{"id":1856,"date":"2011-08-01T11:49:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T11:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xsf.stakeholderforum.org\/2011\/08\/01\/asia-pac-dev-conference\/"},"modified":"2011-08-01T11:49:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T11:49:34","slug":"asia-pac-dev-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/asia-pac-dev-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Development Models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Promoting a Transformative Agenda for Sustainable Development:<br \/>A Regional Conference on Development Models<br \/>Bangkok, Thailand<br \/>15 &#8211; 16 August 2011 + a strategy session on Rio+20 on 17th August.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Reality  of Aid Asia-Pacific (ROA-AP), IBON International and the Asia Pacific  Research Network (APRN) are pleased to announce the dates for the Asia  Pacific Regional Conference on Development Models: Promoting a  Transformative Agenda for Sustainable Development to be held 15-16  August 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>The conference aims to achieve the follow:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increase  the awareness and understanding of CSOs and peoples&#8217; movements in the  South on Key issues in Busan (including a new consensus on development)  to inform a coordinated Asia Pacific action plan towards Busan<\/li>\n<li>Bring differen CSOs and peoples movements in the South into a common discussion to exchange ideas, experiences and analyses on <strong>development models and develop a common regional advocacy agenda<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Background<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At  Busan, 2000 delegates, including high level government officials,  donors, multilateral organizations and CSOs, will be coming together to  take stock of progress against the Paris Declaration and the Accra  Agenda for Action and define a new framework on the quality of aid for  the future.<\/p>\n<p>However,  discussions at Busan will go beyond aid effectiveness, but will touch  on development as the core of major global challenges. According to  OECD, \u201cwhile aid is- and will continue to be- a significant resource for  development, its potential can only be fulfilled if it acts as a lever  on <br \/>the  policies and resources of all those engaged in development\u201d. Busan  seeks to identify ways to maximize the impact of resources for  development. According to the OECD-DAC political roadmap, Busan would  offer \u201ca significant opportunity to reach an inclusive consensus on aid  and development to guide agreement on the post-MDG future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Apart  from Busan, development is placed at the heart of other international  discussions and actions. Besides the Asian model of growth, there is  also much discussion around sustainable development and the green  economy leading up to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable  Development (also known as Rio+20) in 2012. And in preparation, the  conference will be followed by a one-day strategy session for CSOs and  peoples movement in the South to discuss in-depth the policy agenda in  Rio+20, particularly the social and development implications of the Rio  themes of \u201cgreen economy\u201d and \u201cinstitutional framework for sustainable  development\u201d that will inform a common CSO advocacy agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The  recent spate of crises on food, energy and climate and the increasing  poverty underscore the urgency of pushing for a global shift to a  sustainable development pathway. The expanded and sustained  participation of civil society and peoples movements in policy debates  is crucial to promoting a transformative agenda towards development that  truly upholds the interests of the poor and the marginalized, today and  in future generations.<\/p>\n<p>Information on how you can participate in the conference will be forthcoming shortly! Please follow these websites for updates: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realityofaid.org\" rel=\"noopener\">www.realityofaid.org<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aprnet.org\" rel=\"noopener\">www.aprnet.org<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iboninternational.org\" rel=\"noopener\">www.iboninternational.org<\/a> or get in touch with the secretariat at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:adanlog@realityofaid.org\" rel=\"noopener\">adanlog@realityofaid.org<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:secretariat@aprnet.org\" rel=\"noopener\">secretariat@aprnet.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" alt=\"ATT00056\" src=\"http:\/\/www.earthsummit2012.org\/images\/stories\/ATT00056.png\" height=\"52\" width=\"305\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;\" alt=\"image001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.earthsummit2012.org\/images\/stories\/image001.jpg\" height=\"55\" width=\"238\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"image002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.earthsummit2012.org\/images\/stories\/image002.jpg\" height=\"59\" width=\"247\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promoting a Transformative Agenda for Sustainable Development:A Regional Conference on Development ModelsBangkok, Thailand15 &#8211; 16 August 2011 + a strategy session on Rio+20 on 17th August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}