disinheritance and succession planning for caregivers and children. Activity 5.1: Training LCs on Children’s Rights and child protection To reinforce child protection activities at community levels, the project will train 143 village local council on children’s rights, advocacy protection issues. The trainees include: one LC chairperson from each of the 143 villages in the District. The curriculum will cover children’s statute and other relevant documents ratified in the protection of the rights of a child. Activity 5.2: Establishment of Child Protection Units (CPUs) One CPU (Child Protection Unit) will be established at the Central police station Bukedea district in partnership with the Police officers. A CPU is an office set up within a police station with accommodation facility exclusively for children whose rights have been violated and need justice. The units are child friendly and manned by police officers specifically trained on child right and proper handling of children. The CPU serves as temporary shelter for those children who have been identified and reported to be at risk until their cases are heard and justice done. The child may stay overnight for a few days depending on investigations. These units enhance reporting of child abuse cases and even safe environment for the children. Activity 5.3: Training children on child rights and support child rights activities The project will conduct specific training on children’s rights’ for 60 children and youth and support the formation of 12 Child Rights Clubs in schools. In all the sub-counties, the program will select 2 schools and support the formation of child rights clubs, a total of 12 rights clubs will be formed and supported throughout the project period. To reinforce these activities, 24 teaching staff and members of Parents Teachers Association will also be given the same training to help in monitoring the child rights activities Activity 5.4: Youth and child participation TEDIWAC values and advocates for child participation and implementation of initiatives that promote the best interests of the child. Besides their involvement in training, the program will support activities developed by the children in their action plans created during training. The activities may include individual talents (drawing, art-work etc), inter-schools events such as drama, songs, debate, as well as other activities where the children compete and exhibit individual as well as collective talents and activities they have been involved in. Involvement of the children in their own activities creates a sense of ownership and in-depth understanding of their rights and responsibility. OBJECTIVE 2: To increase the capacity of HIV-affected and other vulnerable children and adolescents to meet their own needs, through active participation in national and district-level programs and policy development and access to formal and non- formal education. 1. Educational Support Activity 1.1: Vocational training for the youth In partnership with Kumi Tech vocational school Bukedea and other service providers, the project will select 100 OVC for vocational training opportunities from the 6 sub-counties. The 100 youth will be identified through the eligibility criteria developed in collaboration with the community and local leaders. After identification, TEDIWAC business development officer and project assistants will collect data on this OVC including their areas of training interest and select a relevant course that can be supported by the program. OVC will thereafter enroll on a course for a period of not more than one year. Examples of courses include: motor vehicle mechanics, motor vehicle wiring, electrical installation, carpentry and joinery, masonry and building, welding and fabrication, garment making/ tailoring and dressmaking, and knitting and embroidery. Other courses include: hairdressing and beauty therapy (6 months) and food production or catering (6 months). These OVC will also attend basic business skills training. Activity 1.2: Support OVC with scholastic materials An estimated 600 OVC will benefit from school books, pens and mathematical sets to enable them take advantage of the Universal free secondary education and Universal free primary education of the GOU. This support is aimed at increasing OVC enrollment, improved learning, and school retention and completion. In an effort to ensure the OVC continue to access education, TEDIWAC will mobilize activities for caregivers of the OVC supported and also link them with Uganda Micro- Finance limited and other lending institutions in the district to build their economic power to provide the same to the OVC. 2: Economic strengthening Activity 2.1: Income Generation services to OVC care givers Income generating activities is key to vulnerable households as an important sustainability component of this program. The services build the capacity of families to protect the rights and ensure the well being of their children by enabling the households to meet immediate needs, ensure steady income and maintain the integrity of the household economic safety net. TEDIWAC Business development officer will lead this component through the group methodology; where groups of 25-30 members are organized and registered and trained on business/group management, group dynamics, business planning, savings and leadership before business start up. The activities described below are interdependent, complementary parts of an integrated approach developed to ensure successful economic strengthening activities for these vulnerable individuals. - Group formation TEDIWAC business development officer will guide the formation of 12 IGA groups with a total membership of 300 caregivers. Selected care givers will be allowed to freely identify who they want to work with in a group and form groups of 25-30 members each, this will be followed by selection of group leadership which will follow a democratic process of elections. - Business development and management skills training The main objective of this training is to equip the participants with basic business management skills so that they are able to identify and develop viable, profitable businesses. The training is tailored for people who are beginners who lack business experience. The training covers generating business ideas, entrepreneurship, feasibility study, planning, marketing, record keeping, costing and pricing. On top of the business training, TEDIWAC will in partnership with community development department integrate functional adult literacy training for those who do not know how to read and write, TEDIWAC will support FAL instructors working for caregivers with stipends. - Business selection and disbursement of IGA kits Upon successful completion of business skills training, TEDIWAC Business development officer and project assistants will guide the groups in identification of ventures to undertake, business venture selection will be based on market assessment reports which will guide the selection. Businesses will be supported based on their potential to generate income for the group members and will include farming as a business. - Credit and group management training In addition to business management training, all the caregivers recruited during this period will undergo training in group management, leadership, credit policies and loan management. Topics covered during this training include: leadership; members’ roles and responsibilities; group record keeping; frequency and importance of savings; and savings management at the client, group and bank levels. This training will commence immediately after a group is recruited into the program and will be conducted during the weekly group meetings by TEDIWAC Business development officer and project assistants. - Savings mobilizations The caregivers who join the program will be required to save a minimum amount of money decided and agreed upon by group members per month, mobilized on weekly basis during the weekly group meetings. The money will form collateral for the groups should they wish to take loans form micro-credit institutions. This savings will also be access by Caregivers as loans within their groups and refunded with a set percentage interest. 3. Advocacy and policy Influence TEDIWAC will continue to be involved in advocacy and policy influence issues in order to raise awareness among the decision-makers at community and districts level on issues affecting OVC and adolescent youth. Advocacy will be for the OVC and with the OVC, this is to leverage the necessary support for improved responsive actions in addressing the needs of the OVC. Activity 3.1: Information, Education and Communication (IEC) The program will support the development of various Information, Education and Communication (IEC) materials in both Ateso local language and English to pass on appropriate messages pertaining to OVC plight and the youth, the materials will also seek to inform communities on the synergy between human rights violations, the right to good health, HIV/AIDs and how it affects the OVC growth and development. The IEC materials will be in different forms such as, brochures, newsletters, T-shirts. The materials will be used during the various awareness meetings, national days and youth events. Activity 3.2 Awareness creation/awareness meetings The project will hold a total of 24 community education and awareness meetings to educate inform and mobilize communities towards child rights and HIV/AIDS prevention, this component also seeks to create awareness among communities to take advantage of other TEDIWAC funded activities where VCT is conducted in partnership with the District health team. It is anticipated that increased community sensitization will lead to increasing number of people testing for HIV and thus more people aware of their status. Community sensitizations will also be conducted with the help of the peer TOT and Psychosocial counselors and will be held at village level in each of the 6 proposed sub-counties Activity 3.1 Stake holder’s forum TEDIWAC will hold 2 stake holders forum which will be attended by heads of the District and political leadership, representatives from schools, police and the school management to discuss and give feedback on the state of OVC in the communities. | Project Implementation Plan and Results Based Performance framework- CSF PROJECT TITLE Weaving the Safety nets towards sustainable livelihoods among Orphans and Vulnerable Children. PROJECT GOAL To improve the quality of life and reduce threats to morbidity and mortality among orphans and other vulnerable children and adolescents by strengthening community resources and systems to provide sustainable, high-quality essential services. OBJECTIVE ONE. To mobilize and strengthen community-based responses to provide care and support, with an emphasis on psychosocial care, to the most vulnerable children and adolescents. Activities OUTPUTS OUTCOMES TIME LINES MAY 2012-JUNE 20013 1. Community Mobilization 1.1 Community leader’s sensitization meetings. 2. Educational Support 2.1 Peer Educators training Of trainers in tutoring, special education, guidance and counseling. 3. Psychosocial support PSS 3.1 Train District TOT on psychosocial counseling 4. Health Care 4.1 Identify and train care givers on Palliative care and management of chronicle illness 4.2 Support under 5 and pregnant mothers with LL/ITNs 4.3 Train care givers on malaria prevention and how to use mosquito nets 5. Food and Nutrition 5.1TOT for expert caregivers in agronomy and nutrition education 5.2 Train care givers in agronomy and nutrition 5.3 Procure and distribute farm tools and improved seeds to care givers 6. Child protection 6.1 Train LCs on Children’s rights and advocacy 6.2.Establishment of child protection unit in Bukedea central police station 6.3 Train and support child rights activities in schools and communities. - 6 sensitisation meetings of Sub-county officials and political leaders on the OVC program and concluded attended by 180 persons. - 2 TOT for peer educators held - 70 youth trained as peer educators selected from the 6 sub-counties with a 50% representation of boys and girls - 2 five days TOT for PSS counselors conducted - 60 teachers, community leaders, and members of faith based organizations trained as TOT in PSS counseling and nutrition. - 2 trainings of care givers held - 60 caregivers trained in palliative care and management of chronicle illness, hygiene and good nutrition. - 100 LL/ITNs purchased and distributed to <5 and pregnant mothers for malaria prevention -100 care givers sensitized on malaria prevention - 100 care givers receive instructions on how to use ITNs - 1 training in agronomy and nutrition held - 36 OVC care givers trained - Number of trainings conducted - Number of caregivers trained - 300 farm kits purchased and distributed - 4 trainings in children’s rights and advocacy conducted - 143 LCs trained in children’s right and advocacy. - 1 unit identified and furnished with beddings and child playing kits (balls, toys etc) - 12 rights clubs formed and supported with a 50% representation of males and females - 24 teachers and PTA members trained and supporting child activities. - Leaders and Sub-county officials aware of the OVC program and willing to support the implementation. - Leaders and TEDIWAC have a common understanding of implementation approach and targeting. -Number of TOTs working with OVC in schools and in communities. - number of peer lessons held in parishes - Peer meeting centers established in every parish where lessons are conducted at least four times a month. - 60 PSS TOTs active in villages educating care givers and offering counseling services to affected people. - Counselors able to monitor and refer OVC cases to service providers - Care givers able to care for and better lives of the chronically ill - %Care givers able to manage ART clients and ensure adherence .- Improved hygiene and nutrition in OVC homes - Reduced incidences of malaria associated with mosquito bites among children and pregnant mothers. An estimated 150 OVC and pregnant mothers sleeping under ITN. - Care givers able tackle root cause of malaria through bush clearing, drainage management, and use of INT. - OVC caregivers able to detect early signs of malaria and take actions - TOTs able to train their groups in agronomy and nutrition - TOTs able to do on farm demonstrations in group farms - # of demonstrations conducted - Improved farming practices in OVC families - Improved hygiene and nutrition practices in OVC households e.g. balance diet , production of highly nutritious crop varieties - Gardens planted out of the seeds and tools - increased food availability in OVC homes - Number of trained LCs monitoring child rights issues - LCs able to address children’s issues with a protection lens - % of LCs advocating for and creating awareness on protection of children. - Children who have been abused enjoy basic rights as they await for justice - % Clubs able to engage in awareness campaigns - Number of children engaged in awareness campaigns - Nature of awareness activities children are conducting M J J A S O N D J F M A . Objective Two To increase the capacity of HIV-affected and other vulnerable children and adolescents to meet their own needs, through active participation in national and district-level programs and policy development and access to formal and non- formal education. 1. Educational Support 1.1 Identify and train OVC youth out of school in vocational skills 1.2 Support OVC with scholastic materials 2. Economic Strengthening 2.1 Establish and train care givers groups in business development and management ,credit and group management 2.2 Business selection , disbursement of IGA kits and monitoring 3. Advocacy and Policy influence 3.1 Information ,Education and communication IEC 3.2 Awareness creation and awareness meetings 3.1 Stake holder’s Forum - 100 OVC trained in different skills areas 50 boys and 50 girls - 100 OVC supported with tool kits - 1800 school going OVC supported with scholastic materials 50% of the girls - No of scholastic materials distributed -12 groups of care givers formed of 300 people 70% of them women - 12 groups of care givers accessing funds And setting up businesses of their choice - 500 T- Shirts, 200 calendars and 800 charts produced and distributed - 24 awareness meetings held - number of persons reached - 2 stakeholders forum conducted - Number of participants registered. - Number of OVC practicing their skills - % of trained OVC able to meet Their basic needs - % of OVC families with Increased disposable income - Number of supported OVC attending school - % of supported households reporting reduced expenditure on scholastic materials - %age of care givers aware of basic basic business skills -% of caregivers able to make informed decisions in enterprise selection. -% of care givers enrolled in FAL Classes able to read and write - Members aware of their roles and responsibilities in a group - Nature and number of businesses selected by care givers - Number of businesses set up - % of care givers reporting increased disposable income - Communities able to access IEC materials - communities aware and able to protect OVC rights - Increased demand for VCT services - Increase child rights awareness -Participants able to take up OVC issues In their communities and report | Monitoring and Evaluation Plan The rationale for a strong monitoring component in this project will be to assist the program assess the overall progress of activities implemented, assess program results and impact made through project implementation, and identify and replicate effective practices, lessons learned and share experiences. The Monitoring, evaluation and reporting plan will therefore help in measuring program achievements/accountability to the organization, donor and beneficiaries ,facilitate transparency (effectiveness and efficiency) and assigning responsibility , guide /improve implementation (standardization and coordination), promote information sharing with all partners/stakeholders, planning and decision making purposes, justification for additional resource allocation, ensure quality data collection, processing and feedback and facilitates identification and replication of effective practices Monitoring & Evaluation Methods 1. Baseline and Final Evaluation (BF) will take place only in select program communities and will involve structured interviews with a sample of caregivers and OVC and key informant interviews. These shall take place two times during the project (in same select sites). 2. Review of Records will be conducted from time to time. This will involve reviewing client records and other records of what has taken place programmatically. 3. Pre-post Mini Evaluations will be conducted on select isolated activities as they occur. | English | TEDIWAC-TESO DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS | PROGRAM COORDINATOR | UGANDA | Project Title:Weaving the Safety nets towards sustainable livelihoods among Orphans and Vulnerable Children. Program Description Problem Statement. The number of Orphans and Vulnerable children in North Eastern Uganda and Bukedea District specifically continues to escalate dramatically. The loss of parents effectively removes the primary social structure protecting children and adolescents, resulting in increased vulnerability to key threats. Those orphaned families see their quality of life rapidly eroding as they struggle to survive in highly complex communities affected my myriad problems wrought about by HIV/AIDS, war and internal displacement, deplorable state of community structures and cultural values and norms, hunger and poverty. The threats that children and adolescents confront include: a lack of social and emotional support for healthy psychological and social development; lost educational opportunities; increasing hunger and malnutrition; and increased susceptibility to abuse and exploitation, including sexual violence. The loss of parents and other familial leadership figures, shifting familial roles and compositions, and the breakdown of social services and related systems erode the community structures that enable children’s healthy development into productive, healthy adults, destabilizing their communities. Bukedea District with a total area of 31,285 sq km has an estimated population of 201,493 with an annual population growth rate of 6.33% according to Uganda national bureau of statistics 2002 census results. An estimated 12,000 of this population still leave in 8 internally displaced people’s camps with an unspecified numbers displaced and leaving with relatives and friends in the communities. The District by 2006 had a total of 26,648 orphans and vulnerable children according to a UNICEF survey, representing 13.2 % of the total District population. HIV/AIDS, War and internal displacement, biting poverty, addictive alcoholism brought by psychosocial trauma are the major causes of illness and morbidity among households and eventual orphaned state of children in the District. The District fell under successive attacks from the Karamojongs cattle raids and some people camped here as a result of Lords Resistance Army rebels from 2004, the attacks peaked in 2006 and left many adults hacked to death and children abducted, the attacks also displaced many civilians currently estimated at 12,000 IDPs. The District HIV/AIDs prevalence was estimated to be 5.8% in 2005, while results at testing sites showed a rate of 9.3 in Bukedea Health centre IV and 8.8 in Malera sub-county according to the 2006 statistics from the District Health reports. High rates of trauma leading to addictive alcoholism brought about by internal displacement, poverty and idleness remains yet another leading cause of mental health and death in the District. A study conducted in Bukedea District in 2004 rate the District as having the highest rate of suicide in the world, the mental health department in the District confirms this study. As a result of this situation, the number of Orphans and vulnerable children has been on the rise, these children often experience depression, anxiety, anger, and fear and much exhibit anti-social behavior as a result of inadequate community and family care and their own growing feelings of isolation and stigmatization. In an assessment conducted by TEDIWAC in Bukedea in Feburary 2008, educational attainments were very low among orphans and vulnerable children, at least 333 orphans and vulnerable children dropped out of schools TEDIWAC visited in 2010 only, according to school authorities. This statement was further supported by children TEDIWAC talked to as they confessed, “HIV and AIDs, early marriage, early pregnancy, family responsibilities, child neglect and lack of parental guidance, love, care and counseling, self stigmatization were responsible for the low educational attainment among their orphaned friends”. Bukedea District OVC mapping report recently rated Food security, Psychosocial support, socio economic security as the leading threats to OVC survival, the report also ranked HIV/AIDs as a leading cause of vulnerability among children and households represented by 26%. This precarious state of orphans and vulnerable children compounded with a dying extended family system and a lack of community coping strategies certainly presents a darker future for the affected communities. Since 2009, TEDIWAC Bukedea embarked on fighting HIV/AIDs in Bukedea District with a focus to addressing the growing dilemma faced by OVC, with its funding from the state of needs and Global fund, TEDIWAC targeted Orphans and vulnerable children in the areas of psychosocial support, Education, supplementary feeding and vocational training. In 2009 alone, TEDIWAC supported 136 children born to HIV and AIDS infected mothers in supplementary feeding to reduce Mother to Child Transmission. As a result, 36 out of 40 OVC supported in lot one and phased out by December 2009 tested negative, frequencies of sickness among supported OVC were also reported low. While a total of 406 OVC were supported with scholastic materials which are believed to have helped in retaining such children in school. Six more OVC girls out of school were trained in tailoring and supported with tailoring machines; these girls have confessed increased income in their households. The TEDIWAC intervention complemented other support by TASO in 2008 -2009, MACI, and the LGDP in the areas of food security, education and vocational skills. In spite of these interventions, the District OVC mapping report still indicated, property grabbing, child neglect, sexual abuse early marriage as common practices affecting OVC in the district, the report recommends system strengthening and integrated programmatic response to address food security, education, psychosocial support and socio economic support as high priority measures to improve living conditions of the OVC. The TEDIWAC therefore proposes a project “weaving the safety nets towards sustainable livelihoods among Orphans and Vulnerable Children” that will be implemented in the 6 sub- counties in Bukedea district Northern Uganda. The project will cover Malera,Kolir,Kachumbala,Kidongole,Bukedea and Bukedea Town council and will assist 300 OVC households, focusing on two categories of OVC in the District (i) HIV-positive and negative children and adolescents who have lost one or both parents to AIDS and/or who reside in a household where one or more of their caregivers is infected with HIV/AIDS; and (ii) other children and adolescents who reside in communities that have been highly-impacted by HIV/AIDS and who face similar threats to their well-being and development as those children impacted directly by HIV/AIDS. The latter may include: children/adolescents living in extreme poverty; street children/adolescents; orphaned children/adolescents; children/adolescents residing with one or more chronically ill caregiver; children/adolescents residing in households where large numbers of orphans have been taken in; children/adolescents who are heads of households; and children/ adolescents who have been abused, neglected, and otherwise exploited. | Proposed solution TEDIWAC’s weaving the Safety Net towards sustainable livelihoods for OVC project aims to reduce the impact of parental death on 300 most vulnerable OVC households by responding to the current gap in psychosocial programming while supporting structures that respond to individuals’ educational and economic needs. To meet this goal, TEDIWAC will support the provision of sustainable, high-quality essential services through: strengthening the capacity of families to cope with their problems; mobilizing and strengthening community-based responses; increasing the capacity of children and young people to meet their own needs; raising awareness within communities to create an environment that enables support for children in bereaved and other vulnerable families; and developing, evaluating, and applying best practices and state-of-the-art knowledge in the area of quality OVC programming. TEDIWAC’s Weaving the Safety Net towards sustainable livelihoods for OVC project will assists families and communities to care for and support OVC, paying particular heed to their psychosocial needs, and affording vulnerable individuals the opportunity to grow their own skills, through educational and vocational opportunities, to minimize community/family dependency and encourage self-sufficiency. These core activities are supported by interventions around reducing stigma and supporting children’s rights. In order to most effectively facilitate these activities, TEDIWAC will support community and school structures to carry out mobilization and sensitization of communities towards fulfillment of the rights of OVC. By working with communities to create an environment conducive to the care of vulnerable children, TEDIWAC will ensure that families and individuals are able to access the resources they need for positive and productive futures. To maximize program efficacy, enable rapid start-up, and ensure ease in implementation and sustainability at project end, TEDIWAC will build on existing TEDIWAC efforts, such as our SON-funded HIVAIDs project and Refugee International Japan’s rights based project which has OVC components, and will work with key partners in the district and the region, proposed partners will be. - TPO Uganda – TPO Uganda has a sound background in quality OVC programming; TPO will therefore backstop TEDIWAC in the areas of trainings and capacity building. - Bukedea District Local Government, department of community development will also provide the lacking skills within TEDIWAC, this is also inline with their mandate of providing the overall direction in the implementation of community based services sector. - Uganda Police, Bukedea branch will work with TEDIWAC in the management of child protection unit at the police. - Uganda micro- finance and other limited, TEDIWAC will link care givers groups interested in pursuing bigger ventures to secure additional funds from UML Bukedea and other micro credit institutions e.g. SACCOs in the various sub- counties. - Junior express vocational school will provide apprenticeship training for OVC who will be selected for such courses. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | UGANDA | sam2osekz@gmail.com | Training Workshops – 3 hours | Past Performance and Organizational Capacity The TEDIWAC is a local Community faith Based organization. The TEDIWAC started operations in BUKEDEA DISTRICT in North Eastern Region/ Uganda in 2008 on invitation by the people from Bukedea More those affected and infected by HIV/AIDS and TASO-Uganda to implement a community awareness and advocacy with the people and families of those affected by HIV/AIDS with the following vision and mission statements. Vision statement A harmonious and just Uganda where people are empowered to maximize their potential to achieve an improved quality of life. Mission Statement TEDIWAC Uganda new mission statement to be adopted is: “Inspired by God’s love, TEDIWAC Uganda challenges and responds to the causes and consequences of human suffering and poverty.” From 2008 until 2012, TEDIWAC concentrated its attention to core technical programme areas of water and sanitation, HIV/AIDS/PMTCT awareness, construction, food security, emergency response and Education, the projects were supported under grants from TASO OFDA, BPRM, and WFP. Due to the changing needs in Bukedea District, in 2009, TEDIWAC in Bukedea refocused itself through its new strategy Bukedea Integrated Rural Development programme (IRDP) and set itself on a 4 years strategic planning path and Country strategic Outline (CSO). The new approach prioritized HIV/AIDs, Agro forestry and Human rights as core problems that needed attention in the District. The TEDIWAC therefore participated in the last round of global fund and was very instrumental as a District partner; TEDIWAC also continues to receive funding from Action of Churches Together, and State of needs (SON) in the implementation of its HIV/AIDs, Agro Forestry and Human rights project in the District today. The project is managed by the Project Manager based in Bukedea; the field office has a fully fledged system with Project technical officers, the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Accountant as well as the project administrator who plays the human resources role. The field office is supported by the District Technical Officer under the administration of the District Leadership and Chief Administrative officer. Program wise the field office gets a blessing from the Program Director who sits in Bukedea TEDIWAC Offices with regular visits to the Field also supported by the Monitoring and Evaluation manager and the Rights based Advocacy manager The Project geographically operates in all the 6 sub-counties in the District, Malera,Kolir,Kidongole,Kachumbala,Bukedea,and Bukedea Town council, projects are distributed equally throughout the District in all the project components implemented | ||||
