People’s Forum23 - 26 November 2015Corinthia Hotel St. George’s Bay, Malta

2015What makes societies resilient?

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Commonwealth Foundation submission to CHOGM 2015Heads of Government noted the consonance between the Commonwealth Foundation’s mission and Sustainable Development Goal 16 with its emphasis on peaceful and inclusive societies and building effective, accountable institutions at all levels. They recognised the importance of developing the capacity of civil society to engage with institutions constructively at the regional level and the developmental value of creative expression as advanced through the Commonwealth Writers initiative. They welcomed the Foundation’s contribution to enabling the exchange of ideas between civil society and institutions through its grants programme on participatory governance for development.

The Commonwealth People’s Forum 2015

The Commonwealth People’s Forum (CPF) brings together civil society representatives from around the world to discuss and debate key issues facing Commonwealth people.

Held every two years in the run up to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), or ‘Commonwealth Summit’, the CPF is the single largest opportunity for civil society to engage with Commonwealth leaders on global development issues.

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The Commonwealth People’s Forum (CPF) 2015: What makes societies resilient?

Why resilience

Resilience has gained credence as a concept and policy response. For small states including Small Island Developing States (SIDS) on the frontline of climate change impacts, and with limited resources to cope, building resilience has gained particular traction.

While it is widely accepted that the concept of resilience is used to define the ability to respond to crisis, there is a need to deepen the analysis. There has been silence on the root causes and the unequal exposure to vulnerability of some parts of society, for example indigenous communities. The new resilience thinking suggests that there is no ‘optimal’ response to vulnerability. Instead it suggests adaptive learning, flexibility and a response to the complexity of real world dynamics. It also asserts that social cohesion and dialogue are instrumental in facilitating collaborative approaches to respond to adverse shocks. Resilience connotes renewal and hope, and challenges the narrative of vulnerability and the current constructs of adaptability and preparedness.

The CPF 2015 theme: ‘What Makes Societies Resilient?’ draws on work developed in Malta on resilience and vulnerability. The Forum will add global value to the discourse on resilience, which has to date tended to focus on its economic and environmental aspects.

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Session formats

The Forum’s programme falls into four format categories:

Framing resilience in governance and development

PerspectivesPerspective sessions will be used to delve deep into particular issues, explore different viewpoints and debate ideas.

CasesThese sessions are focused around concrete and specific case studies and good practices from Commonwealth and non-Commonwealth countries.

In its work in profiling vulnerability and resilience in small states, the Commonwealth acknowledges the important role of governance, the role of democratic institutions and people’s participation in the analysis of what makes resilient societies. This is an area that is largely underexplored. CPF 2015 will contribute to expanding the current thinking on resilience and will explore the aspects of governance-rules, institutions and processes through which people, organisations and government work toward

common objectives, make decisions, generate legitimate authority and power, and promote and protect human rights. It will feature contributions from civil society and examples of local and bottom-up responses. Four threads of inquiry will be used at the Forum in analysing resilience in the context of governance and people’s participation in governance and development: Transformation, Inclusion and Responsiveness, Transparency, and Accountability and Gender.

Delegate-led sharing sessionsThe Forum has built-in flexibility, and has allocated a number of open spaces to share experiences with each other.

Policy Dialogues These sessions are specifically targeted at identifying key asks on a specific policy issue wherein civil society can engage directly with government policymakers.

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9:00 Registration, networking, morning tea, take seats for Forum Opening

10:00 - 10:45 Forum Opening Fortress Suite

10:45 - 11:45 Keynote Address: What makes societies resilient? Fortress Suite

11:45 - 13:15 PLENARY: Deconstructing resilience Fortress Suite

13:15 - 14:00 LUNCH BREAK Fra Martino

16:00 - 16:15 COFFEE BREAK

18:00 Kalpana’s Warriors exhibition launch

An opportunity for delegates to network. Sponsored by Maria Rosa Wine Estate

Gardjola 2+3

Programme at a glance

DAY ONE Monday 23 November

PERSPECTIVES: Does the mainstream concept of resilience avoid substantive transformation?

