At the Pan Africa NGO meeting of 12-14 October 2001, held in Nairobi, Kenya, the idea of a Pan Africa Conference of civil society organisations was accepted. At the meeting it was agreed that the national focal point for the WSSD in Kenya (the Kenya National Steering Committee - KNSC) should be the host for the Conference. A person would be appointed in the office of the KNSC to coordinate the logistics of the meeting. It was also agreed that KNSC would coordinate the development of an agenda for the meeting, and that it would undertake this task in consultation with other national and sub-regional focal points.
The dates of 17th to 20 December 2001 were agreed upon, and Nairobi was agreed as the place for the Conference.
In the course of its discussion, the meeting of October identified a number of objectives for the conference, as well as key themes that need to be taken up in the conference. The first part of this concept paper deals with themes objectives, and the outcomes of the conference in the light of the objectives. The second part deals with the composition of the Conference, the third part with the need for a meeting between representatives of sub-regional focal points and the Civil Society Secretariat based in Johannesburg. Lastly we deal with preparatory work that we need to do before the December Conference.
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