The Foundation’s approach strives to ensure that policy decisions are informed by the expertise of those people affected by the impacts of climate change, and calls for solutions whose creation includes the people these policies are made for, such as grassroots practitioners like Kirdanu Girmay, a farmer and researcher from Tigray, Ethiopia (right), who participated alongside Berhanu Woelde-Michael, Director, Food Security Coordination Directorate, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development, Ethiopia (centre) and Ana Maria Loboguerrero, Regional Programme Leader, CCAFS (left), in a capacity building workshop that enabled them to share their expertise with high-level policy makers during the Hunger – Nutrition – Climate Justice Conference in Dublin in 2013.

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World Community Development Conference Dublin 2018: Participation, Power and Progress: Community Development towards 2030 – Our Analysis, Our Actions.

Posted on 25th June 2018

This article is in Categories: Statements and Speeches, Ensure that Decisions on Climate Change are Participatory, Transparent and Accountable, Gender Equality, Highlight Gender Equality and Equity, Human Rights, Respect and Protect Human Rights, Support the Right to Development, Use Effective Partnerships to Secure Climate Justice

On Monday 25^th June Mary Robinson delivered the opening keynote address at the World Community Development Conference held in the National University of Ireland Maynooth. The conference taking place 24^th -27^th June, was organised by Community Work Ireland, the International Association for Community Development and the Department of Applied Social Studies, Maynooth University, brought 400 delegates from 40 countries together to address the theme of Participation, Power and Progress: Community Development towards 2030 – Our Analysis, Our Actions.

Mary Robinson’s Speech