Be Part of the Delegation to Mexico City-for Under 30's Soroptimists

LETTER OF INTEREST DUE TO SIHQ NO LATER THAN 17 JULY 2009.


Dear All,

On behalf of President Margaret and the Programme Team I am sending an invitation for you to forward to members of your Federation that might be interested to apply for one space on the SI Team to the 62st Annual DPI/NGO Conference to be held in Mexico City Mexico. The theme this year is Disarmament. Clearly we want to be there to present our perspectives on Women’s participation in war and conflict, disarmament, NGO work on banning landmines and cluster munitions and peace building. This event is going to be very important and we believe that SI and SIA together will have a allocation of 6 spaces at this prestigious world meeting. We are in the process of proposing a workshop presentation along with one of two other partner organizations.

One of the values that the DPI/NGO Executive Committee has been working toward over the past several years is to ask NGOs to include young leaders as part of the delegation so we can continue to expand leadership from civil society. Young is defined as people under 30. SI is also interested in this value and had tremendous success last year when we conducted an outreach process to young Soroptimists around the world. We were very pleased to have several applications in a short period of time and selected three young women- 2 from SIA and 1 from SISWP.

Our small delegation will be asked to meet at the Conference daily to coordinate their activities with the team leaders of President Hanne and me. Each person will be sent an orientation letter listing SI's expectations and information they may need. Following the event they will be asked to contribute to a composite report that I will coordinate within a month of the event. Competency in English will be desirable for the applicants.

Get the application from SIHQ or your Federation!