This meeting will look for a way in which to enforce the issues taken into consideration in the LDC Conference, the WTO process, and finance for development in the context of the Rio Conference, and link them into a new context of global process of change and commitment for sustainable development and cooperation

Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke (MS)

a Danish members' organisation combining development assistance with both political lobbyism and active grassroot.

Would like to invite you to attend a workshop organized among the activities taking place in  the NGO Forum on LDCs

Title:                A New Deal

Date:               Monday  May 14^th   

Time:               2 pm to 4 pm

Location:            Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles 

                        Entrance via Parc Léopold; Rue Belliard 137

                        1000 Bruxelles                                      

BRIEF:

Linkages between the LDC-conference, WTO, Financing for Development and Rio+10

NGO’s all over the world have already focused on the Rio+10 summit – the World Summit for Sustainable Development – for a while. The link between social issues, notably poverty, and environment is the general point of departure. And the political aim for the summit has by many been defined as the so-called New Deal. A New Deal between the rich and the poor countries of the world, which enables the combined combating of poverty and global environmental problems. We will focus on the linkages between the global processes in e.g. the WTO, Financing for Development and the Rio+10 Summit, with the aim of engaging the participants in a fundamental debate about the political base for globalisation. Another objective is to discuss ways to ensure that the inter-linkage between the different processes is acknowledged and used positively in negotiations as well as in implementation processes.

Chair:

Mr. Martin Lidegaard, Director of Information,

MS - Danish Association for International Development.

Presentations:

Ms. Anita Bay Bundegaard, Minister for Development, Denmark

Aspects of Danish policies in connection to a New Deal.

Mr. Kimbowa Richard, JEEP, Uganda:

The New Deal and Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Uganda.

Ms. Berit Asmussen, MS - Danish Association for International Development, Denmark: 

Presentation of the process and projects of the Danish International and Danish preparation of Civil Society for the World Summit for Sustainable Development.

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