WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY DECEMBER 3 - 4 2003

Wednesday-Thursday, 3-4 December 2003. HBF Office
NATIONAL NGO CONSULTATIVE MEETING ON WATER AND SANITATION IN NIGERIA
Workshop (By Invitation Only)

The NGO Consultative Meeting on Water and Sanitation aims at promoting public awareness and to examine the Presidential Water Initiative (PWI) and the proposed National Water Policy among civil society. It furthermore seeks to to establish a Civil Society Network on Water and Sanitation to promote the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in Nigeria.

The Consultative Meeting is organized by the African Network for Environmental and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) and supported by HBF Nigeria.

[Read / Download the Communiqué of the Workshop]
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  THURSDAY NOVEMBER 6, 2003

Thursday, 6 November 2003. 10:00-12:00, HBF Office
SCHOOL TO REALITY: NGOs AND THE GATS. Reporting back from the Summer School "Engendering Economic Policy in a Globalizing World", Berlin, July 2003
Public Lecture by Amina Salihu (CDD) and Kristie Charles-Iyoha (DevNet)
 

When women's rights and women empowerment are concerned, few people think of global economics and international trade. However, the on-going globalization process, as promoted by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) especially with the General Agreement on Trade and Services (GATS), affects the livelihoods of women world-wide. In order to address these issues, earlier this year, the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin organized a Summer School that brought together specialists in the field of feminist economics with female activists from all over the world. Amina Salihu and Kristie Charles-Iyoha attended this Summer School and, in this lecture, report about their experiences and make proposals how to apply this knowledge to the Nigerian setting and, especially, civil society organisations in Nigeria.

 

  WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 5, 2003

Wednesday, 5 November 2003. 9-17:00, HBF Office
BUDGET TRANSPARENCY AND MONITORING IN NIGERIA: Experiences and Perspectives of Civil Society Organisations (By Invitation Only)

The one-day workshop at the HBF office in Lagos brings together representatives of CSOs and others who are active in budget processes. It intends to provide an overview about approaches currently applied towards CSO intervention in the budget process in Nigeria, to compare and analyse experiences made in budget monitoring projects and to identify "best practices", gaps, and "lessons learnt" from current projects, with the aim to developing ideas suitable for future activities in the field.
The workshop also provides an opportunity for a display of training materials developed and used in CSO budget monitoring projects.
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  TUESDAY JUNE 17, 2003

HOW TO CAMPAIGN SUCCESSFULLY

Tuesday, 17 June 2003, 11:00, HBF Office
NGOs: HOW TO CAMPAIGN SUCCESSFULLY.
Lessons from South African Experiences
Public Lecture by Anya Okeke (GADA)

NGOs in South Africa have acquired a lot of  experience in campaigning. They successfully address the general public, get  the media on board, conduct parliamentary advocacy work etc. HBF Johannesburg  recently organised a "Campaigns Workshop" to review these  experiences.
Anya Okeke, programm officer with Gender and Development Action (GADA) in Lagos, reports back from the workshop.

  TUESDAY - THURSDAY APRIL 1 - 3, 2003

HBF PROGRAMME REVIEW AND DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP

April 1 - 2, 2003
HBF PROGRAMME REVIEW AND DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
(By Invitation Only)

With its "Programme Review and Development Workshop", HBF wants to open a 'grand debate' about our programme with current and potential partner organisations in Nigeria, as well as with interested individuals. In co-operation with our partners and other experts, we want to evaluate strengths and weaknesses of our current activities and develop directions for our next programme period (2004-06).

  THURSDAY MARCH 27, 2003

March 27, 2003. 11:00, HBF Office
TALKS@BOELL: WOMEN MAKE LAGOS WORK
Moderator: Alhaja Raliat Daniju, Ajegunle Community Project.

Local governments deal with issues affecting the everyday lives of citizens and should be easily accessible. In the past, however, their poor performance frequently alienated communities from elected representatives. In the coming elections, many women intend to change this situation. They promise to make local governments more efficient, transparent, and accountable.
In this second event of our talks@boell series, a number of female candidates for local government offices in Lagos identify their priorities for local government politics, present their solutions, and discuss whether the current local government framework helps to implement such proposals, in a transparent and accountable way.

  TUESDAY MARCH 25, 2003

March 25, 2003. 11:00, HBF Office
GLOBALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS: IMPRESSIONS FROM THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM 2003 (Porto Alegre, Brazil)
Public Lecture by Mrs. Annie Davies, Director of Development Information Network (DevNet), Lagos.

In recent years, the World Social Forum has become a major meeting ground for voices and movements from all over the world that are critical about economic globalization. However, few people in Nigeria have taken notice of this truly global anti-globalization event. Mrs. Davies participated in the most recent Forum, held in January 2003 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. In this lecture, she presents her experiences and impressions of the Forum. She focuses on issues discussed in Porto Alegre that are particularly relevant for Nigeria, especially trade liberalisation (WTO) and the debt problem. How can economic globalization be framed in order to achieve sustainable development, as promoted by the WSSD process? [Read Lecture Text ...]

  TUESDAY FEBRUARY 18, 2003

TALKS@BOELL: FEMALE POWER 2003?
February 18, 2003

The primaries of the different parties have come and gone. And quite a number of women participated - but, unfortunately, not many of them were successful. As part of its support for women's rights and women's participation in politics, the Heinrich Böll Foundation organises a series of discussion forums with female candidates for various political posts in the upcoming 2003 elections. The talks@boell series took off on February 18, 2003.


talks@boell: Chief(Mrs) Nkoya(AD), Mrs. Nkoyo Toyo (Moderator), Mrs. Teju Abiola (NCP), and Dr. Axel Harneit-Sievers (HBF)

Mrs. Nkoyo Toyo, of Gender and Development Action (GADA), acted as moderate. She was herself a former aspirant within PDP for a seat in the Cross River State House of Assembly. She and her colleagues discussed the difficulties they encountered in doing party politics, and more generally issues of female representation in politics. Affirmative action and quotas for women naturally came up as proposals to end the enduring under-representation of women in Nigerian politics - not undisputedly, of course. A report covering the event and the wider debate about women in politics was published in ThisDay, February 26, 2003.