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GEO/ICAE
1. - IALLA III 2007
Announcement On 18 and 19 June there will be a preparatory meeting for the Latin American and the Caribbean Regional Conference in support of Global Literacy. It will take place in Santiago, Chile. We have received the information that this meeting is not part of the preparatory process towards CONFINTEA VI. There will be another meeting for that purpose as part of the regional process. Voices Rising will inform when and where that meeting will take place.
Only 2 weeks left to apply for ICAE Academy of Lifelong Learning Advocacy (deadline: June 30, 2007). Please note that there are scholarships for applicants from the south.
(French bellow - Francais cidessous)
The
International Council for Adult Education (ICAE) is pleased to announce its
third edition of the Academy of Lifelong Learning Advocacy that will be held
in Montevideo, Uruguay, from September 24 to October 12, 2007.
………. FRENCH
Le Conseil International d'Éducation des Adultes a le plaisir d'annoncer la troisième édition de son cours de formation en défense des droits pour l'apprentissage tout au long de la vie (ICAE Academy of Lifelong Learning Advocacy - IALLA), qui aura lieu à Montevideo, Uruguay, du 24 septembre au 12 octobre, 2007.
La date limite pour se présenter est le 30 juin 2007. Veuillez envoyer les renseignements à: icaeialla@gmail.com
Merci d'en
donner la plus ample diffusion.
08/05/07
Ciara
O'Sullivan
“We challenge the G8 leaders to look us in the eye and say that they would have acted with the same abhorrent lack of urgency if the 6000 people dying of AIDS daily in Africa and the children dying needlessly around the world every three seconds were from their own countries” said Kumi Naidoo, Chair, GCAP.
The announcement on Friday of $60billion to tackle disease (AIDS, malaria and TB) and support health systems is less than the amount outlined in Gleneagles. There is no timeframe for delivery and a deliberate absence of detail. The G8 also showed weakness in tackling climate change in a meaningful way. Although their announcement of a long-term process to address the issue is welcome, the poor wonder if it will deliver too late for them to save their lands and livelihoods.
“To say that $60billion will be delivered over the coming years is not comforting at all given that Putin, Blair, Bush will not be in office to deliver this through. There is no guarantee that their successors will honour these pledges, making much of the communiqué easily disposable words”, added Kumi Naidoo in Germany today.
Through their failure, the G8 particularly ignores the plight of millions of women worldwide struggling with the burden of poverty and disease. In effect, this G8 is a betrayal of women as well as young people, workers entitled to decent work and the most vulnerable.
“They are effectively saying to the people in Africa and across the South: don’t raise your voices - the poor, the sick and the starving of the world can wait another year. There’s no rush. I say to the G8 no, we will not be silenced, the people will hold you accountable for your lack of responsibility”, concluded Naidoo.
Under the umbrella of GCAP, millions have taken actions since 2005 to end poverty and inequality as well as demanding that the UN Millennium Development Goals are met and exceeded. As we approach the MDG’s halfway point governments have been clearly mandated to address poverty with far greater urgency than they have demonstrated to date.
See below
the reaction to the summit outcome from GCAP activists around the world.
