WMW Strategic Plan
WORLD MARCH OF WOMEN
Strategic plan
2007-2010
February 2007
CONTENTS |
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Presentation |
3 |
Methodology |
4 |
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WMW Political Action Plan 2007-2010 |
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The Common Good and Access to Resources |
6 |
Women's Work |
9 |
Violence Against Women |
13 |
Peace and Demilitarization |
16 |
Chart of International Actions |
18 |
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WMW Internal Action Plan 2007-2010 |
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International Secretariat |
24 |
International Committee |
26 |
Working Groups and Collectives |
27 |
Regional Coordination |
28 |
International Committee Members |
29 |
World March of Women
Strategic Plan 2007 - 2010
Presentation
This is the World March of Women Strategic Plan for the periode 2007 – 2010 finalized at the meeting of the International Committee (IC) that took place from December 10 to 13
The follow IC members were present: Miriam Nobre, Nana Aicha Cissé, Wilhelmina Trout, Nadia DeMond, Celina dos
Diane Matte was present to accompany the International Secretariat transition process; also present was a consultant, Lyne Bouchard, and Graziela Schneider who did the report. Nalu Faria, Sônia Gomes, Andréa Butto, Alessandra Ceregatti participated as guests and representantives of the Brazilian National Coordinating Body. Their presence was considered important to maintaining a dynamic relationship between the international and local levels.
We also benefited from the voluntary contribution of interpreters: Ana Amorim, Julia Di Giovanni, Laeticia Jalil, Paula Marcelino, Tatau Godinho, Henrique Cotrim, Marcelo Daniliauskas, Claudine Charan, Márcia Macedo, Tica Moreno, Maitê Llanos.
At this meeting we concluded a process that lasted a year-and-a-half, coordinated by the International Secretariat, with the participation of the International Committee and rouly 40 National Coordinating Bodies via two consultations and in the 6th International Meeting held in Lima, Peru from July 2 to 9 2006.
The planning process itself has generated concrete results for the consolidation of the World March of Women as a movement to be reckoned with. We have reinforced our political identity by sharing responsibilities among the International Committee and National Coordinating Bodies, and we have an ongoing work plan that makes the link between local and international issues.
This plan develops the WMW´s two themes – the struggle against poverty and violence against women – around four action focuses: violence against women as a tool of control over our lives and bodies; peace and demilitarization; women’s work; common good and access to resources. It also aims to strengthen our organizational structure, including the International Secretariat, International Committee, the working groups and collectives, and the Regional Coordinating Bodies.
We want to articulate our actions and reflection, the initiatives of National Coordinating Bodies and those the International Secretariat and the International Committee, in order to reaffirm the WMW as a grassroots-oriented international movement. Our 2010 Global Action will be build as a moment that articulate all this common work.
Change women’s lives to change the world!
Methodology
The methodology of our strategic planning process is based on two constitutive elements of the identity of the World March of women: action oriented and connected to the grassroots. The guiding principles were as follows.
Be participative
This strategic planning process lasted over a period of a year and a half from the first meeting of the International Committee (IC) in
Reinforce the links between our international, national and local agendas
The World March of Women´s mobilizing strength is directly linked to our ability to mesh the global, national and local agendas. So our strategic plan of action and its political content has to be conceived in a way that enhance and reinforce these links. The action areas have been defined as a synthesis of the preoccupations and the actions already being taken by the NCBs. We will be even more focused on these areas in order to build concrete strategies and action proposals. We also want to support the relationship between the NCBs and the IC as well as between NCBs. In order to do that and reinforce the March as a whole, we want to highlight the actions of the NCBs by action areas and promote communications between NCBs to share their analysis, their evaluation etc.
We want to go further than identifying the impact of global policies like the free trade agreements, the militarization, etc. on the daily life of women. We want women’s resistance and the alternatives that we are building at the local level to be the basis of our global proposals and strategies.
Reflexion and action in synergy
We do not see the relationship between reflexion and action processes as a hierarchy nor do we want to establish them as separate moments and separate responsabilities of different women.
