Second National Convention on Children's Right to Food
Bhopal,Madhya Pradesh
20-22 January 2012
Invitation
Dear Friends,
We are writing to invite you to a Convention on Children’s Right to Food, to be held in Bhopal on 20-22 January 2012.
It has been more than five years since we had the first Children’s Right to Food (CRTF) Convention in Hyderabad (in April 2006). There have been many developments in the field, the campaigns, and policies in relation to CRTF in this period. We therefore feel it is time for us all to meet again to review the status of CRTF across the country, the policy and campaign developments and to discuss a plan of action for further campaign activities. This will also be a good opportunity for those working on right to food and others in children’s rights to come together.
This Convention is being organised by the Working Group for Children under Six (of the Right to Food campaign and the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan) along with representatives of other child rights networks and organisations such as FORCES, IACR, HAQ and so on. Some preliminary discussions regarding the programme have been held and the issues we felt could be the focus in the Convention are as below. The underlying theme would be to focus on ensuring state accountability for children’s right to food.
- Review of status of malnutrition,
- Right to Food: Exclusion and discrimination of the most vulnerable children
- Review of policies on nutrition – state government, central govt and international
- Implementation of Supreme Court orders
- Review of status of schemes – ICDS, MDMS, NMBS/IGMSY, NRC’s, anganwadi-cum-crèches and other crèche schemes
- National Food Security Bill and children
- Accountability mechanisms: Political action, Budget analysis as a tool of mobilisation, Social audits on ICDS, MDMS, use of RTI,
- Community management of malnutrition
- Roles and concerns of nutrition, health and care workers
- Corporatisation, PPP’s, Conflict of interests in Food Supplements
This will be an action-oriented convention, built around plenary sessions, parallel workshops, technical sessions, cultural activities, and more to facilitate sharing between grassroots activists from health, nutrition, child rights, right to food campaign activists/ organisations/networks.
Resources for the convention are being raised through donations from individual supporters and contributions by participating organisations/ participants. The estimated expenditure for the three days per participant is Rs. 1200. We request those who can afford it, to contribute this amount or less as the registration fee. A minimum modest registration fee of Rs 150 per person for the three days is required for participation in the convention.
A limited number of participants can be accommodated at the venue and hence we request you to confirm your participation as well as that of your organization as soon as possible. Please send your response to childrensrighttofood@gmail.com
If you are interested in being part of the programme committee, please do contact us and join. The committee comprises of individuals, not organisations. Please also send in any suggestions you may have for the programme.
We hope to see you in Bhopal.
In Solidarity,
Working Group for Children under Six (of the Right to Food Campaign and Jan Swasthya Abhiyan)
(Arun Gupta, Biraj Patnaik, Devika Singh, Dipa Sinha, Jean Dreze, Radha Holla, Sachin Jain, Samir Garg, Sejal Dand, Vandana Prasad, Veena Shatrugna and T. Sundararaman)
For information and material related to the 1st CRTF Convention please visit http://www.righttofoodindia.org/icds/icds_convention.html
Contacts:
Bhopal: Rolly Shivhare (09425466461); Sachin Jain (9977704847)
Delhi: Dipa Sinha (9650434777), Sejal Dand (8130200062), Vandana Prasad (9891552425)
Last updated: 13 February 2012
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