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Conference
Outline
September
2001
Version
Johannesburg
(exact location to be identified)
Saturday
August 24, 2002 to Monday August 26
Vision
To
plant seeds for cultural change - from words to action, from static to dynamic,
from competition to collaboration: stakeholders collaborating - spinning into
action - towards new horizons
To
inspire stakeholders to create collectively clear, measurable, on-going
action to deliver the sustainable development agreements
Concrete,
agreed and owned collaborative action plans aimed at implementing the
Sustainable Development Agreements in 5 specific issue areas
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Greater
awareness |
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Increased
commitment of stakeholders
towards taking their role in implementing international and regional
sustainable development agreements; |
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Shared
experience and expertise; |
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Partnerships between various
stakeholder groups, as well as between stakeholders, governments, and
intergovernmental bodies; |
| Foundations
for long-term stakeholder implementation. |
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Key
stakeholders for each conference issue, by invitation, balanced by region,
gender and stakeholder group (500 - 1000 participants in all); |
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Participants
identified through consultations within stakeholder groups; |
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Journalists
invited to attend; |
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Representatives
of governments and intergovernmental bodies invited to attend.
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Conference
participants will receive a comprehensive conference package providing the
necessary supporting material.
Package contents will include:
Background
briefing papers outlining the problem area, existing good practices, possible
solutions, roles of stakeholders, possible partnerships, institutional / legal
requirements;
Overviews
of international and regional agreements on the issue;
Synthesis
of stakeholder positions, identifying differences and common ground;
Possible
partnerships and outline of possible commitments / action plans, identified by
stakeholder groups; |
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Case
studies / good practice examples as they are submitted to the planned Exhibition, the
investment competition, the sustainable development award scheme and similar activities, will be exhibited at the conference; |
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All
conference material will be put on the conference website.
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The
conference will be focussed on 5 issue areas;
1.
Freshwater
2.
Sustainable Energy
3.
Food Security
4.
Public Health & HIV/AIDS
5.
Tools for Corporate Citizenship
All issues will be addressed with a particular view to
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social
inclusion and poverty eradication; |
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governance; |
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the
impact of globalisation;
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gender. |
These
issues very broad. The
conference process on each of the issues will include to consult with respective
issue-specific advisory groups (made up of the relevant stakeholders) and make
decisions on which specific aspects shall be addressed.
The
conference is a gathering of stakeholders willing to collaborate. Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future (formerly UNED Forum) is aiming to facilitate this space.
The
event will be designed in such a way that it allows for people to get to know
each other and build trust, to network across the sectors / issues, and to work
together effectively.
Careful
planning of agenda and time-table will be balanced with a need for flexibility.
[
Principles of stakeholder participation and
collaboration ]
Support
systems such as office facilities, meeting facilities for smaller and larger
groups, IT / communications support, etc. will be available.
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Opening
plenary, outlining the purpose, goals, ethos and agenda of the conference; |
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Space
for gathering socially; |
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Parallel
sessions on the conference issues, introducing the conference material.
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Days
2 & 3
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Parallel
sessions on the conference issues, possibly further divided into small
groups; |
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The
sessions will be presented with a list of questions & tasks to be
addressed;
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The
parallel sessions will be linked in such a way as to allow people to mix.
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Day
4
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Reporting
back to plenary; |
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Draft
summary outlining principal outcomes and sense of the meeting; |
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Planning
for events / activities at the Summit.
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Links
with the Official Summit Process
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Week commencing August 19 |
Week
commencing August 26 |
Week
commencing September 2 |
| Summit process: |
Potential for
text finalisation |
Text finalisation |
Heads of State
meeting |
| Implementation Conference process: |
The implementation conference itself:
24 - 26 August
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Opportunity to feed in the Implementation
Conference Outcomes at the Summit Stakeholder Dialogues
PLUS
satellite event to present Implementation Conference Outcomes |
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Prepare statements,
conference summary
and exhibition material to present the outcomes to the Summit. |
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Stakeholders
can choose to present Implementation Conference outcomes as part of their
commitments for the future during the Stakeholder Dialogues at the Summit.
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Stakeholder
Forum for Our Common Future (formerly UNED Forum)
will organise a satellite event to present the findings and outcomes from
the Implementation Conference (during 1st or 2nd day of
the official Summit). Links are being
established with the planned Exhibition, the
planned Investment Competition, the Awards for Sustainable
Development Scheme, and similar activities so that
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case
studies and presentations for such events can be studied at the
Implementation Conference as potential models; |
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such
events can use the preparatory material and outcomes of the
Implementation Conference.
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Specific
agreed and owned action plans aimed at implementing sustainable development
agreements in 5 specific issue areas, such as:
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Toolkits
for stakeholders and stakeholder collaboration on the conference issues; |
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Agreed
pilot projects and programmes (aiming for stakeholder partnerships); |
Plus:
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Challenges
from stakeholders towards the intergovernmental process to agree commitments
and strategies for implementation; |
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Networks
of stakeholders on the conference issues to carry on after the conference.
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And
overall: a contribution to cultural change towards
enabling sustainable development.
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Documentation
on the conference web-site; |
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Dissemination
through stakeholder groups; |
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Follow-up
multi-stakeholder groups through regular updates on the
www.earthsummit2002.org web-site and an electronic newsletter; |
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Monitor
implementation of conference outcomes and report back to the intergovernmental process.
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