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International Presentation Association
Sisters of the Presentation

Special consultative status granted in 2000

Introduction

With main offices in New York and Brisbane, Australia, International Presentation Association Sisters of the Presentation (IPA) is an organization of 2,600 members living and working in 27 countries. Our mission statement is:

“Flowing from our identity as Presentation women we channel our resources so that
we can speak and act in partnership with others for global justice”.

Meetings of the Council and its subsidiary bodies

With the NGO Committee on Social Development and its Subcommittee on the Eradication of Poverty, we prepared papers each year, as well as a research booklet, entitled “Best practices in poverty eradication case studies from the field”, and co-sponsored NGO forums in preparation for the substantive sessions of the Council.

For the high-level meeting with the Bretton Woods institutions following the International Conference on Financing for Development, we participated in all the NGO hearings and meetings and prepared statements. In 2002, in cooperation with the Permanent Missions of Grenada and Poland to the United Nations, we sponsored an event on the theme “Ethical dimensions of financing for development”.

With the Non-Governmental Organizations Section, Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, we submitted a project from Zambia on HIV/AIDS and received an honourable mention in the NGO/civil society forum report.

In addition:

(a) On the NGO Social Development Committee, our main representative served as Secretary from 2000 to 2004. Position papers were written, co-sponsored and published on the various themes for the Commission for Social Development, we organized a civil society consultation and NGO daily briefings, and made an oral statement during the 2003 session of the Commission. With the Subcommittee on the eradication of poverty, in addition to the study mentioned above we sponsored a side event on the theme “Girls and the eradication of poverty”;

(b) With the UNICEF Working Group on the Girl Child, we provided materials on HIV/AIDS, girls and education, girls and human rights;

(c) With the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, we participated in all meetings of the Council’s subsidiary bodies preparing for major themes, wrote statements and organized a side event in 2003 on the theme “Healing the wounds of violence”;

(d) As a member of the NGO Committee on the United Nations International Decade of Indigenous Peoples, we worked on a study on capacity-building, sponsored side events and contributed to the work of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, with briefings, side events, a formal reception and a welcome picnic for the participants.

Cooperation with United Nations bodies or specialized agencies

  • With the Financing for Development Secretariat, we have worked since 2000 on the preparatory process for Monterrey, writing papers and participating in meetings, including high-level meetings of the Council.
  • We have participated in every annual DPI/NGO conference, and many weekly
    briefings year-round. We have a networker, a newsletter, Connections, and a
    web site (www.ipa.ozehosting.com) through which information is shared with
    our membership.
  • With UNDP, we have participated in the leadership series and other briefings.

Conference and Commission participation

We participated in the following meetings/processes:

2001
• Preparatory process for the International Conference on Financing for Development
• Special session of the General Assembly on HIV/AIDS
• Preparatory process for the special session of the General Assembly on children
• Preparatory process and the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance

2002
• International Conference on Financing for Development
• Second World Assembly on Ageing
• Preparatory meeting for the World Summit on Sustainable Development
• World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Special session of the General Assembly on children

2003
• Annual DPI/NGO Conference
• High-level dialogue on financing for development

During 2001-2003, we have had representation at meetings of the following bodies/processes:
• DPI annual conferences
• Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
• Commission on Social Development
• Commission on Human Rights
• Commission on the Status of Women
• Commission on Sustainable Development
• Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

 

Taken from: Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, Regular session 2005, 5-18 January 2005 - Quadrennial reports 2000-2003 submitted through the Secretary-General pursuant to Economic and Social Council resolution 1996/31, pp 8-10

 

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