World Family Summit +2

The World Family Summit +2 was organized by the World Family Organization in partnership with the National Council for Family Affairs of Jordan, under the High Patronage of Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah, and the support of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs/NGO-Section/UN-NGO-Informal Regional Network

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Vision of the World Family Summit +2

• The World Family Summit will constitute the biggest partnership towards making the present and the future world with more peace, security, justice, tolerance, solidarity, prosperity and integrated by mobilizing and promoting the basic cell of society – The Family.

• A comprehensive and integrated approach to development, redeeming all the family-related provisions of the outcomes of the UN Summits and Conferences of the 90’s and their follow-up processes to implement the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and address the main issues and challenges of the Third Millennium.

• A Forum where the interaction, discourse and partnership among the main stakeholders in this field - Governments, Local authorities, NGOs, Civil Society Organizations, Parliamentarians, Academia, Business Community and Families - will reaffirm the Millennium Declaration Goals and will share the responsibilities and the political will of its full implementation.

• A legacy to the future generation, through the engagement of all sectors of Society in a “Learning – Dialogue – Action” process.

Objectives

The main purpose of the World Family Summit +2 is to continue the work initiated in Sanya, China in 2004, and to continue and evaluate the results from the WFS +1 held in Aracaju, Brazil, including the impact of the Plan of Action. Besides that, the WFS +2 aims at promoting the Family’s contribution to the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals following a multi-stakeholder approach, with the following objectives:

• To place family issues in definitive in the International Agenda.

• To increase awareness of family issues among National Governments, Local Authorities, NGOs and CSOs, Parliamentarians, Academia, Private Sector and Families.

• To strengthen the capacity of National and Local Institutions to identify, discuss, formulate, implement and monitor family-related policies.

• To enhance the effectiveness of local, national and regional efforts to carry out specifics family related programmes, generate new activities and strengthen existing ones.

• To stimulate public-private partnerships to respond to problems resulting of globalization, affecting and affected by, the situation of families.

• To improve collaboration among all actors of the Society, local, national and international organizations in support of families.

• To determine the appropriate means to implement concrete actions.

Achieved Results of the Summit

The main expected results are as follows:

• A better and common understanding of the MDGs and the role of Family in contributing to their implementation through an enhanced learning, dialogue and action process.

• An exchange of experiences (good and bad) among participants to draw out the lessons learned and the best practices to adapt to each national context.

• A large consensus on the main and crucial issues to be addressed and on how to address them.

• An evaluation on the impact of the Aracaju Practical Plan of Action, on the local level and in the Family.