EuroNGOs Conference and Annual General Meeting 2011

Registration is open for this years' EuroNGOs conference “Future Perspectives on Development Cooperation – Putting SRHR on the Right Track”, October 13/14 2011
Warsaw, Poland

On behalf of this year’s host, The Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning, the EuroNGOs Steering Committee and the EuroNGOs secretariat, you are warmly invited to the EuroNGOs Conference and AGM 2011, ‘Future Perspectives on Development Cooperation – Putting SRHR on the Right Track’, on 13-14 October 2011 at Hotel Jan Sobieski III in Warsaw, Poland. Discussions on the development cooperation agenda per se beyond 2015 are becoming more and more prominent. They identify opportunities and deficits of the current Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approach, and suggest new options for the future. Some also discuss the current, predominant and (neo-) liberal development cooperation model focusing on economic growth and suggest alternative development models focusing more on distribution, environmental, gender and (social, economic and cultural) human rights.

On the other hand, current development cooperation policies and funding structures have been adapted in many sectors in the last years to meet the principles of ownership, harmonization of donor systems, mutual accountability, achieving development results and fostering “global partnerships”. Although these changes can no longer be regarded as “new”, the SRHR community is still struggling to understand the respective consequences to their work, to react to and use them appropriately. Against this background, it is vital that the European SRHR community and partners from all over the world come together to learn about these discussions and strategize the way forward to safeguard Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in general and the ICPD PoA in particular. Therefore, this year’s conference will be an interactive, thought-provoking, strategic and unique “hub”, a practical think-tank to discuss new visions in development cooperation as well as the implications of current development cooperation policies for SRHR and the Program of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD PoA). It will allow to formulate – jointly with partners from the “Economic South” and representatives from Youth networks - concrete strategic advocacy actions and identify (new) partners for work towards 2014-15 and beyond. Ample time will be set aside for networking amongst participants to consolidate old and build new and lasting partnerships.

For more information on the conference theme and format, a preliminary program, logistics, and to register to the conference and AGM go to http://www.eurongos.org/Default.aspx?ID=1571.