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Table of Contents
A Message from the Chair of Stakeholder Forum, Derek Osborn Page 3
A Message from the Executive Director, Felix Dodds Page 4
Stakeholder Forum’s Key Achievements in 2007 Page 5
Building Political Momentum to Strengthen Institutions for Sustainable Page 7 Development Governance
Strengthening the Implementation of Sustainable Development Page 9 Commitments on Water
Building the Capacity of Stakeholders to Engage in Page 11 Environmental Decision-Making Processes
Stakeholder Communication and Information Page 13
Stakeholder Forum Staff & Governance Page 14
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A Message from the Chair of Stakeholder Forum
In 2005, Stakeholder Forum brought out a book on Human and Environmental Security for the UN World Summit 2005 and in 2006 refocused its work around issues that address human and environmental security. The paradigm of ‘human and environmental security’, perhaps better to call it ‘human, economic and environmental insecurity’ brings a new urgency to environmental issues, offering an agenda for change. By highlighting the inextricable links between the environment, the economy, human health, and human security, it reveals that business as usual is not an option.
In April 2007, the UK Government took part of this agenda to the UN Security Council for the first time. They initiated the first debate on the environmental issue of energy and climate security. This was followed in June by the Belgian government taking the issue of illegal exploitation of natural resources and armed conflict to the UN Security Council.
In August, the World Business Council on Sustainable Development launched its Global Water toolkit, which is a device utilized by companies and organizations to map their water use and assess risks relative to their global operations and supply chains. The toolkit looks to the future impacts of climate change on water availability for companies up to 2025.
In October UNEP launched their Global Environmental Outlook 4 Report, which also highlighted a future scenario of Human and Environmental Security as one of four possible futures we may be facing.
The emerging issue of Human Security should be seen in the context of the continuing debates regarding international environmental and sustainable development, which Stakeholder Forum and its partners, Brazilian Forum of NGOs and Social Movements for the Environment and Development (FBOMS), Northern Alliance for Sustainability (ANPED) and UN non-governmental liaison service (UN NGLS) have continued to track. It is clear that there is a need for the world to come together to address the new agenda.
Last year, Stakeholder Forum called for a UN Summit on Human, Economic and Environmental Insecurity. In September 2007 Brazil offered to host Rio+20, which would enable governments to at last focus on reforming the environment and sustainable development architecture, and to be able to address the issues confronting us in the twenty-first century. The offer has yet to be formally presented at the UN but when it is Stakeholder Forum will be there to support it
Derek Osborne
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A Message from the Executive Director
In 2007 Stakeholder Forum has continued to work on the issue of Human Economic and Environmental Insecurity. In April we responded to the debate initiated by the UK Government in the UN Security Council on Energy and Climate Security with an article on the BBC web site. Although keen to see the debate prosper we share the perspective of Group of 77’s coalition of developing countries, that the debate should include all countries and not be restricted to UN Security Council members.
With our partners Brazilian Forum of NGOs and Social Movements for the Environment and the Development (FBOMS), ANPED and UN Non Governmental Liaison Service, Stakeholder Forum has continued to work on the area of international environmental governance. This year has seen the continuation for the process on IEG:
• The follow up to the Secretary-General's High Level Panel on UN System Wide Coherence in the Areas of Development, Humanitarian Assistance, and Environment; • The publishing of the Building Blocks paper from the Informal consultations on reform of international environmental governance in the General Assembly;
In addition, and in collaboration with our partners, Stakeholder Forum been following and inputting into two other IEG processes ;1) UNEO: The French Government who have held a number of consultations through the Friends of UNEO on the possibility of a new Agency on the environment 2) IEG: The Brazilian Government have initiated a further process on IEG.
This year there has been a concerted effort on the part of Stakeholder Forum and our partners to initiate a debate on sustainable development governance including the reform of the CSD. It transpired that we were ahead of the curve as the UN Commission on Sustainable Development ground to a halt in May failing to agree anything for the first time ever. We hope that the new Director when appointed will be able to transform what is one of the most important bodies in the UN into a more effective body.
In August at World Water Week, Stakeholder Forum with the Stockholm International Water Institute launched a Global Public Policy Network on Water Management. This GPPN will help prepare governments and stakeholders for the review of CSD-13 decision on water management. It is a new model of preparation as the Steering Committee is made up of 5 governments, UN Water and a number of more traditional stakeholders. It hopes to set an example for how to approach future reviews.
