[governance] Fwd: FW: MEETING EXISTENTIAL THREATS: CRAFTING A CARIBBEAN CONSENSUS

Deirdre Williams williams.deirdre at gmail.com
Thu Nov 11 08:04:27 EST 2010 

I think this is relevant to Caribbean members of the IGC.
Deirdre

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From: Ed Brandon <ed.brandon at open.uwi.edu>
Date: 11 November 2010 08:29
Subject: FW: MEETING EXISTENTIAL THREATS: CRAFTING A CARIBBEAN CONSENSUS
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From: Norman Girvan [norman.girvan at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 8:34 AM
To: EPA List
Subject: MEETING EXISTENTIAL THREATS: CRAFTING A CARIBBEAN CONSENSUS

Meeting Existential Threats: Crafting a Caribbean Consensus

There is a growing sense in our region of ‘existential
threats’--threats to the viability of our societies resulting from
combined effects of economic decline, climate change and natural
disasters, and criminal violence; which challenge the ability of our
systems of regional and national governance to cope.

We believe that the time is ripe for us to move from diagnosis to
prescription and from criticism to action.

We are inviting concerned citizens, members of the public and private
sectors and civil society stakeholders from all over the Caricom
Caribbean to submit proposals. These will be synthesised into a single
document Meeting Existential Threats: A Caribbean Consensus.

The document will be used to lobby governments, opposition parties,
opinion makers, media workers, church leaders, business leaders, trade
unions, civic organisations and any organisation and anyone who is
concerned about the future of our region and believes we can,
collectively, do something about it.

Everyone who participates in preparing the document will take
responsibility for using it to educate and mobilise public opinion. We
must develop collective empowerment and collective responsibility for
our future.

Our motto should be “Make an Input; and Make a Difference.”

To submit proposals, please follow these ground rules:

*   >  Send your proposals to the EPA list
c-epas at pambazuka.org<mailto:c-epas at pambazuka.org>  so that everyone
else can see it. If you are not already on the list, please join by
going to http://lists.pambazuka.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/c-epas.
Please do not send it to any individual on the Steering Committee; as
other people on the list will not see them.
*   >  Your proposals should be as concrete and practical as possible.
Try and relate them to changes in any one or more of: structures,
institutions, policies, laws, measures, actions, paradigms; and
located under regional governance, national governance, sustainable
development, and social well-being (more details below).
*   >  You do not have to say something about all of these, just where
you think you can add value.
*   >  Make each proposal in bullet point.
*   >  Keep it short—no long treatises please! Limit each proposal to
one concise sentence. Add a separate explanatory note if necessary.
These can always be published in an Annex.
*   >  Do not repeat proposals that have already been made by someone
else. Please keep track of what’s already been submitted.
*   >  Avoid the temptation to send a long list of proposals. Be
realistic about what we can accomplish in the first round.
*   >  If you have already made a proposal in one of the messages to
this list; please re-package it in the indicated format and send it
again.
*   >  Locate your proposal(s) in one or more of the following categories.

                 A. REGIONAL GOVERNANCE
(i)  Addressing Caricom’s crippling deficiencies in leadership and
structures for strategising, decision-making and
decision-implementation (ii) securing genuine people participation in
the regional integration process (iii) developing mutual trust among
Caribbean peoples and states and strengthening the collective sense of
Caribbean identity, self-esteem and self-confidence, (iv) securing a
unified foreign relations policy and foreign economic policy to
maximise Caricom's influence in international affairs

B.   NATIONAL GOVERNANCE
(i)Promoting a culture and mechanisms of long-term strategising -
transcending the political gamesmanship associated with the five year
electoral cycle (ii) securing inclusive and participatory involvement
of Caribbean peoples in politics and government decision-making
processes, (iii) securing greater transparency and accountability in
national governance

C.   SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(i)  Strategies of and pathways to Caribbean sustainable development
(including agriculture, food sovereignty, and energy) (ii) disaster
prevention, disaster mitigation and adaptation to climate change
(iii) environmental awareness and environmental education

D.   SOCAL WELL-BEING
(i)  Measures to end exclusion and promote social and gender equity
and empowerment of youth (ii) addressing crime and violence

FINALLY, SEND THIS CALL FOR PROPOSALS TO ALL CARIBBEAN INVIDIDUALS AND
ORGANIZATIONS WHO YOU THINK WILL WANT TO “MAKE AN INPUT AND MAKE A
DIFFERENCE”.THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING PROPOSALS IS DECEMBER 15,
2010.


Looking forward to hearing from you!

Steering Committee

1.  1.   Norman Girvan (Conv.), Trinidad and Tobago/Jamaica
2.  2.   David Abdulla, Trinidad and Tobago
3.  3.   Flavia Cherry, St. Lucia
4.  4.   Dicky Crawford, Jamaica
5.  5.   Patsy Lewis, Jamaica/Grenada
6.  6.   Sunity Maharaj, Trinidad and Tobago
7.  7.   Shantal Munro-Knight, Barbados
8.  8.   Cecil Ryan, St Vincent
9.  9.   Alissa Trotz, Canada/Guyana
10. 1    Judith Wedderburn, Jamaica
Drafting Committee

1.  1.   Annita Montoute, (Coord.), Trinidad and Tobago/St Lucia
2.  2.   Georgia Donaldson, Trinidad and Tobago/Jamaica
3.  3.   Alexander Girvan, Trinidad and Tobago/Jamaica
4.  4.   Anthony Morgan, Canada/Jamaica

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--
Norman Girvan
Professorial Research Fellow
Instittute of International Relations
University of the West Indies
Trinidad & Tobago
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