Fortress Suite

CASES: What to measure? Alternatives to GDP

Bastion 1+2

CASES: Indigenous knowledge as a driver of resilience

Gardjola 1

14:15 - 16:00

CASES: Renewable resilience: sustainable energy in practice

Bastion 1+2

PERSPECTIVES: Planning for resilient urbanisation

Fortress Suite

16:15 - 17:45

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DAY TWO Tuesday 24 November

SMALL STATES PERSPECTIVES: Climate resilience in Small States

Bastion 1+2

LGBTI POLICY DIALOGUE: Resilient societies: Security of all people in all their diversity

Gardjola 1

PERSPECTIVES: Migration and resilience

Fortress Suite

9:00 - 10:30

SMALL STATES POLICY DIALOGUE: Transformative education and sustainable development in Small States: Building resilience through skills and livelihoods Bastion 1+2

PERSPECTIVES: Women, agency and responsive governance

Gardjola 1

PERSPECTIVES: Cultural responses to conflict

Fortress Suite

11:00 - 12:45

SMALL STATES CASES: Colourful economies

Bastion 1+2

PERSPECTIVES: Going ‘glocal’

Gardjola 1

PERSPECTIVES: Responses to food challenges

Fortress Suite

16:00 - 17:30

18:00 Film screening – Simshar followed by a Q&A with the film’s director, Rebecca Cremona

Bastion 1+2

10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

14:00 - 15:45 PLENARY: Equity and Resilience: Access to critical resources and services for all

Fortress Suite

15:45 - 16:00 COFFEE BREAK

12:45 - 14:00 LUNCH BREAK Fra Martino

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DAY THREE Wednesday 25 November

10:30 - 10:45

10:45 - 12:00

12:00 - 12:30

12:30 – 13:30

14:00

15:30

COFFEE BREAK

PLENARY: Synthesis of CPF 2015 Fortress Suite

Forum Closing Fortress Suite

LUNCH BREAK Fra Martino

Departure from Corinthia Hotel to the House of Representatives, Valletta

People’s Forum Commonwealth Secretary General all candidates dialogue

House of Representatives, Parliament of Malta, Valletta

Delegate-led sharing sessions

Terrace 1

Gardjola 1

LGBTI PERSPECTIVES: Resilient societies: Celebrating inclusion and diversity

Bastion 1+2

PERSPECTIVES: Building resilient health systems for an ageing population

Fortress Suite

9:00 - 10:30

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GOZO FIELDTRIP Thursday 26 November

Day Four will feature events taking place on Malta’s sister island, Gozo.

As there will be limited seats available, registration for Gozo Day will close at 4PM on 23 of November. Please sign-up at the Help Desk located in the Foyer. Priority will be given to international delegates.

7:45 - 8:45

9:00 - 9:20

10:00 - 10:45

11:00 - 12:00

12:30 - 14:00

14:30 - 16:30

17:15 - 17:35

18:30

Departure from Corinthia Hotel, St George’s Bay

Ferry trip from Cirkewwa Terminal to Gozo

Plenary Session at Gozo College Boys’ Secondary School, Victoria

Opening Address by Hon Anton Refalo

Speech by Mr Michael Grech, Chairperson, Gozo Regional Committee

Visit to Gozitano

Welcome speech by Dr Joseph Grech

Coffee break sponsored by Gozitano

Lunch at Ta’ Mena

In the presence of Hon Justyne Caruana (TBC)

Visit to Magro Brothers

Presentation by Mr Joseph Woods: Gozo - An Innovation Society

Return Ferry trip to Malta

Arrival at Hotel

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Session information

DAY ONE Monday 23 November

10:00 - 10:45

(45 mins)

Forum Opening

Fortress Suite

Speakers: Mrs Jacqueline Micallef-Grimaud, Chair - CPF Sub-Committee, Sir Anand Satyanand, Commonwealth Foundation Chair, Mr Kamalesh Sharma, Secretary-General, Commonwealth Secretariat

With opening remarks by Hon Joseph Muscat, Prime Minister, Republic of Malta.

