Rhetoric into Action
Building Effective Partnerships to Combat Extreme Poverty and Exclusion
The dialogue included people experiencing poverty from the ‘north’ and ‘south’ as specialists on participation and reaching the poorest in their communities. Also on the round table were government representatives, representatives from civil society, UN officials and human rights specialists. The round table discussion was a rare occasion that brought together diverse actors to discuss building meaningful partnerships for poverty eradication and the implications for policy development and social action.
An interim toolkit was written as a background document for the round table and highlighted case studies from around the world, laying out a guide for realizing true, meaningful and lasting partnerships with people experiencing poverty. ATD Fourth World is currently gathering feedback and continues to develop a final version of the toolkit which will also take into account the round table dialogue findings.
A webcast of the round table event can be viewed online here: http://www.un.org/webcast/2008.html
Click on the following links to download the toolkit, round table summary, and complete round table transcription.
For further information or to send in comments please contact our international secretariat, with attention to Paul Harris
Documents
- Summary
PDF - 144.6 kb
- Transcrption
PDF - 262.9 kb
- Turning Rhetoric Into Action
PDF - 339.2 kb
