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Making the Marginalised Matter at the Bamako Polycentric World Social Forum
Submitted by Administrator on 23 January, 2006 - 11:31.
CGP Tanzania organised a workshop under the title Making the Marginalised
Matter, which was well attended by participants from various African
countries. They showed great interest in CGP's work generally, and in that
of CGP Tanzania in particular.
The session was co-chaired by Marie Shaba of CGP Tanzania and Sari Varpama
of CGP Finland. Marie Shaba invited the participants to give their input
into the follow-up Conference of the Helsinki Process in Dar es Salaam in
September 2007, where CGP Tanzania intends to take centre stage encouraged
by the experience of the Helsinki Conference in 2005. We are going to
bring forth the concerns of civil society in Tanzania, and Africa at large, said Shaba. We are not going to be on the margins at this international Conference.
CGP Tanzania is in a good position to do just this: the former Helsinki
Process Co-Chair Minister Kikwete is now the newly elected President of
Tanzania; the new Foreign Minister, Asharose Migiro, was the governmental
representative of Tanzania at CGP's seminar at last year's WSF in Porto
Alegre, Brazil.
While Sari Varpama told about CGP's work generally, Fr. Privatus Karugendo
explained the regional work of CGP Tanzania at grassroots level, which has
been actively carried out over the past year under the slogan Taking CGP
to the People. The participants were keen to learn more about the way
CGP has engaged with marginalised groups.
The seminar delightfully showed that there is further demand for the
approach that CGP has taken. Next week, CGP Brazil is organising an event
at the Caracas Polycentric World Social Forum in Venezuela.
Citizens' Global Platform (Finland)
Sari Varpama
After an uplifting opening march of the Bamako Polycentric Forum, where traditional African costumes and camels mingled with European participants, it was time for the real work to begin.
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| Participants marching in the streets of Bamako. (Photo: Tuomas Ylä-Anttila) |
CGP Tanzania organised a workshop under the title Making the Marginalised
Matter, which was well attended by participants from various African
countries. They showed great interest in CGP's work generally, and in that
of CGP Tanzania in particular.
The session was co-chaired by Marie Shaba of CGP Tanzania and Sari Varpama
of CGP Finland. Marie Shaba invited the participants to give their input
into the follow-up Conference of the Helsinki Process in Dar es Salaam in
September 2007, where CGP Tanzania intends to take centre stage encouraged
by the experience of the Helsinki Conference in 2005. We are going to
bring forth the concerns of civil society in Tanzania, and Africa at large, said Shaba. We are not going to be on the margins at this international Conference.
CGP Tanzania is in a good position to do just this: the former Helsinki
Process Co-Chair Minister Kikwete is now the newly elected President of
Tanzania; the new Foreign Minister, Asharose Migiro, was the governmental
representative of Tanzania at CGP's seminar at last year's WSF in Porto
Alegre, Brazil.
While Sari Varpama told about CGP's work generally, Fr. Privatus Karugendo
explained the regional work of CGP Tanzania at grassroots level, which has
been actively carried out over the past year under the slogan Taking CGP
to the People. The participants were keen to learn more about the way
CGP has engaged with marginalised groups.
The seminar delightfully showed that there is further demand for the
approach that CGP has taken. Next week, CGP Brazil is organising an event
at the Caracas Polycentric World Social Forum in Venezuela.
Citizens' Global Platform (Finland)
Sari Varpama
Links
Kepan sivuilta myös tietoa Bamakosta ja Caracasista
(http://www.kepa.fi/kampanjat/tapahtumat/kansainvaliset_kokoukset/2006/ba...)
Source:
UN Association of Finland 