10:45 - 11:30

(45 mins)

What makes resilient societies?

Fortress Suite

Format: Keynote address

Speakers: Vandana Shiva

Introduction by Vijay Krishnarayan, Director, Commonwealth Foundation.

11:45 - 13:15

(1 hour 30 mins)

Deconstructing resilience

Fortress Suite

Format: Plenary

This plenary will begin to deepen the explorations and offer a range of paradigms on resilience. It will help us to explore the spectrum of cultural values and responses that shape our understanding of what makes societies resilient by challenging dominant narratives and hegemonic structures.

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The session will contrast the issues and failures that contribute to vulnerability with the dimensions of governance that enable resilience.

Some of the questions it would answer are: How do societies become resilient? Resilience for whom? What are the elements that would help characterise resilient societies? What power structures, policies, institutional arrangements, mechanisms and processes promote or hinder resilience? Is building resilience as currently constructed limited to short term solutions? What roles does culture play in enabling resilience? What are the intersections of sustainability and resilience? Why do some responses to resilience remain in the margins and what needs to change?

Speakers: Clayton Thomas Muller, Uchita de Zoysa, Magdalena Moreno Mujica, Nelson Maldonado Torres

Chair: Myn Garcia

14:15 - 16:00

(1 hour 45 mins)

Does the mainstream concept of resilience avoid substantive transformation?

Fortress Suite

Format: Perspectives

Resilience is often defined as ‘the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties’ or ‘the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity.’ As a result, the current discourse on resilience has been critiqued for being yet another tool to preserve status-quo neo-liberal economics and entrench the power of elites. Can resilience lead to real transformation? Or is it a veneer for keeping things the same and bouncing back to the status quo?

Speakers: Lino Briguglio, Shireen Huq, Renwick Rose, Jibrin Ibrahim, Marlene Attzs

Chair: Nahmla Mniki-Mangaliso

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14:15 - 16:00

(1 hour 45 mins)

What to measure? Alternatives to GDP

Bastion 1+2

Format: Cases

GDP as a sole measure of progress has been critiqued for a long time. It is widely accepted that economic growth alone does not tell the whole story. This session will feature cases on new measures such as the Happy Planet Index among others. How do measures of progress and development impact on resilience and governance?

Speakers: Elise Huffer (representing Ralph Regenvanu), Annie Quick, Vandana Shiva, Chetri Saamdu (via video)

Facilitator: Annie Quick

14:15 - 16:00

(1 hour 45 mins)

Indigenous knowledge as a driver of resilience

Gardjola 1

Format: Cases

The experience of colonisation has erased the notion of indigenous knowledge as an epistemological expression which obeys a different logic to Cartesian thinking. As a result, worldviews of indigenous peoples have been deeply challenged and marginalised. However, the impact of western civilisation on the planet has led to a new consideration of fundamental principles linked to indigenous peoples’ knowledge. This session will feature indigenous knowledge which have been the source of livelihood for generations and includes multiple good practices on adaptation and mitigation.

Speakers: Pamela Palmater, Les Malezer

Facilitator: Clayton Thomas Muller

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16:15 - 17:45

(1 hour 30 mins)

Renewable resilience: Sustainable energy in practice

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Format: Cases

This session will look at cases where local communities have had a voice in deciding on energy production and use, and explore the logic that informs those responses. The cases will highlight resilient responses to energy challenges in different regions of the Commonwealth.

Speakers: Augustine B Njamnshi, Anare Matakiviti

Facilitator: Reginald Burke

16:15 - 17:45

(1 hour 30 mins)

Planning for resilient urbanisation

Fortress Suite

Format: Perspectives

The session acknowledges that urbanisation is a leading global trend that has profound long term impacts. The session will cite people’s participation as an essential element of planning for sustainable cities and human settlements. Different characteristics of governance systems (specifically at the local and national level) that need to be in place to enable inclusion of people in all its diversity and make cities and human settlements resilient will be discussed.

