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LEAD Brazil 2006 Highlights

LEAD Brazil’s Accomplishments for 2006

This year was very special for LEAD Brazil and its members. In 2006, the first edition of Redesenvolvimento was concluded, a program which seeks to train network facilitators and strengthen social networks for development by enhancing knowledge and practices of working through networks. Also in 2006 three new projects were initiated:

The Participativo programme, a capacity-building and sharing program on participatory and democratic management, which aims at enhancing the quality and effectiveness of horizontal cooperation and work relationships, continued its activities.

Redesenvolvimento
In February LEAD Brazil organised the third seminar of the Redesenvolvimento programme: “Participation and Facilitation in Networks” in the Itacuruçá Island, RJ. This seminar included the participation of network consultant and author of the book: “Networks: an introduction to the dynamics of connectivity and auto-organisation” (WWF 2003), Cássio Martinho.

Also in February nine participants of Redesenvolvimento, a Pronord 2004 Fellow and a LEAD Brazil staff member joined the LEAD network by taking part in the cohort 11 training session organised by LEAD International - “Stakeholders Participation in Environmental Governance”- which took place in in Madhya Pradesh in India.

In July the fourth seminar of Redesenvolvimento took place: “Monitoring and Evaluation of Networks” followed by the “Networks and Development” seminar, successfully closing the training process of the first graduates of the programme. This seminar, organised in partnership with Senac São Paulo, gathered around 300 participants and 40 speakers.

This first year of the programme ran with the support of the AVINA Foundation and LEAD International and in partnership with RITS (Information Network for the Third Sector).

Sustainable Development Dialogues
The Sustainable Development Dialogues Programme was launched in January in partnership with DEFRA (Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) and the British Embassy in Brazil.

The first dialogue took place in August at the British Embassy in Brasília and gathered 39 leaders committed to the promotion of sustainable development.

In November, the multisectoral engagement dialogue “Sustainable development: who is responsible?” gathered 60 leaders from four different sectors in society (media, civil society, government and businesses) in Umapaz – the Open University of Environment and Culture of Peace – in the Ibirapuera Park in São Paulo.

The event was organised in partnership with LEAD Brazil, Umapaz, the AVINA foundation and Accountability and counted with the participation of the following speakers: José Eli da Veiga (FEA/USP), Engênio Singer (ERM Consulting), Carlos Tautz (IBASE), Hélio Neves (SVMA/PMSP), Samyra Crespo (ISER), Bertrand de Alencar (National Movement of Gatherers of Recycling Material), Olinta Cardoso (CVRD Foundation), Valdemar de Oliveira Neto (AVINA Foundation), Thais Corral (CEMINA) and Alejandro Litovsky (AccountAbility).

Participativo
The programme Participactivo delivered two courses this year in partnership with LEAD Brazil and the Participe Association.

The “Participative Planning and Management” course took place in São Paulo with twenty-one participants from several sectors in society. The teaching staff included Celso Crocomo, Marcos Afonso Ortiz and Sílvia Pompéia.

Between June and August, the first edition of the course “Training of Mediators” was delivered also in São Paulo with Sérgio Cordioli and Dagmar Cremer as teaching staff.

Sustainability Practices
The Sustainability Practices programme was launched June 9th in partnership with the HSBC Solidarity Institute, during the commemorations for Environment Week. The event presenting the “Sustainable Businesses” theme took place in July, in the HSBC Theatre in Curitiba and the event introducing the “Millennium Development Goals” theme took place in August and was the main event of the National Week on Citizenship and Solidarity, the “Goal Week”.

The “Sustainable Businesses” theme presented best practices from Fellows Luiz Roz who spoke on “Global Perspectives on Sustainable Businesses”, Tetê Leal who presented the case “Art and Fashion in Coopa-Roca”; Márcio Halla who spoke on the “Forest Economics Nucleus in the Health and Happiness Project” and André Fernando Baniwa who brought the case study of “Baniwa Art”. These case studies were compiled and published as a magazine which was distributed free of charge to LEAD Brazil members and partners.

The “Millennium Development Goals’ theme introduced three case studies: Hélvio Moisés who spoke on “Intersectoral Partnerships for the Millennium Development Goals in Brazil”; Mônica Mac Dowell who focused on “Millennium Development Goals in the Community”; and Thais Corral who introduced the case of “Cyberela Network and the Millennium Development Goals”. This theme will also produce a magazine.

Mobilisation

The project Network Holography is a continuous process of engaging LEAD Brazil with the network with the aim of making relationships and interactions more dynamic and fostering new opportunities of collaboration and partnership in projects and activities. In 2006 the project produced a guide which listed the professional background of all Fellows. The Network Holography guide is being distributed throughout the LEAD Brazil network.

Events

Throughout 2006 LEAD Brazil was represented in several events, forums, seminars and conferences relevant to sustainable development.

The executive coordinator of LEAD Brazil, Andres Falcones, the coordinator of the Network Initiative, Dalberto Adulis, and the project technician Paula Camargo, participated in the workshop: “Best Practices on Projects Evaluation” in the event “UK-Brazil Cooperation” coordinated by LEAD Brazil for the British Embassy in Brazil.

This event was attended by 40 people, representing six agencies of the British Government and 16 implementing organisations. Rogério Barbosa (British Embassy), Richard Slack (GOF, London), Ernesto Jeger (DFID) e David Cordingley (British Council), and Dalberto Adulis were the speakers for this event.

Andres Falconer led the workshop on networks for development in the sixth World Assembly of Civicus which took place in June in Glasgow, Scotland. He was also present in the Park Sustainable Development Dialogue (London, England), in the INTRAC Conference on Civil Society & Capacity Building(London, England) and in the International Conference of Access Initiative (Bangkok, Thailand).

Moreover, Andres represented LEAD Brazil in a meeting of the Council of Economic and Social Development in Brasilia; in the second Seminar on Social Responsibility of Maranhão, in São Luís; in the GIFE Conference (Group of Institutes, Foundations and Businesses), in Curitiba; and the Work Group on Democracy and Civil Society and Governance, in the FHC Institute in São Paulo.

Dalberto Adulis, and Tomás Moreira, a fellow from cohort 9 represented LEAD Brazil in “Habitat - World Urban Forum” which took place in Vancouver between 19 and 23 of June. Dalberto was also present in the “First Gaúcho Encounter on the Third Sector” which occurred on the 27 and 28 of September in Novo Hamburgo.