KAIROS PARTNERS AND NETWORKS

For Sustainability Circle

October 27-28, 2011

from KAIROS POLICY ON PARTNERSHIPScurrently under revision

• The same mission that calls churches together in Canada also calls churches to work together with partner organizations in Canada and around the world.

• The unique characteristics and perspectives of KAIROS’s relationships with Southern partners also inform all KAIROS relationships: solidarity, respect, mutuality, integrity, and accountability.

KAIROS recognizes that the historical disparities between and among people of the global North and South are injustices to which God calls us to bear witness. The wealth of societies in the global North has often been accumulated at the expense of people in the global South, as well as in the North.

A.2. The Scope of KAIROS Partnerships

B. CATEGORIES OF PARTNERSHIPS

• B.1. ADVOCACY PARTNERS

• B.2. SOLIDARITY PARTNERS

• B.3. KAIROS-FUNDED PARTNERS: GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM (GPP)

from KAIROS POLICY ON PARTNERSHIPScurrently under revision

In Canada, KAIROS works through and with a number of coalitions, networks, and organizations. Some of these relationships are formal and long term, while others are informal and temporary.

In the global South, KAIROS partners with many organizations, including churches, church-related organizations, people’s movements, coalitions, and networks.

Some KAIROS partnerships in the global South involve providing funds for partner programs, while others do not. Whether or not funding is involved, all partnerships in the global South include the sharing of information, joint advocacy efforts, and solidarity.

Advocacy Partnersin Canada

• Canadian Council for International Cooperation -Africa-Canada Forum-Americas Policy Group

- Asia-Pacific Working Group• Canadian Council for Refugees• Canadian Environmental Network / Le Réseau Canadien de

l'environnement• CAN - Climate Action Network - Canada/ Réseau Action Climate -

Canada• Climate Justice Now!• Common Frontiers • Halifax Initiative• Réseau œcuménique justice et paix (ROJeP)

Solidarity Partners

• Canadian Network for Corporate Accountability

• Hemispheric Social Alliance

• Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility -U.S.

• Jubilee South

• MiningWatch Canada

• Regroupement pour la responsabilité sociale et l'équité (RRSE)

• Via Campesina

GPP Partners in Africa

AWEPON• The African Women Economic Policy Network (AWEPON) is

a membership organization registered in Uganda that focuses on the promotion of gender equity and economic justice.

• KAIROS' current partnership focuses on AWEPON's relatively new climate change program component, including the relation between climate change and food security. AWEPON proposes to work in Tanzania and Uganda on a program that includes training women, as food producers, in ecologically sensitive approaches.

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AIMESThe African Initiative on Mining, Environment and Society

• a pan-African network inspired by the Third World Network-Africa (TWN-A.

• KAIROS partnership with AIMES focuses on the industrial impacts on food security in Africa and the development of own civil society alternatives for land use in Africa that address food security needs.

• Analysis and engagement will be based on three pillars: human rights, environment and economic development.

Sifting Coltan in Bukavu, Congo

Oilwatch Africa

• Oilwatch Africa coordinates work across 15 countries in Africa and is hosted by Environmental Rights Action (ERA), in Nigeria.

• The Oilwatch International network is dedicated to developing global strategies for communities affected by the oil operations and supporting their efforts to ensure ecological sustainability.

• Oilwatch Africa makes an effort to raise the environmental conscience at the global level, exposing industry impacts on tropical forests and local populations, as well as establishing the relationship between land use and consumption and the destruction of biodiversity, climate change, food security and violations of human rights.

Oilwatch staff in front of Shell Gas Flare, in Obele, Niger Delta

World Student Christian Federation

• The World Student Christian Federation (WSCF), Africa Region program, promotes the union of 26 national Student Christian Movements (SCMs) and is an association of youth, students and members of academic communities throughout Africa.

• KAIROS partnership with WSCF will focus on mobilizing and harnessing the enthusiasm of youth and student leaders in the area of climate change mitigation and adaptation approaches to sustainable agricultural development and food security in DRC, Kenya and Sudan

Asia Partners

Ecumenical Voice for Peace and Human Rights in the Philippines (EcuVoice)

Works to build secure and sustainable communities, particularly in areas experiencing military conflicts or environmental harm

In 2007, an international delegation of church leaders, human rights defenders and victims made representations to the governments of Canada, the U.S., and the European Union on the state of political killings in the Philippines targeting community leaders, including youth and student leaders.

KAIROS partnership with EcuVoice focuses on addressing human rights violations and strengthening good governance to improve national protection frameworks that promote and protect the safety and security of children and youth, particularly of young women in areas of conflict.

Photo: KAIROS

RIMM/Innabuyog,•

RIMM: International Women and Mining Network/Red Internacional de Mujeres y Mineria is a network aimed at promoting the rights of women to land tenure as they face loss of access to resources and land as larger areas are being claimed for use for big agribusiness and extractive operations.

• Innabuyog is an alliance of indigenous women's organizations in the Cordilleras in Northern Philippines. committed to promoting Indigenous women's rights, including the right to land, access and control of their land to promote sustainable agricultural development and food security. Innabuyogfunctions as the secretariat for RIMM in Asia.

Community consultation on mining in Canatuan, Philippines

Vernie Diano Yocogan, from Innabuyog

with Women of Courage delegation in Barrancabermeja, Colombia

JATAM, Indonesia

JATAM, a network of 26 NGOs and community-based groups

in Indonesia working, since 1985, directly with communities and Indigenous peoples on human rights, gender and the environment

JATAM is a response to environmental, displacement and food security challenges that occur as a result of resource extraction.

KAIROS partnership with JATAM was established in 2002.