Speakers: Dyan Currie, Kunlé Adeyemi, Lucy Slack

Chair: Vijay Krishnarayan

18:00 Kalpana’s Warriors exhibition launch

Gardjola 1

An opportunity for delegates to network. Sponsored by Maria Rosa Wine Estate.

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9:00 - 10:30

(1 hour 30 mins)

SMALL STATES: Climate resilience in Small States

Bastion 1+2

Format: Perspectives

The session will highlight the importance of collaboration between stakeholders in small states as they develop resilience strategies to adapt for and mitigate against climate change in a small state context. It will also explore the the governance arrangements and characteristics of governance systems required to enable collaboration and inclusion in building climate resilience.

Speakers: Augustine B Njamnshi, Karuna Rana, Marlene Attzs

Chair: Shantal Munro-Knight

DAY TWO Tuesday 24 November

9:00 - 10:30

(1 hour 30 mins)

LGBTI Policy dialogue

Gardjola 1

Format: Policy dialogue

LGBTI persons across the Commonwealth experience forms of violence including physical assault and death, as expressed in the recent report from the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. While views about sexual orientation, gender identity and expression differ across Commonwealth countries, respect for personal security and safety is common ground for policy discussions and recommendations to take place. This session will discuss and explore good practices in building non-violent societies, particularly in light of the recently agreed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which pledge to “leave no one behind”. This session will explore how policy at the national and international level can operate to ensure the inclusion of LGBTI people in the benefits of sustainable development broadly, and in SDG 16 specifically.

Chair: Baroness Verma, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for DFID, UK

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9:00 - 10:30

(1 hour 30 mins)

Migration and resilience

Fortress Suite

Format: Perspectives

The General Assembly of the United Nations asserts that international migration – ensuring freer and safe movement of people across borders – could bring substantial benefits as part of an inclusive global process. Currently, the discourse on migration intends to ignore the nuances of the phenomenon as well as previous policy agreements and human rights conventions. This session aims to contribute to transforming the current discourse by featuring different realities, identifying issues, exploring civil society focused solutions and pointing to potential policy reform in migrant, recipient and donour countries to foster resilience.

Speakers: Shahidul Alam, Katrine Camilleri, Maria Pisani

Chair: Amjad Saleem

11:00 - 12:45

(1 hour 45 mins)

SMALL STATES: Transformative education for sustainable development in Small States: Building resilience through skills and livelihoods

Bastion 1+2

Format: Policy dialogue

The session can be an important vehicle in strengthening the educational processes collectively – as government and civil society - in creating a different world to the status quo that has been inherited. It will offer policy recommendations that would map the potential of education in building resilience through skills and livelihoods and can be considered for the National Education Frameworks of Commonwealth countries.

Chair: Hon Evarist Bartolo, Minister for Education and Employment, Republic of Malta

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11:00 - 12:45

(1 hour 45 mins)

Women, agency and responsive governance

Gardjola 1

Format: Perspectives

The theme of this session: ‘women, agency and responsive governance’ is an exploration of the contradictory neoliberal narratives in regard to women, choices and women’s needs.This session will debate governance narratives used to make women’s choices meaningful or meaningless, using the framework of individual rights versus collective rights and the rights of women to govern their own bodies. It will feature cases and explore suggestions on how governance should enable women’s voice, women’s tights and rights of marginalised voices as a key element of resilience.

Speakers: Doo Aphane, Rina Jimenez David, Pamela Palmater

Chair: Marceline Naudi

11:00 - 12:45

(1 hour 45 mins)

Cultural responses to conflict

Fortress Suite

Format: Perspectives

‘Culture’ is routinely deployed as both friend and foe. It can be a nationalist construct used to marginalise communities and an argument for retaining patriarchal structures. At the same time, it is the language in which we frame identity and self-determination. In organised mediations of conflict, culture has sometimes been overridden; in other instances instrumentalised to create impressions of reconciliation. The session will explore how the enabling and disabling dimensions of culture in conflict situations are negotiated. It will explore good practices in culture responses to conflict in the arenas of politics, activism and the arts, forms of engagement offering new ways of thinking to facilitate transformation and reflect on the potential of culture to transform and be transformed.

