DRAFT recruitment items: potential animation areas/themes, candidates
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[edit] Animation areas
Bolded items are being actively pursued
- IMF Shrink or Sink campaign,
- IMF: New Rules has agreed to help animate
- IDA XV replenishment process: Julianne/Eurodad has agreed to animate European campaign. Karen Showalter will recruit North American campaign animator.
- BTC,
- regional development banks (IDB, AfDB, ADB, EBRD),
- WB corruption strategy,
- IIRSA
- Chad-Cam
- DRC
- China
- Private banks
- ADB safeguards, forest sector, indigenous peoples, gender, nuclear, waste management,
- IFIs and other international bodies/conventions,
- the European campaign on defunding IFIs,
- ICSID
- Inspection Panel/accountability mechanisms,
- Transparency/information liberation: David Hoffman to approach the GTI for better coordination
- fossil fuels and the IFIs,
- climate crisis and the IFIs,
- governance at the IFIs (including post-Wolfowitz discussions),
- European Investment Bank: David Hoffman to approach the EIB working group
- smaller IFIs (Andean bank, Brazilian bank, Islamic etc.),
- debt,
- audits,
- IFIwatcher meetings: Karen Showalter will approach Euro IFINet and North American IFIwatcher organizers about how to collaborate
- IFC / MIGA, environmental safeguard policies, PRS process, fiscal space and IMF restrictions
- gender: Gender Action has agreed to animate
EVENTS: What upcoming events need animation? Let's draft a six month calendar - through spring 08
- People's Tribunal: over now. BIC posted some items. Would have been a great candidate.
- World Bank AGM: we're discussing now
[edit] Potential candidates for animation
| name (and organization or country) | focus area | follow-up | status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Julie de los Reyes (FOCUS) | Joy/Inés | Approached, needs follow up | ||
| Benny Kuruvila (FOCUS) | Joy/Inés | Approached, needs follow up | ||
| Edward Oyugi (Kenya SDN) | Moreblessings | |||
| Isidore (Benin) | Moreblessings | |||
| Issa Abubakar (Niger) | Soren | |||
| Nadia Hadad (INFID) | Joy | |||
| Ardi (Indonesia) | Sameer | |||
| Muyatwa (Jubilee Zambia) | Moreblessings | |||
| Jessica Rosien (Oxfam Australia) | Sameer | |||
| Deus Kibamba (TGNP - Tanzania) | Soren | |||
| Soren Ambrose (Solidarity Africa) | IMF Shrink or Sink Campaign | Soren | confirmed | |
| Jeff Powell (BWP) | Jeff | |||
| Sameer Dossani (50 Years) | Sameer | |||
| Joy Chavez (Focus) | Joy | |||
| Zoe Young | GEF | Soren | Confirmed as Interim, while she finds someone more appropriate!¬ | |
| Rena Sugita (Mekong Watch) | Joy | |||
| (Someone from China) | Dottie/Joy | |||
| Zakir Kibria (BanglaPraxis, Bangladesh) | Bangladesh/South Asia & IFIs projects, Peoples' resistance movements | Joy/Inés | Confirmed, willing to contribute, Inés doing follow up | |
| Titumir (Bangladesh AA) | Sameer | |||
| Red (Greenpeace SE Asia) | Sameer | |||
| GTI - Asia | Joy/Jeff/Karen | |||
| Thomas Deve (Zimbabwe) | Moreblessings | |||
| Chris Lang | Europe/Forestry | Joy/Shal | ||
| Carl Middleton | Water | Joy | ||
| (BIC/Mekong) | Karen | Approached - more info soon | ||
| (Kyoto Water Forum) | Joy | |||
| Lao Hamotuk (East Timor) | Joy | |||
| Rick Rowden (Action Aid) | IMF - fiscal space | Sameer | ||
| Neil Tangri | Sameer | |||
| Raj Patel | Food Policy | Joy | ||
| Bruce Shumaker (Laos) | ||||
| Desislava Stoyanava (CEE Bankwatch) | EIB | David | Approached- deferred to a colleague at FoE Int- will follow-up more | |
| Alena Miskan (NECU/BWN) | Russian animation/Central Asia | David | ||
| Dana Sadakova (Karaganda Eco Museum) | Russian animation/Central Asia | David | ||
| Ivan Lesay (FOE Slovakia/BWN) | EIB in Latin America | David | Approached- more follow-up needed | |
| David Chipashvilla (Green Alternative/BWN) | BTC/Caucasus | David | Approached and interested- trying to persuade to cover Caucasian projects/NGO activities, though may animate one specific EBRD-backed water project in Tbilisi; need to follow up, hopefully will have a chance to train | |
| Dan Beeton | IMF? | Karen | Approached - more info soon | |
| Nuria Molina (Eurodad) | Karen | |||
| Martin Gordon (Christian Aid) | Sameer | |||
| Isabel dos Reis(Via Campesina) | food sovereignty | Joy/Soren | ||
| Jamie Baker (New Rules) | parliamentarians, or IMF | Karen | They'll share IMF responsibilities with Peter/BWP | |
| Suzanna Dennis (Gender Action) | Gender | Karen | Approached - will get back to us | |
| Bea Edwards (GAP) | Transparency/info | Sameer | ||
| Transparency International | Transparency/info | Karen | ||
| Indian Law Resource Center | Karen | |||
| Mark Hayes | private sector/corporate interests with IFIs | Karen | ||
| LatinDAD | Maria Jose | |||
| Joanna Levitt (International Accountability Project, USA) | Development-induced displacement & involuntary resettlement | Inés | Approached, needs follow up |