36 | 3/8/2012 12:03:59 | NDEH Emmanuel ESICHIWUH | Building partnerships for social innovation | The global objectives of the activity session are: 1. To present the concept and understanding of the SOFDEV development model as a strategic and empowering model that is adapted to the specific needs of community development and social transformation. 2. To permit participants own the SOFDEV model sufficiently to enable them adapt in their different contexts | The SOFDEV approach in the project area represents a movement from unsustainable credit projects and programmes to sustainable local institutions that permit the rural poor to improve on their livelihoods on a sustainable basis. The very small value of a share, minimum savings and average loan size are at the reach of the rural dwellers and especially women. With these characteristics it is expected that the services provided by the SOFDEVs will benefits a quasi totality of the rural poor. As the SOFDEVs tend to reach more women by virtue of their simple nature, they are seen to promote gender equity by serving as a channel for transfer of resources to the right social category, permitting women and youths to access new inputs and opportunities for better income generation, thus reducing pressure on the environment, exposing women to entrepreneurship, economic empowerment through access to loans for economic investment and increasing self-esteem of the community members. Apart from access to financial services, the members of SOFDEVs will benefit from non financial services such as training on agricultural techniques, business management, loan management, household resource management, etc . As the SOFDEVs expand there will be need for people to manage them, thus creating jobs in the communities in the long run. The proximity, accessibility and appropriateness of services make the SOFDEVs valuable and widely accepted by the community. Since the SOFDEVs are managed entirely by officers from the same village elected by the villagers themselves, they possess a deep understanding of the socioeconomic and cultural situation of the village and also lead to human capital development. As a matter of fact, the SOFDEVs are more development oriented and therefore contribute significantly towards the development of the communities where they are found. This will lead to a collective voice and enhance participation in community development and social cohesion. | - Genesis of the SOFDEV model of Indigenous Financial resources mobilisation for community development - The concept of Solidarity Funds for Community Development -Experiences and impact of the SOFDEV approach in the rural communities in Cameroon - Interaction by participants | English | INADES FORMATION CAMEROON | COMMUNITY TRAINER | CAMEROON | SOLIDARITY FUND FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: MOBILIZING INDIGENOUS FINANCIAL RESOURCES FOR INDIGENOUS DEVELOPMENT " Community Graduation from External Financial Dependency Syndrome" | Access to adapted financial services is the backbone of economic development as it is a valuable tool for fighting poverty. Without a well functioning financial system which targets the right priority sectors, neither aid nor local entrepreneurship can create the right conditions for long term economic growth and sustainable poverty alleviation. Microfinance is increasingly seen as a vital part of the development equation, promotion of inclusive financial sectors, supporting sustainable access to financial services and innovations as pivotal in achieving the MDGs. Notwithstanding, the microfinance sector in Cameroon is still in its infancy especially in the rural areas which host over 75% of the population where structural aspects have so far significantly delayed the development and expansion of viable microfinance establishments addressing the needs of the poor. This is why the Cameroon Growth and Employment Strategy Paper (GESP) underscored access to adapted financial services as pivotal for the development of agricultural sector in particular and small and medium size firms in general. An assessment of the three Solidarity Funds for Development (SOFDEV) put in place by INADES Formation Cameroon in November 2008 indicates that the SOFDEV represent a big potential for transforming the economies of the villages and communities where they are found as they could reach thousands of rural poor with financial services, thus serving as an effective instruments for rural empowerment and poverty alleviation in these communities. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | CAMEROONIAN | mondeh2003@yahoo.ca | Flash Presentation (Pecha Kucha) – 1.5 hours | All 3 speakers are Bilingual (in English and French) | ||||
37 | 3/8/2012 13:12:19 | alao emmanuel akeem | Changing nations through citizens, Building partnerships for social innovation | Building friendship/Ending violence and Poverty. Discovering Talents among the Children, Youths and Communities. Establishing Connections. Making of Relationships. Promoting Awareness. Make good Dreams come Reality. | The organization is a humanitarian non-profitable to promote friendship and love and the eradication of poverty. It is committed to the mission of empowering people of all walks of life through practical social activities and events. By improving awareness of many people that they are not useless but talented in any skillful areas. | It's all an open door to everybody, male and female and elsewhere irrespective of ethnic, political or religious creed or profession. | English | friends in needs empowerment initiative | Project manager | Nigeria | Ending modern days violence and poverty..... | Making impact for tomorrow's people, fighting crisis, conflicts and poverty among the ethnics, religions, communities groups, also to all walks of life. We build friendship brought together by the fervent desire to share the love of God. We work in support to make the MDG's comes reality by 2015. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Nigerian | projectfriendship@ymail.com | Training Workshops – 3 hours | None. | ||||
38 | 3/8/2012 13:23:47 | chumba carolyn | Changing nations through citizens | The mission of NORTH RIFT WOMEN VOICES is to build capacities of women to enable them participate effectively in social, political and economic development through civic education, lobbying, advocacy and training. It is through capacity building that women gains skills, confidence and ability to champion for their rights, have their voice heard, participate decision-making and policy development; and determine their destiny in development. Objectives to be achieved To give opportunity to women and girls who are 18years and are out of school to take leadership positions so as to represent the interest on girls in decision-making process hence inclusivity; The organization intends to do intensive civic education in Baringo, Elgeyo Marakwet, Nandi and Uasin Gishu county respectively; To demystify the secrets of the myths and the taboos concerning female circumcision imposed on girls by motirenik in the past; To promote economic empowerment of girls and women this will be done through establishment of income generating activities where they will be trained on rabbit keeping, poultry and keeping dairy goats ; To educate girls on the negative effects of the female circumcision and the need for change; To initiate girls without circumcision to attain adulthood status in conformity with society’s expectations of a marriageable woman after achieving personal set-goals in life and implementation of program activities; Mobilize the communities to actively participate in implementation of Sexual Offence Act and to bring an end to gender based violence; The organization to value leadership values and guidelines which gives the opportunity for women of all ages and cadres to be represented in leadership and to participate in implementation of the new dispensation Expected results To increase the number of female leaders in state officers by ensuring that the 1/3rd gender representation in the new constitution is adhered to the later especially in the coming general election To reduce the number of spoilt and rejected votes in the coming general election and increase in the number of voter turn-out upon successful voter education Reformation of circumcisers and initiators who for long time were perpetrating cultural practices like FGM as a means of livelihood; Empowerment of women to be economically dependent; Reconciliation of communities affected by violence; | from the past records and the achievemnets that the organization has achieved this will demonstrate the ability as in:- The implementation of ‘women’s Bunge’ ( women’s informal parliament) a program involving women leaders from Nandi, Keiyo and Uasin Gishu districts to have a voice in current affairs, governance and reforms. It highlighted areas that the government needed to pay attention and /or take action; and to speed up reforms, this was in September 2009-January 2010; Massive civic education on Kenya’s new constitution. This is great milestone that promote women’s participation in leadership and governance, equity and justice; Community and focused-groups peace dialogues in districts affected by post-election violence of 2007/2008. This also was done prior to referendum in August 2010 to ensure peace among all Kenyans; Conducting alternative rites of passage for girls and life skills to reformed circumcisers to address female genital mutilation where 500 girls from Keiyo, Marakwet, Nandi and Pokot where the practice is still done, training was conducted; North Rift Women Voices has established networks on the ground complemented by competent personnel. These networks are strategically spread out in the districts to implement programs co-ordinated by personnel based in district headquarters. They were crucial and effective in the implementation of the political program dubbed Women’s Bunge in 2009 and part of 2010. Besides having outstanding academic qualifications, staff has varied skills and competencies in community mobilization, civic education, administration and governance matter which are vital in the project implementation. The Chief Executive Officer is a renowned consultant and trainer in social, economic and political issues; researcher and community mobilizer. She conducted civic education in 2005 referendum and was key in implementing the just ended Women’s Bunge program. In addition, the organization has an office with furniture, equipment (desktop computer, laptop computer, digital camera and printer), communication facilities (internet and telephone) and sound administration and financial policies. The organization’s management and staff have rapport with government officials and local leaders which has been vital in the implementation of programs in the past. This is an asset that the organization will use in civic education and dialogue programs in relation to the current constitution making process. The networks will aid in the implementation and monitoring of the program in the districts. i do belief throght its past recodrs it will meet the selection criteria | assembly and registration of participants -30 mins after nine in the morning after this we shall be having a series of topics 1 week familiarization of the constitution and analysing the constitution -2 hours dailly speaker Advocate Boinett 2nd week contents of bills of rights, leadership and governance, sexual offence acts,women and leadership, devolution and intergrity this will run for a period of one month facilitated by Nancy koech and Dr. Musila. 3rd week Electoral process this will run for one month facilitated by Nancy Koech and Dr.Musila and Daniel were. they will carry through the participants in electoral process,rules observed during process and how to vote and minimise spoilt votes by taking them on the marks used and how to cast a vote during the day | English | NORTH RIFT WOMEN VOICES | PROGRAM OFFICER | KENYA | WOMEN LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE | This is because in Kenya we are expecting to have a general elections at the end of the year as a result we want to empower youth and women to vie for various posts and bring change to the nation and an end to corruptions and social injustices as witnessed in the past. we have the capacity to empower the youth in that during post election violence in the year 20072008 both youth and women suffered and become victims, its sad to note that the youth where implementers after the men had innitiated the idea,and in the society the youth has been lebelled the highest criminals | The Youth Assembly (September 3-4) | KENYAN | chumbacarol@rocketmail.com | Training Workshops – 3 hours | since we shall be engaging all women and the youth both in the rural and at the grassroot levels. at the grass root level the level of ignorance is high in that most people are not literate and if there are those who are illiterate they are few, thus we shall be using mother tongue and kiswahili so that they get accurate information, | ||||
39 | 3/8/2012 14:07:54 | Ikechukwu O. Anyim | Changing nations through citizens | Protection and socio-professional reintegration of vulnerable children | In the long run this project aim is to lift the social condition of the vulnerable children. We will share our experience and work in partnership with the Local authorities and other organizations working with the children. This will help to design new social measures to address the needs of the vulnerable with the active participation from the beneficiaries under this project. In the short term/medium term this project aims to;- • Reintegrate children with their families • Ensure socio-economic rehabilitation of these children • Provide temporary shelter to protect them against street life and provide opportunities for a better life through social reintegration. | Workshop on the Basic steps on Children reregistration both at National/Regional and cross boarder. The session will be led by the Country Coordinator of West African Network on Child Protection (Gambia) 1 and half hour for presentation and 1 and half hour for discussion | English | Child and Environmental Development Association-The Gambia | National Coordinator | The Gambia | PROTECTING CHILDREN ON THE MOVE | At CEDAG, we understand the fact that children are exposed to different dimensions of vulnerability with consequences of losing opportunities for schools, health care, growth, development, nutrition and shelter. Against the background our organization seeks to provide collaborate with the government of other stakeholders in protecting children from physical and emotional abuse, psychosocial trauma, neglect, separation, abandonment, malnutrition and poverty, and facilitating their access to social services and social protection. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Nigerian | cedag@qanet.gm | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | No need for translation | ||||
40 | 3/8/2012 14:32:40 | Jackson Kabiru | Changing nations through citizens | Inform the voters (Civic Education), empower them to make informed and sober decisions during the electioneering year. | A) My organisation brings together youth, professionals, and marginalised members of the society (the disabled, the deaf and the blind) usually ignored in civic educations. The poor and the neglected have found solace in us in that we conduct community based activities like Free Medical camps, Games and civic education. We use the two national languages (English, Kiswahili), local dialects, sign language and if need be, braille. B) We will bring on board two other National NGOs, local CBOs, FBOs and where very remote, the local Self Help Groups. We have over 30 organisations to work with. C) As opposed to having workshops in hotels, we intend to conduct our civic education in the grassroots by way of having public forums in villages or withing polling stations. This would be a first in Kenya. Plus, the social media is a great tool to get to the youth. D) Through Public Forums and Social media, participation in discussions is guaranteed. This is something we have previously done. | 1. Introduction (15min) - Jackson Kabiru 2. Devolved Government (1 hr) Mwara Wambugu - a lawyer 3. Plenary (Discussions 2hrs) 4. Voters rights (1hr) - Nderitu Wanjiru 5. Plenary (Discussions) 1hr 30min 6. Political Parties Act (1hr) - Mr. Ndungu 7. Plenary (Discussions) 30 min | English | Mathira Gwitu Community Development Initiative | Chief Executive Officer | Kenya | "We are the Voters!" | After the elections of 2007, Kenya was on the brink of genocide - motivated by politicians. The case is before the ICC. In August 2010, Kenya promulgated a new constitution. In the new constitution, there is established new devolved governments called counties. The politicians are hell bent to control every aspect of National and county governments, as plays out in parliament today. The parliamentarians have ignored citizens calls to be listened to without success. They want to selfishly curve out rules to govern them (as politicians) and ignore the citizenry in macro-managing the country. Most of these leaders are known. That's why we are saying : WE ARE THE VOTERS! Our power is in the voting cards and we will vote in true leaders who have the prosperity of the communities and the Nation at heart. Through concerted efforts in civic education, we will change the divisive politics for a unified approach to politics. The General Election will be held in December this year after it has been shifted from the constitutional August this year. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Kenyan | admin@mathira.com | Flash Presentation (Pecha Kucha) – 1.5 hours | N/A | ||||
41 | 3/8/2012 16:37:25 | HITESH BHATT | Changing nations through citizens, Building partnerships for social innovation, Redefining global governance | For about 11-12 years & still doing so ____ the monitoring on getting other remain all civic amenities it bit more hectic & time consuming. Please find the documentary evidence through which I have dealt with all government bodies like Government of India, Government of Gujarat & district administration, local civic bodies. & all other international bodies etc....... Legal enforcement will pave the way for implementing strategic time bound projects. Unless & until I am legally & financially empowered to enforce strategically approved projects no commitments can be made in terms of its viability & practicability. | I want to keep my identity in the close circuit as I do not want myself to be exposed my region as India Pride Awards jury member unless it is necessary. Written communication & prompt replies on the action taken or to be taken help of any kind. 1) Your Designation: An individual fighting & defending against the corrupt practices being adopted in Govt. departments/Government of India/government of Gujarat/Gujarat Electricity Board, now, MGVCL/ Vadodara Municipal Corporation, now, VMSS.& whole administration/Judiciary system. 2) Current Employment: I am defining & designing true kind of culture for the systems prevailing in BHARAT. 3) Current Organization: I am a whistle blower & to raise a voice of truth I do not think one should have any organization. 4) Reason why nominee deserves an award ( Upto 5 points): All my findings are ___________ _ empirical. _ achieved on my own. _ based on having personal interactions & exchange of views with the officials concerned in the systems.( whole in India). _ based on pains, trauma, mental & physical torture & above all threat of life mine & my family member. _ no support of any kind from any government body, Judiciary, administration, media, & political system. Please find the bunch of papers already sent to you which contains any aspect of my arguments. when I raise the voice against unscrupulous, flagrant adamant, stubborn, rigid, corrupt, illiterate touts, whimsical, the errant & insolent, sluggish, lethargic, and ill minded political motivated, corrupt officials, political motive, political, anti social, anti national, sluggish, lethargic, dormant, delay tactics people in all systems. ___ how can one expect the certificate of honor from these systems. 5) Supporting documents as proof of your achievements (Eg- Certificates, Paper Cuttings, Award ceremony photographs, media clippings): Please find the bunch of papers already sent to you which contains any aspect of my arguments. when I raise the voice against unscrupulous, flagrant adamant, stubborn, rigid, corrupt, illiterate touts, whimsical people in all systems. ___ how can one expect the certificate of honor from these systems. 6) Details of Initiative: Carefully please read my arguments as I started defying the corrupt/lethargic practices/motives when I come across while applying for basic civic amenities in 1998-2000 & till date I am fighting for the cause. 7) a) Individual objectives: I wanted to have basic civic amenities at newly built home. But till date except WATER & Domestic ELECTRICITY connection(10-11 years) since 1998-2008, remaining amenities like road, sanitation, sewerage drainage line, street light, cleanliness surrounding area, leading approached road to my home etc....( 1998-2011 till date) amenities are yet not delivered. b) How important and critical : In a civilized world no citizen can stay alive without having 9 (NINE) basic amenities 1. WATER., 2. ELECTRICITY., 3. ROAD., 4. SECURITY, 5. HEALTH., 6. EDUCATION., 7. FOOD., 8. CLOTHS., & 9. SHELTER. and that's why it is important & critical. c) Impact : My initiative will set the precedent in the system to act upon the request made by any citizen without expecting any undue mileage. d) Success : success of precedent will be ever lasing for years to come & BHARAT will become a civilized society in true sense. e) Replicated in other areas : Can be replicated in the form of reform. f) Community Involvement : Presently it is my efforts which have spoken the volume of my ethics. & my efforts will benefits the whole community. g) Collaboration : I have my self collaborated with my own objectives & sustained values to bring about the solution on CORRUPT/Lethargic practices being used by custodians of whole systems who have always believed that their position is tightly held unmoved. h) Recognition : That you decide as it is your duty to recognize whether I have done wrong or ................... I, my self as an Individual have nominated my self in 1 (One) categories Individuals who contribute positively to improving the living environment.. Ninth Dubai International Award to a new group of 11 Best Practices Laureates in October 2012. Social Development and Equity & Inclusive Economic Growth-Social Change Agent-2012(Hitesh Bhatt)-Vadodara,Gujarat,India. a) Social Development : Social development involves betterment of quality life for the whole community & I am quite sure that the social upliftment will achieve new heights. and Equity b) Inclusive Economic Growth.: In the guise of good governance whatever the CORRUPTION occurs; that will all take back sitting. CORRUPTION will be reduced to a great extent which will benefit the economic growth. In view of pathetic living conditions I was living in 13-14 years ___ I had to leave the place of my earlier residence due to un-hygienic filthy living condition & have started living elsewhere thanks to all those corrupt, lethargic, whimsical, political illiterates’ elements & touts who have always wished to let me live under trying circumstances. The old residential place is now becoming threadbare as the days & years go by.___ Look up the matter & come out strongly to give me justice & punish the culprits who are still working in the systems enjoying all facilities, salaries & perks without sensing the feel of wrong doings VMC officials of 4th class, 3rd class, 2nd class, ill minded sluggish, lethargic, political motivated, illegal occupants surroundings are & society of my home & political people get to know the confidential information which I may written to the commissioner of VMC & all concerned office. This all officials & evils people go on spreading the wrong interpretation to the illegal occupants of surrounding area which sends wrong signal & can create social imbalance in that area. Knowledge sharing will always help in my future course of action. Knowledge sharing will make you further strong to implement ideas. Knowledge sharing, communications & information help build up a good character. And good character is always indispensable. I should have access to express my views ideas & strategies no verbal communication is appreciated by me instead I would prefer to have communications than mails/e-mails. Please write & acknowledgement the answers for both the categories. Please acknowledge the above & make me aware of the developments in the form of written out come. Jai Hind Vande Matarm!!! Jai Hind, Vandematram, SATYAMEVA JAYTE, With highest regards of nation of ours. Hitesh Bhatt. E-mail: hiteshbhatt26@yahoo.com Vadodara. Gujarat. India. Mobile: +91-9824675356( No Verbal Communication Please). | HITESH BHATT MY SELF & MR. ATUL KARKARE(ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORTER) Firstly you need to work hard & threadbare to create awareness amougst the masses here in India about your core activities. The rampent corrut practies, according to my assessment, are intently practised in the those countries which are under developed or under developing nations & India is one of them. To fight & eradicate corruption from the indian soil financial support along with the representation of world renowned body is the most important & needful aspect. I am not so keen in merely participating forum if the dictates or dictums are only confined to papers only. There has to have a proactive action without which no real objective is served. And, please be mindful that the essence of any business lies in the steps taken immediately without any delay. AS DELAY OF ANY KIND WITHOUT ANY VALID OR AUTHENTIC REASON IS CORRUPTION/DELAY TACTIES, TO ME. | English | N/A. | N/A(AS AN INDIVIDUAL) | INDIA | The water resource should be made available to all irrespective of person's, consumer's, caste, creed, race, religion & origin & this can be done by enactment of law. - how viable and relevant is the solution ? I, my self domestic water connection at home being the effect of my own efforts through the recourse of available administrative support after toiling hard for 11-12 years. - in what terms and conditions, which types of slums in the world, can the solution be implemented with success ? Half the job is accomplished still I am to get all other civic amenities. Other then domestic Water connection & domestic electricity after 11-12 years due to all corrupt officials of the whole systems in India. | Solution to the problem must be time bound with the sense of accountability & transparency to be shown by people working in the systems. The values paid by me are enormous yet the effectiveness on the whole problem is not so encouraging & fulfilling in the perspective of my own satisfactions. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | INDIAN. | hiteshbhatt26@yahoo.com | ANTI-CORRUPTION & REFROMS RELATED WATER,SENITATION,ENVIRONEMNT & ALL OTHER CIVIC AMENITIES. | IF YOUR FORUM WILL SUPPORT ME & MY ADMINSITRATIVE SUPPORTER MR ATUL KARKARE SPONSERSHIP & FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO ATTEND WORLD ASSEMBLY ALL FUND SUPPORT. ENGLISH & MY MOTHER TOUGH GUJARATI,HINDI. | ||||
42 | 3/8/2012 16:41:52 | Darwish Samah | Changing nations through citizens | We yearn for a gathering around finding new ways to get our claims heard in order to strengthen the role of the civil society while it is facing a lot of challenges. We agree that the best way to improve civil society’s demands and especially the Palestinian civil society is to share best practices, to share with worldwide organizations how the Palestinian civil society succeeded to impose their demands and to discuss on new tools and methods to get a wider audience. We expect the activity session first to give a clear view of all the Palestinian civil society initiatives in the fight for the promotion of public freedom. We intend to present how the civil society managed to promote public freedom and share good practices in citizen participation. We wish to present the several campaigns we launched. For instance, we enhanced a campaign against the closure of NGOs. On August 28, 2007 the Palestinian Authority decided to dissolve 103 Palestinian NGOs, claiming that they had committed "legal, administrative and financial violations of Law No. 1 of 2000 on the solidarity of associations and non-governmental institutions". Concerning the Palestinian NGO Law, in June 2005, the Interior Committee and the Legal Committee of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) attempted to amend the Palestinian Law of Charitable Associations and Community Organizations in a manner which Palestinian NGOs regarded as harmful to their interests. PNGO has developed a Memorandum circulated to PLC members and the amendment to the law was suspended. In 2009, we also initiated a national campaign for freedoms and National Unity. A national meeting via video-conference was held between the Gaza Strip and West bank on 14 September 2009 to launch the national Campaign to Defend Public Freedoms and Human Rights and to promote the Restoration of National Unity in Palestine. Over 150 representatives of political parties, Palestinian civil society, parliamentary blocs, political figures, and social movements from the Gaza Strip and West Bank attended this meeting. Secondly, we wish to highlight the violations on the ground we face every day because of the daily Israeli occupation. Working under occupation raises daily issues we have to deal with, such as the ongoing attacks on Palestinian human rights association, the arrests of human rights activists, the confiscation of Palestinian TV equipments. The liberty of movement and access is constantly restrained due to various checkpoints and the very strict visa policy. In addition, the Palestinian geographical condition, with the separation of Gaza and the West Bank and the increasing numbers of settlements, is another constraint. Therefore, we intend to present the difficulty of facing numerous human rights violations and how the Palestinian civil society tries to handle it. Thirdly, we would like to open a discussion regarding the best way to gather civil society organizations and to advocate for public freedom, in order to exchange about best practices with the worldwide civil societies. We wish to share our own experience and moreover to seize this opportunity to learn about each other experience and gain a broader understanding of how civil society organizations can impose their claims. | The panel will be composed of members of various Palestinian organizations. We intend the panel to be gender balanced and to promote women participation by inviting women to the panel. We also aim to invite Palestinian Youth movement representatives as the Palestinian youth pays a major and crucial in mobilizing for the Palestinian claims. As PNGO is an umbrella of more than 130 organizations, we intend to invite a large panel of representatives of various organizations. During this workshop, we will present how the Palestinian civil society has managed to respond to all the challenges it has faced by introducing methods and tools that helped to mobilize the community. Furthermore, as we are seeking for new solutions, we will promote discussions regarding best practices and share of innovative ideas, hence a wider participation across participants. | Dr. Allam Jarrar, President of the Community Based Rehabilitation program of the Palestinian Medical Relief Service, is an active supporter of the Palestinian civil society movement and will talk about the role of NGOs in social movement and the Community Based Rehabilitation program. Mrs. Samah Darwish is the executive director of PNGO. She will intervene on the role of the Palestinian NGO network on shaping a legal frame for public freedom. Dr. Abed Al-Mahman AC-Tamimi will be one of the participants but has not given details about his intervention. The first part of the activity (1:30) will be a presentation of the Palestinian civil society organizations, the achievements and the challenges with speeches of the three speakers. The other half (1:30) will be dedicated to discussion and exchanges with the audience. | English | Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO) | Executive Director | Palestine | The Palestinian Civil Society Organizations’ reality and challenges towards public freedom | The Palestinian Civil Society is one of the strongest civil societies at regional and even international level since it had to face so many challenges through the last decades. The Palestinian organizations had to respond to the civil society demands and needs and have been responsible for delivering services when the Palestinian Authority was failing to do so and therefore the Palestinian civil society’s voice has been strengthened. This activity proposal aims to present the challenges concerning public freedom the Palestinian Civil Organizations have faced and how the civil society managed to respond to those challenges. The Palestinian civil society is a unique case as Palestine has been occupied for more than fifty years by Israeli forces. Presenting the Palestinian case allows to tackle several issues, as strengthening the civil society when there is no proper governmental authority and the fight for public freedom under a policy of occupation. The Palestinians have fought for numerous demands concerning public freedom and has faced many public freedom violations. Therefore we wish to share the Palestinian civil society’s experience regarding our several campaigns and fights for the respect of human rights and public freedom. PNGO, as a Palestinian NGO umbrella comprising more than 130 organizations has been fighting for the improvement of the Palestinian civil society, since its creation in 1993. PNGO has advocated for good governance and for consolidating the effort among Palestinian organizations to answer the needs of the people. During this workshop, we intend to present the channels adopted by the Palestinian civil society to express their demands and how we aim to build new social contract enhancing public freedoms. Furthermore, we aim to present how civil society manages to advocate for its claims and rights, toward the Palestinian Authority and moreover toward the Israeli occupation we face every day. We would like to present PNGO work regarding public freedom issues in Palestine. For four years, we have initiated several public freedom campaigns toward Palestinian political parties and legislative council members and furthermore against the policy of occupation. We have faced too many violations during the internal Palestinian political division, more specifically regarding the right of association, because of the conflict between the two political forces Hamas and Fatah. However, we succeeded in acting for a reconciliation process and in encouraging a national dialogue. We managed to create a national committee on public freedom and the civil society organizations have played a major role in promoting the rule of law and the respect of freedom of association. PNGO has succeeded to enact a law protecting civil society organizations. However, our main violator remains the occupation. Therefore, it is clear that the Palestinian organizations have accomplished major achievements regarding the position and enforcement of the Palestinian civil society and the respect for public freedom. Therefore, as the situation can still need some improvements, the Palestinian civil society organizations can be a major contributor in drawing a new charter of citizen claims. Thanks to its experience, the Palestinian organizations can be a large support for citizen demands and to define new rights based ways of working. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Palestinian | samahd@pngo.net | Training Workshops – 3 hours | The presentation being in english, no whisper translation will be needed. | ||||
