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The 6th
Annual meeting of NVDA (together with Special meeting of World
Tanabata Action (WTA)
2011
February 11th - 16th (AM: 11th - 14th,
WTA: 13th - 16th), in Semarang, Indonesia
Annual Meeting of NVDA is a place to evaluate the last year
and plan for the next year. It can be held in a year when
there is no General Assembly that is held every two years.
Aims
of the Annual meeting:
1) To
share the situations of NVDA & its members and strengthen solidarity
& motivation
2) To
evaluate the activities & management of NVDA (& its members) in 2010
3) To
plan the activities & management of NVDA (& its members) in 2011
What is about WTA?
Aims
of WTA Special Meeting:
1) To
share the impact/ know-how/ difficulties of the action in each
country
2) To
strengthen solidarity among the organizers
3) To
plan the activities & management of the action for 2011
(to
be related to International Year of Forests as well!)
4) To
learn from the good practice of Indonesia
5) To
promote global cooperation also to Indonesian people
Briefly
report:
1. The
6th Annual meeting: There are 20 participants from 10 members of
NVDA joined the meeting. All members evaluated activities &
management of their organization as well as NVDA in 2010. Also, the
long-term vision, overall goals for 2011 were decided.
2, WTA
special meeting was held after the Annual meeting with 13
participants from 8 NVDA members and 1 representative of CCIVS. All
participants joined planting mangrove trees & organizing WTA with
IIWC’s international volunteers and local people there. Importantly,
the meeting evaluated the WTA actions in each country and made
concrete work for WTA 2011 by dividing working group with different
tasks to members.
According a big result from 2008 to 2010 we
collected 15,882 Tanzaku papers and planted 822,831 trees by 27 NGOs
in 21 countries. We are planning in 2011 to collect 10,000 Tanzaku
papers and plant 200,000 trees (to reach one million since 2008!) in
33 countries ambitiously!
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