We want to deepen our analysis on each of the proposed action areas. We see this both as a discussion process among ourselves and also with our allies. We believe in the importance of transposing our analysis in actions by confronting status quo, evaluate our actions and systematize what we have learned to enrich our analysis. We also want to give ourselves moments to reflect and study so we can learn from history and feminist theory.
Analysis building and change
In our strategic plan, we sometimes refer to the necessity for the NCBs´need to deepen the understanding of a principle or a concept. We do not see this process as the NCB’s having to adopt a concept developed by someone else but as a collective construction. The IC presents some common elements and the debate within the NCB’s gives us the possibility to build our analysis. It is also a construction process involving our allies. We learn from them, and can then propose to the other members of the March the concepts, principles and evaluations of other movements, reshaping them with a feminist practice and vision at the grass-root level. Another of our main is to influence other movements to change through their contact and actions with us. Our objective is to build a constantly growing common identity through analysis and action which reinforces our collective capacity to attain our goals.
Call to action
We want to have global, national and regional concerted actions. We also (NCBs and our allies) want to ensure the presence of the WMW in all the major mobilizing efforts and joint actions of the feminist movements. The IC has undertaken to send out calls to action that reflect the vision of the WMW, reinforce the analysis and practice of NCBs, and enable us to take a stand on the current global context.
LD MARCH OF WOMEN
The common good and access to resources |
Political Objectives
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The common good and access to resources - WMW | ||||
Desired outcome |
Timetable |
International activities and actions |
Responsibility |
Suggested national and regional actions |
Production of and discussion on a text about feminist economic alternatives, nationally and regionally |
2007 |
Update the 2002 World March of Women text on feminist economic alternatives § Organize a meeting of feminist economic alternatives working group |
Feminist economic alternatives working group (WG) in collaboration with the Alliances and globalization collective |
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Collect and circulate the thinking and concrete actions of NCBs within the WMW |
IS |
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2008 |
Organize a workshop on women's work, the common good and access to resources |
Feminist economic alternatives WG |
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Continue discussions with our allies withint the WSF and other forums in which other social movements are represented |
Alliances and globalization collective |
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2009 |
Invite NCBs to develop popular education tools with women at the grassroots, nationally and regionally |
IS |
Develop popular education tools adapted to each country |
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NCBs are made familiar with the principle of food sovereignty; national mobilization |
2007 January |
Organize a workshop at the Nairobi WSF between rural and urban women,and between women of the North and South, and South-South |
Alliances and globalization collective |
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February |
Invite NCBs to debate the text on food sovereignty Jointly organize Nyelini forum in |
Nyeleni committee |
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2008 |
Take part in any follow-up to Nyelini Forum |
IS and the feminist economic alternatives WG |
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Invite currently active NCBs and participating groups to organize workshops |
IS |
Organize national actions after Nyelini forum |
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2009 |
Develop tools to sensitize and mobilize women in urban areas |
IS and the feminist economic alternatives WG |
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Invite all NCBs and participating groups to organize workshops |
IS |
Organize workshops on food sovereignty |
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Development of a shared political position on the common good, the environment and biodiversity |
2007 |
Ask NCBs for information and articles on the privatization of the common good, the environment and biodiversity |
IS |
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Create an ad hoc group to draft a discussion paper |
IC |
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Organize a discussion on the topic with the IC |
IS |
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June |
Take part in the action to resist the privatization of water at the US Social Forum in |
Alliances and globalization collective |
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Mobilize all NCBs for a joint action |
2008 mid-October |
Organize an international action, consulting NCBs and participating groups at the WMW International Meeting in |
IC and feminist economic alternatives WG |
Conduct actions to protect resources, knowledge and peoples’ sovereignty by disseminating and using the Women's Global Charter for Humanity to stimulate discussion. |
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2009 |
Systematize our vision and alternatives in this field of action |
IC |
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2010 |
International action to highlight our alternatives |