43 | 3/8/2012 16:55:09 | Muneer, Syed | Changing nations through citizens | 1.Right to all Rights Movement and the AH will be strengthened. The former will benefit from national and provincial review and planning, and the creation of its database. The latter will be strengthened by the introduction of a structure through a consultative and inclusive process. Consultations within both coalitions will maintain and strengthen internal connectedness and sharpen their identities. 2.Citizens through Right to all Rights Movement will continue advocating reform and asserting citizenship rights. Right to all Rights Movement will also promote a nation-wide public dialogue around the roles and responsibilities of the state and citizen to shape a social contract. These discussions will help generate and popularize policy options that support Human Rights, democracy, rule of law, and justice in Pakistan. 3.Public debate on a social contract will have a wider audience. Concepts such as separation of state and religion, province-federal relations, provincial autonomy, etc., will be popularized. The media’s capacity for investigative reporting will also enhance as it is provided robust data that impact the lives of citizens. Outreach to the youth will be increased, especially through the use of social media and music. | (women, youth, indigenous communities, language | 0 | English | Life, health & Media Development Organization | Cheif Executive | Pakistan | Raising Demand for Human Rights | LHMD is working with 100 communities since 2008.LHMD is Human Right Defender organization. LHMD mission is to empower the communities through Human Right Awareness. LHMD believe that through this project we can put 100% positive change in society where people solve their problems by them self. through communities collection, peoples know each other, brotherhood spreads this will be tremendous message for peace in the country and the world | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Pakistani | farshah14@hotmail.com | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | 0 | ||||
44 | 3/8/2012 17:08:35 | Getachew Simie | Changing nations through citizens | Experience and pictures of our country on citizens role and nation changing will be reflected and discussed. Best practices of our program will be shared and transformed. Our organization will get the opportunity to adapt innovative ideas and sharing best practices from peers in the Assembly. | As a result of new methodologies came out from traditional experience developed in the process of a long period by different ethnic groups and indigenous communities on citizens participation can bring diversity of voices in our panel. In addition, entertaining diverse ideas of marginalized communities by utilizing innovative mode of communications wisdom can be an innovative idea and topic in order to trigger diverse reflection.In line with this, the impact of the program such as experience, practices and challenges on citizens role in nation building activities would trigger innovative reflection and brainstorming. | Speakers Names - Getachew Simie Topic - "Best traditional home grown tools on citizens participation for changing the nation" Presentation hour - 20 minutes Discussion - 25 minutes Speakers Name - Girmaye Kebede Topic- "The power of changing nation through the participation of excluded indigenous communities" Presentation hour - 20 minutes Discussion - 25 minutes | English | Peace Family and Media Association | Executive Director | Ethiopia | "Sensitizing innovative home grown advocacy tools for nation changing" | Citizens participation and responsibility for a better social, economic and political landscape is one of the main programs of our organization. The methodology we used to develop in the past seven years is sensitizing issues and setting the agenda of citizens participation and creating the forums by using mediums (electronic and print medias) who functions different parts the country. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Ethiopian | gsimie@gmail.com | Flash Presentation (Pecha Kucha) – 1.5 hours | Our organization activity sessions will be in English while to translate our presentation during our session, we will communicate the World Assembly team in order to arrange volunteer whisper translations. | ||||
45 | 3/8/2012 18:08:01 | Elimane Haby KANE | Changing nations through citizens, Building partnerships for social innovation, Redefining global governance | What we expect concretely from this activity session is that the audience can perceive more the core issues and capitalize good practices we are carrying out for local communities which they can spread over their communities. For instance, in the North ans Centre of Senegal, we are developing a good governance label and citizen education Programme in different colleges in Senegal. For its best practice, we applied a governance toolkit named "Citizen certification" | our proposal meets the selection criteria because, at first go, Forum Civil has set a framework that gives voices to women, youth, foreigners and is in partnership with many organizations among which we could choose to attend the Panel session. In this respect, it will be easier for us to diverse our Panel with different speakers. Also, the topics we are bringing on the table, will arouse lot of interest, because build on an imaginative and innovative reflection that will stream best and concrete practises, lots of discussions and consultations, just for the sake of citizens | Panel 1: Citizen Participation and Acountabily in Public Policies 1.1 Presentation 1.2 Simulation 1.3 Movies 1.4 Discussion Panel 2: Platform on building youth entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs' Capacity in ethics and accountability in Business Management in Africa 1.1 Presentation 1.2 Discussion Panel 3: Citizen Commitment for Change in global governance Open Space PN: The presenters'name will be sent soon | French | Forum Civil | Program Officer | Senegal | 1. Citizen Participation and Acountabily in Public Policies 2. Platform on building youth entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs' Capacity in ethics and accountability in Business Management in Africa 3. Citizen Commitment for Change in global governance | Firstly, it is from a bird's eye view of our state functioning system that we come to the conclusion that, to change nations through citizens, it is imperative to put them at the core process, in other words, offer them the opportunity to participate in political decision making but also monitor public policies without second thought. Secondly, we have noticed that to build Partnerships for Social Innovation, it is fundamnental that collective action and accountability be the driving forces behind searching Partners and laying steps for social innovation. It is in this respect, we propose to set up a Platform on building young entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs' capacityy in fostering ethics and accountability in social business management in Africa. Furthermore, we think that to cast entrepreneurship in this logical framework that Partnerships could lead obviously to Social Innovation. Thirdly, putting it on a basic approach, citizens are the main legitimous actors to set concrete actions, and this could be proved by many demonstrations noticed in the world these late years. to put it in another way, citizens become more and more demanding in claiming governance. it is throough this scenario that we put on the forefront citizen commitment as our core activity and this can be only substantial through recasting minds for change in globla governance. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Senegalese | ehkane@yahoo.fr | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | We are ok for the the Presentations in French, English but we'll need interpretation for the spanish ones Many thanks | ||||
46 | 3/8/2012 18:18:27 | Hon Samuel Kiruthu Wanjiku | Building partnerships for social innovation | To provide a platform for addressing child rights issues through research, advocacy and engagement with children and other stakeholders on children's rights. | a) The program is set in a systematic, integrated and comprehensive approach ; systematic means parents, families, Teens, young adults and indigenous communities are anchored in leadership priorities. Integrated states that the activities are carried out through the entire organization this involves all parties as stated above. b) The program leadership is set to comply with all partnership standards for child welfare and protection designed to safeguard them from abuse, threat and negligence; groups and private sectors with public character from all over the world can actively participate and make their voice hard through this program. c) The Quality topics triggering innovative reflections include:- 1) Strengthen child protection mechanism and structure in a systematic, integrated and comprehensive approach. 2) Build capacity of teens, young adults , parents, families and communities through training innovative programs like Artisan projects, professional courses, scholarships and others. 3) Creating awareness on child welfare and risk management and spearhead social responsibility. d) The program organize workshops frequently to brain storm youngsters. objectives 1) Promote their rights and interests. 2) Capacity building and empowerment 3) Robust knowledge sharing and career choice 4) Strengthen youths engagement to societal responsibilities and civic justice.. | Speaker: Hon Samuel Kiruthu Wanjiku Organization Represented: Loyal Guard International NGO Topic Discussion: TITLE: Involving Children and Young People in child protection Assessment and planning Outline: 1) Introduction 5 minutes 2) Danger statements 5 minutes 3) Safety statements 10 minutes 4) Safety goals and focus for safety plan 15 minutes 5) Discussion moment 30 minutes. | English | Loyal Guard International NGO | CEO | Kenya | Child Maltreatment and Negligence | The reason why my activity falls in the track selected is because through partnership with parent, family and community societal engagement framework will be grounded on a subject and expectations will be high. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Kenyan | loyalguardorg@gmail.com | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | English | ||||
47 | 3/8/2012 18:44:55 | Kingsley Bangwell | Changing nations through citizens | That young people should see that governments have the capacity and will to deliver good governance and to demand for it until they get it, using their experiences in the 2012 Assembly to raise confidence. That young people should change the perception that elected officials are unreach-able until another electioneering season, and to begin to engage them immediately after elections to demand good governance, vis-a-vis engaging with government officials in the 2012 Assembly as a starting point. To show different ways of engaging with elected representatives in a result oriented way, predicated on dialogue and not violence, as will be exemplified throughout the 2012 Assembly. To identify a set of goals participants in the session can adopt and work towards in building a culture of proactive youth post election engagement. To give birth to a platform of young people from different countries sharing experiences and ideas on promoting post election engagement with elected representatives vis-a-vis promoting good governance at local levels. By the next Assembly generate a pool of best practices and models that can serve as intellectual capital and resources for future research and discuss in the Assembly. | This proposal focuses majorly on young people including both male and female gender vis-a-vis a key component of democracy, which is elected representatives and government officials. The topic inspires curiosity and hinges on a core pivot of citizen action to change nations, a key message which young people are primarily in the 2012 Assembly to further accentuate. It also shows the power of collaboration to achieve set goals, which is a key tool young people need to deepen in participation and making their voices heard in the Assembly. After watching the film, the panel and participants shall discuss and have a brief breakout session to identify ideas for action in relation to the Assembly and their country experiences. Surely there shall be atleast 3 different convening organisations for this activity. | Because I just saw this call today, I am unable within this short time to identify co speakers and organisations, however, given time that shall be resolved. The program format shall be in this format Welcome remark and overview of the session Showing of the short film to the audience for 50minutes Each of the 3 panelists make 7 minutes comments each on the film and Audience remarks and comments for 45minutes Breakout session for 25minutes Harmonise new thoughts and practical ideas | English | Youngstars Development Initiative | Executive Director | Nigeria | I Voted, Now What? Young Citizens Scaling Capacity to Access Good Governance Dividends. | My activity which is a combination of a film show, a panel and group discussion shall focus on sparking the culture of proactive youth engagement with elected representatives and government after elections to deliver campaign promises as well as democracy dividends as a key component for improving governance. It is predicated on a short film called "I Voted, Now Wetin - What?" produced in Nigeria in 2012 with funding from National Democratic Institute, International Republican Institute and National Endowment for Democracy with support from USAID and DFID. It is a sequel to a 13 minutes film we produced prior to the Nigeria 2011 general elections called "My Vote Fit Change Naija" which Hillary Clinton US Secretary of State tweeted about. For citizens to change nations, the key remains in people power, active citizen engagement, citizens have the right and responsibility to demand for good governance from their elected officials which is an aspect of Changing nations. | The Youth Assembly (September 3-4) | Nigerian | kbangwell@youngstarsfoundation.org and kntb12@yahoo,com | Training Workshops – 3 hours | French and Spanish | ||||
48 | 3/8/2012 20:00:57 | SAIDINA LIMWILINDI | Changing nations through citizens | MOST OF CITIZEN WILL USE THEIR SKILLS AND TALENTS TO COOPERATE IN EVERY STAGE OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT | CHANGING NATION THROUGH CITIZEN @The topic will tends to focus all community group @My ideas will explain how citizen required to cooperate in develop their nations @Also will be shown how citizen can make change the ruling mechanism @Will be shown the power of people on deciding about their National | -AREA WHICH CITIZEN CAN PARTICIPATE -THE NEED OF CITIZEN PARTICIPATION -WHY CITIZEN PARTICIPATE IN EVERY STATE OF DEVELOPMENT -SOCIAL ECONOMIC DECISION | English | JARIDA DEVELOPMENT TRUST | VICE SECRETARY | TANZANIA | THE NEED OF CITIZEN COOPERATION IN EVERY STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT | MOST OF CITIZEN IN TANZANIA DID NOT COOPERATE IN ALL STAGE OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT | The Youth Assembly (September 3-4) | tANZANIA | mafunzokibaha@gmail.com | Training Workshops – 3 hours | Yes. because iam Going to present using English Language,but for the Members who do not use English will need translation form my presentations | ||||
49 | 3/8/2012 22:28:49 | Imran Khan | Building partnerships for social innovation, Redefining global governance | 1-To Highlight the gaps between state, civil society organizations and youth in decision making process. 2- Youth-adult partnership and a new paradigm of social change at grass-root level 3- To highlight the importance of youth led organizations / initiatives at grass-root level (specially led by young women). 4- Way forward for a better tomorrow and implementation plan. | Our proposal include three young inspiring people who are working and advocating for the rights of young people in Pakistan, and done some researches in the field of youth development, meaningful youth participation and gaps which are Weakening youth development work in Pakistan. Yes our proposal meet the above mentioned selection criteria; 1. We have three different people on board with us, Mr. Imran Khan who is young activist and spoken on meaningful youth participation in different parts of the world and advocating for youth rights in Pakistan. He is also founder of two youth led organization, he is also working closely with government youth development department Balochistan and writing the first draft of youth policy for government of Balochistan. Miss Fatimah Iqbal, she is a youth and women rights activist and leading a youth led organization and co-founder of Youth and Gender development network Pakistan. She has working experience working with young girls in very backwards areas of Balochistan, Namely, Pishin, Sibi, Quetta and Qilla Abdullah, she is always advocating for rights of young girls in Balochistan to be the part of decision making process in the process. Mr. Noor Ul Islam is working in the field of Human rights, in the recent years his work on youth development remarkable as his work has its own importance. His Phd research is on "Managing Youth Development: role of state and civil society". 2. The proposal covering three areas of Pakistan, two districts in Balochistan (Quetta, Sibi) which are very back ward areas of the world, and Province KPK. And the work of three organizations; First Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) is biggest organization working for poverty reduction in Pakistan and outreach to more than 90 districts of Pakistan, recently PPAF have started working on youth policy of Balochistan with government of Balochistan. Secondly, SUNGI Development organization which is also a national organization and have outreach of different districts of KPK and Punjab, they are working with young people for civic, cultural, economic rights. Third, Youth and Gender Development Network (YGDN), which is youth-led organization and working in Balochistan with young people on policy debates, opening new ways for policy accountability in the province. 3. As this activity will be presented in the world youth assembly so, all the topics up to standards of youth assembly objectives given on the website. 4. The presentations are based on participatory approach and the inputs from the participants are very important in each presentation so it will allow each participant to have their inputs during the presentation and after the presentation. 5. The participants will be highly encouraged to have discussion and debate on each of the presentation. | The Presentations will be as below, Mr. Imran Khan (Speaker) Topic: Principles of Meaningful youth participation: (strengths and weakness) experiences sharing from Pakistan: 15 Minutes presentation and 15 minutes discussion. MIss Fatima Iqbal (Speaker) Topic: Young girls power in development of rural Balochistan: 15 minutes presentation and 15 minutes discussion. Mr. Noor Ul Islam (Speaker) Topic: Managing youth development:role of state and civil society. 15 minutes presentation and 15 minutes discussion. | English | Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) | Management Executive Youth | Pakistan | Make it possible, Youth our present and future, meaningful youth participation a new paradigm for Developed World. | The global governance systems are too much youth blind, youth have no voices at decision making process, they are only involved in some implementation process in most of the activities in world. The new ways of participation should have to introduce that young people become the part of decision making processes, which will re-define the global governance system as well as Building partnership for social change and innovation that young people are the key in development The way young people are disengaged in the arenas of decision making in the world, in major activities are limiting the abilities of young people to actively engage in the global governance and social innovation, so it is primary responsibility of state, civil society organization, and other stake holders to come up with mechanisms in creating spaces for young people to have their voices heard in global governance. The activity mainly around complete understanding of youth participation, how the national and provincial policies are limiting young people participation in decision making, most of the time young people are not aware of the facts and most of the time facts are hided that young people have less understanding of the issues around; but in actual young people know what are best for them, the need of young people must of understood on priority basis and experience adults should extend their cooperation for new partnership to have young people with them on board. | The Youth Assembly (September 3-4) | Pakistani | imrankhankakar@gmail.com | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | As our presentations are in English; I think we will not face that much problem, but still we may need French and Spanish translation (if the participants mostly speak and understand these two languages). | ||||
50 | 3/9/2012 3:29:58 | Martha Farrell | Changing nations through citizens | 1. Share narrative sof women's political leaderships from different regions and contexts--Asia, Africa and Latin America 2. Identify similarities and differences in the contributions of women's political leadership in 'engendering' a new social contract 3. Build a network of interested civil society activists to further define the strategy to mainstream women's political leadership in 'reconstructing' citizen-state relations | This proposal is being presented by PRIA (whose Director Martha Farrell has owrked on this theme of women's political leadership in India and South Asia for the past decade. Its co-panelists are Sarah Nandudu (Vice-President Uganda National Slum-Dwellers Federation, and member of SDI) and Amsale Maryam, Association of Develoment Agencies from Jamaica.The session would provide 60 minutes to the participants to share their own narratives on this theme, and to evolve some practical ideas to carry this effort forward. The criticality of women's political leadership in recraeting a new social contract needs to be supported through further coalition efforts across the regions after the Assembly. | Opening Remarks Martha Farrell Moderator Experiences from India/South Asia Sarah Nandudu, Ugandan Slum Dweellers Federation Amsale Maryam, Association of Development Agencies, Jamaica After 30 minutes of these initial narrations, participants would be invited to share their experiences in small buzz groups for about 30 minutes. Based on these observations, last 30 minutes would be devoted to developing practical ideas to take next steps after the Assembly and build a network which will pursue the agenda of women's political leadership as the building block for a new social contract. | English | Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) | Director | India | Laying the Foundation from Below: Women's Political Leadership in Changing Nations | In many southern countries, women's political leadership at the local level is getting expressed in no uncertain ways; women leaders of social movements, of institutions of local governance, of organisations of the poor and the marginalised are asserting a new perspective in redefining the relations between citizens and the nation-states. These new 'engendered' relations are fundamental building blocks for a new social contract between citizens and the states---which are based on mutual respect, dignity for all and a recognition that political leadership is about inclusion of all for shared public goods. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Indian | martha.farrell@pria.org | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | It is expected that participants from French and Spanish speaking countries would be actively engaged in this session; therefore, some whisper translation would be required to make this a truly multi-lingual and multi-cultural conversation. | ||||
51 | 3/9/2012 8:42:32 | Nex Beñas | Changing nations through citizens | Education is primarily seen as preparation for citizens for future roles. Through showcasing student activities that seek to create social impact, however, one could exhibit that student groups, organizations and networks could become major change makers today. Participants would take away an understanding of the possibilities of student organizations and be able to formulate their own ideas of what they could do to enhance groups and networks in schools and universities as sources of innovations. | The proposed international panel comprised of leaders of advanced student initiatives is a cross-section of different types of student organizations that touch on government, business, civil society & media. This topic would be of interest not only to youth leaders but also to entrepreneurs, academics and civil society workers who seek to integrate education in social innovation. | There will be 5 to 6 speakers with an allotment of 5 to 7 minutes per organization represented. The basic outline of each speaker will be a profile of their organization, how they started and the impact of their work. Speakers and topics are tentative. Roosevelt Institute Campus Network - New York - Social policy and the student think tank. - Hilary Doe, National Director St. Gallen Symposium - Switzerland - The business of a global inter-generational forum. - Kilian Blum or Vana Raye Müller - International Students' Committee Philippine Collegian - Philippines - Student meda and social justice. - Marjohara Tucay, Editor in Chief Libraries Across Africa - Africa - Information empowerment, university networks and start-ups from schools. - Idris Bello, David or Rachel Dewane Akei - Philippines - Developing student organizations in higher education institutions. - Nex Beñas, Administrator | English | Akei | Administrator | Philippines | Learners Engaging the World: Student Organizations as Agents of Change | Education remains a critical element and tool in sustaining and advancing societies. The ideas that people learn and conversations they undertake shape demands and discourses in the public sphere. Citizenship formation, for instance, could be attributed in a large part to education. Students hold promise as a principal segment of the youth since learning empowers people to overcome barriers and problems they confront. While most youth formations are included under civil society, student organizations are under-appreciated for their capacity to shape communities around the world. | The Youth Assembly (September 3-4) | Philippines | projnex@yahoo.com | Flash Presentation (Pecha Kucha) – 1.5 hours | None. | ||||
