Solidaridad would on Tuesday launch its global strategic plan for developing, testing and promoting good agricultural, mining and industrial practices targeted at producing more with less negative social consequences and damage to the ecosystem.
A statement signed by Isaac Gyamfi, the Regional Director Solidaridad West Africa, said the global strategic plan for 2016–2020 would be formally presented in Ghana during Solidaridad’s global meeting dubbed, ‘AMBITION 2020.’
The five-year Strategic Plan seeks to promote sustainable and inclusive social, environmental and economic innovations development globally.
The AMBITION 2020 places emphasis on the critical areas of interventions needed to transform agriculture into a commercially vibrant and competitive one, based on technology, enabling policy environment, with the associated robust infrastructure.
The strategic document is based on four thematic pillars – Good Practices, Robust Infrastructure, Landscape Management and Enabling Policy.
Innovation Development, Youth and Gender are cross cutting themes of the strategic document.
The West Africa Regional Office is hosting 120 international delegates from the Solidaridad Network for the event.
Additionally, about 100 invitees from the donor community, foreign missions, development investors, private sector partners and partner organisations in Africa will be attending the event.
“Solidaridad is a civil society organisation that is – market – solution oriented and a front-runner in the area of sustainable economic development,” the statement explained.
It is a network organisation with nine regional programmes on five continents, with the office for West-Africa based in Ghana.
The organisation specialises in facilitating the development of socially responsible, ecologically sound and profitable supply chains.
“It aspires to transform the manner in which we produce in such a way that it provides fair and profitable livelihoods and business opportunities, guarantees decent working conditions and a living income and does not deplete the landscapes where people thrive, now and for generations to come,” the statement explained.
The Founder and Executive Director of the Solidaridad Network, Nico Roozen, stated, “What the world needs are civil society organisations (CSO) that can define a global strategy of change that matters and provide strong regional contributions to a comprehensive programming,” according to the statement .
“CSOs who are solution-oriented and who can engage with global institutions in both the public and private domain will be the most effective on the world stage. Solidaridad thinks globally and act’s locally.”
The statement said: “In that context and in line with our vision for a world, in which all we produce and consume can sustain us while respecting the planet, each other and the next generations.
Solidaridad West Africa Regional Office is poised for strategic consultations and engagements with sub-regional and regional development partners to create sustained change that leads socio economic prosperity and guarantees livelihoods for all.”