Speakers: Feryal Gauhar, T Shanaathanan, Chandragupta Thenuwar, Ruth Ojiambo Ochieng, Kenneth Bush

Chair: Amjad Saleem

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14:00 - 15:45

(1 hour 45 mins)

Equity and resilience: Access to critical resources and services for all

Fortress Suite

Format: Plenary

Drawing on the day’s discussions, this session will look at why equal access to critical financial, human and natural resources and services is so important for building resilience and why inequality in access promotes vulnerability.

How are access to resources and services linked? What is the importance and role of national policy spaces and global policy coordination for ensuring or limiting access? What resources and services are required for building resilience? How can secure access to and ownership of land, water, forests and other natural resources for communities build resilience?

Speakers: Shaun Grech, Jill Iliffe, Gisele Yasmeen, Khamati Mugalla

Chair: Ranja Sengupta

16:00 - 17:30

(1 hour 30 mins)

SMALL STATES: Colourful economies

Bastion 1+2

Format: Cases

The green economy and the blue economy, also referred to as ocean-based economy, has received significant attention in small states, particularly small islands developing states (SIDS), as an alternative to growing financial uncertainty and vulnerability. Although there is still debate on what we mean by the green or blue economy, it has been promoted as a more resilient and sustainable economic path; one that re-balances the social, environmental and economic drivers. Cases in this session will feature range of tools and methods, creative solutions that have been applied and lessons learned.

Speakers: Jose Deles, Sarah McIntosh, Anare Matakiviti

Facilitator: JD Farrugia

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16:00 - 17:30

(1 hour 30 mins)

Going ‘Glocal’

Gardjola 1

Format: Perspectives

The glocalisation of international agendas raises fundamental questions about the power relationships between the local and the global: Do international commitments erode national sovereignty? Can international agendas be delivered without proper consideration of the local economic, social, cultural and political context? The session will relate to the current discourse on the implementation of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Speakers: Ranja Sengupta, Nahmla Mniki-Mangaliso, Shantal Munro-Knight, Tahere Si’isi’ialafia

Chair: Paul Okumu

16:00 - 17:30

(1 hour 30 mins)

Responses to food challenges

Fortress Suite

Format: Perspectives

The global food system is being questioned by a growing movement of people calling for communities to have control over the way food is produced, traded and consumed. But are food sovereignty and food security complementary? Can the world’s seven billion be fed without large scale farming and/or large flows of agricultural trade? Who is food insecure, and why? Can different food production models feed the world’s growing population? And what are the governance and policy issues that can address these issues?

Speakers: Peppi Gauci, Elizabeth Mpofu, Renwick Rose

Chair: Gisele Yasmeen

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18:00 - 20:00

(Film: 1:41 mins)

Film Screening: Simshar

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Malta’s official entry, 87th Academy Awards, Best Foreign Language Film.

“Malta’s first Oscar entry is a beautifully shot, dark drama…with a gut wrenching twist,”

The Wrap

Simshar is based on the true story of a Maltese fishing family which shocked the island in 2008, as well as the incident in the same year of a Turkish ship rescuing stranded migrants between Italy and Malta, and neither country allowing disembarkation. Simshar has received multiple awards and continues to be shown in film festivals worldwide.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the film’s director, Rebecca Cremona.

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9:00 - 9:45

(45 mins)

9:45 - 10:30

(45 mins)

Delegate-led sharing sessions

Terrace 1

Gardjola 1

Format: Two parallel sessions

Delegates will be given the opportunity share work and insights with each other beyond the official programme of the forum. While much of this will happen informally we are making available an additional conference room to host additional sessions proposed by delegates.

Sessions may take any form you choose, such as the presentation of case studies, moderated discussions around an issue, or other formats for cross –regional sharing. A sign-up sheet will be made available at the information desk with 45 minute slots slots from 9:00 to 10:30 on Day 3 of the forum. Each slot will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. Find more details at the Information Desk.