52 | 3/9/2012 10:08:20 | RUNYARARO MUNETSI | Changing nations through citizens | Overall objective: To promote youth participation in fostering democratic elections and provide a platform for networking with stakeholders. Specific Objectives 1. To strengthen youth partnership and communication with the government, civil society, and external partners. 2. To explore, analyze and conceptualize the relationship between youth and political parties. 3. To offer recommendations for increased youth participation in the electoral process in Zimbabwe. Expected Outcomes To systematically, deliberately and constructively engage and harness the drive and energy of the youths so that they participate in electoral processes. To show how youths are mainly misused and abused during political campaigns by politicians in fulfilling their political ambition hence youths tend to occupy the norm less, lawless and selfish section of Zimbabwe political class. To engage in information sharing which will empower youths in the electoral process so that their immense energy and drive is tactfully packaged and directed towards playing a constructive role in the process of governance and development of society. | Proposed Activities Engagement workshop • Presentation by ZESN • Presentation by a youth narrating his/her ordeal on politically motivated violence • Presentation by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights on their intervention • Comments from participants • Discussions on way forward The above proposed activity engagement workshop shows diversity by adding a voice of the youth who will narrate his ordeal in politically motivated violence in Zimbabwe. It will also have both a man and a woman doing presentations from Zimbabwe Election Support Network, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights. There are also three different organisations which will work together, namely Zimbabwe Election Support Network, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights and a Youth organisation. No human collectivity can experience any meaningful and sustainable level of progress if it fails to systematically, deliberately and constructively engage and harness the drive and energy of the youths, therefore our choice of the topic: Youth development, democracy and elections in Zimbabwe. We chose an engagement workshop as the facilitation format as this promotes knowledge sharing and instill discussions among participants hence this will allow participation and discussions across participants. | Engagement workshop • Presentation by Zimbabwe Election Support Network • Presentation by a youth narrating his/her ordeal on politically motivated violence • Presentation by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights on their intervention in the case of the youth's predicament • Comments from participants • Discussions on way forward | English | ZIMBABWE ELECTION SUPPORT NETWORK | RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY MANAGER | ZIMBABWE | "Fighting through the ballot and not through violence" | In the process of elective politics and governance, youths in Zimbabwe are either side-lined or excluded or when they are involved at all, they are mainly misused and abused to achieve their inordinate and perverse political ambition of the norm less, lawless and selfish section of Zimbabwe political class. The major problems that youths are facing in the electoral process are that of marginalization as almost 90% of them are not registered voters in Zimbabwe. Instead some youths are experiencing psychological abuse through reminiscing about violence for example being used as tools for propaganda through singing of liberation war songs and war cries yet they are not registered to exercise their right to vote. Further, youth in Zimbabwe have no equal access to economic resources for example the recently launched Youth Fund beneficiaries are chosen according to one’s political affiliation hence this is a challenge in ensuring the right of youth to economic development. In the realm of the on-going constitution making process, YIDEZ noted that there were low or no recorded numbers of youths at the outreach meetings held by COPAC, hence the views of the youth were not taken into consideration. According to the Zimbabwe Peace Project, ZESN and Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, only 21% of Zimbabwe’s youth attended, the constitutional parliamentary outreach programmes. This is so because the constitution consultative meetings took place whilst most youths were in school, colleges and tertiary institutions. This lack of political will shows that the government does not take into consideration the fact that youths are the incubators and the driving force for innovation in all human collectivities and that no society can experience positive change and advancement if its youths are not strategically and constructively invested upon, empowered and engaged. Therefore, this project seeks to change nations through empowering youths in the electoral process so that their immense energy and drive is tactfully packaged and directed towards playing a constructive role in the process of governance and development of society | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | ZIMBABWEAN | runyararo@zesn.org.zw | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | N/A | ||||
53 | 3/9/2012 10:25:12 | Innocent Chanda | Changing nations through citizens | The objective of the organization is to fully engage governments on issues affecting the youth. The outcome will be the integration of youth activities of policies in the national policy guidelines. | We intend to network with other organizations who are also engaged in youth and women advocacy rights. Our work will be in collaboration with the following organizations: Fleet of Hope, Jesus Cares Ministries and Community Youth Mobilization. | Introductions by Yandisha Kayame Child and Women rights advocacy stategy by Jairos Njovu (2 hours) Questions and observations by Innocent Chanda ( 20 minutes) Group discussions and presentations ( 1 hour) Resolutions (20 minutes) | English | Zambian Institute of Democracy and Governance | Program Officer | Zambia | Youth participation in govenance and human rights | We are working with youths whose desire is to actively to change the nations through their participation in national affairs by adding their voices and working as a united front. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Zambian | ichanda2002@yahoo.co.uk | Training Workshops – 3 hours | We will need whisper translations in French and Spanish | ||||
54 | 3/9/2012 11:21:03 | Tasneem Ahmar | Changing nations through citizens | Representing Pakistan, its media and women at any international forum is in itself a huge challenge and opportunity. Uks would like to take up the challenge and avail the opportunity with an over arching objective of sharing with the participants success stories of how a small organization can actually make inroads in changing the media, patriarchal behaviors of public and making women heard in a society where repressive tactics abound but where there are also several examples of positivity and change for a better tomorrow. Uks expects to change the existing perception about Pakistan and its people specially women and their role in nation-building. We expect to initiate a healthy debate and build connections. | Uks will use multi-pronged approach to achieve the objectives and include all the criteria mentioned above. As already said, we will be bringing forward success stories not only from our own organization but also others- for example Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation, Express group of Media outlets and Fatima Jinnah Women's University. The activity will surely lead to discussion and debate with the participants and our presentation will give an insight into the state of affairs in Pakistan as a developing country. | If selected, I will be conducting this workshop on "GIVING VOICE TO THE VOICELESS: CHANGING NATIONS THROUGH CITIZENS". This will be done through distribution of material (brochures, posters and transcriptions of Uks radio programs as the original ones are in Urdu- Pakistan's national language. There will be interesting exercises, ice-breakers to make the participants comfortable and engage them fully in how Uks and other organizations have managed to works successfully- handling with obstacles and hardships and continuing to work to bring about change in the lives of our people. As required, 50% of the time will be allocated for open debate and dialogue with the audience. | English | Uks Research Centre | Director/Executive Producer | Pakistan | MERI AWAZ SUNNO" that means LISTEN TO MY VOICE. | Meri Awaz Sunno or Listen to my voice is the title of Uks's radio programmes that have given voice to hundreds of thousands women, children and people from marginalized community. Uks, a media advocacy organisation has been acting as a bridge between media and public and has to its credit more than two dozen projects/activities that have tried to create awareness, mobilize and turn passive public into proactive actors on issues of women's, human rights, democracy and freedom of expression. Through Media Literacy, media campaigns and radio programmes-including internet radio- Uks is trying to bring into open issues that have so far been considered tabooed or been ignored/neglected. These range from HIV/AIDS to women's political participation to how media reports on violence against women. We are working towards change through our media and in the process we are also sensitizing the media on various issues. Our ultimate goal is to change the mindsets of our nation and that is why we feel that the activity falls into this category. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Pakistani | tasneem.uks@gmail.com | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | Not really, as I will be conducting the workshop in English. | ||||
55 | 3/9/2012 11:52:25 | Nawaz Ali Phulpoto | Redefining global governance | The activity would be a analytic study on the implications global policies on the trade engagements and diplomacy. | 1) The paper would be helpfull for the youth working in research and development in south Asian context . 2) All the Q&As, feed back and comments will be incorporated in the post presentation draft of the paper and same would be forwarded to all networks of the participation. | Mr Nawaz Ali Phulpoto will present a comprehensive flash presentation on the topic: "Post 9/11 era and Pakistan's democratic governance " followed by Q&A sessions. | English | Strengthening Participatory Organization ( SPO) Pakistan | Manager Emergency Projects | Pakistan | Post 9/11 era and Pakistan’s democratic governance | The governance attitudes being exercised in Pakistan are much integral with global geo-political and socio-economic lengths. even of that Pakistan is not a NATO allied but it plays very important role for global War on terror agenda. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Pakistan | nawazphulpoto@yahoo.com | Flash Presentation (Pecha Kucha) – 1.5 hours | N/A | ||||
56 | 3/9/2012 11:56:23 | Zipporah Metto | Building partnerships for social innovation | Objectives; transform violent activities to nonviolent through partnerships for sustainable development i.e education science, social and cultural sciences and sports sciences Concrete expected outcomes; innovative nonviolent approaches | - Participation and involvement of shareholders - learning lessons, sharing new ideas and embracing changes - Energize the world today through innovative ideas | Speaker; Zipporah Metto Transforming violence to nonviolent human resources in organizations and society; A woman perspective. Group discussion time; 45 minutes Co-Presenters; Josphine Boy & Evalyne Jelagat Co-authors; Jane Njenga, Prisca & Tomothy | English | N/A | N/A | Kenya | Transforming violence to nonviolent human resources in organization and society; A woman perspective. | - Its not only an input but input, interactive and output - We live in a violent society - Technological advancement in societies; opportunities and challenges faced - There is urgent need to address the human resources to bring peace for sustainable development world wide | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Kenyan | zipporahmetto@yahoo.com | Flash Presentation 45mins and discussion 45mins | English to French and Spanish | ||||
57 | 3/9/2012 13:34:30 | Sifiso Dube | Building partnerships for social innovation | The overall objective of this session would be to explore how partnership building creates space and impact for social innovation. The outcomes of the session would be: . To identify the hybrid partnership solutions that would create impact for social change . To understand the challenges in creating these partnerships as well as the opportunities . To explore the challenges faced by women's movements in creating impact as mainstream civil society To define the roles of business and government as conduits for partnerships | a) The session will bring in a unique voice of women to discuss their challenges in reaching the mainstream for impact b) The session will bring in a social marketing aspect of organisational impact through experiences from business, csos and government plus multilaterals c)The session will use the real experience examples of women's organisations and how they enabled social innovation through partnership building and explore new models of conveying messages for social impact. d) The session will be an interactive session therefore participants will be able to share their experiences through comments and questions as well as working solutions | Introductions and Overview of the session - CIVICUS Sifiso Dube (10 minutes) The power in partnerships - The Case Study of Women's movements - Action Aid Internation (Ennie Chipembere)(10 minutes) Social Innovation through Social marketing - Nepad Business Foundation The role played by multilaterals - Patricia Rey UN Women Measuring Impact of Coalitions - INTRAC Intervals of participants discussions will be broken down into 3 for 15minutes each. | English | CIVICUS | Gender & Diversity Officer | South Africa | From the fringes to the mainstream: How partnership building cultivates innovation for social change - a case study of women's movements | For social innvoation to take place, several pieces must come together to develop ideas into realistic citizen embraced activities. Building partnerships has been important for women's movement in creating access to platforms, distribution of information, collation of ideas and tailor making processes to local contexts. Many organisations have remained on the fringes beacause of lack of conduits to partner with a hybrid of CSOs, business and government initiatives. The question is who then is the obvious pick when social innovation is taking place. The answer may lie in bringing those on the fringes to the mainstream with using women's organisations as a case study. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Zimbabwean | sifiso.dube@civicus.org | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | French | ||||
58 | 3/9/2012 14:07:30 | Antonella Valmorbida | Changing nations through citizens | The overall objective of the session is to share ALDA's experience with the method of multilateral decentralized cooperation. This method involves a multi-stakeholder approach which focuses on strong partnerships between Local Authorities and non-governmental organisations. The method is in particular implemented through 13 Local Democracy Agencies in the Balkans and South Caucasus. ALDA is interested in sharing this experience and hearing if other regions have similar experience or ideas for this implementing this methodology. | We believe the topic of the session is very relevant and is presenting an untraditional and innovative approach to citizen participation and partnership building and sharing the best practice and ideas from this methodology. The session will be used to see how this methodology could also be used or is already in use in other regions than Europe. See below for the composition of the panel. | There will be three participants in the panel. In addition to ALDA two LDAs will also be present. ALDA is a new member of CIVICUS and doesn't yet have strong contacts with CIVICUS members from other regions, but are happy to include other organisations that have experience in this field of work. ALDA will also try to involve other organisations, with whom we work in Europe, but their participation hasn't been confirmed yet. The three participants will present their practical experience with the method of multilateral decentralized cooperation and will make presentations that include discussion and interactive exchanges with the audience. - Mrs. Antonella Valmorbida, ALDA Director, ALDA's experience in Europe and its neighboring countries. And presentation of the Code of Good Practice for Civil Participation in the Decision-Making Process developed by the Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe. - Mr. David Sarkis Dolmadjian. LDA Delegate in Armenia. The experience of a new LDA in South Caucasus. - Ms. Dženana Dedić, LDA Delegate in Mostar, Bosnia. The experience of LDA Mostar during the past 10 years. This is a first outline of the session and if selected a more detailed description, possibly with additional panelists, will be developed. | English | Association of Local Democracy Agencies | Director | Italy | Good governance and citizen participation at the local level in Europe and its neighboring countries. | The activity falls into the changing nations through citizens track because it will focus on the way citizens can be involved in decision making and in improving their own lives. Especially through focusing on the way Local Democracy Agencies have worked in the Balkans and South Caucasus and through informing about the Code of Good Practice for Civil Participation in the Decision-Making Process developed by the Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Italian | antonella.valmorbida@aldaintranet.org | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | All panelist will make their presentation in English, but two of them can also present in French. If possible whisper translation for French and Spanish speaking participants in the audience would be very welcome. | ||||
59 | 3/9/2012 15:43:53 | Josiah Mshuda | Changing nations through citizens | The overall objective is to enhance sustainable forest governance and manangement of the forest resources around the community by facilitating sustainable forest ulitization for improved livelihoods. Training modules mannuals and other support materials produced, tested for use in raising awareness in forest governance and advocacy. Increased awareness of community living around the forest land on the need to particpate in forest governance and management of forest resources around the community for imrpoved livelihood. Village community trained on good governance and particpartory management of forest resources. | The project will first be introduced to local authority leaders and then be directed to the local commuity. The approach to be used is the village level sensitization meeting, focus group discussion with various groups in the community include village governemnt, land and natural resource committee, women groups, dialogue meeting with local and ward leaders on raised issues by the community at village levels. The training session to be facilitated by three facilitors from the three like minded organization. Baseline survey need to be conducted before conducting the actual training, The baseline survey will assist the facilitors to come up with topics that are relevant to the target groups. Some of the topic may include Principals of Governance, roles and responsiblity of local community in forest manangement, Rule of role and steps in conducting advocacy activities. To allow discussion across the participants, a focus group discussion need to be undertaken. In most cases question and answers need to be applied to ensure that each particpants gives hisher contribution. | To identify exisiting forest modules and make reviews. Conduct baseline survey, Develop training mannual, Conduct consultative meeting with identified particpants, Conduct live performances like drama, poem etc. Conduct sensitization meeting to target group. Monigtor and evaluate. | English | DONET | Executive Director | Tanzania | Training to Facilitate Sustainable Forest Governance and Advocacy at Community level | The capacities of Local Government Authorities and other actors towards facilitating forest governance and advocacy is weak mainly due to to the allocation of inadequate human and financial resources for natural resource sector.The communities at at village and ward level are yet to be capacited aand motivated to undertake their own environmental agenda and carry out appropriate forest governance and advocacy initiatives aiming at bringing postive changes in forest management and conservation practices at their own levels, national, regional and international at large. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Tanzanian | mshudalj@yahoo.com | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | The transaltion to be drawn from the world assembly team who will be volunteering. | ||||
60 | 3/9/2012 15:43:57 | Stephani Roy McCallum | Changing nations through citizens | Objectives: • Explore meaningful and effective community engagement • Develop an understanding about how to engage diverse voices and to create a truly inclusive process • Build capacity so that that diverse voices can be heard • Provide real examples of the techniques that include voices that may not be heard Expected outcomes: • To build the internal capacity of the participants in delivering their own diverse and meaningful conversations • Generate ideas, concerns and information from the participants on building inclusive engagement processes. • Sharing of promising practices | • The key to an effective and meaningful engagement is the ability to recognize that diverse voices are an essential component of a trustworthy and productive engagement process. Dialogue Partners was retained to plan, design, implement and report on a comprehensive engagement process for the City of Calgary’s budget making and services review. The project was framed as a conversational journey for City Council to understand what Calgarians’ wanted, needed and valued in order to make budgetary decisions that truly reflected all their citizens - including those who would not normally interact with government and for whom others often say they speak for them. This highly effective process resulted in over 24,000 Calgarians participating in a deliberate, thoughtful, reflective conversation – the largest engagement process of its kind! • Bringing diversity of voices to your panel – our panel is diverse and represents participants and partners from organizations that were part of making the engagement journey inclusive and focused on community building. • Convening a minimum of 3 different organizations: We will be bringing the perspective of 4 different organizations, Dialogue Partners, City of Calgary, Immigrants Sector Council of Calgary, Civic Camp and IAP2 (International Association for Public Participation). • Quality topic – the workshop will discuss the why, how, when and where you engage diverse voices in making better public decisions and how to reach out to, work with and hear from those that are all too frequently ignored, disregarded or spoken for by someone else. | • Allowing for participation and discussion across participants – 50% of the workshop has been set aside for participant participation. Small groups will help facilitate more intimate conversations and the overall flow of the presentation will keep people engaged throughout the entire presentation. Small groups will have an opportunity to practice the unique engagement processes that Dialogue Partners utilized during the Calgary Budget process, as well as, seek out from the audience their own examples and suggestions to add to their learning experience. We will use a variety of techniques including Socratic Circle, World Café, storytelling, video, community forum and other specialized processes to model and share with participants the “how” to engage, as we weave the story of what we learned, and solicit the input and experience of participants. Speakers include: o Nicola Main-Thomson, Executive Director of the Immigrant Sector Council of Calgary o Christy Morgan, Acting Executive Director and Community Liaison, Calgary Urban Aboriginal Initiative o Peter Rishaug Co-founder CivicCamp Calgary o Stephani Roy McCallum, IAP2 Trainer/Course Developer and Managing Director, Dialogue Partners o Tamara McCarron, Senior Consultant, Dialogue Partners. | English | Dialogue Partners | Managing Director | Canada | Knitting a community sweater: weaving diverse voices into something that warms everyone | A stronger society is a one that listens to its’ citizens – all citizens. This includes those who are seldom heard from in civic decision-making such as the impoverished, new immigrants and the youth. But a truly rich society understands that including all diversity as part of its deliberations actually builds a stronger and more sustainable community. It builds capacity, leadership, ownership and energy for change – among everyone. It makes lives better, or at the very least, a little less worse. It connects people at the most basic level – through caring – and it builds stronger communities. But how does a society go about engaging these diverse voices that are beyond the status quo? How do you bring people together to hear and understand and support each other – despite their differences? This workshop is about understanding how decisions and outcomes are improved from diverse voices, and how to reach these voices to create a more inclusive society. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Canadian | stephani@dialoguepartners.ca | Training Workshops – 3 hours | none | ||||
61 | 3/9/2012 16:56:16 | Emmanuel James | Changing nations through citizens | The overall objective is to grant power to citizens of the world communities so that they can particpate fully instrengtheinig their economy for a better future through a scocial contract whioch is fully particpation of individuals to nation's welfare, which at the end will creat a developed society and bring bring homony life. | a) Under this cariterion the proposal meets all voices in this panel, in the fact that when reffering to citizens it entails to all people that is women/men including youth, indigenous and marginalised groups and thsi pannel is guided by language and their particpation from different sectors, nations, and ethenic groups. b) Dodoma Environmental Network (DONET) which a non governmental organization deals with environmetal conservation in Tanzania. From this criterion my proposal meet basic topics like that of environmental conservation which has a direct link with citizens, Under this organization being a volunteer I have been involved in conducting one conscious seminar on the importance of good land utilization whereby 940 villager has been gtrained on land rights. Jiendeleze Trust: Is a also a non governmental organization that consititutes its programs in Dodoma Tanzania. It basically deals with taking care of chiuldren welfafre. Under this organization I succeeded to conduct a workshop on children rights and parent care on 3rd April 2011. University of Dodoma: It is a public owned University in Tanzania. In that university I held one practical training on historical knowledge about environmental control, social protection and earl climatic change control done by local community. c) A developed economy comes from people's particpation. > Under this topic you have an access to ideas like consideration of majpority particiaption on social, political and economic changes. d) The facilitation format of the activity will be be largely dominated by presentastion and plenary discussion. | The activity session will redefine the importance of citzen participation on social, political and economic changes. The activity session will take into consideration gender eguality. The topic of the activity session will be current and coherent to the community in the world. Presentastion will include seminars, The activity will comprise of equal pariciaption iin discussion for all individuals. it will consist of 50% of presentation and 50% of plenery discussion. | English | Jiendeleze Trust | Volunteer | Tanzania | The World Assembly September 5-7/2012 | It is through citezens who are well brought up with social contract can make a better future of their nation and global changes. It is through citezen's power that have an access to all social welfare including Gender equality, economic stability and environmental protection for theiir nations and global at large. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Tanzanian | mshuda07@gmail.com | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | Through a world Assembly team of volunteer will voluntarily whisper translate. | ||||
62 | 3/9/2012 17:13:51 | ERASTUS NYAMERA MASIRA | Redefining global governance | creation of corruption less governments, and leaders | by redefining governance means the leaders and their nationals need to under stand what we mean by governance and what we need to do to serve mankind in lively and fairway. | the will prior registration , of interested contributors(speakers) then inivitite the general audience participants to give their views, the the participating audience will be asked to vote if their will be balanced views from all participating audience in that particular workshop. | English | INDEPENT DEMOCRATIC UNION | CHAIRMAN | KENYA | RESPONSIVE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE In this case i mean some government tax their nationals, but they are ignorant how they raise their incomes , and some overtax their nationals who are in-come-less. meaning some governments are irresponsible , how can you tax the in-come-less, infants, the sick, the death, the aged etc the list is long. thanks ERASTUS N. MASIRA TEL.+254721253220 | i want the leaders or governors to understand their role as leaders or heads of states and the really meaning of swearing into office , to safeguard live and property being fair to the weak and voice less. Finally the true meaning of governance. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | KENYAN | sfts2008@hotmail.com | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | french to english, spanish to english, all languages to swahili | ||||
63 | 3/9/2012 17:39:25 | Willard Annersley Chirwa | Changing nations through citizens | The overall objective is to share lessons learnt from this activity which has proved to be very enlightening for government staff, non state actors, community leaders and members of parliament. The activity puts variables of governance such as participation, equity, transparency and accountability at the centre of every development endeavour. The expected outcome of this activity are twofold: Firstly, participants will nitty gritty of this concept which they would replicate in their respective countries with possible modification Secondly, participants will appreciate challenges associated with use of this approach | a)It will bring diversity of voices in my panel in the sense that as good governance will be put at the centre of development intervention, the issue is cross cutting all sections of stakeholders such as women,youth and communities. b)It will facilitate convening a minimum of 3 different groups because by nature of the activity it involves state actors, non state actors, community leaders and politicians. Thus different groups will have stake in the proposed activity. c) It will trigger innovative reflection/ brainstorming with participants when considering strengths and challenges associated with the proposed activity. d)when participants will be asked to reflect on selection criteria and role of stakeholders in the forum, all participants will be triggered to participate in the discussion. | I will be the only presenter. After my presentation, participants will be split into groups to reflect on strengths and weaknesses of the activity;composition of stakeholders; and its applicability | English | Zomba District Council | Director of Planning and Development | Malawi | Bi annual civic leaders,state and non state actors forum | This is so because the activity provides a forum where the citizenry is accorded an opportunity to engage state and non state actors carrying out various interventions in their areas. Actors make presentations in a uniform format and issues of results, outcome and impact of a particular intervention are critically assessed and thereafter a way forward is charted for the good of the citizenry. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Malawian | wa.chirwa@yahoo.com | Buzz Sessions – 1.5 hours | I will fluently present in English | ||||
64 | 3/9/2012 18:56:49 | Cameron Fenton | Changing nations through citizens | The overall objective is to introduce strategic action and campaign planning tools to youth and to empower them to take these tools as their own to bolster youth organizing in their nation and community. Specific Outcomes: - Develop understanding of Non-Violent Action and its historic uses in social movements recent and historical - Develop understanding of strategy and points of intervention - Frame current issues that youth are working on through strategic lens - Introduce youth to campaign strategy tools (min. pillars of power and spectrum of allies) - Empower and invigorate youth to develop youth led initiatives or strengthen ones they are working on - Connect the power of youth movements around the globe | This proposal focuses on developing connections between youth and strengthening the skills of youth for effective organizing and campaigning in their communities. It is also presented in an innovated manner which engages participants to develop their own understanding of the topic, and actually applies the skills being learned while learning them. The workshop is also designed in a way through the use of experiential education to capitalize on the experience and knowledge of youth in the workshop to lead and push the discussion and learning forward. We will also have facilitators from a diversity of backgrounds and organizations assist with the workshop. | Workshop Outline: Vision Village Exercise and Feedback - 1 hour - an exercise to develop community within the workshop as well as to evoke reactions and develop a shared analysis of social movement progression Youth In Social Movements - 30 minutes - A short presentation of 2 case studies of youth organizations that led social movements around the globe: Otpur! and SNCC - this is followed by sharing from the group on their own knowledge and experiences with youth social movements Break - 15 minutes Primary Facilitator: Cameron Fenton Supporting Facilitators: TBD Strategy for Revolutionizing our Future (45 minutes) - Pillars of Power exercise: develop understanding of power structures and how we intervene strategically to take on massive issues like climate change - Spectrums of Allies: how to engage with and move different groups towards your cause Putting these tools to work (30 minutes) - Reflecting on how we can use these tools in our work (developing strategies together) - Closing reflections and lessons learned | English | Canadian Youth Climate Coalition | National Director | Canada | Reclaiming Our Future - Creative Action, Campaigning and Youth Movements | This activity falls into the track selected above because it is a workshop based on training youth to understand how power works and maintains itself, and how strategic interventions through campaigning can shift power in our hands. It also frames historic examples of nations changing because of citizen organizing from a youth perspective, looking at examples of how youth have led and driven organizing efforts in the past. | The Youth Assembly (September 3-4) | Canadian | director@ourclimate.ca | Training Workshops – 3 hours | English to French//Spanish | ||||
