ANND

The Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND) will be hosting the launch of the Social Watch Report 2010 in Arabic at the regional forum that ANND is going to hold on 6th and 7th of January 2011 in Beirut. This Forum will host around 100 participants and will come in light of the preparations for the Arab Economic and Social Development Summit 2011 to be held in Egypt.

 

“Poverty eradication and women empowerment are our priorities” said Lebanese minister of Finance, Raya Haffar Al-Hassan at the joint launch of the Social Watch report in Arabic and the Arab Assessment of the Millennium Development Goals that took place in Beirut on July 9. Speaking in Behalf of the Arab NGO Network for Development, Ziad Abdel Samad welcomed the minister as “one of us”, remembering her past association with civil society organizations and with the United Nations system, for which she worked before joining the government. He welcomed the public discussion of the budget that is currently happening “for the first time in Lebanon” and challenged the minister to go one step further and invite civil society organizations to actually participate in the elaboration of future budgets.

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