DAY THREE Wednesday 25 November

9:00 - 10:30

(1 hour 30 mins)

Commonwealth LGBTI Perspectives: Resilient societies are inclusive societies celebrating diversity

Bastion 1+2

Format: Perspectives

Speakers will present on the major challenges LGBTI communities and organisations are facing in their national contexts and how these challenges link to the broader Commonwealth context. Within this context we wish to make the case that societies that are inclusive of diversity are resilient societies and that LGBTI people are just one aspect of this diversity.

Speakers: Caleb Orozco, Jonah Chinga, Joleen Mataele, Mmapaseka Letsike, Ruth Baldacchino, Gabi Calleja

Chair: TBC

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9:00 - 10:30

(1 hour 30 mins)

Building resilient health systems for an ageing population

Fortress Suite

Format: Perspectives

Recent threats in global health crisis have shown the world the importance of building resilient health system. They are essential for the provision of a universal health coverage and for a prompt response to outbreak and diseases. Current challenges on health systems are deepened by changes in population. This session will discuss good practices on building resilient health systems that impact on ageing populations and promote well-being.

Speakers: K R Ravindran, Solaiman Juman, Jill Iliffe, David Sanders, Marvin Formosa Baldacchino

Chair: Ruth Farrugia

10:45 - 12:30

(1 hour 45 mins)

Synthesis of CPF & Forum Closing

Fortress Suite

With closing remarks by H.E. Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, President of Malta.

Format: Plenary

15:30 - 17:00

(1 hour 30 mins)

People’s Forum Commonwealth Secretary General all candidates dialogue

House of Representatives, Parliament of Malta, Valletta

Format: Dialogue

For the first time, candidates vying to become the next Secretary-General of the Commonwealth will engage with civil society. Taking the format of a town hall meeting, the aim is to place the active participation of civil society in all aspects of the Commonwealth’s work on the agenda of the next Secretary-General.

Invited speakers: Sir Ronald Sanders (Antigua and Barbuda), Mrs Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba (Botswana), Rt Hon Patricia Scotland (Dominica), Hon Bernard Membe (United Republic of Tanzania)

Chair: Hon Anglu Farrugia: Speaker of the House of Representatives

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Kalpana’s WarriorsAn exhibition of laser etchings on straw by Shahidul Alam

23 - 26 November, Corinthia Hotel St. George’s Bay

Kalpana Chakma, a young leader of the Bangladeshi Hill Women’s Federation, was abducted from her home by military personnel and civilian law-enforcers on 12 June 1996. She remains missing.

Through this work, part of Drik’s ‘No More’ campaign, photographer Shahidul Alam has tried to break a silence that successive governments, whether civilian or military backed, have carefully nurtured.

The exhibition uses laser etching on straw mats, an innovative technique developed specifically for this exhibition. The process involved in creating these images is rooted to the everyday realities of the hill people, the paharis. Interviewees had repeatedly talked of the bareness of Kalpana’s home. That there was no furniture. That Kalpana slept on the floor on a straw mat. The straw mats were burned by a laser beam much as the fire that had engulfed the pahari villages.

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Grants programme

The Commonwealth Foundation awards grants for sustainable development initiatives that contribute to effective, responsive and accountable governance with civil society participation.

> Open to civil society organisations (CSOs)

> Up to £30,000 per year

> Multi-year funding available (up to three years)

> Delivered in Commonwealth Foundation eligible member countries

What makes our grants special?

> Initiatives on participatory governance in Commonwealth Countries from grass roots to national level

> Projects range across sectors and themes from creative expression to community empowerment; from health to human rights

> Grantees learn from each other and develop the tools to monitor and evaluate their projects through our learning workshops

Commonwealth Foundation grants

With more than 2.3 billion citizens, the Commonwealth provides a potentially huge pool of ideas for advancing societies. The Commonwealth Foundation’s grants help civil society organisations get their ideas across to policymakers.

www.commonwealthfoundation.com/grants

The Foundation grants team will be available to meet with a limited number of CSOs during the forum. Please book an appointment to meet with a member of staff at the CPF registration desk.

NEXT CALL OPENS 1 December 2015

Commonwealth FoundationMarlborough HouseLondon SW1Y 5HY

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