65 | 3/9/2012 19:19:21 | Thuy LeDinh | Building partnerships for social innovation | Often, great social movements and technological innovations are sparked by the entrepreneurial spirit of a single individual – a sole citizen that sees opportunity and need where others only see an insurmountable obstacle or no problem at all. But for big ideas to take flight, citizens must establish alliances and partnerships with others and engage a multi-stakeholder approach. Now more than ever, boundaries have blurred, giving citizens new avenues for generating partnerships and relationships with a wide range of entities – including new media, foundations, local authorities, social enterprises and cultural entities – to move their cause or innovation forward. It is by building communities and creating joint initiatives that citizens can affect widespread, significant change. Consider Susan G. Komen for the Cure, for example. This organization was founded after Susan G. Komen passed away from breast cancer, and her sister, Nancy G. Brinker, created a website to raise awareness for the disease. But to make this vision for spreading breast cancer awareness and finding a cure a reality, Susan G. Komen had to bring on partners – something she was able to do in spades (e.g. the NFL) to quickly build her initiative into one of the most well-recognized causes in the world. Another great example is PayPal, which wouldn’t exist had founder Peter Thiel not recognized the need for an easy way to transfer money over the Internet. But how did this innovation become so widespread? Through a relationship – more specifically, eBay’s use of the technology for its online auctions. And this year, the organization Invisible Children is working to partner with 20 “culturemakers” and policymakers to execute a campaign aimed at making Joseph Kony “famous” in an effort to capture the international criminal. This session will explore, using case studies from various NGOs and non-profits, how citizens drive social and technological change by building alliances and partnerships and how joint initiatives are critical in today’s new development paradigm. The panelists will present multiple perspectives, experiences and examples related to how citizens can foster innovative ideas through alliances and partnerships. Specifically, from this session, the audience will learn how to identify the appropriate partners to elevate a cause or campaign. | Session participants will represent a diversity of organizations (more than three), global regions and interests, and will inspire the audience to consider how they can form powerful partnerships and develop communities to advance their idea for social or technological innovation. It will be a thought-provoking panel, including best practices as well as new ideas for reflection, and presents a topic all audience members interested in social innovation can apply to their own efforts. This will be an interactive session, and the audience will be involved via Q&A as well as open discussion/brainstorming. | We envision four to five panelists for this session, representing the following organizations and/or industries: • Thuy LeDinh, Senior Marketing Communications Manager, The Public Interest Registry • Representative from Charity Navigator • Representative from Invisible Children, Inc. • Representative from Better Business Bureau • Representative from Susan B. Komen Foundation The panel will begin with each panelist offering perspective, followed by discussion led by a moderator. The discussion will then open up to the audience, who will be able to ask questions and share comments related to the panel topic. | English | The Public Interest Registry | Senior Marketing Communications Manager | USA | Empowering Citizens to Drive Innovation and Change through Partnerships | This session falls within the track “Building Partnerships for Social Innovation” because, using case studies from various NGOs and non-profits, it will explore how citizens can drive social and technological change by building alliances and partnerships and why joint initiatives are critical in today’s new development paradigm. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | American | mcclain@allisonpr.com | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | Spanish and French, depending on final panelists. | ||||
66 | 3/9/2012 19:21:54 | Mr. Brian Cute | Redefining global governance | The world has recently witnessed several national and global movements during which citizens successfully affected change from the bottom-up. For example, the Occupy Wall Street movement, which is a widespread protest against social and economic inequality, greed and the undue influence of corporations on government, launched in New York City’s Zuccotti Park in September 2011 and has since spread like wildfire to more than 95 cities across 82 countries and more than 600 communities in the U.S. Another great example is two pieces of proposed legislation in the U.S. – the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) – that aimed to tackle the issues of online piracy and intellectual property infringement but also presented major risks to Internet security and innovation. After Wikipedia and more than 7,000 other websites conducted a day of service blackout and citizens around the world took to the Internet and the streets to publicly oppose the legislation, both bills were tabled. It’s clear that citizens and organizations are increasingly creating large-scale change and redefining the way the world is governed. After all, most modern societies strive to represent the voice of the people, but in reality, communities must be proactive in making sure their voice is heard from the bottom-up. Through a candid discussion between the panelists, the objective of this session is for attendees to gain a better understanding of: • Recent events that have demonstrated successes or failures for a bottom-up approach to governance. • How civil society can affect change and make their voices heard. • What role citizens and organizations can play with respect to transforming governance. • Benefits and drawbacks to both bottom-up and top-down governance models. | This session meets all selection criteria. The topic is very forward-thinking and addresses the way civil society and organizations can drive constructive change in governance in today’s modern world. The format is also very interactive and allows for lively discussion and questions between panelists and audience members. Lastly, the proposed panelists represent multiple industries, organizations, genders and international regions. | We envision four to five panelists for this session, representing the following organizations and/or industries: • Brian Cute, CEO, the Public Interest Registry • Wikipedia representative • Lawrence Strickling, National Telecommunications Administrator • Sally Wentworth, ISOC The panel will begin with a frank discussion between panelists, led by a moderator. The discussion will then open up to the audience, who will be able to ask questions and comments relating to the outlined panel topic. | English | The Public Interest Registry | CEO | USA | Civil Society: Transforming Governance from the Bottom-up | This session falls within the track “redefining global governance” because it will explore the ways in which civil society can drive large-scale change to governance models. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | American | mcclain@allisonpr.com | Buzz Sessions – 1.5 hours | Spanish and French, depending on final panelists. | ||||
67 | 3/9/2012 19:38:22 | Erica Bach | Redefining global governance | Our proposal is for a training workshop. The overall objectives are for participants to learn about some existing tools for people affected by corporate activity. The focus is on collaborative problem-solving approaches. Participants will hear about several examples from panelists. Then, they will have the opportunity to work through a couple of real world scenarios to understand how such approaches can be helpful. | Our proposal includes a diversity of voices – it includes panelists from multiple sectors (public, private, NGO, etc.), drawn from varying linguistic communities, across various contexts and regions. Our proposal includes four different organizations from four different perspectives, which will contribute to a rich and multi-faceted discussion. The topic is highly relevant for World Assembly participants – the issue of resolving company-community disputes through dialogue, as a way of achieving “access to remedy”, is growing in importance as the private sector increases its presence in the developing world. Two processes which can be accessed by communities will be presented during this session. A case study approach will be used to illustrate how these tools can contribute to the resolution of corporate-community conflict. | - Our session will address collaborative problem-solving approaches for companies and communities from a variety of perspectives. These processes form part of “access to remedy” in relation to the new UN Guiding Principles on business & human rights. - The session will include short, interactive presentations by four panelists, followed by small group work where participants will discuss 1-2 real world scenarios; we will finish with a broad group discussion. - The composition of the panel will be multi-perspective. - The chair/discussant of the session: Civil society representative – Guillermo Correa, Coordinador Ejecutivo, Red Argentina para la Cooperación Internacional (RACI), Argentina - Presentations and case study examples from: 1) Specialist, Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (World Bank Group) 2) CSR Counsellor, Office of the Extractive Sector Corporate Social Responsibility Counsellor (Government of Canada) 3) Corporate perspective [To be determined] | English, Spanish | Office of the Extractive Sector CSR Counsellor | Senior Advisor | Canada | Business & human rights, “access to remedy”: The role of collaborative problem-solving in resolving company-community conflicts | Globalization has brought about a pressing need for global institutions to help manage impacts on societies and environments. A plurality of institutions is required, and such institutions must be representative and accountable to stakeholders. John Ruggie, UN Special Representative on Business & Human Rights, has outlined state responsibility to protect human rights, the responsibility of companies to respect human rights, and the need to ensure access to remedy. Our proposal will highlight some non-judicial tools and mechanisms available to communities to resolve company/community disputes. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Canada | erica.bach@international.gc.ca | Training Workshops – 3 hours | None required. | ||||
68 | 3/9/2012 21:36:23 | JUDE Pius Bepeh | Building partnerships for social innovation, Redefining global governance | To create a global impact positively that is hope for the future. | It encompasses the entire components of the UNMDGs-2015. | Tourism catalyst for development through good governance and policy implementations. Jude Pius Bepeh. | English | Gender and Water Alliance | Member | Nigeria | Ethical Global re-orientation and collective participation to create a conducive atmosphere for all . | Because with deal with gender Mainstreaming and youths evelopment .Inter links with proactive measures and holistic approach to goverance. | The Youth Assembly (September 3-4) | Nigerian | development | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | Tourism as an initiative for economy reformation Tourism is one of the most significant initiatives of economic and administrative reformation that was adopted by the government of Cross River State within a planned intensive reformation program. And an economic restructure for overcoming development obstacles. All of which included in the Cross River State Cabinet resolution No., (9) dated 17/04/2000 on "considering tourism as productive sector aiming at convincing the tourists to spend his/her vacation inside the Ancient city of calabar". Besides increasing investment opportunities, developing and upgrading national human resources. Accordingly, tourism development is considered a national economic project. Foundation Cross River Tourism bureau (CRSTB) was founded in 2000, as body corporate. Article three of CRSTB's statute stated that, CRSTB's purposes and responsibilities are "concerning on tourism in the Ancient city and first British Protectorate in West Africa" to develop, upgrade and enhance tourism sector as well as overcoming growth obstacles, taking into account that tourism is considered an important tributary for national economy. The private sector is undertaking key role into establishing tourism investment facilities. CRSTB is run by board of directors; its membership includes 11 ministers, in addition to the Secretary General of CRSTB and representatives from other two ministries, the thing that forms higher representation of public bodies related to tourism industry activities and affairs. The board of directors is also including other seven members who represent social and private sectors. The Secretary General of CRSTB is assigned to manage the executive affairs of CRSTB through Secretariat General Department. After then the State Executive Cabinet issued the foundation resolution No., (9), dated 16th April, 2000, in which declared the establishment of the Cross River State Tourism Bureau (CRSTB), confirming that, tourism is an economic sector its major goal to convince Nigerian tourist to spend his/her vacation inside the country, increasing investment opportunities, national human resource development, create job opportunities for Nigerian citizen. Taking into account the particular importance of museums and antiquities, the Royal decree No. 2/a dated 30/04/2003, was issued, providing that "attach Museum and Antiquities Agency to CRSTB" accordingly, CRSTB will be authorized to run antiquities duties as well as tourism sector affairs. Followed by the Cabinet's resolution no. (78) Dated 23/03/2008, in which announced the adopted new name of the organization the (Cross River State Tourism Bureau and Antiquities (CRSTBA), which confirming that domestic tourism is a 'national reality' requires public authorities to work for its planning, development, and upgrading based on its unique tourism potentials. Goals To the concern of Cross River State Tourism Bureau through organization, development and promotion, to enhance the role of tourism sector, overcoming growth obstacles as this sector is considered an important tributary for national economy. All of which must comply with the noble position and values of the State. The goal is also meant to concern on antiquities and preserving them and to increase their contribution in the cultural and economical development process as well as concerning on museums, and to uplift archeological works in the State in general, while private sector is assuming the major role by establishing tourism investment facilities. Mission & Vision The future vision of the State regarding tourism sector, is based on the following themes;"the Ancient city of Calabar as the People’s Paradise, seeks for variable and distinguished tourism development, with social, cultural, environmental and economic benefits in the framework of its Hospitality values and genuine traditional hospitality". To achieve this vision, CRSTB has been committed to the following major tasks "to achieve sustainable and balanced tourism development, to achieve economic diversity and social enrichment, to create job opportunities and to preserve environment and cultural originality. CRSTB Logo Each organization's logo reflects its identity, and forms a sign of its function. When such a logo is actively associated with the organization, it increases its acceptance and significance. Accordingly, a special logo of CRSTB was developed, which by it, is an interesting episode. The logo that was adopted by the body to be a sign of the institution together with its activity has a story behind the success of the other process in the preparation of the logo. The process witnessed a solid drive similar to development in tourism industry itself. The process included assigning this task to a specialized institution, in this context CRSTB has appointed panel of experts on marketing and advertising to comprehend the body from within, visiting the different regions of the State, and observing tourism industry closely, this approach was the key factor in the development of this unique emblem. The logo with its expressive colors and symbolizing angles is not of an individual concept, or attempts to describe a specific activity. Rather it is an open work of art with multiple readings and meanings, which is describing the same entity across several bright and harmonious expression of a modern enterprise. Spectrum of colors describe the embodiment of its dynamism and decision making, while the curved lines symbolize the intricate nature of the tourism industry itself and principle of partnership between concerned authorities that are approved by the government in the development of tourism industry. The harmonious lines converge to form a palm tree (a sign of generosity and hospitality) and the pair of crossing swards (signify authenticity, originality and heritage), reflecting the singularity and the brevity of the official institution of modern Cross River State. At the same time it is symbolizing the colors of the rainbow as a ceremonial and geographical diversity and the wealth of rich environments and the biodiversity in the State. The heritage and originality of Crossriverians with different social and hereditary customs in different regions are represented in the logo with thirteen angles forming the main logo, the Palm tree. In fact there are three regions of the State with attractive, rich and unique tourism activities. The method of drawing lines that move about without a return to a single point, indicates decentralization of authority in the nascent organization, but the spontaneous flow of work and the participation of players without a central hold that would delay or impede the achievement of progress. Probably, invention of (Monoliths Pin) by the Bureau, its use Show the inscriptions in the monolithic logo, and making it as the identity of the Bureau and its use in the main headings of the various publications, implies the attention Bureau is paid to return this heritage practice into a refined modern style. It also emphasizes the adherence to the old style, but it adds developmental touches and openness. This pin represents a method of writing in the oldest monolithic inscription found in the central senatorial district during the era of the dark ages; its honorable companions and thus derives its originality from the unique heritage and cultural distinction and became a mark for expressing the Bureau’s identity and loyalty. Thus it confirms here that, the theme of the logo of the Bureau is open to multiple readings and meanings. CRSTB Prospective Role The approval of the government to CRSTB's foundation reflects the government's belief on the importance of creating an effective government body to undertake national management of tourism in the Kingdom. According to this decision, CRSTB has become the official body through which the government supervises progress in tourism sector development across the State .given that, tourism industry in the State was scattered, fragmented besides its responsibilities were divided throughout various bodies in public and private sectors, has required from CRSTB in the beginning to undertake a leading role to incubate and adopt this industry on scientific fundamentals through providing clear vision on national and provincial levels. Besides creating institutional restructure of tourism and building effective partnership with public and private sectors. Develop necessary tourism regulations for organizing its work and providing stimulant climate for tourism investment. Such leading role is considered very necessary for organizing this nascent industry and tightening its components during first years of its age. Therefore, CRSTB's vision for the first five years could be summarized in the role of 'tourism industry developer', and as incubator to it through what was called "an intensive care period", a period in which the industry will be radically restructured and organized. CRSTB gradually performed the task of tourism development supervisor, coordinator and director. It was clear for CRSTB, since its foundation as government institution, that its role was not limited on supervising tourism industry development only. That because this industry, especially in the State, in dire need of establishment, organization and preparation as usually any new economic projects requires. These tasks, which have dominated most CRSTB's efforts till now, represent a long-term key investment. Once tourism industry organization and restructure tasks in the State were concluded, CRSTB will be able to practice its prospective role towards supervising tourism development through undertaking national tourism management tasks regarding organization, quality control, marketing as well as developing tourism products. CRSTB's prospective effort as concerned government authority, is adopting a moderate manner allows it gradually or finally to abandon several roles that it could be performed by another government authorities, private sector or local communities. This would give great flexibility to CRSTB for distributing these roles in order to develop tourism industry in high efficiency and decentralization manner enables it to achieve the prospective growth. Within its efforts to establish tourism industry in the State, CRSTB was keen to classify tourism responsibilities and to share them with relevant ministries and authorities. So that, in this respect, CRSTB has to assume major direct responsibilities of tourism industry as well as assuming shared responsibilities of tourism that are overlapping with other government authorities. In addition to provide support and assistance to all areas that connected to tourism sector operated by other government authorities. CRSTB's integrated program for development of national tourism In the framework of CRSTB to interpret the government's trend into concrete actions regarding formation and economic restructure, CRSTB has carried out the following duties; Adopt comprehensive scientific terminology for planning and executing the national economic project for tourism development in the State within twenty years. The project includes general strategy for developing tourism sector as well as executive plan and provincial tourism development strategy. Lie out and execute integrated program of tourism development which included till now more than 125 projects and program. This project falls under key initiatives, comprehensive development plan aspirations besides the government's plans towards economic and administrative development. These initiatives represent an integrated program for executing CRSTB's tasks, as well as actual practicing of necessary measurements to address challenges and overcome social, institutional, organizational, administrative, financial, and investment obstacles that are facing tourism development, which should be carried out through detailed and integrated executive plans to be executed in strict timetable. CRSTB is looking forward to greatly benefit from its programs as well as from its core initiatives on government level in order to achieve an important quality shift in government institutions performance contributes for achieving comprehensive development in all sectors. National tourism development project Since March, 2001, CRSTB, simultaneously with institutional structure process, has planned for integrated national economic project, aiming at developing tourism in the State during the next twenty years. That comes in the light of CRSTB's vision for the importance of strategic planning for goals achieving as well as raising economic, organizational and administrative capabilities. This comprehensive planning project in its third stage has paid off on preparing the general strategy of national tourism development, the fifth executive plan (intensive care phase), and 13 provincial strategies for tourism development. In a nutshell, Travel foundation UK in which am a forum member. Jude Pius Bepeh, (JP). Member Governing Coalition Liberal Democrat UK, Oversea Development program initiatives Unit, Principal Facilitator for Tourism Development initiatives, Calabar, Cross River State, First British Protectorate in West Africa. The Largest Eco-biodiversity inhabitants in the sub-Saharan region. +2348130429071, Apt 40, 2nd floor, B-Line, F.H.E, Calabar 540001, Cross River State. | ||||
69 | 3/9/2012 22:18:19 | Rufaro Mudimu | Changing nations through citizens | The overall objective of the activity session is to share an understanding of the theory of social ties and how social ties enrich a community. This is done by demonstrating the work that our organization has done around bridging inequality and creating common ground between people with different backgrounds and how such social ties can enrich and empower people to make a difference in their communities The outcomes: Participants will leave the activity session with:: 1. The knowledge base to better connect people across social, economic, religious and other barriers, increasing their social capital and thus becoming better able to articulate their needs with a collective voice 2. Identifying best practices in developing social ties and building social capital 3. An outline of measuring the effectiveness and impact of connectedness amongst the groups they work with | This activity we are proposing stems from extensive experience and research in the realm of youth entrepreneurship. We bring a youth perspective from one of the most historically divided societies in the world, South Africa, and show how we are breaking through barriers, and building social capital across socio-economic divides. Our activity is designed to be highly interactive, reflective and discursive. Our panel is diverse and representative of international, indigenous and female voices. Our presenters will be representative a cross-section of South African society . | The presentation is designed to be highly interactive and experiential with over 60 minutes dedicated to group interaction and feedback. We have shown a draft outline of the activity below to demonstrate how this will be accomplished: 10 mins: Reverse Icebreaker Activity for all participants to differentiate themselves 20 mins: Building Connections Activity - participants experiment with effective ways of building social ties in spite of social construct of difference and dissonance. Includes group debrief on their experience and discussion on he importance of building social ties 10 mins: Presentation on the theory of social ties and application in the South African Context 15 mins: Group discussion and feedback on the relevance and importance of social ties to civil society organizations and the work they do 10 mins: Measurement - group brainstorm oon measuring social capital in their work and how to increase its impact. 10 mins: 10 mins: High energy activity focussed on the application of the theories and methods that have been discussed in the session. Our presenters will be from a cross-section of South African society. Although they are all linked with the organization enke: Make Your Mark they are social activists and youth leaders in their own right. Draft panel will consist of the following individuals: - Philippa Wheaton, founder and CEO of enke: Make Your Mark. Pip is an emigrant to South Africa and gives an international perspective. - Sizwe T. Nxumalo, Youth representative to the enke: Make Your Mark Board of Direcors. Sizwe has been a leader in his communities and was listed as one of 200 Young South Africans To Take To Lunch. Sizwe brings the urban perspective. - Tskane "TK" Ngoepe : has been a participant in enke: Make Your Mark's programming which resulted in working wiht a fellow student, created a peer-to-peer tutoring project called “Each One Teach One” which increased the Grade 11 pass rate at their school from 61% to 97%. TK demonstrates the impact of building social capital within his school and community. | English | enke: Make Your Mark | Communications Officer | South Africa | Breaking Through Barriers: Building Connections Across Social Divides | The "Changing Nations Through Citizens" track asks the key questions of how can multiple voices can be better be heard? And how can those voices coalesce into negotiations of new social contracts amidst the failure of existing arrangements? Our activity focuses on the first step to bringing multiple voices together and that is to build a cohesive voice by breaking through dissonance and difference. The activity demonstrates the importance of creating social ties across socio-economic, religious, racial and other divides, and how doing so can build the social capital necessary for people to better negotiate and understand each other, thus better articulate their needs as a collective voice. Modelled on the work that enke: Make Your Mark has done in South Africa, the activity demonstrates how to build social ties across barriers, strengthen social capital, and discuss how best to measure the impact that this has on communities. the importance of providing platforms for people from different backgrounds to bridge inequality and initiate a mental shift towards seeing commonality rather than difference. enke: Make Your Mark is building a network of young South Africans who are taking action on the most urgent issues. enke inspires and supports social entrepreneurs and social activists from all walks of life. Through enke's programs, participants connect across socio-economic divides to analyze their role in the social, environmental and economic future of South Africa. Entirely youth-led and action-oriented, participants design and run projects with social impact, and challenge & support each other to defy the status quo. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Zimbabwean | rufaro@enke.co.za | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | We would like participants from all nationalities and languages and whisper translation needs will be based on the needs of the participants. | ||||
