ETATS GENERAUX
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3rd ETATS GENERAUX: EXPRESS YOURSELF!
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Volunteers, sponsors, projects actors, and all those who get involved with Aide et Action International meet in 2011 for an extraordinary moment of exchanges: the 3rd Etats Generaux (ETG). What do they consist in? What is their purpose? How are they going to take place? Check out the program!
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What are the « Etats Generaux »? It is a great period of discussions about the association and its mission. All the stakeholders who make a commitment to Aide et Action International: volunteers, sponsors, projects actors, governing bodies, employees and partners are invited to participate to these discussions. The ETG were organized for the first time in Aide et Action’s history in 1998. They renewed in 2004 and then became regular meetings. The new edition will thus take place in 2011. The participants from all origins will establish, during these ETG discussions, the great orientations of the associative project. The ETG allows the association to give itself the means to improve and also to adapt to a world in constant change. For this reason, on the occasion of each ETG, a reflection process about the associative life runs for several months. It ends with various propositions for the association’s future. At the end of these exchanges, a unifying project emerges which then gets validated by the governing bodies of Aide et Action International. | 3rd ETG'S EVENTS: 1998 > 1st ETG They assert Aide et Action as an association of solidarity and development. 2004 > 2nd ETG This second round of discussions opens the way to the democratic and international sharing of the decisions in the association. 2008 > 2nd ETG Review ETG This study leads to the publishing of a book about the results of the 2nd ETG’s resolutions and the challenges to come. 2011 > 3rd ETG This new episode of ETG will lead to some fundamentals orientations for the associative stand of Aide et Action International. |
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2011: the year of the 3rd Etats Generaux
Aide et Action International organizes this year its 3rd ETG. The objective of this gathering: to give the opportunity to the various types of actors involved with Aide et Action International to propose orientations which will improve the associative project in the years to come.
Three main themes are going to lead the discussions:
- Development actors and partnerships > The stake? To find a balance between the association’s independence and the relationships Aide et Action International wishes to maintain towards some economic and institutional partners.
- Solidarity link > The stake? To define the role of solidarity in our conception of the development, and the place of the various kinds of solidarity commitment, among which the sponsorship, in the mission of the association.
- Discourse and influence > The stake? To assert Aide et Action International’s identity and discourse while respecting the local contexts and their specificities. And use these common stands to influence the educational policies.
These three themes will be discussed between January and June 2011 in all the regions where Aide et action International leads some projects. The various kinds of actors who commit themselves to defend the association’s mission will be invited to participate to these discussions. Cross-reflections between the different regions will be particularly encouraged in order to facilitate the formulation of international proposals widely shared within the association.
After these discussions, several general orientations will emerge during the ETG’s closing meeting in October 2011. Then, they will be validated during the first International Congress of Aide et Action, gathering for the first time the international governing bodies of the association. These final orientations will be decisive for our mission and our projects meaning to get a positioning in the development field.
A website is at your disposal to give you some documents on the themes, the schedules of the discussions in the world, the last news about the contents of these debates, in brief all the ingredients to take an active part in these 3rd ETG.
It’s a new occasion to take part in the association’s life so get ready!
Aide et Action, an international non-governmental organisation and the top child sponsorship organisation in France,
focuses on improving access to quality education internationally. Aide et Action operates in Africa (Mali, Senegal, Niger,
Guinea, Benin, Burkina Faso, Togo, Tanzania, Malawi, Madagascar), in Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia,
China, Myanmar), in Latin America-Caribbean (Haiti, Dominican Republic) and in France.