[general_devel] New initiative: Reflection Group on Global Development Perspectives

[Jeannie Zakharov]

Website: www.reflectiongroup.org

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Rethinking Development and Progress

alliance of Civil Society Groups, Networks and Foundations launches
Reflection Group on Global Development Perspectives


Beijing/Berlin/Montevideo/New York/Uppsala, November 15, 2010 - Today, an
alliance of civil society groups, networks and foundations, including Third
World Network, Social Watch, DAWN, the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, Global
Policy Forum, terre des hommes, and the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation,
launched the Civil Society Reflection Group on Global Development
Perspectives.

The group consists of about 15 leading civil society activists, experts and
academics from around the globe. The group will assess conventional and
alternative models of development and well-being, reconsider development
goals and indicators, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),
draw conclusions for future development strategies and provide specific
policy recommendations for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development
2012.

We find ourselves at a crucial point in time - fast approaching the 2015
deadline for the MDGs, while preparing for the 2012 Conference on
Sustainable Development. Today´s unprecedented coincidence of global crises
- economic, financial, food and climate - reveals the dead end to which the
dominating models of development have led us. It is now time to break old
ground, to draw lessons from these crises and to fundamentally rethink our
goals and measures of development and social progress - in North and South.

The time between the Summits 2010 and 2012 provides a unique window of
opportunity to reconsider the current development paradigm and to develop
strategies towards a holistic, rights-based approach of global development
and well-being. The Reflection Group will contribute to this process of
rethinking.

Four meetings of the Reflection Group are scheduled to take place throughout
2011. The expected outcome will be presented in a report to be published
prior to the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development.



Group Members

Barbara Adams (Global Policy Forum, US), Beryl d´Almeida (Abandoned Babies
Committee, Zimbabwe), Alejandro Chanona Burguete (National Autonomous
University of México), Chee Yoke Ling (Third World Network, China), Ernst
Ulrich von Weizsaecker (Germany), Filomeno Santa Ana III (Action for
Economic Reforms, Philippines), George Chira (terre des hommes India), Gigi
Francisco (Development Alternatives with Women for the New Era,
Philippines), Henning Melber (Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Sweden), Jorge
Ishizawa (Proyecto Andino de Tecnologias Campesinas, Peru), Karma Ura
(Centre for Bhutan Studies, Bhutan), Roberto Bissio (Third World
Institute/Social Watch, Uruguay) Victoria Tauli-Corpuz (Tebtebba Foundation,
Philippines), Yao Graham (Third World Network-Africa, Ghana), Jens Martens
(Global Policy Forum Europe, Germany), Hubert Schillinger
(Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, Germany), Danuta Sacher (terre des hommes
Germany)

Further Information

www.reflectiongroup.org

Contact

info at reflectiongroup.org

c/o Global Policy Forum Europe | Jens Martens/Wolfgang Obenland | Koenigstr.
37a | D-53115 Bonn, Germany




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