IC |
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World March of Women
Women’s Work |
Political objectives
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Women’s Work - WMW | ||||
Desired outcome |
Timetable |
International activities and actions |
Responsibility |
Suggested national and regional actions |
Organize a global campaign for women's economic autonomy (e.g., the institution of a minimum wage, labour rights, the right to employment with decent conditions, solidarity economy, shared responsibility for reproductive labour, etc.) |
2007 January |
Organize a workshop at the Nairobi WSF on the topic of women and work |
Alliances and globalization collective |
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Update the 2002 WMW text on feminist economic alternatives |
Feminist economic alternatives WG |
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Identify and internally share NCBs work concerning:
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IS |
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2008 |
Organize a workshop on women's work, the common good and access to resources |
Feminist economic alternatives WG |
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Produce writing on different topics:
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Feminist economic alternatives WG |
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Produce and disseminate mobilizing materials |
IS |
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2009 |
Organize a global campaign for women's economic autonomy that is rooted in the regions and reaches out to the media |
IC and feminist economic alternatives WG |
At the national and regional levels, the campaign should: - make visible women's reproductive labour and their condition of overwork; the practices of the transnationals in exploiting the work of urban, rural, indigenous and migrant women - denounce the increasing instability of women’s work such as subcontracting, domestic work, immigrant labour, legislation changes, the prohibition of unionization, etc.. - raise society’s awareness about State responsibility for daycare, programs to care for the sick and elderly and other services to support social reproduction and men's responsibility for reproductive labour. |
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Strengthen the WMW's participation in the struggle against free trade |
2007 |
Inform NCBs about the free trade agenda and invite them to take part in resistance actions |
IS |
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June |
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Invite NCBs and participating groups to mobilize for the G8 in |
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Disseminate the analysis of NCBs and our allies concerning free trade |
IS |
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2008 |
Gather concrete examples of subcontracting denounced by NCBs |
IS |
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Identify and disseminate info on links between struggles regarding subcontracting in different sectors or transnationals |
IS |
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Inform NCBs about the free trade agenda and invite them to take part in resistance actions |
IS |
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Disseminate the analysis of NCBs and our allies concerning free trade |
IS |
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2009 |
Invite NCBs to conduct actions denouncing these transnationals |
IC |
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Inform NCBs about the free trade agenda and invite them to take part in resistance actions |
IS |
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Disseminate the analysis of NCBs and our allies concerning free trade |
IS |
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Systematize our vision and alternatives in this field of action |
IC |
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2010 |
International action to highlight our alternatives |
IC |
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World March of Women
Violence against women |
Political objectives
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Violence against women - WMW | ||||
Desired outcome |
Timetable |
International activities and actions |
Responsibility |
Suggested national and regional actions |
Influence global discourse/compre-hension on violence against women and the commodification of women’s bodies. |
2007 |
Bring together women's groups with expertise to assess feminists' strategies for fighting violence against women in recent years. |
IS |
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Ask NCBs and participating groups for their best practices in prevention and denunciation |
IS |
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Draft and disseminate among NCBs a critical analysis paper and proposals |
IS and violence against women WG |
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Organize a discussion on the topic with the IC |
Violence against women WG |
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Invite NCBs to organize meetings to think about and discuss the issue |
IS |
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Disseminate and invite NCBs to discuss the Peruvian NCB's Manifesto on Sexual Insurrection |
IS |
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2008 |
Organize an international seminar in |
IS and violence against women working group and Americas RC |
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Develop an ongoing plan for actions and discussion on violence against women as a tool to control women |
2007 |
