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Group Work on Lobbying or Face-to-Face Meeting

TASK

As Abeolumo Human Rights Coalition, one of the NGO groups at the workshop, role play how you are going to approach the chairman House Committee on info so as to correct erroneous impression of the Attorney General and suggest the need to adapt/enact the FOAI in Eletikun state of Kogberegbe.

The group identified the problem statement first which is the fact that the FOI bill has been passed and by virtue of law should be binding on all federative units but some states are trying to exempt themselves.

The following steps have been outlined:

  1.  Write a letter to book an appointment with the Chairman House committee on information.
  2. Prepare for the advocacy meeting.

Note: while preparing for the advocacy meeting, it’s necessary to first identify why previous attempts has been abortive.

  • Identify members that would form the advocacy team. The team should include major stakeholders such as the media, vulnerable groups, NCWS and so on.
  • Identify lead speakers and delegate roles to each of them.

Introduction by 1st speaker (member of the CSO coalition and also a media correspondent of the House of Assembly, this person is also the one who used the practice of lobby to get the Chairman to fix an appointment with the group)
Paper presentation by 2nd Speaker (coordinator of the coalition group)
Conclusion by 3rd speaker (representative of the NCWS group)

  • Develop a position paper which should include quotations from the FOI Act.

Note: while presenting the paper, it should be emphasized that the federal law supersedes the state law.

Also references should be made to past achievement by the group, in other South-West state.

  • Go as a team to see the chairman, do a paper presentation and then make the Chairman House committee on Information make a commitment that would enable the group to do a follow-up and come up with fruitful outcome.
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Beyond2015

OUR VISION

An equitable and sustainable world where every person is safe, resilient, lives well, and enjoys their human rights; a world where political and economic systems deliver well-being for all people within the limits of our planet’s resources, human rights are realized, poverty has been eradicated and the environment is safe-guarded. There is social justice and peace, safety and security are a reality for all.

OUR CORE VALUES

OUR IMPLEMENTING VALUES

  • Accountability
  • Evidence
  • Effectiveness Participation

KEY RECOMMENDATIONS

Universality

  • Agree one set of global goals aiming for eradication of extreme poverty by addressing its root causes.

  • Enable contextualized national targets for developed and developing countries (based on the principle of common but differentiated responsibility) to measure and track progress towards sustainable development and ensure accountability.

Human Rights

  • Ensure that the framework is wholly consistent with international human rights law and standards and demonstrates how progress towards its goals will also achieve greater fulfillment of these rights.

Poverty Eradication

  • Aim for the eradication, not simply the reduction, of extreme poverty.

  • Embed poverty eradication in all goals and targets which, in turn, must aim to ‘get to zero’ rather than pursue percentage reductions.

Environmental Sustainability

  • Address inter-generational justice by establishing mechanisms to address the rights and needs of future as well as present generations.

  • Specifically recognize global resource constraints and aim at a more equitable distribution of resources in addition to sustainable development.
  • Incorporate the precautionary principle – the burden of proof that an action or policy is not harmful to the public or the environment should fall on those taking the action.

  • Work towards outcomes which are both low-carbon and climate resilient.

Inequality

  • Adopt a central framework based upon equality, equity and human rights that deliberately seek to improve the life chances of the poorest and most vulnerable with a focus on resources for the most marginalized.

  • Ensure inequality is an explicit focus of economic policies and strategies.
  • Prioritize gender equality and women and girls’ rights and empowerment.
  • Address other dominant forms of group-based inequality that result in inequitable outcomes, particularly those related to age, disability, ethnicity, caste, sexuality and the special needs of children.
  • Better measure development progress among the poorest and most marginalized.
  • Identify and address institutionalized patterns of inequality.

  • Proactively involve the poor and marginalized in decision-making.

Principles of the New Framework (in a few more words)

UNIVERSALITY: The new framework must recognise shared global challenges and include the obligations, ownership and accountability of every country to respond to the needs of ALL. Contextualised national targets are needed for different countries, reflecting different challenges and strengths, and inspired by the principle of common but differentiated responsibility.

HUMAN RIGHTS: The framework must be wholly consistent with international human rights law and standards, address injustice, and demonstrate how progress towards its goals will also allow progressive realisation of these rights. The framework must embrace a holistic, rights-based approach to development that is based on equality, equity and inclusive participation, ensures that the most marginalized can benefit from development and growth, and must empower all to be active agents of change.

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY: The framework must specifically recognise global resource constraints and should aim at a more equitable distribution of resources in addition to sustainable use of renewable and non- renewable natural resources. The framework must set out how it meets the rights and needs of future as well as present generations. All goals and targets must be consistent with environmental sustainability.

EQUITY: The framework must promote reductions in inequality within and between nations. Progress must be aimed at entire populations, not percentage improvements, ensuring that ALL are included and not only those most “easy to reach”. Consequently, the framework must deliver action which specifically targets those who are most marginalised and vulnerable, ensuring that they are equally included in the implementation and outcomes of the framework.

Beyond 2015 UN Working Group Contacts: Debra Jones, Save the Children, debra.jones@savethechildren.org Rosa Lizarde, Global Call to Action, rosa.lizarde@whiteband.org
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