In October Stakeholder Forum facilitated the global media launch for UNEP’s flagship report the Global Environmental Outlook 4 (GEO4) Report and an accompanying Brundtland seminar series to review progress in the past twenty years as well as looking at four scenarios for the future. The event was a huge media success with eight TV channels sending crews and the whole front pages of the Times and the Independent . One of the key outcomes of the event was the warning that the issue of climate change should not consume all debates regarding environmental sustainability. GEO4 Achim Steiner the Executive Director of UNEP said he hopes will be the “last wake up call the earth needs.” Stakeholder Forum will be working with many of the stakeholders who attended the day on a program of work to look at the scenarios as a preparation for Rio+20.
Felix Dodds Executive Director
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Stakeholder Forum’s Key Achievements in 2007
Stakeholder Forum’s mission is to inform, influence, promote and advance sustainable development. In 2007, Stakeholder Forum furthered this mission by:
Building political momentum to strengthen institutions for sustainable development governance through:
Ensuring civil society input to the debate on UN reform for Environment and Sustainable Development . Stakeholder Forum and its partners FBOMS (Brazil), ANPED, UN NGLS, managed an ongoing dialogue and a set of workshops with stakeholders and governments on international environmental governance. As a result of these consultations with partners and stakeholders, in September Stakeholder Forum was asked to address the Informal General Assembly meeting on the Swiss and Mexican Ambassador’s Building Blocks paper.
Informing the debate on reform of the Commission on Sustainable Development Stakeholder Forum and its partners continued to push forward on the need for reform of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. They hosted a number of workshops and in light of the failure of the CSD to agree any text this year. The suggestions put forward by the partners are being looked at seriously by governments.
Initiating a discussion with stakeholders on the possible setting up of an United Nations Environment Organization . With ANPED and UN NGLS, Stakeholder Forum hosted a series of meetings and discussions on the proposed UNEO and in particular what role stakeholders might have in such a body if it were created. This processes involved a meeting of stakeholders with the new French Foreign Minister in September 2007.
Building capacity to engage in debate on UN reform for environment and sustainable development , through ieg dossier, an online clearing house dedicated to providing information on intergovernmental negotiations and processes related to the strengthening of the United Nation’s environment and development architecture.
Strengthening the implementation of sustainable development commitments on water through:
Launching at World Water Week a new Global Public Policy Network (GPPN) to engage major stakeholders in preparing a review of the implementation of water and sanitation commitments made at CSD13. The GPPN is managed by Stakeholder Forum and Stockholm International Water Institute, and its Steering Committee includes five governments, UN Water, and key stakeholder groups. The Network will contribute to looking at the reasons why commitments have not been implemented and make suggestions on the way forward.
Engaging stakeholders in the Preparatory Process of the Second Intergovernmental Review Meeting of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities. At UNEP Governing Council Stakeholder Forum in collaboration with the UNEP GPA Office presented feedback on the Beijing Conference.
Building the capacity of stakeholders to engage in environmental decision-making processes through:
The publishing of Negotiating and Implementing Multilateral Environmental Agreements: A Manual for NGOs. The objective of the Manual is to both strengthen multi-stakeholder participation and increase political momentum for effective MEA development, implementation and enforcement. It was published in May 2007.
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Organizing a training workshop for the first ever joint North and South Cyprus stakeholder team to be able to attend and be effective at the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development . The workshop explained the UN CSD process and utilised our Manual to prepare a 14 strong Cyprus team to attend the CSD.
Acting as Rapporteur for the Civil Society Forum at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kampala Stakeholder Forum was brought in by the Commonwealth Foundation to help professionalize the stakeholder approach to CHOGM which included the Foreign Minister Round Table with stakeholders.
Hosting the global media launch for the UNEP flagship Global Environmental Outlook 2007 Report. Stakeholder Form sat on the Outreach team for UNEP’s GEO4 and were asked to organize the global media launch of GEO4 in London which resulted in enormous press coverage for the event with eight TV crews covering it and was the whole front page of the Times and the Independent.
Hosting one of the six global Brundtland seminars. The seminar was attended by over 250 stakeholders. The sessions reviewed the progress made since Brundtland twenty years ago and looked at four scenarios produced by UNEP for the future. A report of the seminar will be launched at UNEP Global Environment Ministers Forum in 2008.
