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Priti Darooka

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Sent: 27 April 2016 15:28
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Subject: [peoplesaarc] Preparing a SAARC report card

Friends,

As you know we are attempting to evaluate the SAARC this year and come up with a SAARC report card (see mail below).

In this context there is a discussion going on with various groups (trade, gender, food security/sovereignty, environment/climate change, poverty, refugee rights, human/democratic rights etc). I am reporting some key points below on which there are some concrete suggestions.

Timeline

3 months (May-July) to prepare the first draft of the report card (from each of the issue areas that various friends are taking responsibility for.)

First draft by end-July.

Collation of first drafts by mid-August.

Finalization of the report by mid-September.

Advocacy and media outreach - September & October.

PSAARC Regional Convention & SAARC Summit - First week of November

Report structure -

Since this is the first time we are attempting this - as each team brainstorms and comes up with a template to format their report card - if they can share it with the PSAARC-India Secretariat, then we can share it with all the teams - so that there is some consistency across the various issues on which SAARC is being evaluated. This allows for some balance between uniformity/consistency and flexibility for each issue area.

Please drop us a mail if you/your organization is willing to take responsibility to evaluate the SAARC on a specific issue area or if you'd like to contribute to an issue area where work on the report card is being undertaken.

Thank you and looking forward to your suggestions/comments and if you're volunteering to contribute to the report card.

Best,
Rakhi

Rakhi Sehgal

National Coordinator

PSAARC-India Secretariat

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Date: 17 March 2016 at 15:27
Subject: Preparing a SAARC report card
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Dear Friends,

We have often discussed that we need to systematically monitor the working of the SAARC and prepare a report card especially regarding the various areas of work that SAARC is officially engaged in and its progress on the various commitments it has made over the years.

At the Kathmandu PSAARC it was encouraging to see how the various movements and groups have been consistently evaluating SAARC's functioning in their own areas of work and specialization and have many suggestions and recommendations to offer to strengthen SAARC's work.

For example, EquityBD and Focus on the Global South have evaluated the working of the SAARC seed bank and food security initiatives; WOREC Nepal and others have pointed out the weaknesses in the SAARC Convention on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Women and Children etc etc etc.

We would like to request all friends to share their report cards, evaluations, briefing notes etc. on the functioning of various SAARC initiatives, if you have any, so that we can compile them and bring out a comprehensive report in preparation for the SAARC and PSAARC conventions later this year.

We also encourage friends if they haven't yet prepared such an evaluation of SAARC in their focus area of work, to do so and share it. The PSAARC-India Secretariat will also be happy to facilitate and help such initiatives, so do let us know.

We hope everyone will contribute to this effort so that we can build on this and strengthen the interaction between SAARC and PSAARC.

Looking forward to everyone's contributions.

Best,
Rakhi