Info, Calendar for Pre-NY Donor Conf mtgs; Gender Mainstreaming project

Hello all,

I've taken a short break from blogging here to focus on the upcoming Donor's Conference in NY (details below). I've also been working with the new Poto Mitan: Rebuilding Haiti global solidarity initiative to support women and girls.

Shadow Report: We're collaborating with colleagues from Madre, Equality Now and AMARC to provide input on a draft Shadow Report that provides a gender analysis of the forthcoming draft Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) document that will provide a national blueprint for rebuilding Haiti and be presented at the NY Int'l Donor's Conference.

Gender Mainstreaming: Our group is focused on helping to proactively identify both gaps and opportunities related to a needed gender mainstreaming of the entire reconstruction effort -- one that takes gender equity into consideration and applies this lens to all efforts at recovery and rebuilding.

We are working with very fast deadlines and invite expertise from Haiti, from experienced grassroots groups and our colleagues there and outside Haiti who have contributions to make toward gender mainstreaming and toward community and grassroots participation in different critical sectors of the national rebuilding.

If you are a reader who has expertise in gender and/or sector expertise (see list below), please contact me immediately to help provide input into the different PDNA sector documents. Email me TODAY at talktothefuture@gmail.com if you would like to lend your expertise with a read/review of documents or the draft Shadow report on diff sectors and can turn around your comments within a few days.

We are actively seeking additional gender analysis/input for these sectors:

energy
green technology
environment
national territory
production
risk reduction (incl disaster preparedness) - again related to proactively reviewing for gaps/opportunties to empower women/girls and meet their needs


Merci.

Now - below you'll find information and a calender of pre-meetings leading up to the upcoming Donor's Conference. I'll be there and look forward to meeting any Haiti Vox readers. Do introduce yourself! - Anne-christine


International Donors’ Conference Towards a New Future for Haiti on March 31, 2010 in New York at UN Headquarters

Delegations are encouraged to be represented at the ministerial level and will be invited to make brief statements summarizing their new pledges of recovery and reconstruction assistance. The Conference will be webcast live with select sessions open to other media.

Further details for delegations will be forthcoming in correspondence from the United Nations Office of Conference Services and will also be available through the UN Journal.

Participants will be asked to pre-register for the Conference through the Conference website.

Detailed information on how to register, along with technical details on pledge content and how to register pledges, will be forthcoming from UNDP.

For media inquiries, please contact: Carolyn Vadino, Deputy Spokeswoman for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations 212-415-4301.

Please note that this event is an opportunity for UN member states to register national pledges of assistance to Haiti. Private sector donors and others will have alternative opportunities to register their offers of assistance. Unfortunately, capacity considerations must limit the opportunity to pledge assistance during the event on March 31 to UN member states, international organizations, and representatives selected to report from the outreach consultations. .

Calendar of Pre-Donor’s Conference Preparatory Meetings:

• March 15, in Haiti. : Haitian civil society (over the preceding weeks, organized by the United Nation’s Office of the UN Special Envoy to Haiti, MINUSTAH, NGO’s, and local community groups), the private sector (organized by the Inter-American Development Bank)

• March 15-17 in Santo Domingo, a closed Preparatory Technical Meeting: with non-governmental organizations (co-hosted by the Government of the Dominican Republic and Haiti)
• March 21-23, in Washington, D.C : with the Haitian Diaspora (organized by the Organization of American States),
• March 23, in Martinique : With Haitian state and local government (organized by the Government of France)
• March 23, in New York With stakeholders to MINUSTAH (organized by the Government of Brazil and the Government of Haiti),
• March 25, in New York, organized by the Office of the UN Special Envoy to Haiti, InterAction, and the European Commission). Follow up to Santo Domingo meeting