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Building the Capacity of Organizing a training workshop for the first Stakeholders to Engage in ever joint North and South Cyprus stakeholder team to be able to attend and Sustainable Development Decision- be effective at the United Nations making Processes Commission on Sustainable Development . In March, working with the UNDP Action for Strengthening Stakeholder Participation in Cooperation and Trust in Cyprus, Stakeholder Environmental Negotiations Forum organised a training workshop on how The fifteen years since the 1992 Earth Summit to become involved with UN meetings for has seen a vast expansion in the number and stakeholders from North and South Cyprus. scope of multilateral agreements on the The objective was to prepare a team for the environment (MEAs). There are currently first ever joint stakeholder delegation to attend more than 700 in force. These MEAs form the a UN meeting. The workshop used the Manual building blocks of an emerging and much on MEAs as a basis for the training. A needed global system of environmental and delegation of fourteen Cypriot stakeholders sustainable development governance. then attended the first week of the UN CSD However, MEA negotiations themselves meeting. Stakeholder Forum and UNDP represent an organic process and they are all service supported the delegation throughout continuing to evolve. There remains a that week and the new Forum is in the process substantial implementation gap which is crucial of becoming a UNEP National Committee. to their success. Acting as Rapporteur for the Civil Society A second major change has been the Forum at the Commonwealth Heads of expansion of the role that nongovernmental Government Meeting in Kampala organizations (NGOs) play in the international Stakeholder Forum was brought in by the negotiation of MEAs, and then in their national Commonwealth Foundation to help and local application. The scope and diversity professionalize the stakeholder approach to of stakeholder involvement is adding immense Commonwealth Heads of Government value and energy to the worldwide effort to Meeting. address the critical challenges facing the environment and sustainable development. This project had Stakeholder Forum acting as rapporteur for the Civil Society Forum. This Stakeholder Forum, in a partnership of the included facilitating the production of the UNEP Division of Environmental Policy following documents: Implementation and Environmental Law • Background briefing on the (DEPI), Earth Media and Centro de Estudios Commonwealth Peoples Forum Ambientales, produced a manual on How to • The Statement to the Foreign Lobby at Multilateral Environmental Ministers Agreements . The goal of the Manual is to: • Summary of the Commonwealth
Peoples Forum • Strengthen multi-stakeholder • Full Report of the Commonwealth participation, and; Peoples Forum • Increase political momentum for Stakeholder Forum was also asked to help effective MEA development, implementation and enforcement.
The Manual was launch in May 2007 and is designed as a working model of an interactive workshop for NGOs that can help them build the requisite skills to effectively influence all phases of the process of implementation MEAs at the international, national and local levels.
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civil society to prepare for the Round Table all, with a strong emphasis on equity. with Foreign Ministers and Prince Charles. • Security First: the government sector and the private sector vie for control in Hosting the global media launch for the efforts to improve, or at least maintain, UNEP flagship Global Environmental human well being for mainly the rich and Outlook 2007 Report. powerful Stakeholder Forum is the National Committee • Markets First : the private sector, with for UNEP in the UK and also sits on the active government support, pursues Outreach team for UNEP’s GEO4. As a result, maximum economic growth as the best Stakeholder Forum was asked to organize the path to improve the environment and global media launch of GEO4 in London for human well being for all. th October the 25 . The Report looked back • Policy First : the government sector, twenty years to the Brundtland Report. The with active private and civil sector key messages for decision makers were support implements strong policies worrying: intended to improve the environment and human well being, while • The Earth’s surface is warming emphasizing economic development. • More than two million people globally die • Stakeholder Forum had organized the prematurely every year due to outdoor previous two global media launches in and indoor air pollution 1999 and 2002. This year’s launch • The hole in the stratospheric ozone layer gained enormous press interest is now the largest it has ever been including the event being coverage by • Unsustainable land use and climate eight TV crews. The following day the change are driving land degradation report commanded the whole front page • The per capita availability of freshwater is of the Times and the Independent. declining globally and the contaminated water remains the greatest single Hosting one of the six global Brundtland environmental cause of human sickness seminars and death. To accompany the launch, Stakeholder Forum • Aquatic ecosystems continue to be organized a seminar series which was heavily exploited putting at risk attended by over 250 stakeholders. It sustainability of food supplies and reviewed the progress made since Brundtland biodiversity twenty years ago and proposed four scenarios • The great majority of well studied species produced by UNEP for the future. A report of are declining in distribution, abundance or the seminar will be launched at UNEP Global both Environment Ministers Forum in 2008.
