The
Commission for Social Development (C soc D) and the Preparatory
Committee for the High Level Meeting on Financing for Development
(FfD) are both taking place in New York during the weeks of February
12 and 19. ICSW will have a small team at both events.
The
aim of ICSW's involvement in the Commission for Social Development
and the Financing for Development process has been to influence
the views of national governments and the UN system to ensure
that issues that ICSW has identified through its many regional
and sub-regional meetings over the past five years are included
in the documents and debates being discussed in the two forums.
The
Commission for Social Development will be discussing:
- Enhancing
social protection and reducing vulnerability in a globalizing
world,
- The
role of volunteerism in the promotion of social development,
- The
multi-year programme of work of the Commission for 2002-2006.
The
FfD Prep Com will be discussing the four different chapter headings
identified for the High-Level event, namely:
- Mobilizing
domestic financial resources for development
- Mobilizing
international resources for development: foreign direct investment
and other private flows and Trade
- Increasing
international financial cooperation for development through
inter alia ODA and Debt
- Addressing
systemic issues: enhancing the coherence and consistency of
the international monetary, financial and trading systems in
support of development
The
FfD Coordinating Secretariat has held regional meetings for Africa,
Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean,
the Middle East, as well as NGO and Private Sector "Hearings"
in New York. There will be a further Prep Com in May 2001 and
another in January 2002. The date and venue of the High Level
event itself have yet to be decided.
ICSW was represented at the NGO Hearing and produced a paper on
taxation reform and its benefits for mobilizing domestic financial
resources for development. ICSW has also produced a proposal for
an Anti-Poverty Pact (to be found under the publications section
of this website). These two documents will form the basis of our
lobbying for the FfD Prep Com.
ICSW
has organised a number of different events during the two weeks.
These are as follows:
Sunday,
11 February 2001
Labouisse Hall, UNICEF, New York
CIVIL
SOCIETY FORUM
Briefing on the Prepcom for the High Level meeting on Financing
for Development and the 39th Session of the Commission for
Social Development
|
| 9.30
- 9:45 |
- Introduction
& Welcome
-
Qazi Faruque Ahmed, President, ICSW
|
Session
1
9:45- 11.15 |
- United
Nations events in 2001: An introduction to the issues and
the logistics
- Barbara
Adams
Co-ordinator, United Nations Non Government Liaison Service
(UN- NGLS)
- John
Langmore
Director, United Nations Department of Social Policy and
Development
- Barry
Herman
(Financing for Development Secretariat)
- Federica
Pietracci
(Financing for Development Secretariat)
- Discussion
|
| 11.15
- 11.30 |
|
|
Session
2
11.30 - 13.00
|
- United
Nations events in 2001: How do they interrelate?
- Chair:
Tba
-
Vivienne Taylor
Advisor to the Minister for Social Development, South Africa
(invited)
- Mauricio
Escanero
Facilitator, Finance for Development Prepcom, Mission of
Mexico to the United Nations, New York
- Anwarul
Karim Chowdhury
Coordinator of the Least Developed Countries Summit, Permanent
Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations, New
York
- Discussion
|
| 13:00
- 13:30 |
|
Session
3
13:30 - 15:00 |
- What
are the priorities for the upcoming UN events?
- The CSO - Perspective -
-
Chair: Manfred Bardeleben,
Friedrich Ebert Foundation, New York
- Gemma
Adaba
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions(ICFTU)
New York
- Julian
Disney
International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW)
- Jocelyn
Dow,
Women's Environment and Development Organisation
(WEDO)
- Peter
O`Driscoll
Center of Concern, Washington DC
- Discussion
-
Closing remarks: Tba
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