MORE NEW SI NEWS FOR MEMBERS!

INFORMATION SENT TO THE SI FEDERATIONS


1. Commission on the Status of Women March 2009 United Nations New York- A letter was sent to each Federation inviting them to participate in CSW 2009. The The theme this year is focused on The equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS. Soroptimist members will want to contact their Federations to learn more about participation in CSW .

2. BEST PRACTICES Award Themes Announced for the Next three years! Following is an excerpt from the recent letter being distributed through each federation:

SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICE AWARDS- Strategy for 2008-2011

The SI Best Practice Awards are given annually to acknowledge projects of excellence planned and carried out by Soroptimists all over the world. Each year the theme for the awards changes to reflect the wide variety of work done.

For the next three years we want to ‘focus on the Focus’! There are ten Programme Focus Objectives for the present Quadrennium and focusing on these over the next three years will celebrate the wide variety of projects we do.
2008-2009 will focus on objectives 1-4
2009-2010 will focus on objectives 5-7
2010-2011 will focus on objectives 8-10

The SI Programme Focus Objectives are listed in full on the website http://www.soroptimistinternational.org/

This year the projects awarded will reflect work done on the following objectives:-
1.‘Eliminate poverty and gender discrimination through ensuring women’s full social and economic rights’
2.‘End human trafficking and all forms of violence against women and girls’
3.‘Ensure access to health care for women and girls’
4.‘Support programmes and policies that eliminate HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and other major diseases

Please be looking out for projects to put forward for the awards through your federations. Full details will follow shortly.
We know that there will be many to choose from, and that choices are often difficult but we want to celebrate best practice in our organisation.Please address any queries to Margaret Cook, Assistant Programme Director. programme.assistant@soroptimistinternational.org

What's New!

1. New Programme Focus Form launched! Try out the on-line report form via this link: http://www.soroptimistinternational.org/html/online_reporting.html

http://www.soroptimistinternational.org/

2. Report from DPI/ NGO ( Department of Public Information and Non Governmnental Organizations Conference) held in Paris at UNESCO in September 2008. SI had 8 participants including 3 under 30 year old women who competed through an application process to be chosen to be part of the delegation. The final report has been finished with thoughts from each of the attendees.