70 | 3/9/2012 23:50:47 | Dr. Choolwe Beyani | Changing nations through citizens | The objective is to interogate the concept of rights in a broader sense in a social economic and political sense, but also share with participants the challenges that face society in an African as well as country specific Zambian expereince. It is hoped that the panelists will share among themselves and also with the other participants cross sectoral experiences of social activism research and and advocacy work as well as lessons learnt. In the final analysis to share and learn best practices for engaging the holders of power (namely; the post colonial state) in the reclaiming/advancing of citizenship/ popular rights. | The proposal brings together three different civil society organisations and two scholars engaged in consultancy and research in human, civil and social and economic rights rights and acitivism. There is the Economic Association of Zambia that deals with quest for economic rights and development, another (Z.A.N.E.C.) is engaged in research and adocay on rights to education, while the third NGOCC, a coalition of NGOs) deals with gender issues in development. One panelist is a scholar and international human rights law expert and consitutional development specialist. The other panelist is scholar teaching at the university of Zambia and also a political activist as well as researcher and and adocate on social and economic rights. So every presenter is from a different sector and the panel includes a woman. The discussion will allow 45 minutes of discussions with the audiance. | Each panelist will speak for 9 minutes bringing a total of 45 mintues for the panel. The remaining 45 minutes will be dedicated to group discusions The suggested order of presentation is as follows: Dr. Chaloka Beyani (Senior Lecturer in International Law, L.S.E). The Quest for New Models of Democratic Governace in Africa:Revisiting the Constitution Making Process. Mr. Isaac Ngoma (President of Economic Association of Zambia, E.A.Z). Economic Development Agenda and Citizen Empowerment. Ms. Precious Mooze Ngónga. (Non Governmental Organisation Co-ordinating Council; NGOCC). The Gender Discourse: Challenges for Civil Society Engagement. Mr.George Hamusunga: Acting Direcor,Zambia National Educational Coalition (ZANEC); Civil Society Initiatives On Public Expenditure Tracking In The Education Sector In Zambia. Dr. Choolwe Beyani. (Consultant in develoment Research and Lecturer in History, University of Zambia). The Limitations of Democratic Governance in Zambia: Challenges for Civil Society. | English | ( I work for but not representing University of Zambia | Lecturer | Zambia | Engaging the State in Claiming Citizens' Rights: A Zambian Discourse. | The activity falls under the track selected because it deals with citizenship rights and the claim of those rights by citizens' engagement with the state through their various civil society organisations. The panel examines issues of governance as defined by and expressed by civil societ actors across several fronts with the purpose of buidling a better quality of life and more democratic governance system for all. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Zambian | cbeyani@hotmail.com | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | N/A | ||||
71 | 3/10/2012 0:03:10 | Micheal Montgomery | Building partnerships for social innovation | To demonstrate the efficacy of deeper engagement with young people to produce better development results via more grounded policies and programs. To collectively examine organizational changes resulting from working alongside young people as partners in development. To stimulate discussion on how best to engage with children and young people and identify key issues and innovative solutions from their perspective and context. To share significant elements of the combined Circle of Rights/ Child Centred Community Development approach with session participants. | This session is comprised of male and female young people and adults from Zambia, Thailand and Canada. It brings together four organizations. The session will be interactive and participatory using the Circle of Rights / CCCD methodology to share the change experiences of the panelists as well as engage the session participants in a collective exercise in exploring the issues facing young people from their own perspective. The workshop will be experiential where participants will experience some of the COR-CCCD activities and tools. First-hand accounts and reflections from young people and organizational staff will help shed light on the importance and uniqueness of the COR-CCCD approach in practice. | The panel will be comprised of participants (young people and staff) from the following organizations implementing the COR-CCCD approach: The International Institute for Child Rights and Development Plan ZambiaCitizens Forum Zambia Plan Thailand ’Mekong Youth Net Thailand The session will begin with a participatory experiential activity led by the young people entitled the Unity Circle. A brief overview of the COR and CCCD approaches will be described, including the integration of these approaches in practice in both Zambia and Thailand. Partners (young people and staff) from each country will provide first-hand accounts of what they learned and/or noticed through the application of COR/CCCD methodology. These presentations will be interactive and will incorporate multi- media and participatory tools. | English | International Institute for Child Rights in Development | Senior Associate | Canada | Partnering with young people and communities for innovative social change. (Creative approaches to gaining the deeper participation of young people in local issues and change). | Child Centred Community Development (CCCD) is Plan International’s global child rights -based approach to development (CCCD). This innovative approach focuses on the role of children in their own development and Plan’s commitment to supporting their participation and empowerment. As part of this, Plan is committed to developing practical approaches to engaging children and young people; to listen to their voices; to consult with them at all stages of the project cycle; to act in their best interests; and to support the realization of their rights. In order to achieve this and to test out effective models and practical approaches to support the meaningful participation of children and young people, Plan Thailand and Plan Zambia approached the International Institute for Child Rights in Development to lead a new collaboration with Plan, Plan partners, young people and communities in both countries to help bring to life CCCD The collaboration centred on using IICRD’s Circle of Rights Process; a participatory child centred intentional planning and action research process supporting positive social change for children, families and communities. This reflective methodology, which starts from children’s perspectives, helps community stakeholders, agencies and policymakers to develop integrated child rights policy, programming and monitoring systems that build from local strengths in meeting challenges facing children, their peers, families and communities. The Plan-IICRD partnership has helped to foster a new type of collaboration in close partnership with communities and young people which has: 1) helped redefine community perceptions and assumptions about children and young people; 2) given voice and visibility to children and youth people; 3) encouraged inter generational and multi-sectoral dialogues and partnerships, and 4) supported innovative localized strategies to address the rights of young people within their communities. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Irish | mmiicrd@uvic.ca | Training Workshops – 3 hours | None | ||||
72 | 3/10/2012 0:25:13 | Jodi Michaels | Changing nations through citizens | The session will introduce the rights-based community practice (RBCP) model, which brings social workers, lawyers and local citizens together for change. Presenters will share the theory behind it and how diverse communities across the Middle East have been able to utilize the model to help marginalized population groups become change agents at the national level in their societies. Participants will gain an understanding of the community practice model and its application and, through the discussion period, explore with the presenters, who are all RBCP practitioners in different countries and environments, how the RBCP model can be used by community activists in other regions of the world to empower the poor to become change agents. Participants will explore how to infuse the concept of rights into every level of an organization’s activities- from governance and leadership, to program development, to implementation, empowering board, staff and community beneficiaries to become knowledgeable and influential in securing rights. | (a) Our panel will consist of three women and one male presenter: a Jewish Israeli woman who has been active leading low-income community food cooperatives to increase food security among poor population groups and teach them to organize for their rights; a Palestinian Muslim woman from Nablus, West Bank who is an architect and social worker, a co-leader of a housing initiative that has revitalized more than 600 homes of low income people in the Nablus area, increasing quality of life. She is also a professor in the school of Sociology and Social Work at An Najah National University in Nablus; an Israeli Bedouin woman who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and runs an organization that empowers Bedouin women in Israel through economic empowerment programs as well as health and literacy initiatives; and a Canadian man who is the Associate Director of MMEP/ICAN which has worked for the past 15 years with organizations such as those of his copresenters to advance RBCP in the Middle East. (b) Four organizations will be represented on the panel by each of the speakers, in the order mentioned above: Community Advocacy Israel, with five RBCP centres; The Community Service Centre (CSC) of An Najah National University, with two RBCP centres active in seven communities in the West Bank; The Arab Jewish Center for Equality, Empowerment and Cooperation (AJEEC) which promotes economic empowerment, community development and Jewish-Arab partnership in the impoverished south of Israel, with special attention to the Bedouin minority in the area; and ICAN/MMEP, through which all of the presenters have trained at McGill University in Montreal in the RBCP model, obtaining MSW degrees. ICAN/MMEP has aided in the establishment of and continues to support the work of the RBCP centres in the Middle East. (c) All of the presenters employ the RBCP model in the Middle East in very different practice contexts. They share best practices and through unique, locally driven initiatives in each locale lead to the empowerment of the most marginalized in their community to become active citizens. This innovative practice model is highly adaptable to different settings, as will be apparent from the presenters and could be of great interest to civil society leaders in other countries and regions of the world seeking innovative models to promote civic engagement and social change. (d) Presenters will spend no more than 15 minutes each presenting their work, leaving the bulk of the three hours for in-depth discussion and interaction among all participants, allowing for meaningful dialogue and allowing the presenters to also learn from the participants from a wide range of organizations and regions that may attend the session. | (1) What is rights-based community practice (RBCP) and how is it employed to develop participatory citizens organizations that drive social change? Presented by David Leduc, Associate Director, MMEP/ICAN (15 minutes). (2) From RBCP to Food Security : how low-income food cooperatives have allowed hundreds of families who live in poverty to increase their food security, learn how to budget and learn how to tackle a broad range of issues that stem from poverty, becoming community leaders. Presented by Michal Gomel, Community Organizer, Community Advocacy Israel (15 minutes) (3) From RBCP to safe and secure housing : how students of architecture and social work have come together with families living in dilapidated homes to improve their quality of life through low cost home renovations and social interventions that have helped hundreds of families live in dignity and begin to focus on other issues in their lives to improve their communities. Presented by Architect and Social Worker Nuha Dweikat Shaer, co-coordinator of the Nablus CSC housing revitalization program (15 minutes) (4) From RBCP to women’s empowerment : how Bedouin women from unrecognized villages across southern Israel have come to know their rights and become empowered, within their families, within their communities and within society at large. Presented by Amal El Sana Alh’jooj, Founding Director, AJEEC (15 minutes) Following the presentations, half an hour will be dedicated to small group discussions. The audience will break into four groups; each with one of the presenters. The audience will come back together in a facilitated discussion where participants can explore with the presenters how to infuse a rights-based approach in planning and implementing their own projects and programs that seek to make the most marginalized key players in project design, implementation and ultimately, impact. Jodi Michaels, Director of Communications, MMEP/ICAN will facilitate the panel and discussion. | English | International Community Action Network (ICAN) and McGill Middle East Program in Civil Society and Peace Building (MMEP) | Director of Communications | Canada | Creating engaged citizenry among marginalized populations through rights advocacy | The International Community Action Network (ICAN) is the coming of age of more than 15 years of work in the Middle East through the McGill Middle East Program in Civil Society and Peace Building (MMEP), which has partnered with NGOs and academic institutions in Palestine, Jordan and Israel to implement the MMEP's rights-based community practice (RBCP) model. MMEP has trained more than 50 Middle Eastern graduate fellows in the model at McGill University in a special MSW program. These social justice leaders have returned to their home countries and established eleven locally-owned participatory RBCP centres in the region that work with people in disadvantaged communities to help them become active and engaged citizens, with the knowledge and skills they need to meet their basic human needs, and make a difference in improving their own lives, their communities and society at large. The centres work at the individual, communal, institutional and societal levels to conquer disentitlement at all levels and create systemic change, driven by the beneficiaries themselves. Helping low-income people become active in civil society and a part of the democratic process ensures that those who are most directly affected by government policy decisions are active players in influencing those decisions. Through our work, marginalized citizens play an important role in the national discourse. Some successes of our partners include: securing the rights of disabled children in Palestine, making homes and schools physically accessible and mainstreaming these students in classrooms; introducing volunteer social workers to work with trauma victims in hospitals, which led the Palestinian Health Ministry to begin to introduce paid positions for social workers in public hospitals, allowing doctors and nurses to focus on medical treatment; requiring the Jordanian Social Development Ministry to conduct field visits before making decisions on social assistance applications (formerly many people were refused based solely on their written application); leading campaigns to combat violence against women in Jordan, influencing public opinion and officials, and pioneering programs that educate men; leading to the enactment of laws in Israel that afforded public housing tenants the right to purchase their homes, and to secure needed repairs and maintenance. This has enabled 30,000 low-income families to purchase homes; leading the Israeli government to cancel VAT (value added tax) on basic foods such as fruits and vegetables – a move that increased food security for thousands of low-income Israelis; and leading the way to mandated dental care for all Israeli children, improved health clinics, and access to medication for Israeli seniors. Some of these successes will be shared by presenters as they explore the RBCP model and its impact with session participants. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Canadian | jhm.mmep@mcgill.ca | Training Workshops – 3 hours | None. While our presenters' mother tongues are Arabic or Hebrew in most cases, all presentations will be made in English. | ||||
73 | 3/10/2012 1:01:18 | Geoff Garver | Redefining global governance | The objective of the session will be to engage participants in a creative discussion of how decisions can be made with less reliance on monetary valuation. Concrete expected outcomes include proposals for 1) new definitions, derived through interactive discussions and exercises, of key terms like cost-benefit analysis, valuation, ecosystem services, efficiency, resilience, healthy economy, well-being and discounting, 2) new decisionmaking tools that make use of these definitions and underlying concepts and 3) adapting global governance structures to accommodate these new decisionmaking tools. | The panel is gender-diverse, with participants coming from different North American countries, able to communicate in French, Spanish and English. The panelists include a McGill University professor, an independent research and consultant who just left an environmental NGO after six years, and a PhD student who also sits on the Joint Public Advisory Committee of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation. Decision making that avoids monetary valuation of non-market goods and services runs against the current of most governance systems. It offers an alternative that can promote healthy ecosystems and communities and a greater emphasis on cultural, social, environmental and economic diversity and resilience in governance systems. The workshop will actively engage participants in proposing innovative tools and terms for this new kind of decision making. | The workshop will proceed in three steps: 1) Presentations to "prime the pump" for discussion (30 minutes) - Prof. Peter G. Brown, McGill University, Departments of Geography and Natural Resources Sciences, and the McGill School of the Environment, will give an overview of an economics that is contained within global ecological limits and promotes environmental and social integrity. - Carla Sbert (fluent in Spanish, English and French), independent researcher and consultant, will discuss examples of monetary valuation of the environment and biodiversity encountered in her experience with Nature Canada from 2006 to 2012, and as an environmental lawyer and policy analyst with the public and oil sectors in Mexico. - Geoffrey Garver (fluent in English and French and proficient in Spanish), McGill Univerity PhD candidate and member of the Joint Public Advisory Committee of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (www.cec.org), will talk about how "planetary boundaries of safe operating space for humanity" and measurements of material and energy use in society can provide the basic tools and metrics for supporting new kinds of decisionmaking that don't rely so much on monetary valuation. 2) Discussion period (15 minutes) – During this time, participants will discuss the presentations and ask questions to clarify the concepts presented. 3) Interactive exercise (45 minutes) – Participants will break into three small groups and brainstorm on new definitions for some key terms, new decisionmaking tools, and new governance institutions that could make use of these terms and tools. The panelists will propose terms, tools and institutions for discussion, and will develop specific examples that will give real-life contexts for the interactive discussions (for example, a specific case involving protection of tropical forests from deforestation and harmful exploitation of non-renewable resources). One of the panelists will participate in each group. The workshop will close with a brief reporting-out from each group and wrap-up. | English, Spanish | McGill University | PhD candidate | Canada | Fair Sharing of the Earth's Life Support Capacity: Putting Money in Its Place | In conventional economics, the common unit of value, and hence the common language for decisionmaking, tends overwhelmingly to be money. Yet, making decisions based on money does not ensure fair sharing of the Earth's limited life support capacity among present and future generations of humans and other living beings. Putting the value of goods and services traded in markets (like washing machines, automobiles, babysitting, stock investing, and bananas) in the same basket as the value of things for which no real markets exist (like lives lost to pollution, bee pollination, storage of carbon in forests and wetlands, and healthy children), can lead to decisions that unjustly enrich a few at the expense of others. Part of the problem is that ecosystems and social systems are diverse and highly variable, and they have value that goes beyond how much people like them. Above all, the undue emphasis on monetary valuation poses a governance challenge. This activity will explore how governance systems would have to change if their decision making processes relied much less on monetary valuation as a key factor. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | US and Canada | gginmont@sympatico.ca | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | Together, the panelists will be able to facilitate discussions in English, French and Spanish. The main presentations will be in English and Spanish, so some whisper translation may be needed. Some of the breakout groups may require whisper translation as well. | ||||
74 | 3/10/2012 1:25:36 | Élie Belley-Pelletier | Changing nations through citizens | -To discuss difficulties and obstacles related to youth citizenship or social participation. -To adress the myths and realities related to these difficulties. -To asses if these difficulties are related a particular societal context. -To identify different strategies to overcome these obstacles. | This workshop is intended for smaller groups but can be held with up to 30 participants working mostly in break-out sessions. Therefore it is designed to be interactive and to create reflection amongst participants. The framework that will be presented as a structure for the discussions is a key point in understanding civic participation and the related topics. Hence, relating to the youth assembly's objectives, this workshop can be a good starting point for further discussions about the topic related to track one: changing nations through citizens. | 1. Ice-breaker: youth participation around the world; what is your profile? - 10 min 2. Confronting the myths... and realities of youth participation and civic engagement - open discussion on the prejudices about youth participation - 10 min 3. Situation scenarios analysis in groups of 5-6 - identifying the obstacles of youth participation in "comfortable societies" - 20 min 4. Presentation of a framework for youth participation - 20 min 5. Group discussion on appropriate solutions - 20 min 6. Conclusion and workshop evaluation - 10 min | English | Table de concertation des forums jeunesse régionaux du Québec | Agent d'information, veille et communications | Canada | What is the problem with youth engagement in "comfortable societies"? A dialogue on the myths and realities of youth participation worldwide. | Youth engagement is often the backbone of many civic movements, especially considering the demographic weight of youth in many countries. Inversely, in many other countries, especially the richest nations, youth engagement seems to be in a crisis. This session aims to discuss the difficulties and obstacles linked to youth citizen participation. With a provocative stance, this session will concentrate on confronting point of views about why, despite the positive image that is shown in youth events, we sometimes are under the impression that youth are too comfortable and apathetic for citizen involvement. Why is there such a low turnout amongst youth during elections? Why is it so difficult to interest youth to social and development issues in their communities? Why does mobilization and information seem so hard to achieve in the infobesity era. Is this and has this always been a myth? Are there differences in youth involvement between different countries? As practitioners of youth citizenship education and granting agency for youth-led initiatives, the Quebec youth forums have to deal with these questions every day and have developed a framework of comprehension on the topic that will guide us to finding a way to overcome obstacles to youth participation. | The Youth Assembly (September 3-4) | Canadienne | ebpelletier@forumsjeunesse.qc.ca | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | If necessary, there could be translation towards french. | ||||
75 | 3/10/2012 1:30:28 | Marinke van Riet | Changing nations through citizens | Overall objective: Increased awareness of the need for a transparent and accountable extractive industry sector Outcomes: Increased interest in the PWYP movement which will lead to more engagement Informed debate about the need for governance in the extractive industry Increased knowledge of a transparent and accountable value chain Key lessons learnt around connecting the islands of excellence | In the engagement workshop PWYP will bring three members from the coalition representing the diverse civil society members we have (women, sectoral, language). We will demonstrate how we tackle the battle for more transparency and accountability from various unusual angles slowly but surely disentangling the power of the industry through a united, interconnected and interdependent movement of cso's both in the developed and developing world. | We will bring three PWYP members from Asia, Africa as well as Canada and/or USA to share their experiences in very short succinct stories that shows how we connect our islands of excellence to build up our knowledge and help to develop new advocacy targets and audiences. They will most likely be representatives from Niger and Kazachstan, but at this point names cannot be confirmed yet. The session will be interactive using 'world cafe' techniques to solicit immediate feedback. | English, French | Publish What You Pay | International Director | United Kingdom | Radical openness in the extractive industry The experiences of Publish What You Pay | Secrecy in the mining and energy sector has put the brakes on sustainable development in countries rich in natural resources. Often these countries are mired in poverty and corruption as well as prone to conflict: in other words suffer from the 'paradox of plenty'. Yet if these resources are managed well they could form the key to domestic resource mobilisation and bring about sustainable development. What started with a simple message from 6 UK-based NGOs to demand that companies 'publish what they pay' and for governments to 'publish what they earn' has now mushroomed into a global civil society movement of 39 coalitions and 650 members. The Publish What You Pay movement campaigns for a transpanret and accountable management approach to the extractive industry and uses a variety of 'unusual' tools to achieve its goals. Firstly PWYP is actively involved in the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, a multi-stakeholder initiative in which civil society, industry and governments are equal partners to discuss transparency. The campaign also demands mandatory stock market listing regulations in the US, EU, Canada and Australia and is targeting the International Accounting Standards Board to consider a different -civil society- audience for its accounting practices. And we are targeting investors and IFI to ensure that contracts are transparent and negotiated fairly. As a global and interdependent coalition we are campaigning for a new and radical social contract in the extractive industry to lift the veil and give civil society the tools to hold both industry and governments accountable. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Dutch | mvanriet@publishwhatyoupay.org | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | As our coalition represents a linguistic as well as cultural diversity we will need whisper translation in French and English. | ||||
76 | 3/10/2012 1:30:45 | Marinke van Riet | Changing nations through citizens | Overall objective: Increased awareness of the need for a transparent and accountable extractive industry sector Outcomes: Increased interest in the PWYP movement which will lead to more engagement Informed debate about the need for governance in the extractive industry Increased knowledge of a transparent and accountable value chain Key lessons learnt around connecting the islands of excellence | In the engagement workshop PWYP will bring three members from the coalition representing the diverse civil society members we have (women, sectoral, language). We will demonstrate how we tackle the battle for more transparency and accountability from various unusual angles slowly but surely disentangling the power of the industry through a united, interconnected and interdependent movement of cso's both in the developed and developing world. | We will bring three PWYP members from Asia, Africa as well as Canada and/or USA to share their experiences in very short succinct stories that shows how we connect our islands of excellence to build up our knowledge and help to develop new advocacy targets and audiences. They will most likely be representatives from Niger and Kazachstan, but at this point names cannot be confirmed yet. The session will be interactive using 'world cafe' techniques to solicit immediate feedback. | English, French | Publish What You Pay | International Director | United Kingdom | Radical openness in the extractive industry The experiences of Publish What You Pay | Secrecy in the mining and energy sector has put the brakes on sustainable development in countries rich in natural resources. Often these countries are mired in poverty and corruption as well as prone to conflict: in other words suffer from the 'paradox of plenty'. Yet if these resources are managed well they could form the key to domestic resource mobilisation and bring about sustainable development. What started with a simple message from 6 UK-based NGOs to demand that companies 'publish what they pay' and for governments to 'publish what they earn' has now mushroomed into a global civil society movement of 39 coalitions and 650 members. The Publish What You Pay movement campaigns for a transpanret and accountable management approach to the extractive industry and uses a variety of 'unusual' tools to achieve its goals. Firstly PWYP is actively involved in the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, a multi-stakeholder initiative in which civil society, industry and governments are equal partners to discuss transparency. The campaign also demands mandatory stock market listing regulations in the US, EU, Canada and Australia and is targeting the International Accounting Standards Board to consider a different -civil society- audience for its accounting practices. And we are targeting investors and IFI to ensure that contracts are transparent and negotiated fairly. As a global and interdependent coalition we are campaigning for a new and radical social contract in the extractive industry to lift the veil and give civil society the tools to hold both industry and governments accountable. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Dutch | mvanriet@publishwhatyoupay.org | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | As our coalition represents a linguistic as well as cultural diversity we will need whisper translation in French and English. | ||||