Invite NCBs to mobilize for November 25, International Day Against Violence Against Women |
IS |
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2008 |
Invite NCBs to mobilize for November 25, International Day Against Violence Against Women |
IS |
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2009 |
Invite NCBs to mobilize for November 25, International Day Against Volence Against Women |
IS |
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Organize an international action specific to the World March of Women - with a media campaign and directed at other social movements - by inviting NCBs to organize media awareness raising campaigns or a day of discussion in all the schools |
IC and violence against women working group |
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Development of a shared political position on prostitution and sex trafficking |
2007 |
Ask if the NCBs have discussed prostitution; outcome of discussion; do they have a public position and if so, what is it? |
IS |
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Organize a discussion on the topic with the IC and propose a WMW position |
IS |
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Draft a position paper and proposal for discussion process to support NCBs in their thinking on the issue. |
Violence against women working group |
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2008 |
Organize a discussion on the topic during the IM in |
IC |
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2009 |
Systematize our vision and alternatives in this field of action |
IC |
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2010 |
International action to highlight our alternatives (notably during the World Cup of Soccer in |
IC |
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World March of Women
Peace and Demilitarization |
Political objectives
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Peace and demilitarization - WMW | ||||
Desired outcome |
Timetable |
International activities and actions |
Responsibility |
Suggested national and regional actions |
Strengthen our feminist analysis and actions for peace and demilitarization (our movement and other social movements) |
2007 January |
Organize a women's caravan from the |
Peace and Demilitarization collective |
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Gather up the thinking of groups and NCBs on this topic (e.g., application of Resolution 1325 and demands for remedies and justice) |
IS |
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Update the March's documents on this issue |
IC and violence against women WG |
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Write and disseminate a feminist position paper on the causes and consequences of war and militarism |
Violence against women WG |
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March |
Coordinate participation in the |
IS |
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November |
Disseminate a WMW statement on November 25, denouncing impunity with respect to crimes against women in wartime and militarized zones |
IS |
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2008 |
Ensure a presence at the Mediterranean Social Forum in |
IC |
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24 May |
Coordinate a day of reflection and actions on peace, demilitarization and against impunity and the use of women’s bodies as war booty, and rape as a war weapon Produce and disseminate mobilizing materials |
IC and violence against women WG |
Organize popular education campaigns with women at the grassroots and in the media |
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2009 |
Invite NCBs to organize an action for the Women's Day of Action Against War (May 24) |
IS |
Organize actions in the regions |
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Systematize our vision and alternatives in this field of action |
IC |
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2010 |
International action to highlight our alternatives |
IC |
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Chart of International Actions 2007-2010 - WMW | ||||
Years Focuses |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
Common good and access to resources |
Update the 2002 WMW text on feminist economic alternatives - Organize a meeting of feminist economic alternatives working group |
Organize a workshop on women's work, the common good and access to resources |
Develop tools to sensitize and mobilize women in urban areas |
International action to highlight our alternatives |
|
Collect and circulate the thinking and concrete actions of NCBs within the WMW |
Continue discussions with our allies within the WSF and other forums in which other social movements are represented |
Invite all NCBs and participating groups to organize workshops |
|
|
Organize a workshop for the Nairobi WSF between rural and urban women, and women of the North and South, and South-South |
Take part in any follow-up to Nyelini Forum |
Systematize our vision and alternatives in this field of action |
|
|
Invite NCBs to debate the text on food sovereignty |
|
|
|
|
Jointly organize Nyelini forum in |
Invite currently active NCBs and participating groups to organize workshops |
|
|
|
Ask NCBs for information and articles on the privatization of the common good, the environment and biodiversity |
Organize an international action, consulting NCBs and participating groups at the WMW International Meeting in |
|
|
|
Create an ad hoc group to draft a discussion paper |
|
|
|
|
Organize a discussion on the topic with the IC |
|
|
|
|
Take part in the action to resist the privatization of water at the US Social Forum in |
|
|
|
| ||||
Women's work |
