EUWI Stakeholders meeting at SWWW
On Sunday 31 august 2014 WfWP’s steering committee member Diana Iskreva was a panellist in the multi stakeholder platform organised by EUWI. She made the following statement.
“Some citizens are lucky to live in countries where adoption of a legal act by state authorities is a guarantee that state administration takes that act seriously: budget has been allocated and is earmarked for the enforcement of this act; respective state bodies are responsible to implement and control the implementation.
Most of us are not that lucky: the adoption of a legal act is a great step forward… but very often enforcement does not occur within a reasonable period of time. In these situations adoption does not necessarily mean immediate impact on the livelihood of people and communities.
EUWI has facilitated the adoption of a number of legal acts. As a representative of active civil society, I would like to see a closer follow-up by EUWI pushing the governments to enforce effectively the adopted legislation.
Another issue that we identify as NGO representatives is the lack of institutional memory in some of the EUWI target countries. The governmental focal points for various programs and instruments change very often and in this way the capacity built is lost. The pattern is: the expert goes and the knowledge and built in capacities goes with him/her.
Our recommendation to EUWI is to involve representatives of civil society in capacity building initiatives: NGOs, CBOs, women and youth community groups. In this way EUWI supported initiatives, programs and projects will create an enabling environment and local capacity base that will make the implementation sustainable and efficient. It has been proved by a number of researches that involvement of women and youth from beneficiary communities in the implementation increases enormously the feeling of ownership to programs and projects, improves transparency and integrity, helps avoid corruption, improves sustainability and impacts community livelihood.”
On Sunday 31 august 2014 WfWP’s steering committee member Diana Iskreva was a panellist in the multi stakeholder platform organised by EUWI. She made the following statement.
“Some citizens are lucky to live in countries where adoption of a legal act by state authorities is a guarantee that state administration takes that act seriously: budget has been allocated and is earmarked for the enforcement of this act; respective state bodies are responsible to implement and control the implementation.
Most of us are not that lucky: the adoption of a legal act is a great step forward… but very often enforcement does not occur within a reasonable period of time. In these situations adoption does not necessarily mean immediate impact on the livelihood of people and communities.
EUWI has facilitated the adoption of a number of legal acts. As a representative of active civil society, I would like to see a closer follow-up by EUWI pushing the governments to enforce effectively the adopted legislation.
Another issue that we identify as NGO representatives is the lack of institutional memory in some of the EUWI target countries. The governmental focal points for various programs and instruments change very often and in this way the capacity built is lost. The pattern is: the expert goes and the knowledge and built in capacities goes with him/her.
Our recommendation to EUWI is to involve representatives of civil society in capacity building initiatives: NGOs, CBOs, women and youth community groups. In this way EUWI supported initiatives, programs and projects will create an enabling environment and local capacity base that will make the implementation sustainable and efficient. It has been proved by a number of researches that involvement of women and youth from beneficiary communities in the implementation increases enormously the feeling of ownership to programs and projects, improves transparency and integrity, helps avoid corruption, improves sustainability and impacts community livelihood.”