77 | 3/10/2012 6:41:18 | Kate Ives | Changing nations through citizens | Topical awareness-raising - this group will tackle some of the most pressing issues faced by civil society in the world's newest country. Civil society is nascent in South Sudan, and there are many challenges - but we want to highlight the diversity and positivity for change that exists in the country, to create knowledge, opportunities and international linkages for civil society organisations. | (a) We have a balanced panel (including the facilitator) of two men and two women. All three speakers (excluding the facilitator) are from South Sudan. (b) We have the perspective of an academic (the University of Juba), and advocacy group (CEPO), and a private training provider (Reconcile). (c) Any discussion of civil society in South Sudan has to encompass security and stabilisation, and government accountability. This session will start with the first, bigger topic, and move into the second. We have 45 minutes for plenary discussion and in order to make the most of this time the audience will be given guiding questions at the start of the session. | The session will be facilitated by Ms Kate Ives, Integrity Research and Consultancy. Kate will introduce the topic, outlining the importance of civil society in South Sudan's independence struggle (10 minutes) Panellists will then present on their topic. 1. Peacebuilding and reconciliation: Ms Milkah Lala, Reconcile (10 minutes) 2. Fiscal accountability and the oil issue: Dr (Mr) Leben Moro, University of Juba (10 minutes) 3. Youth and advocacy: Mr Edmund Yakani, CEPO (10 minutes) We will then have questions from the audience and general discussion (45 minutes) Questions posed to the audience will include: - What experience can you offer from different countries/your own country about the role of civil society organisations in stabilisation and peacebuilding? - How can civil society hold the government to account in an environment in which open criticism of government is considered unpatriotic? | English | Integrity Research and Consultancy | Head of Stakeholder Engagement | UK | What is the role of civil society in peacebuilding and promoting good governance in South Sudan? | Since Independence in July 2011, civil society in South Sudan is redefining its role as the country attempts to transition from years of conflict and insecurity towards more stable development, growth and democratic governance. Conflict persists in pockets of the country and the ever-present threat of renewed war at the border with Sudan looms large. The heavy dependence of the economy on oil and natural resources increases the need for civil society to engage in issues of revenue transparency and budgetary monitoring. Yet civil society is nascent, and a myriad challenges (such as finance, capacity, corruption and intimidation) may hold emerging civil society actors back. In this session we want to share the experience of South Sudanese civil society, which is little known outside of the country itself. We also hope to draw on the experience of others, particularly in east and southern Africa and post-conflict states, to define the role of civil society in building a new nation. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | UK | ki@integrityresearch.co.uk | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | None | ||||
78 | 3/10/2012 22:19:09 | Tuesday Gichuki | Building partnerships for social innovation | A framework for bringing together public sector, private sector and the development sector to use their synergies to fight poverty in the South. | The session will bring together organizations from the North and South and governments to look at the possibilities that abound for making the world a better place to live in.participants will include volunteer organizations working in peace and development, the environment, women and youth empowerment. | Introduction - Dr Tuesday Gichuki Corporate Social Responsibility , a Kenya case study- Dr Tuesday Gichuki - Kenya Role of Development organizations in Africa - Sekamana Archimede-Rwanda Plenary Discussion - Benon Webare -Uganda Way Forward- Chipo Muzorewa - Zimbabwe | English | National Volunteer Network Trust | Executive Director | Kenya | Making sense of Corporate Social Responsibility, a Southern perspective | In the South, Corporate Social Responsibility is a beautiful name for photo ops for companies' Annual Report . On the other hand there is a myriad of strugglingdevelopment and voluntary organizations struggling to raise funds internationally to run their programs. The corporate world has no incentive to invest in these development initiatives due to lack of legal frameworks that could give them tangible benefits like tax breaks and recognition of their effort. This activity will look at the possibilities of setting up a framework for the corporate world, government and development workers could work together to raise living standards of the poor. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Kenya | abdulmalikg@yahoo.co.uk | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | French | ||||
79 | 3/11/2012 18:43:14 | Christina Karchevskaya | Changing nations through citizens | To meet people from other communities and other countries, who use the same tools, to exchange methods and tips, to find new ways of work with social media for changing society and for building democracy. | It is sharing of knowledge, ideas, methods and brainstorming for those who work for change in the web. | 1. Blogging for advocacy 2. Facebook for advocacy 3. Twitter for advocacy 4. Information about other useful and new trending tools (google +, pinterest, mobile apps etc.) 5. Discussion. | English | European radio for Belarus | social media manager and journalist | Belarus | Application of social media for advocacy and community building | I have a lot of experience working with social media in Belarus, I can share my knowledge and also share interesting tips on how to use social media for community building, for advocacy, for crowd soursing etc. | The Youth Assembly (September 3-4) | Belarusian | chris.gomel@gmail.com | Training Workshops – 3 hours | The training will be in English, so, probably, En - Fr and En - Sp translations will be needed. | ||||
80 | 3/12/2012 11:35:12 | Syed Tarikul Islam | Building partnerships for social innovation | Objective: The overall objective of the activity is positive socio-economic change of a community Expected outcomes: a)A strong partnership is developed among the concerned stakeholders of the particular community. b)A strong network is established among GO, NGOs and CBOs working with the same or similar issues in the community. c)Expected socio-economic change prevails in the community | a) Bringing diversity of voices in your panel (women, youth, indigenous communities, language, regional and/or sect oral diversity: The primary target population of the CR is marginalized women, children, youth and indigenous communities. The programs will be designed and developed with the participation of the local community people specially women, children, youth and indigenous communities with their own language for bringing diversity of voices. b) Convening a minimum of 3 different organizations in your activity panel: Socio-economic change of a particular community depends on many factors and needs collective efforts to reach and sustain the goal and objectives. Therefore, at least 3 local organizations will be conveyed in our activity panel to strengthen the efforts of the activity. c) Quality topic triggering innovative reflection, presenting innovative ideas, sharing best practices or consulting and brainstorming with participants: Community Radio is for the Community people, ownership of the radio will also be belonging to them (community). The radio will always speak about the community- their health, education, food, agriculture, occupation, life style, history and culture, games and sports, drama, songs, transports, talk-show, daily market prices, service centres, weather forecast etc. The programs will brodcast preferably in local language by the local community people for quality trigging innovative reflection, presenting innovative ideas, sharing best practices and brainstorming with the participants. d) Allowing for participation and discussion across participants: The activity session will be participatory so that participants can actively take part in the discussion and programs. | What is the outline of your activity session and the composition of your panel? Our activity session will be on need and importance of partnership building and role of community networking in social change. Speakers and topics are as follows: Speakers’name Topic 1) Syed Tarikul Islam- Importance of Partnership building for social change 2) Md. Shamsul Alam - Role of Community Networking in social change | English | Alliance for Cooperation and Legal Aid Bangladesh-ACLAB | Executive Director | Bangladesh | Partnership building for social change through Community Radio Networking | Installation and operation of Community Radio (CR) in Bangladesh is new initiatives. Private sector/NGO/entrepreneurs are installing and operating Community Radio with the permission of the Government. The main purpose of the CR is socio-economic and cultural development of the community people with their active participation. Hence, in order to socio-economic and cultural development of the community people, CR focuses on health, agriculture, economic, education, information, HIV/AIDS, climate change and disaster management. As a result, awareness raising skill development, transparencies are built among local community people and on the other hand, networking is established among government and non-government service providing departments/organizations which resulted quick service delivery to the community people. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Bangladeshi | tarikul_1964@yahoo.com | Buzz Sessions – 1.5 hours | Whisper Translation needs to communicate to the World Assembly Team who can arrange for volunteer whisper translations during our session. | ||||
81 | 3/12/2012 14:28:18 | Abro Mohammad Shakeel | Building partnerships for social innovation | -To create awareness and sell the idea of working with a most deserving segment of society-The craftspersons who faces multiple challenges now a days in a machine made competition. -To highlight the improtance of inclusion of all segments of society in development process. -To share similar experiences in different parts of the world. | The proposal will generate a discussion of creative crafts and its role in development process.The best practises will be shared. | -Video Documentry on crafts of Pakistan. -Presentations 1- Reviatlisation of crafts- A case study of AHAN Pakistan- Shakeel Abro | English | Aik Hunar Aik Nagar-AHAN | Regional Coordinator | Pakistan | Building sustainable livelihoods through revitalisation of crafts | In developing social entrepreneurship for suatainable development is quite new idea for developing countries like Pakistan and the activity falls in the selected track. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Pakistani | shakeelabro@ahan.org.pk | Flash Presentation (Pecha Kucha) – 1.5 hours | french | ||||
82 | 3/12/2012 16:03:41 | John Treat | Changing nations through citizens | This activity aims to present the results-to-date of ongoing research, solicit participants critical input and substantive additions, and add their voices and ideas to the growing global network described above. This presentation will in effect be a key movement-building moment in the life of a much larger project, aimed at participatory, ground-up movement building toward greater economic empowerment of working and poor people, and especially women and young people. Participants will come away with new ideas that they may be able to apply in their own contexts, and the opportunity to remain connected to a growing network of supportive peers from around the world who are committed to continuing collaboration beyond the World Assembly. | Specific presenters will be identified as ongoing research proceeds, to balance presentation of innovative ideas with presentation of diversity of views. Because the project which this session will flow from focuses on economic alternatives from around the world, and especially from the south, the aim will be to ensure ideas and perspectives from the south are well represented. Similarly, presenters will be drawn from diverse contexts, again prioritising for the global south. With the ongoing global economic crisis, increasing numbers of people, communities and institutions around the world are actively seeking alternatives to secure their own well-being and contributing toward a just and viable future. This challenging and evolving context calls for increased attention and effort to be put toward understanding and supporting these innovative and hopeful responses to this crisis and its consequences. Thus, we believe this topic is extremely timeous and certain to elicit active engagement, constructive critique, and inspiring new ideas. | Brief overview of project design and research findings to date (John Treat, GCAP SA); 10 mins Case study 1 (speaker TBD): At least one national / state-level project (e.g., Ecuador oil revenues, Namibia “basic income grant,” Bank of North Dakota); 10 mins Case study 2 (speaker TBD): At least one local initiative uncovered by initial research; 10 mins Full Group Q&A; 10 mins Small Group In-Depth Discussions on possibilities for collaboration; 20 mins Small Group Report-backs; 15 mins Full Group Discussion: Next Steps; 15 mins | English | GCAP SA | International Solidarity Representative | South Africa | Another World Is Happening: Democratising Economies, Strengthening Communities, Reimagining Ourselves | The proposed activity aims to present provisional findings from an ongoing critical action-research study of new and emerging initiatives in economic democratisation – i.e., initiatives that empower people, communities and organisations of working people to assume greater control over the allocation and use of economic goods and services that they produce. That project aims to cultivate a global network of practitioners of, and advocates for, economic democratisation, as a means to share ideas and resources, support one another in defending concrete gains, and uniting those working to imagine and create a world in which people’s creative energies are deployed in service of solidarity and sustainability, rather than competition and profit. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | USA | john.gcapsa@forum.org.za | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | TBD, depending upon final selection of presenters, which is to emerge out of an ongoing action-research project to ensure prioritisation on best-practice case studies. | ||||
83 | 3/12/2012 17:27:19 | Neba Celestine Asombang | Changing nations through citizens | To demonstrate that systems and structures that are the heart beat of a nations can actually be changed through its citizens. this will be done through sharing our experience from the implementation of project on Democracy and Grassroots Political Empowerment in the North West region of Cameroon 2003-2011 the expected outcomes are: -Seek partnerships to scale up this initiatives and -Market it as a model that others can pick it up and use in other countries faced with the same situation. | By making this presentation from Cameroon in Africa will bringing diversity of voices in the panel (women, youth, indigenous communities, language, regional and/or sectoral diversity). the presentation is an innovative reflection, presenting innovative ideas, sharing best practices with the participants | Speaker's name: Neba celestine Topic: Democracy and Grassroots Political Empowerment 30minutes presentation 30Minutes questions and discusion | English | Community Initiative for Sustainable Development (COMINSUD) | Contracts and Fund raising Officer | Cameroon | Democracy and Grassroots Political Empowerment | The present status quo in most if not all African states that is characterized by the existence of a minority but strong and privilege class at the expense of those who are marginalized, oppressed, exploited and discriminated upon can be changed through a mobilized, capacitated and committed population. This process of social transformation though slow can be achieved through Democracy and grassroots political Empowerment of the masses. Systems and structures within a nation can thus be changed through its citizens. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Cameroonian | nebacelestine@gmail.com | Flash Presentation (Pecha Kucha) – 1.5 hours | Presentation to be communicated to the World Assembly team who will arrange for volunteer whisper translations during the session | ||||
84 | 3/12/2012 17:32:55 | Miriam Rau | Changing nations through citizens | The overall objective is to share outcomes of a recent study on YAC and get further input. The desired outcomes include: -increased practical knowledge on how YAC can be implemented within NGOs/project implementation -more accountable youth programming -Increased youth participation in communities/countries | a)The study on YAC will be conducted in Palestine, Pakistan, and Senegal - therefore there will be a variety of countries represented b)The organizations will include: Oxfam Novib, the University of Sussex, and at least one youth partner organization - yet to be determined c)Will involve a mix of presenting innovative ideas, sharing best practices, and brainstorm with participants - which overall we hope will trigger innovative reflection. d)Yes | -Interactive presentation by Mairead Dunn and Olloriak Sawade (30min) -Specific case study by partner organization (15min) -Facilitated discussion with audience (15 min) | English | Oxfam Novib | Policy Advisor | The Netherlands | Youth as active citizens making a difference in their community; case studies from education and Sexual Reproductive Health(SRH) | At the core of the presentations and discussions will be about promoting youth to be active citizens (YAC) in order to make positive differences in their communities and their nation. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | German | miriam.rau@oxfamnovib.nl | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | Potentially French... | ||||
85 | 3/12/2012 18:21:59 | Gertrudes Ranjo-Libang | Changing nations through citizens | To develop a network of various women’s groups starting with participants to the workshop that will enable each organization to work together and provide mutual support for their demands and lobby work with their governments and with other regional and international bodies, e.g., ASEAN, United Nations, vis-à-vis issues affecting the exercise of women’s rights, e.g., environmental issues, the world economic crisis, among others. The concrete expected results will be – 1) a collage of women’s demand that could be used by their participants in their advocacy work, including similar workshops in their localities; 2) a networking plan; and 3) a proposal for a follow-up workshop at the next CIVICUS meeting. | The diversity will be shown by the different organizations coming from different concerns, namely: (1) GABRIELA, a national women’s organization in the Philippines (with seven international chapters) will talk about the various way in which they organize Filipino women, from organizing in poor rural and urban communities to helping set-up a women’s party list and to setting up chapters in various parts of the world wherever Filipino women are found. For the last nine years, GABRIELA was able to send women representatives to congress and it was also able to build chapters in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, United Arab Emirates, HongKong, and Netherlands; (2) Center for Women’s Resources (CWR), a resource center for women, will share its work in the use of literacy and numeracy program for raising awareness of indigenous peoples; (3) Immigrant Workers’ Centre – Montreal will share on how they are organizing migrant workers from various nationalities so that these women can fight for better migrant legislation; and (4) El Frente de Mujeres Defensoras de la Pachamama – Ecuador will share its work in advocacy work for women’s and human rights. The presentations are meant to stimulate sharing from the non-presentors. They will revolve around the issues being tackled by group presentors, their calls to action, and how they empower women to engage their own governments and other regional and international agencies. Presentations will be for 30 minutes; the next half hour will be for sharing by the workshop participants of the same topics; while the remaining half hour will be laying out the ground for continuous networking. | First part will be a 5-7 minute-presentation of each presenter using pictures and videos placed around the room. The order of the presentation will be as follows: First speaker: Ms. Gertrudes R. Libang of GABRIELA will set the tone of the workshop. She will talk on the importance of organizing as an important tool for empowerment and solidarity work. She will share the organizing work of Filipino women across continents; Second speaker: Ms. Tess Tessalona of Immigrant Women's Center will talk on enabling women migrant workers to fight for their rights; Third speaker: Ms. Lina Solano of El Frente de Mujeres Defensoras de la Pachamama will talk about advocacy on women’s rights particularly in Ecuador; Fourth speaker: Ms. Mary Joan Guan of CWR will talk about raising consciousness of indigenous people through literacy and numeracy; Then Ms. Libang will synthesize the whole discussion and will stir the sharing among the participants. A meta card will be distributed to each participant and will be asked to write one major issue of their organization. They will be asked to post the meta card over a poster showing oppression of women in the different sectors, which is shaped like a big fist. Eventually, the picture of oppression will be covered by the meta cards and will only show one big fist. Thereafter, the presenters will ask the participants how the issues will be answered by writing their strategies surrounding the big fist. For the last 20 minutes, the presenters and participants will then plan out on how the issues can be effectively worked out through continuous networking. This will be summed up by a facilitator where the output will be a networking plan. | English | General Assembly Binding women for Reforms, Integrity, Equality, Leadership, and Action (GABRIELA) | Deputy Secretary General for Internal Affairs | Philippines | Purple Act: Voices of Women as Voices of Change | This activity will bring together organizations, programs, and support institutions of women that are working at the national, regional and international levels. These women organizations will share their experiences in empowering women so that they can engage their own governments as well as international institutions on women's rights and welfare. In the process of exchange, shared experiences will be documented, the various demands will be put into a collage, and ways of networking with each other will be worked out. Each presenter will be asked to bring pictures and videos of their work for display at the workshop area. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Filipino | garlibang53@gmail.com | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | English will be the primary language to be used by the majority of the presenters, except to one Spanish-speaking presenter. So, there will also be a need for whisper translations. Yet, the innovative presentations and the interactive method for group discussion is meant to break language differences. | ||||
86 | 3/13/2012 6:25:03 | Sixto Donato C. Macasaet | Changing nations through citizens | 1. To share the country experience of Nepal and the Philippines in CSO engagement in governance reforms OUTCOME: Learnings/ strategies from the country experience of Nepal and Philippines that the participants may adopt in CSO-government initiatives in their respective countries 2. To conduct a multicountry consultation on effective CSO-government engagement in good governance OUTCOME: Facilitating factors and strategies for effective CSO-government engagement in good governance | The 3 proposed organizations that will share their experience in government engagement are: (1) People Power Vounteers for Reform (PPVR), a network of citizens’ volunteer assemblies and national volunteer organizations in the Philippines, working to safeguard their communities from corrupt practices in the government; (2) Caucus of Development NGO Networks (CODE-NGO), is the biggest national umbrella organization that represents more than 1,200 development NGOs, peoples organizations, and cooperative in the Philippines, formed to scale up NGO impact on national development; and (3) NGO Federation of Nepal (NFN), is an umbrella organization of more than 5,000 NGOs in Nepal, actively working to unite, organize and mobilize civil society for a peaceful and democratic country. These three organizations with their extensive membership of CSOs and volunteer organizations will bring into the meeting a range of CSO approaches and strategies in working on good governance drawn from their experience in their initiatives. It is hoped that in sharing their country experience, other participants may learn from them and adopt valid strategies in their CSO-government initiatives in their own countries. It is also hoped that in the group work session, the participants may contribute their own country experience to enrich the current initiatives of Nepal and the Philippines in working with their governments on good governance. | Case 1: Working on the peoples agenda from pre-election campaign to current engagements/ initiatives in good governance (15 minutes) Presentor: People Power Volunteers for Reform, Philippines Case 2: Dialing up participatory governance: bottom-up budgeting from local to natioinal level (15 minutes) Presentor: CODE-NGO, Philippines Case 3: Increasing civic engagement in Building the New Constitution of Nepal (15 minutes) Presentor: NGO Federation of Nepal Group Work: How can citizen’s demands be made more effective in building and implementing “social contracts” between CSOs and governments? (45 minutes) | English | Caucus of Development NGO Networks (CODE-NGO) | Executive Director | Philippines | People’s Role in Transforming Governance: from Covenants and Commitments to Concrete Actions | The proposed topics will tackle pioneering initiatives involving CSOs/people participation and engagement in governance reforms at the local and national level. Presentor 1: People Power Volunteers for Reform (Philippines) is a network of citizens’ volunteer organizations committed to working together and to engaging the national and local governments in order to curb graft and corrupt practices in their communities and in society and to alleviate poverty. Presentor 2: CODE-NGO (Philippines) is a network of development NGOs committed to taking civil society leadership in policy advocacy and partnership building in the public arena. It works on advancing transparency and accountability through programs that monitor national government agencies’ budgets and development assistance funds at the local level, and support CSO participative engagement in bottom-up budgeting in areas such as education, health, agriculture, etc. at a national scale. Presentor 3: NGO Federation of Nepal (Nepal) is a network of CSOs working on increasing civic engagement, governance and accountability in terms of spaces for articulation, contributions to multilateralism, policy dialogues, and increasing participation and strenghtening the voice of civil society in national development process. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Filipino | scmacasaet@code-ngo.org | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | None | ||||
87 | 3/13/2012 7:48:15 | K. Amirthalingam | Building partnerships for social innovation | • Organisation and development of tree growers association • Training to nursery raising, dry land farming technologies and protection of trees for farmers. • Raising the seedlings by trained women. • Distribute the free seedlings to farmers and plantation work carried out by farmers. • Income generation activity promoted by women SHGs village • Improving the / eco system food production and income and employment generation. Expected outcomes from this activity: • 31 tree growers association members trained o nursery raising and forestry management • 50 farmers trained on dry land farming technologies • Women starting the IGP activity • Horticulture plants (3000) planted • 30000 seedlings planted in Agro forestry system • 90 acres soil conservation works done • Migration rate reduced (25%) • Reduced debt burden, improved the employment and income generation opportunity. • Livelihood system, Natural resource management improved. Improved the nutrition & hinder, availability increasing. • Increase in the enrollment of children at school • Ensured the sustainable income • Preventing soil erosion, maintain ecological balance. • It provides solution to the problems of poverty, fuel, food, fooder and timer. • Strengthening peoples organisation and access to control over natural resources management. | ASSET has worked with community based organizations like womens self help groups, farmers clubs, tree growers association, youth clubs in the target area. They were involved in project formulation, planning and implementation of the project activities. The resource poor farmers unable to purchase the seedlings. So, they need free saplings. They contribute free labour and Mandays for the work. So, your help is must without your help, it happens own time. | The proposed Thangachimadam coastal villages in Rameswaram Island is situated in Ramanathapuram District. The Thangachimadam and its surrounding 10 coastal villages is predominantly inhabitated by small and marginal farmers and agricultural and non-agricultural laborers. The concentration of scheduled castes population is also higher. The vast section of population is depending on rain fed farming, which is devoted of security from natural vagaries. The people have been evicted from the traditional farming and migration process to semi urban areas was started from early 80’s in search of alternate employment. The project addressed the issues of Agro forestry promotion in the proposed villages | English | Association for Social Solidarity and Empowerment Training Trust (ASSET) | Managing Trustee | India | The proposed project title is “Sustainable Agro forestry programme and reducing Global Warming”. Agro forestry is a land use system that integrates agriculture, trees, people and animals in the same space, requesting in improved soil quality, higher yields, and improved standard of living. Agro forestry techniques are tailored to the needs of the community. In agricultural fields, fast growing multipurpose tree species are integrated into the agriculture system. The proposed Thangachimadam coastal villages in Rameswaram Island is situated in Ramanathapuram District. The Thangachimadam and its surrounding 10 coastal villages is predominantly inhabitated by small and marginal farmers and agricultural and non-agricultural laborers. The concentration of scheduled castes population is also higher. The vast section of population is depending on rain fed farming, which is devoted of security from natural vagaries. The people have been evicted from the traditional farming and migration process to semi urban areas was started from early 80’s in search of alternate employment. The project addressed the issues of Agro forestry promotion in the proposed villages through following activities. | ORIENTATION TRAINING TO THREE GROWERS ASSOCIATION: Three days training to be organized for 30 members. Resource person highlighted on nursery raising methods and forestry management techniques. TRAINING TO SMALL AND MARGINAL FARMERS 50 farmers receiving three days trainings on dry land farming technologies and tree plantation and management explained. WOMEN DEVELOPMENT THROUGH IGP ACTIVITY: The women folk in the village was traditionally remained away from decision making process with regard to resource management. This project provide running capital / credit support. Three women’s self help groups receiving Rs.20,000/- for this purposes. HORTICULTURE PLANTS Our project team will purchase following species from Agriculture university, Coimbatore. It will be distributed to the farmers and planting by farmers. 1. Guava : 600 2. Sapota : 600 3. Mango : 600 4. Custard Apple : 600 5. Pome Granate : 600 ----------------- Total Seedlings : 3000 ----------------- NURSERY RAISING AND PLANTATION ASSET would be established the nursery raising in Thangachimadam panchayat. In this project, 30,000 seedlings to be raised 1 Neem Azadirachta 5000 2 Tamarind Tamarindus Indica 3500 3 Nelli Embilica Officinalis 3500 4 Silk Cotton Ceiba petandra 3800 5 Kathi Savukku Acacia Auriculiformis 3500 6 Pungam Derris Indica 3500 7 Perumaram Ailanthus 3500 8 Subabul Leucane Leucocehla 3700 Total 3000 ASSET providing necessary basic facilities, technical and managerial back up to these nurseries. PLANTATION ACTIVITY: ASSET would be raised 30000 seedling’s The 30000 seedlings to be planted in Thangachimadam Panchayat and its surrounding 10 villages. The farmers given consent letter to us. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Indian | assetbasha2011@gmail.com | Training Workshops – 3 hours | English | ||||
