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Globalnet - March 28, 2008
Looking Forward - From CSW 52
In a CSW 52 - 2008 (UN
Commission n the Status of Women) de-briefing with Ambassador Olivier
Belle, Chairperson for CSW, and Carolyn Hannan, Director of the
Division on the Advancement of Women, held in
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http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/doha/index.htm
Follow-up International
Conference on Financing for
Development to Review
the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus
29 November
- 2 December 2008, Doha, Qatar
In accordance with
General Assembly resolutions 61/191 and 62/187, the
review conference should address progress made, reaffirm goals and commitments,
share best practices and lessons learned. The conference should also identify
obstacles and constraints encountered, actions and initiatives to overcome them
and important measures for further implementation, as well as new challenges
and emerging issues.
http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/civilsociety/csngos.htm
Civil Society in the
Follow-Up Process on Financing for Development
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WIDE
is a European feminist network of women´s organisations, development NGOs,
gender specialists and women´s rights activists. WIDE monitors and influences
international economic and development policy and practice from a feminist
perspective.
Financing for
Development's Road to Doha
By Nerea Craviotto, WIDE newsletter, December 2007
This month the UN General Assembly adopted the "Resolution on
the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to review
the implementation of the Monterrey Consensus" (FFD Resolution).
The follow-up conference will be held in Doha, Qatar, on 29
November 2 December 2008. In terms of the level of participation, as stated in
the FFD Resolution "the
Conference will be held at the highest possible political level, including the
participation of Heads of State of the Governments, ministers, special
representatives and other representatives, as appropriate".
The Conference will include "plenary
meetings and six interactive multi-stakeholders roundtable on the six major
thematic areas of the Monterrey Consensus". The conference
will result in an "intergovernmentally
agreed outcome".
This review conference "should
assess progress made, reaffirm goals and commitments, share best practices and
lessons learned and identify obstacles and concerns encountered, actions and
initiatives to overcome them and important measures for further implementation,
as well as new challenges and emerging issues."
The Resolution requests the President of the General Assembly to
"continue direct
intergovernmental consultations of the whole with the participation of all the
States and the major institutional stakeholders involved in the Financing for
Development process on all the issues related to the Review Conference".
This will include "six
substantive review sessions [...] on the six thematic areas of the Monterrey
Consensus [...] with representatives of civil society and the business sector
during the period from January to June 2008". It also calls
for "regional consultations". Results from both consultation
processes should inform the first draft of the Doha outcome document to be
ready by the end of July 2008, followed by "informal consultations and drafting sessions [...] in
September 2008 until the holding of the Review Conference".
Seeing the outcomes of the Resolution, CSOs are rather
disappointed with the relaxed formulation "highest possible"
regarding the level of participation that would allow for Ministerial or Summit
level representation. Since the possibility of Heads of State is mentioned,
this would call for further lobbying for representation to be at the Head of
State level.
CSOs welcome the nature of the outcome document and the language
on participation for civil society. In principle in Doha there will be access
not only for NGOs with ECOSOC accredited status but also for others who will
need to request accreditation for this very specific conference. The Resolution
also seems to present an improved process for CSO participation on the road
towards Doha (in the consultations). The Resolution not only describes the
consultations as "inclusive and transparent" but also notes that they
must be "scheduled in advance".
WIDE expects that the commitments made in the Resolution will
materialise. It will coordinate with other women´s organisations and CSOs to
ensure our concerns are part of the discussions in Doha.
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