The report also looked to the future with four scenarios:
• Sustainability First: the civic, government and private sectors work collaboratively to improve the environment and human well being for
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Strengthening the implementation highlighting examples of progress and best of sustainable development practice. The GPPN will collect, rationalise and disseminate the data relating to water commitments on water management from relevant stakeholders, with the aim of identifying key areas where action is Reviewing the Implementation of required to deliver CSD-13 decisions. This Commitments on Water th process will enable a constructive and positive At the 13 session of the Commission for discussion on water management at the CSD Sustainable Development in 2005 (CSD-13), in 2008. The GPPN secretariat will use its five water management themes were agreed findings to brief and inform those taking part in upon in the CSD-13 decision: the water management review at CSD-16, which we hope will run for two full days in the • Access to basic water services first week. • Integrated water resources management (IWRM) Stakeholder Forum (SF) and Stockholm • Access to basic sanitation International Water Institute (SIWI) have • Sanitation and hygiene education designed comprehensive guidelines to • Wastewater collection, treatment encourage broader stakeholder input into the and reuse review of water management. We have identified and referenced below the key CSD- 13 commitments across the water It was decided at CSD-13 that at the CSD-16 management themes, focusing specifically on in 2008 there would be a review of progress the means of implementation under the towards the commitments on water following three categories: management outlined in the CSD-13 decision.
In preparation for this review at CSD-16, the • CSD Secretariat has called for national Governance and Capacity Building governments to report across all five of the − Monitoring above themes. This has incorporated a specific questionnaire regarding planning and − Technology Transfer implementation of IWRM, and a request for − Education, Training, Information governments to voluntarily provide updated and Knowledge information on national sustainable development strategies (NSDS) and national − Research programmes on indicators for sustainable
development. Stakeholder and Major Groups Engagement To supplement this, Stakeholder Forum and − Stockholm International Water Institute Stakeholder Engagement (SIWI) have set up a Global Public Policy Indigenous Knowledge Network (GPPN) to gather inputs from − governments and other stakeholders Gender (including civil society and Major Groups) on progress since CSD-13 on water management. The GPPN has a Steering Committee made up of five governments (Germany, Guatemala, Indonesia, UK and the USA), UN Water and a number of key stakeholders (Global Water Partnership, WWF-US, World Business Council on Sustainable Development, World Water Forum, and Freshwater Action Network). .
The GPPN will attempt to identify consensus on the obstacles facing the implementation of the CSD13 commitments, as well as
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− • Finance − Development assistance − Commercial Incentives − Cost-recovery and Subsidies
We are asking for input based on:
• Concrete actions taken and specific progress made in implementation • Major constraints and challenges • Lessons learned Recent trends and emerging issues
The GPPN will help to ensure a successful review of water and sanitation at the CSD, facilitate greater understanding of the linkages between water and other sustainable development issues among policy-makers, and increase cooperation among stakeholders working in the fields of water and sanitation— all of which are essential to speeding up the implementation of water and sanitation commitments to ensure the Millennium Development Goals can be met.
Engaging stakeholders in the Preparatory Process of the Second Intergovernmental Review Meeting of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities. The purpose of this project was to ensure stakeholder involvement in the Beijing Conference in October 2006. The project continued reporting back to stakeholders and governments at UNEP Governing Council in February 2007. Working with the UNEP GPA Office Stakeholder Forum organized a workshop to report on the outcomes from thon the Beijing Conference. Speakers included the Chair of the Beijing Declaration; the Head of the Mexican delegation, Maria Angelica Murillo Correa; Veerle Vandeweerd, Director of UNEP Regional Seas and GPA programme; and Felix Dodds for Stakeholder Forum.
