Title/Theme

Organizer

Chair

Resource persons

 1

TRANSLATION. Gender budgeting

Alvic Padilla

Julie Lalonde, Milena Kadieva

 2

Migrations, Convention on migrations and convention on domestic work as advocacy objectives?

Wahyu Susilo and Cecilia Moreno

 3

Communication strategies - national and international

Himanshu Jha/Jason Nardi

Himanshu Jha/Jason Nardi 

 4

"The Costs of Capital Flight and Tax Evasion and how to strengthen public finance" Evasion and how to strengthen public finance"
Tax Justice - Co-organized by Tax Justice Network
The workshop will assess the dimension of the problem of tax evasion and tax avoidance. We will share information and experience from the ground, we will inform about the activities of the Tax Justice Network, and we will discuss ways to strengthen the cooperation between the Tax Justice Network, Social Watch and various budget monitoring initiatives.
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Wolfgang Obenland

Wolfgang Obenland, Jean MBALLA MBALLA

Title/Theme

Organizer

Chair

Resource persons

 5

TRANSLATION. Claiming the national budget from a citizens perspective

David Obot

Md. Akhter Hossain, Alvic Padilla, Lumba Siyanga, Nizam Soltanov

 6

Transparency and Access to Information workshop
The Right to Information (RTI) in India is a unique legislation that has the potential to empower the citizens and change the behavior of public officials towards the people they are meant to serve. The workshops will discuss the limitations of RTI: transparency doesn´t always lead to accountability; need for other mechanisms (social accountability) and the recent trends related to RTI Act: public vs private interest use; reforms and amendments; new legislation on corruption - Impact on accountability
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Cecilia Moreno

Jagadananda, Jessica Cantos

 7

Gender Justice. Gender and Social Movements
The aim of this exciting new BRIDGE Cutting Edge Programme on Gender and Social Movements is to inspire and support collaborative approaches to mobilisation around shared equity and justice concerns, promoting the inclusion of feminist principles and practices within these approaches. This theme was chosen as a result of a discussion of the BRIDGE International Advisory Committee (IAC) members.

Marivic Raquiza

 Lydia Alpizar

 Gigi Francisco, Emily Sikazwe, Simon Stocker, Edward Oyugi, Marivic Raquiza, Lidy Nacpil

 8

How to write a Social Watch report - "hands on"

Amir Hamed

Amir Hamed, the head of the editorial team

Title/Theme

Organizer

Chair

Resource persons

 9

TRANSLATION. Social Justice. Anti-poverty and redistribution strategies. How to overcome inequalities. (including a discussion on cash transfer, redistributive mechanisms, etc.). Social floor. Macroeconomic challenges/framework
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Mirjam van Reisen

Aldo Caliari, SW India, SWP, WFC

 10

Social Watch indexes - Gender Equity, Basic Capabilities
The Workshop will share the results of the 2011 Global GEI and the three pilot studies conducted in Brazil, India and Philippines. The discussion will enrich the concept and methodology for generating the GEI; identify issues related to the GEI; and recommend steps to resolve issues and to move on.
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Rene Raya

Rene Raya

 Rene Raya, Albe Berdan, Himanshu Jha, Marivic Raquiza

 11

After 2015. What future for the MDGs? Social protection. LDCs. Aid Effectiveness

Himanshu Jha

Jens Martens, Seonghoon Lee (Anselmo), Thida Khus, Simon Stocker, Monika Kalinowska

Title/Theme

Organizer

Chair

Resource persons

 12

TRANSLATION. Global Finance, Governance and the Economic Crisis:  Emerging Challenges and Opportunities
Global Financial and Economic Crisis. Global Governance - G20 - New challenges for CSO

Tanya Dawkins

Barbara Adams

Tanya Dawkins, Aldo Caliari, Seonghoon Lee (Anselmo)

 13

ESPAÑOL. Desarrollo Sustentable y Cambio Climático desde la Sociedad Civil. Retos para el desarrollo sustentable y el cambio climático desde la sociedad civil. Analizar las estrategias y buenas prácticas que se están ensayando en nuestros países.

