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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| Reject false solutions. Resist climate injustice. Adopt the Peoples' Protocol on Climate Change! |
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| Written by Ms. Theresa Lauron | |
| Wednesday, 09 December 2009 | |
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Copenhagen, Demark - Climate activists and people’s organizations gather in front of the Bella Center on December 9, Wednesday, for the Peoples Action for Climate Solutions. The protest action comes on the third day of the 192-country UN Climate Change Conference, which is expected to conclude with a strong agreement for global action to address climate change.
The activity is an initiative by the Peoples’ Movement on Climate Change (PMCC), together with organizations from Asia, Africa, Middle East and Europe. The protesters discuss the impacts of climate change in their regions, and call for people-centered solutions to climate change. “Developing countries, especially the poor and disadvantaged, bear nine-tenths of climate change’s worst impacts, despite having done little to cause it,” says Don Marut of PMCC. “We’re already suffering from droughts, flooding, stronger cyclones, crop failures, and water shortages. Without drastic action, these impacts are going to get worse,” he adds. Protesters criticize the solutions being offered by developed countries as unjust. “The solutions we’re getting from rich countries are either solutions that shift the burden of cutting emissions and funding climate action to developing countries. They are holding out on their pledges until poorer countries come forward with their own commitments. What they want is unjust and must be resisted,” stated Wahu Kaara of PMCC. Developed countries have at the time of this writing only pledged aggregate emissions reductions no higher than 23%, and international public financing for climate action in developing countries no higher than $50 billion annually. Estimates from scientific and development institutions for necessary emissions cuts and financing from rich countries amount to 40% reductions below 1990 levels by 2020 and at least $100 billion per year, respectively. Protesters also criticize market-based and technology-centered schemes which they say “try to reconcile profit-making and saving the planet.” “Nuclear energy, biofuels, carbon trading, carbon capture and storage, biochar, genetically modified crops, geo-engineering – they all try to keep the unsustainable corporate-led and profit-centered economic system that caused climate change in the first place, and they also pose threats to the health, security, and livelihood of local and indigenous communities. They should all be rejected,” says adds Kaara. The group concludes the action by highlighting the need for a “Peoples Protocol on Climate Change” whose solutions are just, people-centered, and consistent with science as well.
Contact Persons: Ms. Maria Theresa Lauron +63.918.902.8320 +45 52 69 78 32 Ms. Maitet Ledesma +31.6.14659558 |
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