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First
Call for the World Family Summit +3!
Mobilizing for Action.
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Dear
Members, Friends and Visitors,
It
seems that it was just yesterday when we were at Dead Sea,
Jordan for the World Family Summit +2 - Investing in
Development and Mobilizing for Action: Implementing the
MDGs at the Local Level and in the Family, and here
we are now making the first call for the World Family Summit
+3, to be held in Warsaw, Poland, on November 26 to 28,
2007.
According
to the decisions taken at the World Family Summit +2, the
themes that will be discussed on the WFS+3 will be linked
specifically to the MDGs 4, 5 and 6, not forgetting that
the MDGs 1, 3 and 8 are goals that have to be considered
when approaching commitments to development.
Discussing
and finding ways for concrete actions to implement the MDG
4, Reduce child mortality and the MDG 5,
Improve maternal health are key issues to be dealt
with as effective strategies to reach individuals, families
and communities because of the long-term perspectives and
the relationship that mothers and children have in the process
of development.
The
MDG 6, Combat HIV/AIDS and other diseases such as
tuberculosis and malaria is an important family
health issue since more than four million children under
the age of fifteen have been infected with HIV since the
epidemic began, and another 13 million children have lost
their mothers or both parents to the disease. An estimated
10,3 million people aged 15-24 are living with HIV. Diseases
like malaria are a primary killer in Africa, and tuberculosis
is reappering in places where it was for long considered
eradicated.
These
facts are hidden factors affecting the countries' economies
and development, specially the poorest ones. National Governments
are doing their work. It is time for us to give our contribution
and bring the discussion, knowledge and actions to the Local
Level and to the Family.
The
reduction of poverty, the assurance of education, the achievement
of gender equality and the promotion of partnerships are
definitivelly factors that help in the achievement of the
above mentioned MDGs.
We
are very happy that the Polish Ministry of Health, the Polish
National AIDS Center and in special the "Dialogue without
Frontiers" Foundation, through the leadership of the
Foundation's President Mrs. Yolanta Kwasniewska, are our
partners to the WFS+3 and the organization process has already
started.
This
coming week I am visiting our partners in Warsaw and we
are expecting to have the preliminary scientific and technical
program agreed. Poland is a very beautiful country, so for
sure our partners will not forget to propose some very interesting
turistic visits.
Please
check frequently our website for more information on the
World Family Summit +3, the call for papers and the call
for success stories.
This
week we also received the invitation from the United Nations
Department of Economic and Social Affairs Division of Public
Administration to participate and contribute to the 7th
Global Forum on Reinventing Governments, to be held in Vienna,
Austria, 26-29 June 2007. This year the theme is "Building
Trust in Government" and WFO was invited to contribute
in the workshop "Building Trust Through Civic Engagement",
organized in partnership with the State Government of Queensland
(Australia), the Kyung Hee University (Republic of Korea),
the New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public
Service (USA) and the International Budget Project (Washington
D.C., USA). We will give more information on this very important
Forum soon.
On
the other hand, we continue to prepare the activities for
the celebration of WFO's 60th Anniversary on June 28 and
our participation on the ECOSOC High Level Segment in July
2 to 5, 2007.
As
a concrete action for this month, WFO in partnership with
the Municipality of Pojuca, Bahia State, Brazil and Development
Partners concluded negociations to reorganize the municipality's
local health system, including the construction of a 75-bed,
medium-complexity general hospital.
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