Organize a workshop at the Nairobi WSF on the topic of women and work |
Organize a workshop on women's work, the common good and access to resources |
Organize a global campaign for women's economic autonomy that is rooted in the regions and reaches out to the media |
International action to highlight our alternatives |
|
Update the 2002 WMW text on feminist economic alternatives |
Produce writing on different topics: - Integration and trade alternatives, discussions on the solidarity economy and fair trade |
Invite NCBs to conduct actions denouncing these transnationals |
|
|
Identify and share internally the NCBs work concerning: - Our experiences of resistance cocnerning labour rights, the importance of economic autonomy, free trade agreements and the international institutions by means of mass and alternative media and popular education tools |
Produce and disseminate mobilizing materials |
Inform NCBs about the free trade agenda and invite them to take part in resistance actions |
|
|
Inform NCBs about the free trade agenda and invite them to take part in resistance actions |
Gather concrete examples of subcontracting denounced by NCBs |
Disseminate the analysis of NCBs and our allies concerning free trade |
|
|
|
Identify and disseminate info on links between struggles regarding subcontracting in different sectors and transnationals |
Systematize our vision and alternatives in this field of action |
|
|
Disseminate the analysis of NCBs and our allies concerning free trade |
Inform NCBs about the free trade agenda and invite them to take part in resistance actions |
Invite NCBs to mobilize for November 25, International Day Against Violence Against Women |
|
|
|
Disseminate the analysis of NCBs and our allies concerning free trade |
Organize an international action specific to the World March of Women - with a media campaign and other social movements - by inviting NCBs to organize media awareness raising campaigns or a day of discussion in all the schools |
i |
| ||||
Violence Against Women |
Bring together women’s groups with expertise to assess feminists' strategies for fighting violence against women in recent years. |
Organize an international seminar in |
Systematize our vision and alternatives in this field of action |
International action to highlight our alternatives (notably during the World Cup of Soccer in |
|
Ask NCBs and participating groups for their best practices in prevention and denunciation |
Invite NCBs to mobilize for November 25, International Day Against Violence Against Women |
|
|
|
Draft and disseminate among NCBs a critical analysis paper and proposals |
Organize a discussion on prostitution and sex trafficking during the IM in |
|
|
|
Organize a discussion on the topic with the IC |
|
|
|
|
Invite NCBs to organize meets to think about and discuss the issue |
|
|
|
|
Disseminate and invite NCBs to discuss the Peruvian NCB's Sexual Insurrection Manifesto |
|
|
|
|
Invite NCBs to mobilize for November 25, International Day Against Violence Against Women |
|
|
|
|
Ask if the NCBs have discussed prostitution; outcome of their discussion; do they have a public position and if so, what is it? |
|
|
|
|
Organize a discussion on the topic with the IC and propose a WMW position |
|
|
|
|
Draft a position paper and proposal for discussion process to support NCBs in their thinking on the issue. |
|
|
|
| ||||
Peace and demilitarization |
Organize a women's caravan from the |
Ensure a presence at the Mediterranean Social Forum in |
Invite NCBs to organize an action for the Women's Day of Action Against War (May 24) |
International action to highlight our alternatives |
|
Gather up the thinking of groups and NCBs on this topic (e.g., application of Resolution 1325 and demands for remedies and justice) |
Coordinate a day of reflection and actions on peace, demilitarization and against impunity and the use of women’s bodies as war booty, and rape as a war weapon Produce and disseminate mobilizing materials |
Systematize our vision and alternatives in this field of action |
|
|
Update the March's documents on this issue |
|
|
|
|
Write and disseminate a feminist position paper on the causes and consequences of war and militarism |
|
|
|
|
Coordinate participation in the |
|
|
|
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Disseminate a WMW statement for November 25, denouncing impunity with respect to crimes against women in wartime and militarized zones |
|
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|
World March of Women
Internal Focus |
Strategic objectives
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Internal Focus - WMW International Secretariat (IS) | |||
Desired outcome |
Timetable |
Activities |
Responsibility |
Finalize transition and training of IS in |
2007-2008 |
Hire three employees (administration, communications and liaison) |
IS |
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Train new employees concerning their respective roles and working tools (for example: language courses, self-financing, financial management, familiarity with Web site, software, etc.) |
IS |
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Former IS workers accompany new team as needed |
Former IS workers |
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Consolidate translating team in |
IS |
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Expand network of translators (transfer of knowledge and expertise of Québec team) |
IS |
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Stabilize the WMW's financial position and administration of IS |
2007-2010 |
Develop a funding and self-financing strategy |
IS |
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Maintain and develop links with various funders |
IS |
