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EU CORD advocacy successes

EU CORD advocacy successes. 28 November 2012. ‘TVET’. Mysterious acronym In simple terms : vocational training / skills development Enabling young people to Get ready for the job market Become an entrepreneur Obtain gainful employment

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EU CORD advocacy successes

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  1. EU CORD advocacysuccesses 28 November 2012

  2. ‘TVET’ • Mysteriousacronym • In simpleterms: vocational training / skillsdevelopment • Enablingyoungpeople to • Getreadyfor the job market • Becomean entrepreneur • Obtaingainfulemployment • Logical and necessary follow-up to normaleducation

  3. How we didit • Started in 2008 • Smallgroup of like-minded EU CORD members • ‘EU CORD TVET Advocacy Cluster’ • Cometogether, makeTerms of Reference and action plan • Meet a few times a year to monitor progress • EU CORD facilitated, Woord en Daad coordinated, other groupmemberscontributed

  4. Where we focussedon • Not the Parliament • Not the Council • But the EuropeanCommission • And Member State level (NL) • No publicity, justlobbying: informal meetings, later participation in open consultations

  5. TVET advocacy toolbox • Desk study, mapping • Position paper • Literaturereview • Goodpractices EU CORD members • Submissions in writtenconsultations • Oralpresentations in physicalconsultations • One-to-one meetings, phone and email contactswith officials

  6. TVET advocacyresults • Putting TVET higheron the agenda: consultations 2011 • Inclusion of TVET in ‘An Agenda forChange’, the guiding EU policy document for the years to come • Unfinished business…

  7. ‘DRR’ • Again a mysteriousacronym • Disaster Risk Reduction • Makingsurethat Disaster Risk Reductionbecomes a standard and core element of • Relief programs • Development programs • DRR was really a new topic and didnotfigureon the EU’s agenda

  8. How we didit • VOICE workinggroupon DRR formed in March 2007 • 22 organisationsfrom 7 different EU memberstates • Involvesagenciesamong the leading ECHO partners in the field of DRR • Establisheditself as mainreference point for EC withNGOson DRR policy and practice • Workinggroupchairedby EU CORD

  9. Where we focussedon • Not the Council • But the EuropeanCommission (DG DevCo and DG ECHO), • The EuropeanParliament, • Memberstates (e.g. Tearfund / DfID in the UK), • And global level

  10. DRR Advocacy toolbox • Desk study, mapping (scan of EU Country Strategy Papers) • Position paper • Submissions in writtenconsultations (e.g. EU Consensus onHumanitarian Aid, EU policyonadaptation to climatechange) • Oralpresentations in physicalconsultations • Phone and email contactswith officials

  11. DRR Advocacysuccesses • Effective engagement with EU on DRR issues • Developing and nurturingrelationshipswithkey EC officials and MEPs • Development, agreement and use of VOICE DRR policyrecommendationsfor Consensus onHumanitarian Aid • CommunicationonHumanitarian Aid, Parliament report and final EU consensus all includegood content on DRR, whichreflectsrecommendations made and consistentlyusedbyworkinggroup

  12. Success factors • Commitment of people and theirorganisations to a group • Sharedvision, sharedadvocacy goals • Window of opportunity at EU level • Using practical developmentexperience to underpinadvocacy message • Continuousnetworking

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