3. Composition of the Pan Africa Civil Society Conference
Representation at the conference needs to fulfill a number of criteria:
- It must ensure representation of the various WSSD processes currently taking place in the continent
- It must ensure that women are represented within the conference in proportions reflection our commitment to gender equity
- It must ensure that we are as inclusive as possible, and that the representatives reflect the sentiments and views of the areas from which they come
- It must ensure that we are able to mobilize the experience accumulated among various civil society organisations on the continent
- It must consider the principle of intergenerational equity and youth involvement.
For the WSSD process, Africa is divided into 6 sub-regions. These are SADC, Central Africa, West Africa, North Africa, Small Islands and East/Eastern Africa. We suggest that the majority of the participants be chosen in the 6 sub-regions. Each sub-region to send 10 delegates to the Pan Africa Conference.
The South African Civil Society Secretariat be given 5 delegates in the conference, so as to give input as the organizers of the Global NGO Forum.
Five other delegates come from networks working on various key issues on the continent. We suggest that each of the following networks gets one representative: Third World Network; Jubilee 2000; NESDA, RAED, Enda Graf, etc.
This representation of 70 participants should be made up of a fair composition of major groups (e.g. youth, women, indeginous people, etc.) at least 25 women.
Other resource people and facilitators would attend for the special functions they would perform.
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