[WSIS CS-Plenary] news on TF on Financing Mechanism

[Dr. Francis MUGUET]

 Français : Djilalali postera demain.

Dear Ralf

>The Task Force really seems to be set up below the radar. They have
>already started the drafting process! 
>
At Hammamet, Nishimoto made a remarkably open assessement of the 
situation and
invited all Civil Society stakeholders to participate and provide input.
I discussed with him for a long time later on because we have been
preparing for quite some time a proposition that would go beyond
that is proposed in the Cardoso report concerning the formation of 
Multistakeholder
Partnerships in general, and this of course
this is of interest for the implementation of WSIS recommendations.
He was quite open to our preliminary suggestions and we started working 
on it.
As you known, this is a rather technical topic that requires both 
expertise and caution.
This MSP proposal is well advanced but not yet fully ready to be 
communicated so
we can open to discussions and comments. 

I tried to get some info in August from UNDP in New York.
My understanding is they were far behind schedule.
Since then, I did not have time to contact them. I hope that they are 
going to include
Civil Society "experts"  or representatives in their Bureau as I urged 
them to do.

Concerning the need of forming a Working Group on  Financing Mechanims,
Djilali Benamrane ( from Niger and with an extensive experience about 
financing
mechanisms with PNUD  )  and me have been planning to offer such a 
suggestion
to the Civil Society and open a web site that should allow to present this
proposal in the most transparent and inclusive way :
( see http://www.wsis-finance.org or  http://www.wsis-financing.org,
we prefer the former because finance word is the same word in French
and English )  and a mailing list  finance at wtis.org,
 as soon as the dust around the WGIG formation is setlled,
because we felt it would be difficult to catch the full attention of the 
Civil Society
at the present time, but may be we should start sooner
according to your latest information.

You are most welcome to our pre-proposal brainstorming.
Everybody is kindly invited to contact Djilali 
(  not me at the moment, because I am really overworked, those days )
if you are interested in joining us towards formulating such a proposal
to the Civil Society.

Best regards

Francis
 

>We have to make sure the established WSIS civil society entities like
>the plenary and the content&themes group are involved. 
>
>Any news on the planned caucus on financing mechanisms?
>
>Ralf
>
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>(undisclosed source)
>
>Ms. Radhika Lal of UNDP provided information on the recent development
>in preparation of Task force on Financing Mechanism (TFFM) as follows.
> 
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>- The TF will hold three meetings. The first meeting is to be held on 4
>and
>5 October 2005 in New York. Charles will be invited to TF meeting as an
>observer.
>
>- TF (probably up to22 members) will be composed of multi-stakeholders.
>Members are to be fixed in a couple of weeks, in consultation with
>UN-DESA.
>
>- Drafting of the background documents has been started, involving OECD,
>WB,
>a regional development bank, etc.
>
>- The final report will be submitted to UN-SG in mid-December, which
>would
>be about 40 pages and will include recommendations to the Prepcoms.
>Digital
>Solidarity Fund, which has been established already as a voluntary
>private
>fund, will be mentioned as an example of public-private partnership.
>
>- Still it will take a few weeks to launch the TF's website.
>
> 
>
>Contact with Geneva missions are planned as follows
>
>1)      17 Sept at Bureau: UNDP will provide an information note (paper
>only)
>
>2)      2nd week of Oct.: UNDP will issue another information note to
>update
>the progress of the TF (paper only)
>
>3)      17 Nov: Mr. Nishimoto of UNDP will organize an informal
>consultation
>with Geneva missions before issurance of the first draft of the report.
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