Weekly Call Minutes - 4/21/10
by alicebacker | April 21, 2010 at 12:47 PM
*WORD VERSION ATTACHED*
4/21/10
Present: AC d'A, Ella T, Janet F, Suzanne , Marie G, Leonie H, Taina B, Alice B, Régine R, JoAnn J
Moderator: AC
OUTREACH
Need to systematize outreach to following priority list of groups:
* Haitian women's groups
* Women leaders who may not necessarily be part of women's groups
* Government of Haiti
* Men and women in health sector
* Haitian women business leaders
How to/steps (in that order):
* Form outreach subgroup. Volunteers are:
* Marie G - Subcommittee point person
* Janet F
* Leonie H (of Lambi Fund)
* Alice B
* AC (health outreach and outreach to men)
* do mapping with help from orgs who already have lists
* lambi fund for women
* global fund
* Marie's email list
* Huairou
* Foundations/funders of women's groups in Haiti
* Leonie, AC and Taina will be in Haiti next week and will meet in person with some women leaders and possibly share Shadow Report recommendations in French
* Strategize extensively about how to approach each group in committee and in wider group.
* It's important for us to recognize that groups don't necessarily work together b/c they are women's groups.
* There are subnetworks according to politics/party/ideological affiliation.
* Reach out to funders of women's groups as an introduction to them
* Subdivide in sectors such as health
* Political outreach to women's groups in the US will be next priority after outreach to the priority list above.
AC TRIP to Haiti
* meeting with Nadine Mondestin
* Leslie Voltaire
* Unifem, Kathy Mangones - intv to find out about UNifem's contacts on the ground to see who are the key reps to UN system - early steps towards a women's summit maybe
NEXT WEEK's CALL:
* AC and Taina may not be on but AC will set up the call
* Alice and Janet will coordinate call
* We will have a report back from Alice about media - that could be the focus of the call
* Martha will report back on meeting in San Fran
* Outreach and pre-planning for NY meeting
LAMBI FUND UPDATE (Léonie)
* Micro-credit relief effort focuses on women
* in terms of diaspora, Lambi has many regional groupings: NY, DC, Miami
* potential future diaspora federation
* AC thinks maybe they will be key guiders on Potofanm outreach to diaspora
* Lambi newsletter will be ready shortly
Respectfully submitted,
Alice Backer
Comments
Attendance
Just to correct the record--I was on the call, too.
JoAnn
Very Sorry JoAnn, Will
Very Sorry JoAnn,
Will correct ASAP in message body and in Word.
Thanks.