88 | 3/13/2012 11:03:23 | Vardan Grigoryan | Building partnerships for social innovation | I have some social innovation ideas and I hope to find cooperation from foreign countries. Going to take part in other participants innovative ideas realization or discussion. | (b) - As I told above, Now I'm working with more than 3 organizations. (c) - Participated many global and local social innovative events. (d) - I'm open for any discussion across participants about social innovation | I don't prepare any presentation yet. Hope that I can give this information later. | English | Scientific Research Institute of Energy, NeoMedia, Google Technology User Groups, Armenian Social Media Association | Network administrator(SRIE), Programmers team leader(NeoMedia), Lead-organizer (GTUG Armenia), Director (ASMA) | Armenia | Now I'm an active preson in social media. I'm the lead-organizer of Google Technology User Group Armenia, I'm working at home on some social media projects by NeoMedia company, I'm cheif network administrator at Scientific Research Institute of Energy. Participated in Social Innovation Camp Armenia, Barcamp Yerevan, TEDxYEREVAN 2011, Google I/O Extended in Cairo, Startup Weekend Yerevan, GTUG's DAY 2011 in Google Russia, Google Developer Day 2010 Moscow, Google Developer Day 2011 Moscow. Organized an event called GTUG's DAY Armenia 2011. Preparing to have a talk during TEDxYEREVAN 2012./ | I'm an active person in social media. Worked on many social innovative projects by NeoMedia company. Participated in many local and global social innovative events like SiCamp, StartupWeekend, BarCamps and etc. So I can give my knowledge and experience. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | armenian | vardan@grigoryan.biz | Flash Presentation (Pecha Kucha) – 1.5 hours | I don't understand French and Spanish, so I need translation for these languages, | ||||
89 | 3/13/2012 18:22:32 | Bobby McCormack | Changing nations through citizens | The overall objective is to illustrate the power of Development Education and and create a deeper understanding of the underlying principles. The outcomes will be 1. A deeper understanding of Development Education. 2. Its role in changing society 3. Awareness of Personal Blindspots | A. Three people will co-facilitate this session. Bobby McCormack from Ireland, Dorothy Tooman from Liberia and Ben Mongi from Tanzania. All three have worked in partnership on a number of Development Education programmes. B. Each member of the panel works for a different organisation working in 3 different regions of the world. C. Development Education is interactive and participatory by nature. The session will adhere to best practice for adult education and will ensure all participants are engaged. D. Small Group work and a general Q and A session will form part of the session. | General Introduction to people and their backgrounds (20 mins) Brainstorming of What is Development Education in small groups feeding back to plenary (40 mins) Principles of Development Education (10 Minutes) Awareness of Blindspots (30 mins) Presentation of three organisations and their work (25 mins) Problem Solving Exercises (20 mins) De briefing (20 minutes) Q and A (15 minutes) | English | Development Perspectives | Director | Ireland | Seeing the World Differently - The role of Development Education | Development Education aims to provoke an ongoing critique of the world we live in and how it works. Development Education encourages exploration through learning and then action for change. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Irish | bobby@developmentperspectives.ie | Training Workshops – 3 hours | Translation into French would be super. | ||||
90 | 3/13/2012 22:32:55 | Mohammed Auwal Hassan | Changing nations through citizens | (1.) Food security: Increase in farm productivity ensures enough of what to eat interms of quantity and quality (2.) Social security: Increase in farm productivity translates directly into surplus food and cash crop production, which is sold to brings in income to the family. This empowers the families economically to and prevent social vices such stealing, robbery, fight, prostitution, child labour, child trafficking. (3.) Gender equality: Women constitute a major work force in the farm industry in Africa, increased farm productivity means surplus will be sold to generate income by the women folk, more income will levarage their say ans social status and in the society. | My proposal meets the selection criteria because it addresses five most important development related issues and challenges facing the society namely: (i.) unemployment, (ii.) poverty, (iii.) food and social security, (iv.) environmental degradation/pollution and (v.) climate change adaptation and mitigation. These five challenges and closely linked and interwoven and cannot be separated from one another. Unemployment generates poverty which leads to food insecurity. Lack of food creates hunger that will lead to various socio-economic problems in the society in form of stealing, fight, prostitution, child trafficking, child labour etcetera. Food insecurity is as a result of low farming outputs (production) which is largely due low farm productivity (yield per hectatre) caused by soil infertility/degradation, low or inadequate moisture due to erractic rainfall which is caused by climate change. The project is conceptualised, planned and developed to address all these five problems. Utilization of the product organicon will increase farm productivity through provision of nutrients to crop, control of agricultural pest and diseases | Speaker's name: Mohammed Auwal Hassan. Topic: Development of Commuity Based Agricultural Bussiness Innovations for Food Security and Poverty Alleviation in Nigeria. | English | EnviroSafe Organo-Allied Community Bussiness | Secretary | China | Development of Community Based Agricultural Business Innovations for for Food Security and Poverty Alleviation in Nigeria. | The activity is aimed at changing the attitude of youth, women and other vulnerable groups in Nigeria's poorest north east through capacity building and training on development of farming business to create gainful employment, income and alleviate poverty in the marginalized society. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Nigeria | hassanma2K@gmail.com | Training Workshops – 3 hours | None. I understand and can speak English language fluently. | ||||
91 | 3/13/2012 23:26:19 | Anabel Cruz | Changing nations through citizens | We aim to share our own cases, as well as explore other examples from audience, and to develop the implications for policy and practice for wider discussion and distribution . We will analyze first a set of concrete and recent or current movements and events from different regions, such as the Indian anti-corruption movement, the Chilean student movement and the “Occupy” initiatives. We will encourage the presentation of other examples from the audience and we will facilitate the discussion about what these eruptions of citizen energy reflect and their degree of connection or disconnection to existing civil society organizations. | The workshop will present first results of critical reflection processes to explore these developments and their implications in countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America. We will use first reports from Chile, India, South Africa and the United Kingdom among others as a stimulus for discussion of civil societies and the crossroads they face in many countries. | Then we will engage participants in discussing civil society evolution and civic activism in their own countries and their implications for the future. We expect that workshop participants will report on events in their countries and join the facilitators in reflecting on the implications of recent developments for civil societies, policy-makers and practitioners around the world. Presentations will be of 7-8 minutes each, total 30 minutes, and we will devote 60 minutes (70% of the workshop) to discussion and synthesis of emerging implications. We will be examining questions such as: • What are the emerging patterns of civil society evolution and local citizen activism? • How do those patterns relate to existing civil society organizations? • How will these changes affect social inclusion, human rights, political democracy and sustainable livelihoods around the world? • What are implications of these changes for policy-makers and practitioners? Workshop presenters and facilitators will include: • Anabel Cruz, Instituto de Comunicación y Desarrollo (ICD), Uruguay • Brian Pratt, International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC), United Kingdom • Kaustuv Bandyopadhyay, PRIA, India • Representative of African country, TBD • Moderator: L. David Brown, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University, USA | English | ICD, Uruguay / Chair of PTF / Humanitarian Accountability Partnership | Director | Uruguay | Society at the Crossroads: Citizen Action and Social Change | This activity falls exactly in the track “Changing nations through citizens” since it focuses on the rise of citizen activism in many forms across a broad spectrum of countries across the world, and the changes that such activism can bring globally and into the respective societies. The closing of spaces for civil society and repression and constraints placed on it by some governments are happening in parallel with the opening of new spaces and increased confidence elsewhere in civil society, in addition to other new challenges faced by civil society. We aim to discuss the emerging crisis of legitimacy for national governments posed by these movements in their respective countries and their questioning of the current model of governance. The demands by citizens in India, Chile or England open new channels to include the voices of previously marginalized sectors: citizens are engaged in changing their countries at local and global level. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Uruguay | acruz@lasociedadcivil.org | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | We will present in English. We hope to have whisper translation into Spanish and French, since we want a wide participation in our workshop! | ||||
92 | 3/13/2012 23:27:53 | Hussein Mahmoud Rawi | Changing nations through citizens, Building partnerships for social innovation | Empowerment of youth / girls in Upper Egypt to participate in political life by the end of 2012 Civic culture exists that supports democratic values and the active participation of all individuals in social and political life. | Indicator: % of the increase in the level of awareness on the rule of law and citizenship of participants after training. Definition: Pre/post tests on knowledge and understanding on rule of law and citizenship issues will be used to measure increase in knowledge. Target: 70% increase in the level of knowledge Baseline: Level of knowledge prior to training Data Source: Pre- and post-training test results | Indicator: % of increase on voter turnout among women in Upper Egypt on 2011 elections. Definition: The number of women, from Upper Egypt, who voted in 2012 election in comparison with previous elections. Target: 10% increase. Baseline: Level of participation in the last elections. Data Source: Official election records | English | Al Horia Development and Environment Preservation Association | Consultant | Egypt | Equalization of Opportunities to Support and Protect Human Rights | Empowerment of youth / girls in Upper Egypt to participate in political life by the end of 2012 Increase community awareness of the number of five districts in Qena, by the end of 2012 Preparing of human cadres in the field of human rights by the end of 2012 | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Egypt | fadecda_org@yahoo.com | Training Workshops – 3 hours | Arabic | ||||
93 | 3/14/2012 4:18:06 | Sabrina Ostrowski | Redefining global governance | Overall, we would like to show your attendees that contrary to popular belief, the youth wants to get involved. Model UN is a perfect platform for this. Our umbrella organization organizes both a university conference (McMUN) and a high school conference, with side trips to the real United Nations Headquarters. Ideally, we would like to get individuals interested in our conference, and just generate a word-of-mouth process. | a) The Secretariat members of McMUN are of both genders, all youth, speak a combined 8 languages, are from 7 different countries, and are all from different faculties of McGill university. b) McMUN, SSUNS, and IRSAM c) McMUN is known as the most innovative conference on the North American Model UN circuit and has been featured multiple times on the BestDelegate.com website. Additionally, members of McMUN, including myself, have made appearances on international media. d) Based on current events at the time of your conference, we would gear our organization towards these developments and build on what WE can do. | TBD Seeing as the core of our activities balance around current events, we would flow the whole session around world occurrences at the time. Speakers would include Secretariat Members of McMUN, McGill faculty members endorsing our organization, and Delegates having attended our conference. | English | McGill Model United Nations Assembly | Director of Public Relations | Canada | Model UN: Create the World You Want to Live In | The purpose of our organization is to promote the increasingly popular phenomenon of Model UN. This activity's possibilities expand far beyond what is generally believed. Through our conference, university students not only learn about historical, political, and economical realities of the past and the present, but they have the opportunity to redefine them. This motivates students to get involved in real life politics, as it engages them and also demonstrates that they do have a say and can generate concrete change. McMUN promotes awareness, involvement, and innovation. The way we do this is through Model United Nations Simulations. Our suggestion for our involvement in your conference is simply a presentation on what our organization does, how it has evolved, who it involves, and how we manage to make it happen. Many of our members also have different backgrounds, thus the selection of our speakers will be based on what your organization committee would like to hear about. | The Youth Assembly (September 3-4) | Canadian | pr@mcmun.org | Buzz Sessions – 1.5 hours | French | ||||
94 | 3/14/2012 6:49:53 | Charles Mugasa | Building partnerships for social innovation | This collaborative and interactive workshop; 1- Challenges Civil Society Activists’ about the nature of the new social contract and development paradigms that we seek whether it really creates; entrepreneurship, employment, empowerment for the underinvested and disadvantaged members in communities. 2- Explores a new paradigm of social economy that incorporates new economic practices, social policies and able to meet the growing demands of the people who are advocating for social justice, equity, by the end of privileges, for a genuine participatory democracy. 3- We highlight the need solidarity offset not just to think about our little personal or family interest, but attend to others, individuals and communities. 4- Provides a chance to investigate how government, planners, think tanks and financial institutions are plagued by paradigm paralysis. 5- Participants will be challenged to demonstrate in simple and practical ways of meeting the needs of the underprivileged communities through social entrepreneurships | For more than two decades, Society has been overly plagued by neoliberal capitalism and occupies a cultural niche. A financial crisis persists in many countries around the globe from Africa to Europe to Americans etc. resulting into continuing protests, due to the suffering resulting from the mishandling of these economies and the inability of political leaders to seek solutions to the chaos that basically hits disadvantaged citizens. Nonetheless we believe that the crisis being an opportunity to transition to another economic model. We realize that wicked problems certainly abound, be it affordable health care, hunger, world peace or global climate change that are seasoned by corruption, complacency. We emphasize that wicked problems require bold solutions and believe that forging solid partnership to address the wicked problem of economic diversification, coalescing around a focused vision and high level strategy is right way to go. It is through building partnerships for social innovation that we can forge ahead towards implementing a true economic “game-changer” and that is our noble task as civil society. | The general outline is the following: Short introduction to the topic by Mr. Charles Mugasa, Third Sector Uganda Chief Executive (15 minutes) Interactive Presentation by other presenters Mr. Francis Kabagambe Programme Director Students for Global Enterprise (SAGE, Ms. Teddy Najjemba – K - SACCO (20 minutes) Best practices in enterprising nonprofits - video clips and short story (15 minutes) Open Dialogue and discussions (20 minutes) Critical Assessment by the participants and Reflection activity and Post-Rio+20 (20 minutes) | English | Third Sector Foundation | Chief Executive Officer | Uganda | Adopting bold solutions to combat paradigm paralysis | As we work towards establishing a common code of values and conduct for cooperation as part of a new social contract and development paradigm, there is need to take bold solutions in order to combat paradigm paralysis that plagues the elites to ensure relevant new economic practices, social policies that are able to meet the growing demands of the people who are advocating for social justice, equity, by the end of privileges, for a genuine participatory democracy. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Ugandan | thirdsectoruganda@yahoo.com | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | Translation is needed for French & Spanish Audience Participants | ||||
95 | 3/14/2012 11:20:44 | Dorothee GUENEHEUX | Redefining global governance | Based on those two examples of different forms of governance at the international level, the discussions will focus on issues relevant to the track 3 which are: - How can civil society be better integrated and what could its role be within the international space? - Could those examples be duplicated in other international institutions? If yes, how? - What are the lessons learnt and to be shared in terms of the integration of civil society within international institutions and concerning their governance? | To be determined. | The potential speakers could be: Representatives of CSOs working with UNAIDS and/ or ILO such as ZACHAS in Serbia Representatives of trade unions for workers and employers, and of governments at ILO Staff members of the Civil Society Units at UNAID, ILO, UNEP and other UN bodies/ entities | English | CIVICUS | World Assembly and Convening Officer | South Africa | Round Table: International institutions and innovative forms of governance | We want to see how representatives of civil society organisations are integrated in the work of specific international institutions known for their peculiar form of governance, namely ILO and UNAIDS. Indeed, the International Labour Organisation is well known for the particularity of its governance. It has an unique tripartite structure where workers, employers and governments have an equal voice so as “to ensure that the views of the social partners are closely reflected in labour standards and in shaping policies and programmes.” UNAID is also peculiar in the international environment for the UNAIDS Secretariat works with 10 UN system organizations for coordinating efforts against AIDS. It also has a special Civil Society and Private Sector Division working with many partners on the ground at different levels, for programmatic partnerships, advocacy, fundraising support, or even contributions-in-kind. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | French | dorothee.gueneheux@civicus.org | Round Table | French/ Spanish | ||||
96 | 3/14/2012 12:15:05 | Apollo jaramogi | Building partnerships for social innovation | The overal objective is the empowerment of citizens to engage governements and all development practioners to demand for accountability and social justice for all. The expected outcomes include; informed and equiped participants with innovative ideas for practical skills in dynamic leadership for social change. The discovery that empowered communities can discover their talents and gifts as an opportunity to build their economic power. | Our proposal is all inclusive, represents gender and age category in representation, one women, one diabled and one adultsman. Two members represent two of our affiliate community based organisation; oriwa project and Acayo project working with the mother organisation.Uganda orphans rural development programme | Name Topic Apollo Jaramogi Dynamic leadership for social change Oketcho joshua small village savings for change Joyce baker Nabwire Right based approaches - a way forward forDev't | English | Uganda Orphans Rural Development programme | chief Executive officer | Uganda | Citizenry power delivers social justice. | Building partenrships and social innovation has been part and percel of our work, we have both the experience and expertise in partnership and alliance building for social change. All this leads to social justice that we passionately pursue with other global partners such as the American jewish world services. We are confident we can share this wealth of experience with the rest of the world participants. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Ugandan | jaramogikende@yahoo.com | Engagement Workshops – 1.5 hours | None | ||||
97 | 3/14/2012 13:42:11 | Christine Wilson | Building partnerships for social innovation | The overall objective is to give young social entrepreneurs a platform to tell their stories, share best practice and seek new and innovative ways of working together. + Session participants will be inspired by the stories they hear to seek new and sustainable ways to make a positive difference in their communities + Session participants will leave knowing more about the need to forge new alliances across traditional sectors + Session participants will leave with a greater understanding of the value of international working | As well as a representative from the British Council and from one of our partners, we will bring a number of social entrepreneurs to share their stories. We currently work in countries including Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia, Turkey and Ukraine. All have stories to tell, case studies to demonstrate and best practice to share. The focus will be on the young social entrepreneurs themselves. Having shared their activities, they can discuss what inspires them and why working internationally has worked for them. Finally, they can brainstorm new ideas, seek new partnerships with their peers, find ways to amplify their voice on the international stage and extend the influence of their network. | British Council (name tbc) 5 minutes Academic partner (name tbc) 5 minutes Other sector partner (name tbc) 5 minutes 3 x social entrepreneurs, from Asia and Europe 10 minutes each The rest of the time will be in group dialogue covering suggested three areas: new sector alliances, social value, international working. Within these areas the participants will self facilitate discussion groups, so they can set and achieve their own outcomes. | English | British Council | Society Adviser | UK | Social entrepreneurs: working across borders to change the world | The British Council has been working with the private sector, universities and young people across Europe and Asia to develop their skills as social entrepreneurs. There are two aims: to develop their skills for the world of work, as entrepreneurs and job creators, and to build an understanding that work can have social value, can serve the needs of a community as well as an employer. Our approach shows the need for innovative partnerships, across the private, public, academic and third sectors. In addition, our added value is of cultural relations: bringing together the next generation of social entrepreneurs across national borders. By working together, they will develop bonds of trust and a willingness to engage with their peers around the world to make a difference. | The Youth Assembly (September 3-4) | British | christine.wilson@britishcouncil.org | Buzz Sessions – 1.5 hours | Participants are likely to be from Europe and East Asia.Many are confident in engaging in English. There may be a need for Turkish translation. | ||||
98 | 3/14/2012 14:15:15 | Eugnelio Buquine | Changing nations through citizens | Overall Objective Strengthen the participation of the participants and / or farmers and their organizations in the processes of design, implementation, monitoring of public policy and development strategies; Outcomes 1. Increased capacity of farmers at all levels to investigate and develop policies açõees advocacy and lobbying diagóstico based on local realities 2. The capacity of peasant participation in the design process of public policies; 3. Increased ability to influence the public policies and development programs 4. Expanded and guaranteed that the voices of peasants in defense of food sovereignty is heard at all levels. 5. Ensured the active participation of farmers in the implementation of public policies and influence decision-making process | because we are a most disadvantaged group and our rights have been violated constantly for multinationals. Is an opportunity to seek alliance of various actors and to build a thought that governments begin to take into account this group of society. Is also an opportunity to exchange experience | Facilitator, moderator, speaker and participants | English | National Union of Peasant - UNAC | Advocacy and Policies Officer | Mozambique | The peasant in the center of political. Make the subject of peasant and / or agriculture the agenda of decision makers | Our work fits into the theme "Changing nations by citizens'' for the following reasons: The main objective is to represent the farmers and their organizations to ensure their rights, economic and cultural Our actions vision the citizen at the center of development policies, aims to fight for greater role of farmers (men and women) in the construction of a fairer, more prosperous and inclusive! We assume that the government of our country should put the definition of the peasant in the center of the agenda of the country through a local or endogenous development that involves most of the population of Mozambique. strengthening the participation of farmers and their organizations in the design process, implementation and monitoring of policies to ensure food sovereignty | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Mozambique | eugnelio.buquine@gmail.com; unac.adv@gmail.com | Flash Presentation (Pecha Kucha) – 1.5 hours | I will make a presentation in English but if there is the possibility of translating Portuguese to English, welcome | ||||
99 | 3/14/2012 16:13:33 | Jacob Asogonnde | Redefining global governance | To increase the participation of young people in local and national governance for effective democracy in Ghana. Many young people becoming members of the various District Assemblies in Ghana and even parliament. With some serving in Government as ministers of state. | This proposal will involve different political, religious, professional, tribal, and other sectors of society and will involve the youth, women, and all other categories of people in Ghana. It will be implemented by more than five stage holders organizations, National Youth Authority (NYA) Better Life Organization (BELO) National Centre for Civic Education (NCCE), Human Right and Administrative Justice, Kadjebi District Assembly, Women Rights Network (WRAN) The Assemblies of God Church Asato and Electoral Commission of Ghana. Consultation and brainstorming will be the methods to be used which will enable innovative reflections to show out among the participants and make the discussions more involving as all are encouraged to be part. | The details of the activity will be a three hours workshop with the following facilitators. 1. Jacob Asogonnde- The role of the youth in our democratic governance, 2. Yussif Dramani- Young leadership skills development 3. Robert Tom Boya Hobenu - Constitutional Democracy in Ghana the way forward | English | Better Life Organization (BELO) | Executive Director | Ghana | Youth and democracy - the case of Ghana | In Ghana Democracy and governance seem to be the perceive of the older members of society, but the youth have critical roles to play and of cost what happens in Ghana have a direct relationship with global governance,. | The Youth Assembly (September 3-4) | Ghanaian | belogh@gmail.com | Training Workshops – 3 hours | French and Spanish | ||||
100 | 3/14/2012 22:11:11 | Addys Then and Anabel Cruz | Changing nations through citizens | We aim discuss situations and results of the work of hundred of civil society organizations in Latin America that are currently engaged in improving their accountability and transparency. By means of flash presentations and images (Pecha Kucha) from 6 to 8 different countries we will illustrate our cases and convey the results of self-regulation and promotion initiatives in those countries and regions and the challenges faced by organizations. After 30 minutes of presentations, the facilitator will moderate a 1 hour discussion between the audience and the presenters so to extract emerging policy implications and recommendations | The session will bring together: (i) Six to eight countries from different regions (probably ; (ii) representatives of civil society organizations from those eight countries: (iii) the CSO represented include women groups, youth groups, NGOs, networks and wide diversity of organizations bringing the diverse voices of the regions. The different presenters will convey in a very dynamic format the challenges faced in each country when organizations decide to embrace self-regulation and their work vis-à-vis local governments, national governments, mass media, social networks, international cooperation and other relevant actors. | We propose to present an overview of the Regional Network Rendir Cuentas in Latin America and other Accountability initiatives around the world (3 to 5 minutes), followed by presentations of each country (3 minutes per country, with an image) focusing on one specific topic or challenge, situation that represents the relational character of accountability and different audiences. After the first 30 minutes, we will engage participants in discussing a set of prepared questions that intend to “decode” the different situations. The aim will be to discuss policy implications, extract and synthesize conclusions and prepare recommendations. Introduction and presentations will be total 30 minutes, and we will devote 60 minutes (70% of the workshop) to discussion and synthesis of emerging implications. Workshop presenters and facilitators will include: • Addys Then Marte, Alianza ONG, Dominican Republic • Analia Bettoni, Instituto de Comunicación y Desarrollo (ICD), Uruguay • Daniel Barragan, CEDA, Ecuador • Guillermo Correa, RACI, Argentina • Rodrigo Aguilar, Red de Actores por el Empleo Juvenil, Bolivia • Consuelo Castro, CEMEFI, Mexico • Representative of PCNC, Philippines • Representative of the Accountability INGO Charter • Moderator: Anabel Cruz, ICD Uruguay and Rendir Cuentas | English, Spanish | Alianza ONG and ICD (Dominican Republic and Uruguay) | Directors | Dominican Republic and Uruguay | Civil Society Accountability: means for an increased legitimacy | This activity falls in the track “Changing nations through citizens” since it focuses on innovative and successful forms of local, regional and national efforts for improving governance. The foundational principle is that the participation of civil society organizations can change nations and that civil society organizations make themselves better heard by governments or other actors if they can practice what they preach. Thus, accountable, transparent, efficient and ethical organizations should be more successful in their lobbying and political incidence efforts. | The World Assembly (September 5-7) | Dominican Republic and Uruguay | acruz@lasociedadcivil.org | Flash Presentation (Pecha Kucha) – 1.5 hours | Spanish to English and French, if possible |