IBON International is the international division of IBON Foundation, Inc. As an international NGO, IBON Foundation responds to international demand to provide support in research and education to peoples’ movements and grassroots empowerment and advocacy and links these to international initiatives and networks.
IBON International initiates and implements international programs, develops and hosts international networks, initiates and participates in international advocacy campaigns, and establishes regional and country offices where necessary and appropriate.
Offices
IBON Foundation is a non-stock non-profit development institution committed to serve the Filipino people through various programs in research-education-information.
IBON Europe was set up in 2007 as the base for IBON International's program in Europe. It will initially focus on EU member states where it will develop partnerships with grassroots-based movements of marginalized peoples and sectors according to its mandate.
IBON South Asia's thrust is the empowerment of grassroots in the sub-region by developing the capacity of people's movements and grassroots organizations through research-education and advocacy support. IBON South Asia provides needed support to movements of marginalized sections of society such as Dalits, Adivasis, women, peasants, agricultural workers, fisherfolk and the toiling masses to empower them in building free democratic societies in the sub-region
IBON Africa focuses on building knowledge based capacity for grassroots organizations, social movements and local community based organization (CBOs) and NGO in the Africa region. To attain this objective, IBON Africa provides various services to sectors and organization in the Africa community - access to timely and relevant information through its databank and publications; training and seminars; organizing of international events to tackle such themes as golbalization, food sovereignty, aid and development and governance initiated by IBON in partnership with other international networks.
Networks
The Asia Pacific Research Network (APRN) was established in 1998 as a result of networking including a number of conferences in 1997, where the objective to channel and focus the efforts of NGO research towards supporting the need for information, education and advocacy of grassroots organizations was recognized by a number of key Asian research organizations or non-government organizations with established research departments.
The Reality of Aid network is the only major north/south international non-governmental collaboration focusing exclusively on analysis and lobbying for poverty eradication policies and practices in the international aid regime.
Issue Networks
The People's Movement on Climate Change is a global campaign that aims to provide venue for grassroots, especially from the South - who are the worst-affected and yet are the least empowered to adapt to climate change - to participate in the process of drawing up a post-2012 climate change framework.
The Water for the People Network (WPN) Water for the People Network (WPN) is a campaign network that supports the various water-related struggles at the grassroots in order for them to achieve national and international projection. It also serves as an information and resource center as well as a coordinating body for joint actions and campaigns on the national and international levels.
The International Initiative on Corruption and Governance (IICG) was set up in 2001 to promote interest on corruption and governance issues from a grassroots perspective that takes into account all aspects of corruption, including systemic factors and corruption in the private sector.
Network Participant
The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) is a global network of communicators committed to communication for social change.
The Our World is Not For Sale (OWINFS) is a worldwide network of organizations, activists and social movements committed to challenging trade and investment agreements that advance the interests of the world’s most powerful corporations at the expense of people and the environment.
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| Protests around the world to mark opening of UN climate talks in Copenhagen |
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| Written by Ms. Theresa Lauron | |
| Wednesday, 09 December 2009 | |
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As world leaders meet for the 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), people’s groups in different countries including the Philippines hold protest actions to demand a people-centered response to the global climate crisis.
Protest activities have started since last week as run-up to the UN conference in countries like Nigeria, Sudan, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Hongkong, Egypt, Morocco, Sri Lanka, Thailand and China. People’s assemblies will continue during the week-long UN conference in Canada, Lebanon, Indonesia, Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique. The protests are part of the campaign of the Peoples’ Movement on Climate Change (PMCC), which organized a parallel Peoples’ Assembly in Copenhagen to give a platform for poor nations to voice out pro-people solutions to climate change. According to PMCC spokesperson Theresa Lauron, countries in the South especially the poor are bearing the worst impacts of climate change, but do not have a say in the climate negotiations. The Philippines for instance has recently proven its vulnerability to climate change after typhoons ravaged the country in September. This vulnerability to the harsh effects of climate change has been made worse by the wanton plunder of natural resources by foreign and local corparations and continued government neglect. Yet corporate plunder in the Third World remains excluded in the agenda of the UN climate talks, said Lauron. In Manila, various environment and cause-oriented groups led by Bayan and Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment held a picket in front of the US embassy to register their opposition to false solutions of First World countries and corporations led by the US. According to the groups, measures promoted by these countries only continue to severely harm the environment and communities in the Third World, provide new and greater opportunities for corporate profit, and reinforce and expand corporate control over natural resources and technologies. The groups said that the protest actions around the globe demonstrate the seriousness of the people’s demand for ecologically sustainable, socially just, pro-people, and long-lasting solutions to the global climate crisis. A video streaming of these protest activities will be webcasted in the PMCC website on 9 December (www.peoplesmovement.net).
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