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CAFOD
Campaigns
Maria Elena Arana
10/09/11
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Outline of session
• Act on Poverty 2010
• Bribery Act
• Aid effectiveness
• Teatime for Change
• Climate Justice: Don’t Drop the Ball
•
livesimply award for parishes
• New CAFOD Campaign on Water and Sanitation
• What have we achieved?
• What next?
Campaigns within the Advocacy
Strategy
• React quicker to Government policy through
lobbying and campaigning work eg aid, Bribery
bill.
• Different campaigns for different audiences
based on speed of response core/country
specific/urgent humanitarian. Eg. Haiti debt
relief, Sudan
• Different ways of communicating campaigning
to different kinds of campaigners – SideBySide
magazine with campaign actions, online and eactions
Tackling bribery...
1 February 2011 – Delay in publication of
Bribery Act guidance announced after months of
corporate lobbying. CAFOD calls for the
government to stick to its guns and implement
the Act.
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• 4 February - MPC’s mobilised to bring pressure
on David Cameron, Ken Clarke and George
Osborne
•30 March – Guidance published
•1 July – Act implemented
Tackling bribery...
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CAFOD praised for its leadership on this
“Our aid agencies in this country are important above
all for the work that you do on the ground in
developing countries – but also for the arguments
you make: such as CAFOD’s insistence that we
tackle the bribery and corruption which robs
people in poor countries and that the
government should be going ahead with tough
implementation of the Bribery Act.”
- Harriet Harman, Shadow Secretary of State for
International Development, June 2010
Aid Effectiveness –Hooray?
• “the people and Government of Britain are on your
side, and we will use every tool in our policy
armoury – aid, trade, climate policy, diplomacy,
business investment, and more – to champion
justice, freedom, fairness and prosperity for you”
Andrew Mitchell
Secretary of State for International Development
Aid Effectiveness – boo!
• Defence Secretary
Liam Fox has
challenged a plan to
enshrine in law the
UK's promise to spend
0.7% of its gross
national income on
overseas aid.
• “I cannot support the
proposal in its current
form".
Campaign activities
• Urgent action email
on Liam Fox letter to
PM.
• 663 responses in one
day.
Tea time for change
success!
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•1200 supporters
•146 MPs lobbied
ONE BIG THANK YOU!
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Campaign activities
• Of 77 target MPs, 58
were contacted by
constituents
• 61 MPs lobbied were new
intake MPs = 41%.
• 110 said yes to our aid
ask on aid (79%)
• 76 MPs signed EDM in
support of TT4C
Parliamentary Friends of CAFOD
• 25 MPs very active • Eg Ian DuncanSmith MP – a
• Over 100 MPs and
member but too
Lords members
busy as a minister
to do anything.
• Paul Goggins MP –
was too busy as a
former minister –
now has more
time for CAFOD!
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2 areas of progress at Cancun:
(1)agreed on the need to limit
carbon emissions
(2)pledged more money to
help poorer countries cope
with climate change impacts
December 2009
- Copenhagen
December 2010
- Cancun
December 2011
– Durban
?
Don’t drop the ball
campaign
Climate finance could help people
vulnerable to climate change cope with
its impacts.
Target:
George Osborne
Timeframe:
Launched - 1 August
Close - 10 November
Don’t drop the ball
- key asks
1. Ensure the UK pays its fair share of
climate finance – and that it ensures
a plan is adopted at Durban on
where the money will come from
2. Champion the setting up of the
international Green Climate Fund
3. Pay the UK’s contribution into this
Fund
The road to Durban...
Key international meetings
• EU Finance Ministers meeting – 13 September
• G20 Finance Ministers meeting – 14-15 October
• G20 – 3-4 November
• International Maritime Organisation Assembly –
21-30 November
Campaigns opportunities
•Coalition working to influence Osborne ahead of
Finance Ministers
•Mobilising campaigners to write to key MPs
•Bearing Witness at Conservative Party Conference
•Possible coalition stunt ahead of G20
•African Climate Connection (SCC)-end of Nov-Dec
Don’t drop the ball
- resources
• Action card
• Parish action sheet - including short talk
and activity ideas
• Climate finance: the facts in your hands
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Bearing Witness
1 October
Act and pray for climate justice
Manchester
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livesimply
AWARD
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Pope Paul VI was writing a letter to
the world……..
• This letter was called ‘Populorum Progressio’
• ‘On the Development of Peoples’
• It was concerned with global poverty and injustice
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livesimply:
our challenge
“All Catholics are called to act… Catholics of
the richer lands must play their part to help
development. They should be in the
forefront of those who fight to build a
better world, based on justice and
equality.”
Pope Paul VI, On the development of peoples, para.81
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Our response….
“Each person must
examine their
conscience, which
sounds a new call in
our present times.
Are they prepared to pay
more for imported
goods, so that the
foreign producer may
make a fairer profit?”
Key Message:
God calls us to look hard at our lifestyles and to choose to live
SIMPLY, SUSTAINABLY and in SOLIDARITY with those who
live in poverty.
In this way we can help create a world in which human dignity is
respected and everyone can reach their full potential. This
would be true progress, worth more than economic growth
alone.
What is the new livesimply award
• The livesimply network with CAFOD working
with Eco-Congregations encouraging us to:
• Live Simply
• Live sustainably with creation
• Live in solidarity with people living in poverty
• The Award recognises parish or community
achievements in putting these principles into action.
Who is organising the
livesimply Award?
• Supported by the
livesimply network
• Co-ordinated by
Eco-congregations
• In partnership
with CAFOD
Potential benefits for your parish.
• Nurture for our
spiritual lives
• Strengthen
friendships
• Support for taking
practical steps
• Help to play our
part in big issues
• Connections with
wider community
Lent 2012 – Act - water
• Water, sanitation and hygiene
(WASH) are vital for life.
• 900 million people lack access
to safe water and 2.5 billion to
basic sanitation
• MDG target 7 “access to safe
water and basic sanitation “
• 4,000 children die every day
from easily preventable
diseases caused by dirty water
and lack of sanitation.
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Lent 2012 – Act - key messages
1.All people in the world should
have access to clean, safe
water for drinking/sanitation.
• 2. This is an injustice. There
are many effects of water
scarcity on development – on
health, education, women’s
rights for instance.
• 3. There are many causes of
water scarcity we need to
tackle.
• 4. Climate change is one of
them, and will make it even
harder for poor people in the
future.
Lent 2012 – call to action
• Our faith calls us to
stand in solidarity with
the vulnerable and
demand our leaders
give people their human
right to water.
• You can change this.
There is enough water
for everyone and the
solutions are there:
requires political will to
act.
• Action live January –
June 2012