Re: draft announcement - add fund & justification re B+5

[Chat Garcia <chat@apcwomen.org>]

hi yukika,

i hope your hard disk is still going.

>i'll be posting separately to aworc-meet about my communicaton
with
>Japan foundation (Mr.Kobayashi) and my/our recommendations.
>am hoping to get a quick feed back here to work out several
options
>for aworc-meet as well as for further consultation with Mr.
Kobayashi.

Yes, I would like to see your communication to get a better feel of waht
they want. I also think that it is a good idea to have this discussion in
aworc-meet to get some agreement about activites to seek funding for. In
fact this can tie in with our discussion on our priorities for the
UNGASS.

>>the announcement does say that we focused on B+ 5 last year.
could we say
>>that we would welcome/encourage/identify women who have been
active in the
>>review to apply for the course? does this have to ne spelt out in
the
>>announcement or is this text for the proposal?
>
>pointing to those who have been active in the review could be
helpful.
>but better if we can somhow put it in the context of b+5
follow-up
>activities since Japan Foundaiton (namely, Mr.Kobayashi) had funded
this
>proposal for it's linkage with NGOs providing B+5 input. wonder if
you
>have any ideas around this?
>
>>we could also say that AWORC's B+5 activities has resulted in
more
>>awareness and more widespread use of ICTs and that WENT 2000 is a
way to
>>consolidate this participation by training more women to work
online, manfe
>>websites and set up databases.  hope that helps. 
>
>"more awareness and more widespread use of ICTs (for NGO working
towards
>generating B+5 input)" will definitely come into the mid-term
evaluation
>report and i agree that WENT2000 is a way to consolidate this
>participation. However, the point is that it will be taking place
after
>Women2000.  i'm looking for some more words to descrive the
project
>outcome (product) to justify funds within the context of B+5. Else,
i'm
>afraid that it could be dificult to justify/negotiate the
funding...
>
>
>let me jot down some of the rough ideas that's popping up in my
mind...
>
>- train the ones who will be working on/have worked on B+5
translation ??
>- use some of the money for sending selected WENT1999 participants
for
>  on the job training with womenaction media team / APWW Caucus /
etc
>  and have them share their experience in went2000... ??
>- have trainees create information package (CD-ROM) of the B+5
materials
>  for distribution to those involved in their country (ngos,
loc.gov,
>  gov, etc.) ??
>- spend some money for post B+5 information package 
production??
>- spend some money for pre-Women2000 training in New York??
>- etc??

I think we should go back to our 2 year action plan to guide us in our
fundraising. If you go back to the minutes, our agreement was that we
have to focus on B+5 follow-up activities to ensure continuity of 
our B+5 campaign. I would suggest that rather than expanding activities
for the special session in June, we identify activities in our action
plan that fits in with B+5 follow-up. 

Here's what we said in our meeting (quoted from the minutes):

For the Special Session in June, AWORC has approved funding to send 3 people (one from UNIFEM and 2 from IDRC). There was agreement on a major activity and general guidelines for the June meeting with an understanding that these will become clearer after the CSW and when planning for the special session are underway. The agreements were:

1. Launching of the redesigned AWORC multilingual website.2. Coordination with WomenAction for the information and communication activities and with APWW for regional actions.

From the information we are receiving regarding the Special Session, it
looks like it will be difficult for many women to participate directly in
the proceedings. 

Looking through the minutes again, here are some activities that may be
suitable for June:

-- translation of the WomenAction newsletter (which is certain to go
ahead) in several Asian Languages -- as part of our onsite reporting
(similar to this idea? -- train the ones who will be working on/have
worked on B+5 translation ??) 
perhaps we can ask for money to hire women to translate in several
languages who do not necessarily have to be in NY, these can then be sent
to language specific mailing lists and also uploaded to the site. 

and suitable as B+5 follow-up:

-- translation of our baseline research in various languages
-- archiving/indexing of our B+5 content
-- CD/ROM sounds good
-- documenting our B+5 experience -- can be used as a resource and
training material for WENT 2000


>>when is the deadline? and will we know if they'll fund it in time
for the
>>workshop?
>
>I'd guess it would take two month or so until fund can be disbursed,
so
>better if we can submit earlier. Hope to get the proposal out
soonest
>but realistically speaking, i'm aiming for submission by 29th. (end
of
>this month should be the latest because it's the last day of fiscal
year
>in Japan.)
>
>In the mean time, i'll be sounding out Mr. Kobayashi on what
is/isn't
>fundable while keep him fed with financial report and a copy of
the
>CD-ROM from WENT1999.

Good idea, would you sound out if they would be interested in funding the
multiligual database? We could use more resources for this -- for
follow-up after WENT.

cheers,

Chat

Chat Garcia Ramilo

Project Manager

Association for Progressive Communication (APC)

Women's Programme

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