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Organizing a training workshop for the first Building the Capacity of ever joint North and South Cyprus stakeholder team to be able to attend and Stakeholders to Engage in be effective at the United Nations Sustainable Development Decision- Commission on Sustainable Development . making Processes In March, working with the UNDP Action for Cooperation and Trust in Cyprus, Stakeholder Strengthening Stakeholder Participation in Forum organised a training workshop on how Environmental Negotiations to become involved with UN meetings for The fifteen years since the 1992 Earth Summit stakeholders from North and South Cyprus. has seen a vast expansion in the number and The objective was to prepare a team for the scope of multilateral agreements on the first ever joint stakeholder delegation to attend environment (MEAs). There are currently a UN meeting. The workshop used the Manual more than 700 in force. These MEAs form the on MEAs as a basis for the training. A building blocks of an emerging and much delegation of fourteen Cypriot stakeholders needed global system of environmental and then attended the first week of the UN CSD sustainable development governance. meeting. Stakeholder Forum and UNDP However, MEA negotiations themselves service supported the delegation throughout represent an organic process and they are all that week and the new Forum is in the process continuing to evolve. There remains a of becoming a UNEP National Committee. substantial implementation gap which is crucial to their success. Acting as Rapporteur for the Civil Society Forum at the Commonwealth Heads of A second major change has been the Government Meeting in Kampala expansion of the role that nongovernmental Stakeholder Forum was brought in by the organizations (NGOs) play in the international Commonwealth Foundation to help negotiation of MEAs, and then in their national professionalize the stakeholder approach to and local application. The scope and diversity Commonwealth Heads of Government of stakeholder involvement is adding immense Meeting. value and energy to the worldwide effort to address the critical challenges facing the This project had Stakeholder Forum acting as environment and sustainable development. rapporteur for the Civil Society Forum. This included facilitating the production of the Stakeholder Forum, in a partnership of the following documents: UNEP Division of Environmental Policy Implementation and Environmental Law • Background briefing on the (DEPI), Earth Media and Centro de Estudios Commonwealth Peoples Forum Ambientales, produced a manual on How to • The Statement to the Foreign Ministers Lobby at Multilateral Environmental • Summary of the Commonwealth Peoples Agreements . The goal of the Manual is to: Forum • Full Report of the Commonwealth Peoples • Strengthen multi-stakeholder participation, Forum and; • Increase political momentum for effective Stakeholder Forum was also asked to help MEA development, implementation and civil society to prepare for the Round Table enforcement. with Foreign Ministers and Prince Charles.
The Manual was launch in May 2007 and is Hosting the global media launch for the designed as a working model of an interactive UNEP flagship Global Environmental workshop for NGOs that can help them build Outlook 2007 Report. the requisite skills to effectively influence all Stakeholder Forum is the National Committee phases of the process of implementation for UNEP in the UK and also sits on the MEAs at the international, national and local Outreach team for UNEP’s GEO4. As a result, levels. Stakeholder Forum was asked to organize the global media launch of GEO4 in London for
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October the 25 th . The Report looked back report commanded the whole front page twenty years to the Brundtland Report. The of the Times and the Independent. key messages for decision makers were worrying: Hosting one of the six global Brundtland seminars • The Earth’s surface is warming To accompany the launch, Stakeholder Forum • More than two million people globally die organized a seminar series which was prematurely every year due to outdoor and attended by over 250 stakeholders. It indoor air pollution reviewed the progress made since Brundtland • The hole in the stratospheric ozone layer is twenty years ago and proposed four scenarios now the largest it has ever been produced by UNEP for the future. A report of • Unsustainable land use and climate change the seminar will be launched at UNEP Global are driving land degradation Environment Ministers Forum in 2008. • The per capita availability of freshwater is declining globally and the contaminated water remains the greatest single environmental cause of human sickness and death. • Aquatic ecosystems continue to be heavily exploited putting at risk sustainability of food supplies and biodiversity • The great majority of well studied species are declining in distribution, abundance or both
The report also looked to the future with four scenarios:
