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The International Facilitation Team (IFT)

by Henri Valot last modified 2007-10-10 18:56

 

Mandate

  • IFT composition: The IFT has three co-chairs: Ana Agostino, ICAE, Sylvia Borren, Oxfam-NoVIB and Kumi Naidoo, CIVICUS. The GCAP Facilitation Team composition contains the details of the members of the different countries. More...

  • IFT mandate: The main task of the GCAP Facilitation Team is to inspire and to promote co-operation and mutual support between the participating regional/national coalitions and networks.  More...

Meetings

 

  • May 2007 – Montevideo GCAP Global Meeting

Two and half years after Porto Alegre (Brazil) when the Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) was launched at the World Social Forum, civil society activists from across the world  gathered in Montevideo (Uruguay), to rededicate to the global call against poverty and inequality. More...
Download the Declaration

  • December 2006 - IFT Brussels Meeting

The International Facilitation Team (IFT) met in Brussels, Belgium from November 30 - December 01, 2006 at ITUC offices to review the global, regional and national GCAP mobilizations as well as to prepare its plan for year 2007. More...
Download the communique of the meeting

 

  • March 06 – GCAP Beirut platform

The Beirut Declaration is the document that came out of the Global Call to Action against Poverty Conference that was held in Beirut in March 2006. The declaration outlines the demands that GCAP members are calling for. More...
Download the Declaration

 

GCAP Reviews 2005/2006

The broad objectives of the review were a) to provide GCAP with an independent and rigorous assessment of the accomplishments and challenges of the campaign and b) to collect experiences, generate preliminary lessons and provoke ideas and recommendations for the future of GCAP, which may include re-inventing the call beyond 2005, and especially over the next two years (2006-2007) and, c) to provide a comprehensive analysis of GCAP’s finances. More...

 

Archives 2003-2005

Here, you will find the following documents:

  • IFG New York Communique and Report, September 2005
  • IFG Bangkok Report, July 2005
  • IFG Padua Report, April 2005
  • IFG Nordwik Work plan and Structure, January 2004
  • The Johannesburg statement, September 2004
  • The Maputo Report, December 2003

 

 

Did You Know......
  • Over 1 billion people live on less than $1 a day with nearly half the world’s population (2.8 billion) living on less than $2 a day.
  • Between 1990–92 and 2001–03, the number of hungry people in Brazil decreased from 18.5 million to 14.4 million and the prevalence from 12 to 8 percent of the population.
  • In 1988 there were some 350 000 polio cases worldwide; by January 2005 there were only 1185 cases reported.
  • UNESCO say in the 2007 Global Monitoring Report, that Universal primary education would cost $11 billion a year … that's half what Americans spend on ice cream.
  • Globally, as of 2005, an estimated 15.2 million children under 18 have lost one or both parents to AIDS; about 80 per cent of these children live in sub-Saharan Africa.
  • International trade is worth $10 million a minute. 70% of this is controlled by multinational corporations.

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