The Global Call to Action Against Poverty GCAP

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The Global Call to Action Against Poverty
(GCAP) www.whiteband.org

• The start A meeting in Johannesburg with seventy
  organizations from around the World
• The pledge To remind government leaders from
  around the world of their promises at the
  Millennium Summit in 2000
• The issues More and better aid
• Debt cancellation
• Trade justice
• Strategy popular mobilization through white band
  days

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Structure and Launch of the Campaign

• The Global Action Platform (GAF)
• The International Facilitation Group
• The specialized sub-groups
• Policy and advocacy
• Media
• Website
• Outreach
• Support of national coalitions
• Mobilization
• G7

• World Social Forum 2005- Porto Alegre
• Press Event in World Economic Forum 2005
• In Asia and some African and Latin American
  countries- December 10th 2005- Skip a meal
  campaign
• National GCAP/MDG platforms

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Three key moments for the Call in 2005

• The G8 meeting in July
• First white band day on July 1st 2005
• GCAP calls for
• The Millennium 5 Summit in September
• Second white band day on September 10th 2005
• GCAP calls for
• The WTO Ministerial Meeting in December
• Third white band day on December 10th 2005
• GCAP calls for

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Action on aid and debt

• Role of IFIs and campaigning on World Bank and
  IMF
• 0.7 of GNI as ODA (proposal since 1970)
• The G7 role
• UK and Canada positive on debt cancellation
• US- Japan, Germany and Italy still reluctant
• Major international proposals for financing the
  MDGs
• The international financing facility- British
  Proposals
• The Hunger and poverty fund- Brazil with support
  from France, Spain, Chili, and Germany
• Innovative taxes on air tickets and fuel- France
  and Germany
• GCAP activities
• Nelson Mandela speaking on debt cancellation
• Letter and visits to G7 foreign ministers

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Action on trade

• The impact of WTO and other trade agreements
  including the Euro-Med partnership and the US
  bilateral agreements with developing countries
• Some of the issues to be considered
• Ending dumping- agricultural subsidies- access
  of Northern markets by southern exporters-
  conditionalities by IFIs pushing towards trade
  liberalization- the special and differential
  treatment for developing countries- the trips
  conditions through bilateral agreements-
  reconsideration of TRIPs agreement- the dominant
  role of EU and US within the WTO
• GCAP activities Trade Justice campaign and the
  Global Action week on Trade in April- working on
  elaborate agenda and position from Trade issues-

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GCAP and the MDGs campaign

• Three main UN reports to be considered
• In Larger Freedom- towards security,
  development, and human rights for all
• A more secure world Our shared responsibility
• Investing in Development a practical plan to
  achieve the MDGs
• Role of CSOs in the processes of the UNGASS on
  MDGs (Millennium 5)
• Mobilization at the national levels- moving from
  raising awareness to on the grounds action
• GCAP activities Writing to the UN SG in November
  2004 on the limited role of NGOs in the M5
  Summit- resulting January 24 brainstorming
  meeting with UN representatives- Meeting with
  President of UN GA

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The regional GCAP meetings

• The meetings are strategy and planning workshops
• Aims at
• Setting policies on the three issues- trade, aid,
  and debt, and mobilization strategies
• Looking into how to join forces with efforts from
  other regions
• Coordinating at regional and global levels
• Identify national specifics of the GCAP campaign
• Identifying the decision making bodies on which
  to lobby
• Establishing national coalitions and outreach
  strategies
• Setting a regional time-tracked work plan for
  national coalitions

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Key points for the Arab region

• Priorities End foreign occupation- democracy and
  god governance- development
• Periods of reforms and change
• Stressing role of CSOs as advocacy agencies-
  opportunity to remind our governments we are here
  active monitoring following up and reflecting
  peoples needs
• Role and participation of Arab CSOs with
  UN-related activities
• Enhance role and pressure and coalition building
  between CSOs, GCAP arena where national specifics
  are stressed but regional and global dynamics are
  complementing it and strengthening it
• There is a need for more research and analysis
  produced from the Southern perspective to be used
  as basis for work plans and proposals to improve
  trade results for developing countries
• Institutions, summits, and roles to consider
  League of Arab States- Gulf Cooperation Council-
  Latin American- Arab Summit 10-11 May 2005-
  Africa Union Summit- WTO regional ministerial
  preparatory meeting organized with ESCWA- EU-Med
  partnership and ministerial meetings- Egypt's
  role in the G20-