5. Summary of Outcomes and Preparatory Work
The following are the outcomes that we envisage out of the Pan Africa Conference in December:
- A common position on the review of the Rio process
- A common position on the New Africa Initiative
- A common position on Globalisation
- A plan to develop common position on a list of priority issues identified by the conference
- A strategy and plan to mobilise support among other sectors in Africa
- A plan for intervention at the 2nd Global PrepCom in New York, Jan2002
- A position on the composition of the International Steering Committee, as well as on key aspects of its work
- A plan of intervention at Porto Allegre and in the Southern Caucus
- The election of a coordinating committee for the African Civil society process
- A date for the Second Pan Africa Conference, as well as the outlines of an agenda for the conference
- A meeting of sub-regional focal points and a plan towards Jhb2002
In order to facilitate the work at the December conference, we would request the various sub-regional focal points, and the networks invited to the conference, to prepare the following documents and forward them to the organisers of conference:
- The state of civil society in each country covered by the sub-region. This report should be produced by the national focal points in each country. A check list of issues to be covered will be forwarded soon. (2-3 pages at most)
- State of WSSD preparations – country reports. Checklist to follow. (1-2 pages)
- Sub-regional platforms – where they exist.
- Sub-regional focal point reports on WSSD. (1-2pages; checklist to follow)
- Report from networks on state of work related to WSSD (2-3 pages; checklist to follow)
- Key landmark events on the road to Jhb – to be produced by South African Civil Society Secretariat. (2-3pages; checklist to follow)
The checklists for what is to be included in each of the report will be with sub-regions within the week (latest by Monday 19 November 2001), and we suggest that the deadline for the submission of these reports be Friday 30 November 2001. This will allow enough time for these reports to feed into the final design of the conference, which should be done – with the necessary accompanying material, by December 7 2001. Delegates will therefore have time to look at the agenda of the conference before they leave their homes for Nairobi.
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