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Prepare funding applications to various funders |
IS |
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Consolidate administration and financial policies and procedures |
IS |
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Establish budget monitoring mechanisms adapted to the strategic plan |
IS |
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Explore and implement various self-financing activities |
IS |
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Manage information and communications tools |
2007 |
Transfer Web site to a Brazilian server |
IS |
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Update Web site |
IS |
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Review editorial procedures for the quarterly newsletter |
IS |
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Develop and implement a feminist action schedule |
IS |
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Publish the newsletter quarterly |
IS |
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Adapt the filing system |
IS |
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2007-2008 |
Maximize use of the Web site |
IS |
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2008-2010 |
Implement a feminist action schedule |
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Publish the newsletter monthly |
IS |
Internal Focus - WMW International Committee | |||
Desired outcome |
Timetable |
Activities |
Responsibility |
Increase capacity of IC members in the their different roles |
2007-2008 |
Enable members to assume different responsibilities:
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IS |
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2007-2010 |
Hold discussions and debates on diverse topics and on the current global and regional context |
IS |
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Increase capacity of members in the their liaison role |
2007 |
Update computer equipment of all members |
IS |
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Establish a communications schedule for the IC, IS and NCBs |
IS |
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2007-2008 |
Equip members so they can communicate in at least two of the three WMW working languages |
IC |
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Identify translation resources in every region |
IC |
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2007-2010 |
Facilitate the organization of regular regional meetings |
IC |
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Consolidate regional coordinating structures |
2007 |
Establish a consolidation or construction plan for regional coordinating structures |
IC |
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Hold a meeting of representatives from a single region and the NCBs |
IC |
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2008 |
Increase the number of NCBs in each region |
IC |
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2008-2010 |
Ensure monitoring of international and regional strategic plan |
IS/IC |
Internal Focus - WMW Working groups and collectives | |||
Desired outcome |
Timetable |
Activities |
Responsibility |
Maximize effectiveness of working groups and collectives |
2007 |
Merge certain working groups and collectives |
IS |
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Identify participating groups or individuals who can support the work of working groups and collectives |
IS and IC |
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Develop political analysis of the WMW's different files and build consensus |
2008-2010 |
Coordinate meetings of working groups and collectives |
IS |
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Hold meetings of working groups and collectives |
Working groups and collectives |
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Ensure the production of position papers, articles and internal and external discussion papers |
Working groups and collectives |
Internal Focus - WMW Regional coordinating structures | |||
Desired outcome |
Timetable |
Activities |
Responsibility |
Strengthen WMW regional coordinating structures |
2007 |
Hold meeting(s) of representatives of a single region to establish a regional operating and strategic plan |
IC |
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Hold a regional meeting |
RC |
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Determine the operations of the regional coordinating structure |
RC |
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Set up WMW structure in every world region (political consensus building) |
2008 |
Implement the regional operating and strategic plan |
IC/RC |
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Hold preparatory meetings before the IM with NCBs at the regional and subregional levels (depending on stated needs) |
RC |
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2009 |
Hold meetings with NCBs at the regional and subregional levels |
RC |
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2010 |
Hold preparatory meetings before the IM with NCBs at the regional and subregional levels |
RC |
WORLD MARCH OF WOMEN
2006-2007
Trout, Wilhelmina (South Africa)
Cissé, Nana Aicha (Mali)
Guillen, Rosa (Peru)
Nepo Quispe, Maria (Mexico)
El Nakash, Farida (
Athar, Saleha (
Ynares, Caridad (Jing) (The
De Mond, Nadia (
Nobre, Miriam
Coordinator, International Secretariat (
World March of Women – International Secretariat
Rua Ministro Costa e Silva, 36, Pinheiros, São Paulo- SP, CEP: 05417-080, Brasil.
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Email: minobre@marchemondiale.org
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