Ciara O’Sullivan, GCAP Media Coordinator, + 49 151 53655193 ciara_os@hotmail.com Kel Currah, GCAP’s G8 Working Group, + 49 151 536 55 191 kel_currah@wvi.org
REACTION TO G8 SUMMIT OUTCOME FROM GCAP ACTIVISTS AROUNS THE WORLD
“I was there two years ago in Gleneagles. What they promised that day was not enough, far from what was needed or what they could easily afford. But it could make a difference. It is a scandal that two years later they are running away from even these inadequate promises. This is a failure of leadership on a grand scale, and one that the world can ill afford.” Kel Currah, GCAP G8 Coordinator and World Vision International
"The G8 has remained a platform for dodging real issues that affect daily lives for people of the South. No effort was made to address failures at the WTO level in terms of trade justice or remotely deal with dangers posed by Free Trade Areas and Economic Partnership Agreements. Its deliberations pave the way for trans-national corporations to destroy people's economies and sustainable livelihoods." Thomas Deve, GCAP International team and founder MWENGO Zimbabwe
“On the big issues of aid to Africa and climate change, this G8 will go down as a missed opportunity. Mr. Harper’s miserly refusal to make financial commitments for HIV/AIDS, education and overall aid to Africa, like his efforts to postpone serious reckoning with climate change, is far out of step with the Canadian spirit. Unless he opens his heart and his wallet, it will be all the harder for people to work their way out of poverty.” Mark Fried, spokesman for Canada's Make Poverty History campaign said:
“From the birthplace of the Andean civilisation, our people aspire to a better future and global justice. We are ashamed the G8 failed to use its decision-making powers to guarantee the survival of the planet. It is life itself that is at stake. We needed the commitment on keeping global warming to under 2 degrees but” Héctor Béjar, Nacional Coordinator of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty and inequality, Peru.
'It was right to put African healthcare at the top of the G8's agenda. But we struggle to see how the outcome will get healthcare to a single child presently facing unpayable doctors bills. The warm words are cold comfort to those children.' Matt Phillips, Save the Children UK.
“This summit is a disgraceful indictment of the world's most powerful leaders' commitment to Africa and AIDS. Instead of writing a cheque for the war against AIDS they have written off 3 million of lives every year.” Aditi Sharma ActionAid Internacional.
“The Arab region remains heavily reliant on official development assistance, especially the least developed countries in the region. However, in the Arab region, aid flows have been overly politicized; ODA is highly concentrated in a few middle income countries, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan. Moreover, it is quite odd that least developed countries in the Arab region have consistently received less aid than the regional average, at least in terms of aid per capita. Ziad Abdul Zamad, Arab NGO Network on Development.
"The G8 summit has been a triumph of words over delivery, of talk over action. Lives are not saved and promises not kept with warm words in declarations, they are saved by providing enough money, health-workers and affordable medicines to treat those in need. The G8 has ultimately failed to do this and failed to deliver for communities across the globe. They have a lot of work to do from here". Steve Cockburn, Aids Consortium UK.
Quotes continued: “Africa is on the frontline of climate change and many of its poorest people are already suffering increasingly volatile climatic conditions. Existing initiatives to tackle HIV and improve education and healthcare in poor countries, in which the G8 has [;ayed a Jekyll and Hyde role in recent years, are at risk of being swept away if climate change is not tackled.“ Andrew Pendelton, Christian Aid
NOTES to Eds The Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) is a worldwide alliance of trade unions, community groups, faith groups, youth, women and other campaigners working together across more than 100 national platforms. GCAP is calling for action from the world’s leaders to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality. In particular, GCAP demands solutions that address the issues of public accountability, just governance and the fulfilment of human rights as well as trade justice, aid quality and quantity, debt cancellation and gender equality. For details of actions planned in 2007 go to www.whiteband.org
3.- IEG-NORAD-UNECA Conference Engaging with Fragile
States: Challenges and Opportunities
ICAE has been invited to participate in the Conference: “Engaging with Fragile States: Challenges and Opportunities” and Babacar Diop Buuba, Vice-President for the African Region, has been appointed to represent ICAE in this meeting.
In close collaboration with the Norwegian Agency for Development
Cooperation and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa,
the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank will
host a Conference on
Engaging with Fragile States: Challenges and Opportunities.
The conference will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 24-25, 2007
at the United Nations Conference Center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Each session will identify specific problems as experienced in fragile
states, discuss concrete actions that have been successful in addressing
them, and draw lessons to ensure enhaced development outcomes in fragile
states. The sessions will result in guidance for each of the different
groups of stakeholders in fragile states--governments, donors, and civil
society/NGOs.
