Regional Seminar: „Climate, Agriculture And Development – CEE NGO Advocacy.“

The seminar will take place in Prague from May 21 until May 23, 2007

The Prague Seminar will host about 30-40 participants mainly from development, environmental, alter-globalization and other civil society organizations (CSOs) from the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries along with top NGO experts from EU-15 countries. The working language will be English.

Main objectives of the seminar are:

• Account for different views on, better understand selected key issues of, and links between, economic globalization and sustainable development (food sovereignty, climate change, EPAs)
• Identify and discuss pro-development and pro-sustainable alternatives to these global problems
• Monitor and analyze relevant national, EU and international policies (agricultural, energy/climate and trade policy) and their impact on sustainable development (with a view to increasing policy coherence for development)
• Advocate for alternatives in these fields among key target groups (decision-makers, media, public), including learn how to hand over advocacy skills further in their local work, through transfer of knowledge and skills from selected international and European development campaigns
• Exchange experience with other civil society organizations from the CEE region and with experts and NGOs from the EU, strengthen regional and EU networks, strategize, brainstorm and plan how to enhance NGO advocacy and policy work in the region