Do we need a GN of NGOs?

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Do we need a GN of NGOs?

• Yes! (as far as participation in the GN does not
  reduce/affect involvement in the GP/DRR)
• The GN should build on existing networks and
  focus on what National and Regional Networks
  cannot provide/achieve by their own means

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Potential Objectives

• To provide a platform for NGOs to share
  experience and dialogue for concerted actions to
  promote disaster risk reduction, especially at
  the community level
• To promote South-South and South-North
  cooperation among NGOs through information
  sharing, knowledge exchange and capacity
  building.
• To enhance knowledge transfer from local to
  global levels, and vice versa, in order to build
  the resilience of communities
• To encourage an active role by NGOs in
  mainstreaming disaster risk reduction into
  pre-disaster developmental and post-disaster
  recovery programmes
• To increase the voice of NGO concerns and the
  visibility of NGOs contribution to the ongoing
  global effort to reduce disaster risk
• To facilitate NGOs access to global resources
  (knowledge, skills, networks, partnerships,
  funding, etc.) for disaster reduction and related
  activities

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Potential Activities (i)

• Lobbying and advocacy raise critical issues and
  influence policy at the global level
• Facilitate learning and knowledge exchange
  between NGOs (documentation of case studies, good
  bad practices)
• Focus on integrating DRR into development
  planning processes (capacity building activities,
  etc.)

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Potential Activities (ii)

• Set basic standards/criteria for disaster
  resilient communities
• Conducting research on critical issues to
  influence policy on an individual NGO basis

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Added value of the GN

• Influencing global policy more effectively
• Conveying/expressing one voice on critical issues
  for greater impact
• Provide significant inputs to the GP/DRR
• Represent communities and community-based
  organisations at the global level
• Learning function for identification of critical
  issues
• Linking of NGOs synergies

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Role of the ISDR secretariat

• The ISDR secretariat should continue serving as
  an anchor institution (organise meetings,
  facilitate a focal point for NGOs, etc. role to
  be clearly defined)

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Membership Criteria

• Need to ensure a balanced representation (south,
  north, gender, community representation)
• Commitment to implementation of HFA, sustaining
  the GN, etc.

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Performance Monitoring

• Should be kept minimal in order to avoid overload
• Minimum level criteria and standards should be
  set
• Specific activities to be defined in order to
  better assess performance
• Measure and assess changes to global policy
  based on set targets

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What may be the major focus activities of the
Global Network (up to June next year)?What do
we want to achieve by June?- A formal
launching, separate meeting of all NGOs present,
propose next steps (multistakeholders meeting)-
Draft statement - agreement on NGO participation
in the national platform - from a civil society
perspective, make suggestions on priorities.
Participate in the online discussion on
HFAindicators - Showcase of community practice
on CBDRR. Submit to ISDR cases (linked to
identified priorities).- Encourage engagement of
NGOs in DRR
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How do we move forward and advance the
development of the Global Network?
Outline and document the process- Agreement on
basic draft document (ToR), through a
consultation process through existing networks
and other channels/activities January 1- ISDR,
UNDP south-south, ProVention Consortium (?)
facilitating role February 28 (semi-final draft
2)- Circulate semi-final draft to the group and
get feedback by March 31 - Circulate draft 3 for
reading - April 30- Final draft 3 presented in
June 5-7 to be endorsed by the launch
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Launching activity
- Presence of speaker- Presence of media press
release, short version of the statement- Email
consultation?- Oenone and Manu?
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Statement - key messages
- Sarah to collect inputs for the statement and
January 1 - Prepare draft based on inputs
February 28- Circulate draft statement March
31- Finalize statement April 30- Circulate
draft statement among NGOs May 15- Read
statement during the launch June 4
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Recommendations
- Global Network of NGOs to be represented in the
GP/DRR representative(s) of the network