CSND Launched [Archives:2000/46/Local News]

The Post- Beijing Follow-up operations, Phase II and in coordination and collaboration with the Women National Committee held a primary meeting with some of the civil society organizations, on Wednesday 8 Nov. 2000.
This meeting is the third meeting with these organizations, aiming at making them get along to establish a network for coordination between them. The meeting resulted in the creation of an active network which consists of members of WNC, NGOs, Political Parties and Media.
This network was named CSND(Civil Society Network for Development).
More than 29 members gathered for the meeting which started with a briefing by Mrs. Huria Mashoor deputy of the WNC, in which she mentioned the aims and the efforts to achieve those aims by the WNC and cooperating organizations. She also said that a survey made during the last two months showed that the level of advancement, especially in the suburbs, is very poor. She urged for fair distribution of projects whether local or international in the region, stating that any kind of monopoly will take us backward only. Finally she suggested a network through which intellectuals and active members of the society communicate and put forward their views in order to rise with the society.
Discussions proceeded in the gathering, and each one participated in it by reflecting their organizations views. The main focus was the follow up of the previous steps taken in this direction, presented by the first meeting titled The Round Table Meeting for NGOs which took place on the 3/8/99 and the second on the 28/11/99 to implement the network in order to accomplish the aimed tasks.
The group was gathering into three groups, first was to decide the communication and organization mechanism, second was to set the aims of the network and the third was to provide an annually action plan which is to be implemented by the network during the next 8 months.
The Network is to meet again soon, to start working on the action plan. And the project will continue to coordinate between the members until the end of its period.

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