Norayda Ponce

Norayda Ponce

Cecilia Moreno, Héctor Bejar, Rafael Uzcategui

 14

FRENCH. Strategies pour les ODM

Said Tbel

Said Tbel

Mr. Gustave Benjamin ASSAH

 15

Plan of Action for Asia

Thida Khus

Thida Khus

Title/Theme

Organizer

Chair

Resource persons

 16

TRANSLATION. Justice, democracy and human rights - New strategies and challenges after the "Arab Spring"
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Kinda Mohammedieh

Hassan Abdel Ati- Sudan and Hanaá Edwards- Iraq

Jolly Lais, Magdy Abdel Hamid (Egypt), Abdul Nabi el Ekry (Bahrain), Samah Ibrahim Alghouj (Palestine and the region), Neimat Kuku (Sudan and women issues), Arafat el Rafead (Yemen)

 17

Climate Justice

Reza/Barbara

Reza/Barbara

Isagani Serrano, Emily Sikazwe

 18

The SERF Index: Index to Monitor Countries´ Compliance with their Economic and Social Rights Commitments
Countries are bound under international law to commit the maximum of available resources to progressively fulfill the economic and social rights enumerated in the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), yet benchmarking any country´s level of obligation has proven problematic.
The Economic and Social Rights Empowerment Initiative provides rigorous quantitative tools and undertakes analysis to identify effective policies for fulfilling economic and social rights and to hold governments accountable for meeting their commitments.
This workshop introduces the SERF Index, a quantitative index created under the initiative through a three year consultative process, that measures the extent to which countries are meeting their obligations of result with regard to the substantive economic and social rights.
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Susan Randolph

Susan Randolph

 Susan Randolph

 19

The Global Community Rights Framework Initiative. Mobilizing - Law - Policy - Power . Tanya Dawkins
The globalization of the commercial "right to do business" has superseded place-based interests and human rights related to food, livelihoods, housing, self-determination, water, climate and other basic needs.  This is made possible by a defacto hierarchy of international law, policy and institutions whose powerful compliance and enforcement mechanisms subordinate most local, national and international public interest imperatives. Community-based interests have little or no legal standing and are vulnerable to a continuing cycle of exploitation by those global institutions, players and interests that benefit from this state of legal limbo.   As such, it is perfectly legal for affected communities to be marginalized by mega trade, investment and infrastructure projects even when there are ample opportunities for the exact opposite to occur. The Global Community Rights Framework Initiative responds to the need for globally-minded, community-centric interventions that build citizen/community power, agency and legal standing to advance large-scale transformation of the current power-risk-benefit equation.  This session is a part of a global consultation with advisors and stakeholders designed to ensure that the Global Community Rights Framework Initiative´s strategic priorities and targets have the greatest potential to generate concrete breakthroughs and benefits for communities globally.
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Title/Theme

Organizer

Chair

Resource persons

 20

TRANSLATION. Sustainable Development: The Road to Rio 2012
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Jens Martens

Jens Martens y Chee Yoke Ling

Barbara Adams (Global Policy Forum); Gigi Francisco (Development Alternatives with Women for the New Era, Philippines); Victoria Tauli-Corpuz (Tebtebba Foundation, Philippines); Danuta Sacher (terre des hommes Germany)

 21

How to write a Social Watch report - "hands on"

Amir Hamed

Amir Hamed, the head of the editorial team

 22

HUDUMA: Making services work for people. National advocacy strategies. The workshop aims at showcasing the use of new technologies in monitoring service delivery. The platform known as HUDUMA aims at strengthening citizens and civil society capacities in 4 target Counties, to actively engage in monitoring of service delivery policies and standards on their own, by leveraging on simple media and technology based tools that amplifies their voices to authorities and to support the response capacities of service providers.
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Rezaul Karim Chowdhury

Philip Thigo

Philip Thigo 

 23

Evaluation: What are we accountable for? And national fundraising strategies. What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word "evaluation"? Probably not "joy". Maybe, "oh no", or "not again", or "let's just get it over with". But what if the whole process of evaluation worked for you? What if it worked for the work? Become part of a growing community of activists who are striving to claim evaluation as a useful and dynamic practice, instead of a chore ending in a brick-of-a-report. Accidental evaluator Juliette Majot, former executive director of the Berkeley, California based International Rivers Network (now International Rivers), hosts a discussion about how and why evaluation can work for us instead of against us. Lessons taken from the evaluation will help inform approaches to an upcoming Social Watch evaluation that Juliette will undertake with colleague Sophia Murphy.

Juliette Majot

Reza

Juliette Majot