Subject: [RCEM RCC/AG: Attention Wali - Farmers Constituency] Seeking a speaker/expert on social aspects of rural development and agricultural policy (Policy Workshop: Transition towards Sustainable Agriculture in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – Strategic Implementation and Monitoring of Policy Progress, 15 – 17 November 2016, Bogor, Indonesia)
Dear RCC/AG in particular Wali,
Please find below an email from ESCAP seeking for a speaker on social aspects of rural development and agricultural policy. Wali, can you please share the email below to the larger RCEM list-serve and Farmers' Constituency List Serve by today please?
My proposal is we can accept nominations/self-nominations, as long as they provide these following details (let me know if I missed any questions!)
(1) Name
(2) Email
(2) Organisation
(3) Profile of Organisation
(4) Bio of nominee
(5) Rationale of nominations - describe expertise, knowledge and engagement on the issue sustainable agriculture in the context of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and social aspect of sustainable agriculture and how forthcoming agricultural policies/practices/technologies and contribute in the process.
(6) CV
We also need to include our criteria:
1. Specific expertise, knowledge and engagement on the issue of (a) Sustainable agriculture in the context of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and (b) social aspect of sustainable rural development and how forthcoming agricultural policies/practices/technologies and contribute in the process
2. Representing Asia and Pacific grassroots movement, social movement or CSO network from Asia and Pacific (notes: priority will be given to ' grassroots speaker' - which means those whose lived reality illustrates the struggles of people enduring the consequences of current economic model).
3. Capacity to strongly articulate/present the views/position of civil society/social movements on the issues/topic at hand.
4. Openness/willingness to receive (and present) inputs from broader civil society; not just from his/her own organisation.
5.Able to articulate gender/women's rights perspectives
Process of nomination/self nomination for CSO speakers :
2. Review by RCEM Regional Coordinating Committee for further information or clarifications,
3. RCEM will send the full list of nominations by 26 October 2016
4. ESCAP will select from the nominations and communicate the result.
We should also say that Based on our usual practice, regardless of who is selected, the selected person will need to process the interventions through inputs from other Asia Pacific CSOs. Therefore, the selected people should commit to:
- Sending the key points to the big RCEM list-serve by 12 November 2016
- Collecting feedback and sending a draft of the intervention by 14 November 2016
- Sending a summary of the event and final intervention to RCEM secretariat to upload to the website by 18 November 2016
I also already have some people in my mind that I think would be good for this, like Azra and Ajay, and maybe some of you have your own strong nominees even outside RCEM; we need strong speakers so let's try to submit good nominees!
Warmly,
Rina
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Subject: Seeking a speaker/expert on social aspects of rural development and agricultural policy (Policy Workshop: Transition towards Sustainable Agriculture in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – Strategic Implementation and Monitoring of Policy Progress, 15 – 17 November 2016, Bogor, Indonesia)
To: Wardarina - <
ri...@apwld.org>, Marjorie Pamintuan <
mpami...@aprnet.org>, "ranja.sengupta1" <
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Cc: Nobue Amanuma <
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Dear RCEM colleagues,
Our colleagues at the
Centre
for Poverty Alleviation through Sustainable Agriculture
(CAPSA) are seeking a good speaker and expert who can talk on social aspects
of sustainable rural development, and how forthcoming agricultural policies/
practices/ technologies can contribute to progress.
Could we request the farmers/ rural
development constituency's help to identify good options for speakers?
Up to 5 options can be provided. CVs should be sent to ichi...@un.org
by 26 October, ideally.
The Policy Workshop: Transition towards Sustainable
Agriculture in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
– Strategic Implementation and Monitoring of Policy Progress will be held
on
15 – 17 November 2016, Bogor, Indonesia and is organized by the Centre
for Poverty Alleviation through Sustainable Agriculture
(CAPSA),
and the Statistical
Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP), in collaboration with Bangkok-based
divisions of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
(ESCAP).
The workshop's objectives are as follows:
(a) to
enhance the participants’ capacity for engaging in designing, implementing
and monitoring the progress in policies to accelerate transition to sustainable
agriculture and contribute to attainment of sustainable development goals
(b) to
contribute to formulating national, subregional and regional strategy for
intensifying capacity building efforts and strengthening of knowledge sharing
and mutual learning for accelerating transition towards sustainable agriculture
and contributing to attainment of sustainable development goals.
(c) to
strengthen regional networking for knowledge and experience sharing among
policy makers, senior officials, statisticians and experts / stakeholders
working on promotion of sustainable agriculture.
The programme will feature the following
sessions (tentative list):
· Session
1 - Sustainable Development, the 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development
Goals
· Session
2 – Agriculture’s Link with Socio-Economic and Environmental Sustainability
· Session
3 – Measuring the Policy Impacts and Progress
· Session
4 - Emerging Policy choices for Promoting Sustainable Agriculture
· Session
5 - A Way Forward for Strengthening Regional Cooperation
The workshop is expected to engage approximately
30 participants. Financial support is provided from the Asia-Pacific Regional
Action Plan of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics.
On the issue of wider participation (likely
non-funded), please give me a couple of days to get back to you.
--
Wardarina
Programme Officer of Breaking Out of Marginalization
Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD)
Co-chair of Asia Pacific Regional CSO Engagement Mechanism (AP-RCEM)
Ph: (66) 53 284527 Skype: apwldsec
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