Siti Maemunah, Board member of JATAM

Participated in the Ecumenical Conference on Mining and the KAIROS circle meetings

The Pacific Council of Churches, FijiA regional ecumenical organization with a membership of 34 Pacific churches and nine National Councils of Churches.

• Works on promoting human rights and ecological justice, focusing on climate change and its visible impact in the Pacific.

• Adaptation is an urgent issue facing the Pacific people as some Pacific islands are on the verge of sinking, requiring relocation of whole communities

• PCC-KAIROS partnership focuses specifically on Kiribati, Tuvalu and Tahiti, working with their member churches in those countries.

KONTRAS, Indonesia

KONTRAS is committed to documenting human rights violations, exposing military and paramilitary abuses and educating the people in general to end impunity in Indonesia.

KONTRAS plays a lead role in pushing the Indonesian government to investigate past military abuses, particularly those involving youth and students as victims, demanding convictions for those proven guilty and compensation for victims (and the families of victims) of human rights violations and military atrocities.

KONTRAS has been a KAIROS partner since 2002. The current partnership focuses on monitoring, documentation and advocacy related to the human rights impacts of conflict on young women and men. KONTRAS has started a Human Rights School to educate and train youth on various national and international human rights instruments, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Partners in Latin America

• 5 partners in Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, and Ecuador as well as regional partner

• Focus on issues of Indigenous rights, women’s rights, resource extraction, impunity

• Work with impacted communities and bridging them with national and regional policy and advocacy networks

CEIBA, (Association for Community Development and Promotion) Guatemala

• works with communities in four departments and 17 municipalities in Guatemala, providing human rights support and integral community development. Increasingly, these communities with have been impacted by resource extraction industrial agriculture, as well as by climate change.

• CEIBA has accompanied close to 50 community, working with local authorities, in consultations on mining

• Networks: Friends of the Earth, MOVIAC (movement of Victims of Climate change), Latin America Network of Women Defenders of social, economic and environmental rights

An Indigenous woman from Huehuetenango,Guatemala

CEIBA brought community members, impacted by mining, to the Americas Social Forum in Guatemala City, October 2008

Naty Atz Sunuc, Director of CEIBA

Participated in the G20 tour in June 2010, The Ecumenical mining conference and KAIROS circle meeting in May 2011

Centro Tepeyac Human Rights Centre, Mexico

• Founded by the Diocese of Tehuantepec in 1992• has monitored and documented human rights violations of the

Indigenous peoples in the region. • In a region with great bio diversity, they are seeing new levels of

hunger and malnutrition related to the impacts of climate change and unsustainable industrial practices that lead to ecological degradation.

Tepeyac is an important partner in understanding the impacts resource extraction and climate change on the food security and livelihoods of Indigenous communities.

• Networks: REMA (Mexican network on Mining), Friends of the Earth

Javier Balderas, Director of Tepeyac

Facilitating a workshop on Indigenous rights, October 2009

Community workshop on Indigenous rights

in Tehuntepec, Oaxaca Mexico

Accion Ecologica, Ecuador

• founded in 1986 and recognized as one of the lead environmental groups in Ecuador for its work with Indigenous and peasant communities as well as its policy development at a national and international level.

• works on a range of environmental issues ranging from local transportation and recycling to mining, petroleum, biodiversity and agro fuels.

• important partner in work with Jubilee South, instrumental in the development of the concept of Ecological Debt

• Networks: Jubilee South, Oilwatch, OCMAL (Observatory of Mining Conflicts in Latin America, Latin America Network of Women Defenders of social, economic and environmental rights

Gas flare reflected in a tailings pond

Taken during the Toxi tour, organized by Accion Ecologica

Young girl from a Cofan community

A community that peaceful shut down the oil well in their community and has resisted oil exploitation ever since

George Poitras from Fort Chipewayn

Talks about the impacts of the Tar Sands on his community to Indigenous communities in the Ecuador

Latin America Council of Churches (CLAI)

•an ecumenical council of over 150 churches and Christian networks from 20 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, founded in 1982.

In recent years, CLAI has been exploring programs on sustainability and climate change at a regional level and developing a program in the area of human rights and military conflict.

• In Colombia, CLAI was instrumental in the formation of an ecumenical network involving 12 church organizations which seeks to define joint action and policy work on human rights.

Networks: WCC and councils of churches worldwide, AGAPE (Wealth, Poverty and Ecology) process

Organizacion Femenina Popular (OFP),Colombia

• A grassroots women's organization in Magdalena Medio, Colombia, founded in 1972 as a program of the Diocese of Barrancabermeja. The OFP now has a membership of 5,000 women in the region of Magdalena Medio and runs 22 women's centers, offering programs which include integrated community development, human rights of women, education and advocacy.

• The OFP is also a leader for human rights and peace at a regional and national level, forming part of national and international networks of women against the war. In the last five years, KAIROS has supported the OFP in building a regional and national network of women against the war, based on its work with grassroots women.

KAIROS has been supporting the work of the OFP financially since 2001, but ecumenically the churches have a longer history of supporting the advocacy work of OFP and other human rights organizations in Barrancabermeja, a region that has experienced some of the worst human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in Colombia

A meeting at one of the women’s centres run by the Popular Women’s Organizacion (OFP) in Barrancabermeja, Colombia

An Embera Katio woman and delegate and the OFP Assembly

The Popular Women’s Organization (OFP) participating the National Youth Assembly and March, October, 2003

KAIROS Delegation to UNFCCC COP17 in Durban

• Jim Davis, KAIROS

• Dr. Julia Edwards, Climate Change Researcher/Advisor for the Pacific Conference of Churches

• Jackson Kentebe, Oilwatch Africa

• Ivonne Yanez, Accion Ecologica/OilwatchSouth America

• Georgine Kengne Djeutane, World Student Christian Fellowship – Africa Region