Financing for Development

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Your Excellency, Mr President of the South South Co-operation Conference, heads of delegations and representatives of member states,  colleagues and representatives of the business sector and of parliaments, dear Civil society colleagues, ladies and gentlemen:
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Substantive session of the Economic and Social Council

  • Friday Jul 31,2009 05:56 PM
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ecosoc2Two Financing for Development items have been taken up during the General Segment of the Substantive session of the Economic and Social Council in Geneva over the past week (23-30 July). (more…)

10 Days of Action: Countdown to Commitments

  • Tuesday Jun 16,2009 03:16 PM
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Ten Days of ActionTake action to demand
a rights-based solution to the crisis!
June 16 – 26 - New York City and on-line globally

Civil society organizations and social movements are calling on all to take action in the lead up to the United Nations Conference on the Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development in New York City.  (more…)

Nous appelons les gouvernements à ne pas s’abriter derrière des arguments procéduraux pour s’autoriser à ajourner les négociations sur les mesures politiques qu’il est indispensable de prendre d’urgence pour répondre à la crise actuelle. (more…)

logosThe following position paper was endorsed by Euro step, Social Watch, the Arab NGO Network for Development, Asociación Latinoamericana de Organizaciones de Promoción (ALOP), South Asia Alliance for Poverty Erradication (SAAPE) and Least Developed Countries (LDC) Watch. (more…)

Statement by the Doha NGO group on financing for development

  • Tuesday Apr 28,2009 12:02 PM
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The following statement was delivered by civil society organizations speakers on Monday, 27 April 2009 at the ECOSOC High Level meeting with the Bretton Woods Institutions, the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. The ECOSOC meeting is expected to provide inputs into the preparatory process for the June UN General Assembly meeting on the World Financial Crisis and its Impact on Development.

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ECOSOC - United Nations Ecojomic and Social CouncilThe Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) held on Monday, 20 April 2009, a panel discussion on “Civil Society Perspectives on the Financing for Development Agenda” in preparation for its Special high-level meeting with the Bretton Woods institutions, the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (to be held in New York, 27 April 2009).   See below the interventions by panelists including Mr. Roberto Bissio, Director,  Social WatchMs. Marina Durano,  Senior Policy Researcher, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN),  Mr. John Foster, Principal Researcher,  North-South Institute and Mr. Aldo Caliari, Director,  Rethinking Bretton Woods ProjectCenter of Concern. (more…)

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