To
register:
http://www.worldbank.org/ieg/licus/conference/registration.html
Click
here:
http://www.worldbank.org/ieg/licus/conference/Program5-30.pdf to view
the preliminary program.
The purpose of the online discussion is to contribute to a further understanding of the existing mechanisms and processes of financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women at the national, regional and global levels; identify good practices and lessons learned and highlight gaps and challenges requiring further action.
The online discussion is part of the preparatory process of the 52nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) held 25 February to 7 March 2008, which will consider Financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women as its priority theme.
Registration for the online discussion
To register, please click on the following link to fill out an online form: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/forum/forum-daw-financing.htm
You are encouraged to register before 8 June 2007. You will receive an email with your username and password before the start of the online discussion.
If you have any questions about the registration process, please contact Mr. Rajkumar Cheney Krishnan (cheneykrishnan@un.org ) at the Division for the Advancement for Women.
Please feel free to circulate this invitation widely.
We look forward to your participation in the online discussion.
Division for the Advancement of Women
Background Commitments have been made on financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women by Governments at the international level, including through the Beijing Platform for Action (1995), the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly (2000), the Millennium Summit (2000), the Monterrey Consensus (2002); and the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005). However, limited progress has been made in channeling and allocating resources to translate these commitments into action. A large number of Governments have taken initiatives to integrate gender perspectives into their national budgets in order to reflect the differentiated needs of women and men. Despite these efforts, there are insufficient resources to adequately support policies and programmes that promote the advancement of women. In the area of development assistance, there has been a shift in the way it is delivered, with increased focus placed on sector-wide approaches or large programmes. Much of the funding for gender equality and the empowerment of women has been limited to the social sector, with fewer funds allocated in the agriculture, infrastructure and finance sectors. In addition to public finance and donor funding, funds and foundations have been established to raise resources for activities promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women. Women’s development funds have been set up in many countries and regions to fund local, national and regional organizations working towards gender equality and the empowerment of women. Private sector companies have also established foundations to provide funding for development activities, including gender equality. Contributions made to this online discussion will serve as a resource to the work of the Commission on the Status of Women in developing concrete recommendations on the issue of financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women. Themes of the online discussion The online discussion is scheduled to begin on 18 June 2007 and to continue for four weeks. Each of the first three weeks of the discussion will be devoted to one theme, while the last week will provide the opportunity to raise additional issues and wrap up. Further details and questions on the themes will be posted shortly on DAW’s website.
Week 1: 18-24 June 2007 Public finance: Using budgets for promoting gender equality Week 2: 25 June - 1 July 2007 Bilateral and multilateral assistance: The way forward for promoting gender equality
Week 3: 2 July - 8 July 2007 Funds and Foundations: Mobilizing private and public resources for gender equality
Week 4: 9 July - 15 July Other issues, wrap-up and recommendations for future action
The ground rules for the online discussion are the following. Messages must:
Be identifiable. Please include your name and organization (if any) at the end of your message. Messages without this information will not be posted;
Pertain to the subject of the week; Be in English; Be limited to three paragraphs or 500 words; Have no attachments; all text has to be in the body of the posted message; Contain no insulting language or statements.
Saludos,
Rosa G. Lizarde New York | e-mail: Rosaencasa@aol.com
5.- CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS – INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON EDUCATION, ECONOMY & SOCIETY
Rhonda Sussman, Secretary
6.- Call for bids: candidacies for WEEC 2011
NEWSLETTER/BULLETIN D'INFORMATION
Le
Secrétariat Permanent WEEC World Environmental Education Congress lance, à
partir du 1er juin 2007, un appel à candidatures pour accueillir la sixième
édition du WEEC qui aura lieu en 2011.
Il
segretariato Permanente WEEC World Environmental Education Congress lancia,
a partire dal 1 giugno 2007, la raccolta delle candidature per ospitare la
sesta edizione del WEEC che si realizzerà nel 2011.
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