Documents

Activities Plan - Challenges for the next triennium (2008/2011)

Despite the successful achievement, the dilemmas and challenges posed to Inesc action – duly placed in the current political-economic context – towards advocating for the rights and fighting the inequalities, have disclosed the need for improving its action lines and strategies, in an attempt to expand their impacts. The file is attached

Non governmental diplomacy

Inesc presents the manifesto of NGO national platform for the creation of International Resource Centre and the reinforcement of non governmental diplomacy. NGO National platforms occupy a special place in the international solidarity movement of associations. They are at the service of their member NGOs to help improve the quality of actions undertaken for the most vulnerable people living in all countries in the world. They also help mobilise the member NGOs to give a joint response to national, regional or international issues. In this way, they help give shape and strength to what we call “participative democracy”, which complements and gives more meaning to representative democracy.

Civil Society Key Recommendations for Doha draft outcome document

 

Civil society key recommendations for Doha draft outcome document

Analyses carried out by civil society organizations for the review process on Financing for Development (FfD) highlight the fact that governments are facing a double challenge at the up-coming FfD Conference in Doha: On the one hand, they have to find ways of substantially increasing the transfer in real terms of public resources to the South, while ensuring that public revenue is generated and mobilised for poverty eradication, decent work, achieving gender equality, and improving the livelihoods of the population.

Civil Society Benchmarks for the Doha preparatory process on Financing for Development

Since the 2002 Monterrey Conference, financial flows to support the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and other internationally agreed goals, especially in the South have remained grossly inadequate, unpredictable, and volatile. The rapid growth of global capital flows has not automatically led to a corresponding increase in means available for poverty eradication and decent work. Inesc reproduces this civil society benchmarks for the Doha preparatory processo on Financing for Development.

Civil society key recommendations for Doha draft outcome document

Analyses carried out by civil society organizations for the review process on Financing for Development (FfD) highlight the fact that governments are facing a double challenge at the up-coming FfD Conference in Doha: On the one hand, they have to find ways of substantially increasing the transfer in real terms of public resources to the South, while ensuring that public revenue is generated and mobilised for poverty eradication, decent work, achieving gender equality, and improving the livelihoods of the population. Inesc reproduces the intire document.

SW2008-Press-Advisory

 

Financing and mega projectos

This document is the introduction of the publication coordinated by INESC in Portuguese language. This introduction is contained within the framework of INESC´s objectives to democratize the debate and access to the information on the policies of integration and development in the South American region, in particular on the initiative for Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA), and in Brazilian case, on Growth Acceleration Program. This publication is focused on South American financial architecture and its relationship with the execution of large physical infrastructure projects being implemented in region.

FinalFullReportEnglishforPosting

 

Are Capitalism and Ecology Compatible?

We also live in times of setbacks in the field of Human Rights, here understood by the political, civil, economic, social, cultural, environmental and sexual rights that, with hard sacrifices, have been conquered since the 18th century. Times of resistance!

TRADE: A Lost Decade for the WTO?

Ten years ago, the Seattle Ministerial of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) flashed over into a ‘Battle of Seattle’ before the eyes of a startled world.

Video - The Signs of Nature

 

Video Juvenile Progatonism

Active youth. Youngsters learning to light for their own rights.