
The orientation assembly is now wrapping up, but please continue to send us your messages and comments as these will definitely taken into consideration for the final report.
Here are some of the Cheers:
Three common themes emerged:
Challenges:
Three themes emerged:
The assembled delegates are now about to discuss some key strategic questions to guide us over the next five years. Here are the questions, please send us your feedback on this questions:
How should D&P adapt its strategies for 2011-2016?
What priorities should we focus on as an organization for our work within Canada?
What guidelines would you propose, to be built into the strategic plan?
How should we adapt our strategies to take a clearer position on ongoing issues around us?
How should our successes and our weaknesses guide our strategies for the period 2011-2016?
How can the work of our Southern partners (learning, inspiration) guide our strategies in Canada for the period 2011-2016?
Mr. Sall is the Executive Director of the Reseau Africain pour le Développement Intégré in Senegal and we are very grateful to have him with us today. He shared with the group a very powerful message about the development progress and food insecurity in his country.
To summarize, he highlighted that the fact that the objective to reduce is hunger by half 2015 is not often. We need to go further. Economists are often too often too far from the realities that exist on the ground.
In Senegal, the government has yet to solve issues of improving agriculture in the country. If we are to address poverty, you must address the question of agricultural since it is the rural populations that experience poverty and food insecurity. The market may be full of food, but if people don’t have the money to access this food, then the market is ineffective. People have the right to choose their own food, which is why food sovereignty is so important. And the G8 needs to consider this solution, especially the context in the Global South and the local experience of the people. The politics in the North can create solutions but it can create problems, as well. We need to work to minimize the problems.