• Sustainability First: the civic, government and private sectors work collaboratively to improve the environment and human well being for all, with a strong emphasis on equity. • Security First: the government sector and the private sector vie for control in efforts to improve, or at least maintain, human well being for mainly the rich and powerful • Markets First : the private sector, with active government support, pursues maximum economic growth as the best path to improve the environment and human well being for all. • Policy First : the government sector, with active private and civil sector support implements strong policies intended to improve the environment and human well being, while emphasizing economic development. • Stakeholder Forum had organized the previous two global media launches in 1999 and 2002. This year’s launch gained enormous press interest including the event being coverage by eight TV crews. The following day the
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Dodds and Toby Middleton (Earthscan 2000) • Poverty in Plenty: a Human Development Report for Stakeholder Communication and Information the UK. Edited by Jane Seymour • Earth Summit II by Tom Bigg and Derek Osborn Providing Information on Sustainable Development Earthscan 1998) Processes • The Way Forward Beyond Agenda 21. Edited by Felix Stakeholder Forum’s information services support Dodds (Earthscan 1997) informed participation and involvement of all stakeholders in strengthening global governance for sustainable Stakeholder Forum Papers and Briefings development. Stakeholder Forum has produced a number of papers and briefings this year; In 2007 Stakeholder Forum: • Options for Strengthening the Environmental • Produced 4 monthly issues of Network . We are Pillar of Sustainable Development (169 paper currently reviewing the role of a monthly newsletter in final version) light of the amount of information people are receiving • Sustainable Development in the Context of UN to see if this is the best way to communicate with Reform people. • UNEO: A Champion for environment in the 21st • Produced 10 daily issues of Outreach at CSD-15 with century, but what role for stakeholders? ANPED. Outreach is a daily newsletter produced • The UN System and Sustainable Development: during UN events which provides commentary on the Proposals for a Sustainable Development daily negotiations, as well as policy recommendations Institutional Initiative and background articles. • From Words to Action: Civil Society • Published an article for BBC News providing a critical Representatives Call for a Strong Follow-up to analysis of the debate in the UN Security Council on the High Level Panel on System-wide Climate and Energy Insecurity Coherence . • Workshop Report on UN System-wide Stakeholder Forum books Coherence, 28 February 2007, UN In 2007, Stakeholder Forum brought out the Negotiating Headquarters, New York and Implementing Multilateral Environmental Agreements: A Manual for NGOs this was a joint publication with Stakeholder Forum Report UNEP, Earth Media and Centro de Estudios Ambientales The key report Stakeholder Forum produced this year was (CEDEA). In 2008, we will have published our 11th book the back to Our Common Future which was the outcome in 11 years. from the Brundtland seminar.
• Energy and Climate Insecurity edited by Felix Stakeholder Forum Web site Dodds and Richard Shrerman (Earthscan May Stakeholder Forum’s web site underwent a radical change 2008) in 2007. We hope the new version of the site is more • Negotiating and Implementing Multilateral friendly to visitors and friends a like. Environmental Agreements by Felix Dodds, Maria Onestin, Michael Strauss (UNEP 2007) • Human and Environmental Security. Edited by Felix Dodds and Tim Pippard (Earthscan 2005) • How to Lobby At Intergovernmental Meetings by Felix Dodds and Michael Strauss (Earthscan 2004) • Plain Language Guide to WSSD by Georgina Ayres, Rosalie Callway, Jan McHarry, Janet Strachen (Earthscan 2004) • Governance for Sustainable Development. Edited by Georgina Ayre and Rosalie Callway (Earthscan 2004) • Multistakeholder processes on Sustainability and Governance by Minu Hemmati with Felix Dodds, Jasmin Enayati and Jan McHarry (Earthscan 2002) • Earth Summit 2002 A New Deal. Edited by Felix
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Stakeholder Forum Staff & Governance
Governance
Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future is a not for profit organisation. It is a company limited by guarantee, with charitable aims and objectives, registered in the UK, registration number 05243470. It is an independent organisation, working across the world to achieve its aims and objectives.
Stakeholder Forum is governed by a Board of Directors, currently being:
Derek Osborn Chair David Fitzpatrick Company Secretary Andy Binns Mehjabeen Price Finance Director Felix Dodds Executive Director
As part of the process of good governance, several Directors resigned in rotation during the year, and new Directors will join during 2008. We thank those who resigned for their time as Directors:
Andy Wales, Malcolm Harper, Jonathan Hodrien, Alex Kirby and Jim Scott
Stakeholder Forum’s strategy is delivered through is staff and interns.
