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Supporting systemic change
February 2018
CIDSE Systemic Change Forum
 Deepening the CIDSE narrative
CIDSE will hold its first bi-annual Systemic Change Forum in April. Participants, among which members, partners, allies and friends, will have the opportunity to learn and engage in conversations with others and contribute in further shaping the CIDSE network systemic change strategy and narrative. They will be testing, sharing and learning, while challenging each other to think “outside the box”.
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World Social Forum back in Brazil
 Another world is possible
After Montreal in 2016, the WSF is back in Brazil where it was first held in 2001. Representatives from the Secretariat, Development & Peace, KOO/DKA, Fastenopfer and MISEREOR will be involved in a series of activities with partners and allies focusing on issues such as the impact of the extractive model, business and human rights, climate change, energy and sustainable lifestyles.
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Lent 2018
 Open up your heart and engage
With the Lenten period starting, we are called to slow down and take some time to reflect, looking both inwards and at the community around us. In his message for the season, Pope Francis invited people to renew their enthusiasm for their faith and to revive the feelings of charity in their heart. Many CIDSE members are running national Lenten campaigns and offer opportunities to reflect and engage.
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UPCOMING
- The CIDSE secretariat will join a delegation from CAFOD to visit its strategic partner SECAM (Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar) and organise a training for staff on gender equality and church based on a new tool kit developed by CAFOD to be published in March. (Accra/Ghana, 27/02-01/03)
- CIDSE will participate in the (Alternative) World Water Forum which will follow the World Social Forum held in Salvador de Bahia. (Brasilia, 17-22/03/2018)
- As part of a lobby tour organised by Broederlijk Delen, CIDSE will co-sponsor an event in the European Parliament with partners from four Andean countries on the situation of human rights defenders. The event will be hosted by MEPs Helmut Scholz and Estefania Torres. (Brussels, 21/03/2018)
- CIDSE will launch a new multi-media report on Principles of Agroecology at a side event during the 2nd FAO Symposium on Agroecology. Venue: Campagna Amica, Via di S. Teodoro, 74, 00186 Rome, 03/04/2018, 7 pm to 8.30 pm (tbc).
- A CIDSE high-level delegation will travel to Israel and Palestine to meet with partner organisations and official representatives. (23-27/04/2018).
Watch the CIDSE website for details on upcoming activities: www.cidse.org.
OTHER NEWS
- CIDSE co-signed the CONCORD open letter to the European Commission on the reform of the Common Agriculture Policy. (12/2017)
- The Board of Directors met with their accompanying bishops and other guests at the Irish Institute in Leuven/Belgium for the triennal CIDSE Bishops’ Forum. On this occasion, participants discussed how Laudato Si' had inspired their work since the release of the Encyclical two years ago, and had an exchange with Fr. Bruno Marie Duffé, Secretary of the new Dicastery for promoting Integral Human Development. In the Board meeting that followed, the Directors approved the CIDSE 2018 workplan and paid farewell to Heinz Hödl (KOO/Austria, former CIDSE President) and Bernard Pinaud (CCFD-Terre Solidaire/France, CIDSE Vice President) who are both retiring and thanked them for their long support and commitment to CIDSE. They also elected a new Executive Committee member: Patrick Godar-Bernet (Partage Lu/Luxembourg). (Leuven, 25-27/01/2018).
- Members of the CIDSE thematic priorities met in Brussels to plan their respective activities and agree on a workplan for 2018. (30/01-01/02/2017)
- Thanks to Manos Unidas, the CIDSE photo exhibition "Inspire Change", is circulating among the Spanish universities of Castellón, Valencia, Murcia, Alicante and Cádiz (Spain). The exhibition captures 15 stories of people around the world who are taking action, caring for our planet and the people livings in it. After the Spanish tour, the exhibition will be displayed in Leuven/Belgium during the CIDSE Systemic Change Forum. If you are interested in hosting the exhibition, please contact Giorgio at gotra(at)cidse.org. The next organisation or city to host the photo exhibition could be yours!
- Together with European networks and international human rights organisations, CIDSE sent an open letter to the EU and its Member States to express their deep concern about the situation of human rights defenders in the context of the post-election crisis in Honduras. (06/02/2018)
- CIDSE and its French member organisation, CCFD-Terre Solidaire, along with Action Against Hunger and Oxfam France welcomed France's decision to withdraw from the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. (09/02/2018)
- CIDSE took part in a Holy See meeting which discussed plans for the December COP24 conference in Poland. (Rome, 26/02/2018)
RESOURCES
Publications
Blogs and articles
NEWS FROM THE SECRETARIAT
- CIDSE's climate justice and energy intern, Giorgio Gotra is now working as Campaign Assistant. (01/02/2018)
- Anya Verkamp, new Communication and Digital Transition Officer, will join the Secretariat to strengthen the Communication team. (05/03/2018)
- CIDSE is looking for an External Funding Consultant. Deadline for applications: 1 March 2018. Check the CIDSE vacancies page for more information.
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