Stakeholder Forum current staff and interns, 2007 Core staff Felix Dodds, Executive Director (British, based in San Sebastian) Jennifer Peer, Policy Coordinator (Canadian, based in UK, September 2005 to July 2007) Chris Kyriacou, Policy Coordinator (British/Cypriot, based in the UK, July 207 to October 2007) Hannah Stoddart, Policy Coordinator (British, based in the UK, October to date) Karen Allonby, Administrator (British, based in UK, December 2006 to May 2007) Rosie Bilton, Administrator (British, based in the UK, May 2007 to date)
Part Time project supported Megan Howell Capacity Building Coordinator: (New Zealand and New Zealand based)
Consultants Richard Sherman, Governance Consultant (South African, based in South Africa) Maria Figueroa Kupcu, Stakeholder and Strategic Consultant (American, based in USA) Virginia Prieto, Communications Coordinator (Spanish, based in Spain)
Interns Priya Shah (British/Indian, based in UK, October – December 2007) Emily Benson (British, based in UK, October – December 2007)
Stakeholder Forum Advisory Bodies In order to assist the Board and staff to keep in touch with stakeholder views and to ensure that the work remains relevant to their needs and priorities, the Board and staff are assisted by an International Advisory Board (IAB), which advises particularly on SF’s work at the international level. In addition, in 2006 Stakeholder Forum established a UK Policy Advisory Panel (UK PAP), which assists stakeholder engagement with UK stakeholders, in particular on SF’s work at the UK level. The IAB consists of representatives of leading international stakeholder groups drawn from the major groups recognized by the UN, together with a number of individuals eminent and active in the field of international sustainable development. Membership of the UK PAP similarly consists of representatives of leading UK stakeholder groups and eminent individuals concerned with the promotion of sustainable development at the UK level.
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Correll International Council for Local Environmental Initiative— Stakeholder Forum International Advisory Board Ms Tanya Imola
ANPED— Jan Gustav Strandenaes UK Policy Advisory Panel Members: Arab Network for Environment & Development—Dr Emad Action Aid—Roger Yates Adly BP—Paul Jefferiss Baha'i International Community—Mr Peter Adriance Education Dialogue Group—Mairi Kershaw Centro de Estudios Ambientales—Mrs María Onestini FIELD—Linda Siegele Development Alternatives—Mr Ashok Khosla Freshwater Action Network—Danielle Morley ECO-Accord—Dr Olga Ponizova Friends of the Earth—Mike Childs Environment Development Action in the Third World—Dr IIED—Ivan Bond Magdi Ibrahim RSPB—Jo Phillips Environment Liaison Centre International— Cyril Ritchie LGIB—Rosalie Callway International Confederation of Free Trade Unions— Mr Peace Child International—Mr David Woollcombe Lucien Royer Governance Advisor Peter Warren, International Institute for Sustainable Development— Mr Skanska—Noel Morrin 'Kimo' Langston James Goree VI Trade Unions Congress—Philip Pearson International Partners for Sustainable Agriculture— Ms TVE—Jenny Richards Linda Elswick Valerie Ellis IUCN - The World Conservation Network— Mr Scott Welsh Assembly— Matthew Quinn Hajost WOMANKIND—Ceri Hayes Peace Child International—Mr David Woollcombe Women’s Institute—Farah Nazeer Environmental Law and Policy Consulting— Ms Johannah Bernstein Stakeholder Forum has worked in partnership to Tearfund— Mr Andy Atkins deliver its projects with the following organizations: Huairou Commission— Ms Jan Peterson Capacity Building and Training: UNEP, CEDEA, Earth World Business Council for Sustainable Development— Media Ms Jacqueiline Cote Launch of UNEP’s Global Environmental Outlook 4 World Wide Fund for Nature International— Mr Gordon Report: UNEP Shepherd Global Public Policy Network on Water Management: International Institute for Environment & Development— Stockholm International Water Institute Camilia Toulmin UN Reform: UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service (UN Justice & Sustainability Associates LLC— Mr Mencer NGLS), the Brazilian Forum of NGOs and Social Donohue Edwards Movements for Sustainable Development and Local Government International Bureau— Ms Rosalie Environment (FBOMS) and ANPED—Northern Gardiner Sustainability Alliance International Chamber of Commerce— Lousie Kantrow South Africa Foundation— Mr Neil van Heerden Stakeholder Forum projects in 2006 have been funded LEAD International, Inc— Mr Simon Council by: The Network of NGOs of Trinidad & Tobago for the Department for International Development (UK) Advancement of Women— Ms Hazel Brown Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (UK) The World Resources Institute— Mr Jonathan Lash Government of Austria World Information Transfer— Dr Claudia Strauss Government of Belgium Mr David Foster Hales Co-Chair Government of France Derek Osborn Co-chair Government of Germany CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation— Mr Government of Norway Kumi Naidoo Government of Netherlands International Council for Science— Dr Thomas Rosswall United Nations Development Programme McGill International Review— Ms Clarisse Kehler Siebert United Nations Environment Programme Youth for Habitat International Network— Ms Yasemin United Nations Foundation Uyar Commonwealth Foundation Liaison Committee of Development NGOs to the EU— Mr Guido Dumon International Council for Social Welfare— Mr Denys
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