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OCIC Global Citizens forum 2022: Localization Matters
To kick off International Development Week 2022, we look forward to welcoming OCIC members, your partners and many more to collaborate, critically reflect, learn, and plan for action at our Global Citizens Forum 2022. Through panels, workshops, podcasting and other creative mediums we seek to explore ways we can re-imagine international cooperation, solidarity and ‘localization’, particularly from the perspective of small and medium-sized organizations (SMOs). Watch the recordings here.
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All events are held online with Zoom.
Closed captions in English are available at all sessions.
Download the Global Citizens Forum 2022 Participant Package (PDF) | (Word). In this package you will find:
- Land Acknowledgement
- Code of Conduct
- Full Program and Speakers
- Localization Resources
Localization Resources
In anticipation of the Forum we have compiled the following resources, recognising that there are different perspectives and understandings of what ‘localization’ means, and questions regarding the relevance of the ‘localization’ agenda to diverse stakeholders in our sector and work and whether it is the right term and focus at all. This alphabetical listing provides different viewpoints and perspectives. To suggest additions email elizabeth[@]ocic.on.ca.
Articles and Reports:
‘Catalysing locally-led development in the UK aid system’ – Bond
‘Fostering Equitable North-South Civil Society Partnerships’- RINGO
‘Localizing the 2030 Agenda’- BCCIC
‘Localize or Perish: What you Need To Know About Localization” – Cooperation Canada
‘Time to Decolonise Aid’- Peace Direct
Unpacking Localization’- International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA)
Recommandation du CAD sur le renforcement de la société civile
Short Summary on the Recommendation
OECD Brochure on the Recommendation
Standards and Principles:
DAC Recommendations on Enabling Civil Society
Doing Development Differently Principles
Podcasts and Videos:
‘Disrupt Development’ podcast series – particularly the episode on the localization agenda
‘Localising the SDGs in Your Community’ (Youtube Video) – Together Ensemble
‘Rethinking Development’ podcast series
February 2, 2022
Global Citizens Forum 2022 Welcome
Contributors
Kimberly Gibbons – Executive Director, Ontario Council for International Cooperation
Elizabeth Tuck – Special Events Coordinator, Ontario Council for International Cooperation
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Exploring the OECD DAC Recommendation on Enabling Civil Society
Watch the recording here.
Moderator
Brian Tomlinson – Executive Director, AidWatch Canada
Contributors
Anabel Cruz – Director, Communication and Development Institute (ICD) of Uruguay
Marilyn Bachmann – Policy Analyst, OECD Development Co-operation Directorate, France
Susan Pereverzoff – Director, Global Citizens Division, Global Affairs Canada
Carmen Zubiaga – Founder and Executive Director, Women with Disabilities Leap to Social and Economic Progress, Inc (WOW-LEAP), Philippines
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‘Localizing’ Food Systems
Watch the recording here.
Contributors
Marisa Giraldez – Executive Director, Banco de Alimentos, Argentina
Theresa Rempel Mulaire – Conservation Agriculture Program Manager, Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Celeste Smith – Founder, Cultural Seeds
Geneviève Talbot – Program Officer – Africa Hub, Solidarité Union Coopération
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Connecting Mind and Body thru Yoga
Contributors
Nikki Martin – You can learn more about her on her website here.
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Feminist Approaches to ‘Localization’
Watch the recording here.
Contributors
Brittany Lambert – Women’s Rights Policy and Advocacy Specialist, Oxfam Canada
Farwah Qasim – Program Officer, Oxfam Canada
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Maintaining the Gains – People, Projects and Partnership in the Time of COVID-19
Watch the recording here.
Moderator
Sophie Kiwala – PWRDF Representative for the Diocese of Ontario (Kingston and area)
Contributors
Bart Dickinson – Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator, PWRDF
Ramula Issa – Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, EHALE, Mozambique
Witness Mushi – Gender Officer, Diocese of Masasi, Tanzania
Melchiade Ninganza – Program Manager, Village Health Works, Burundi
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Haitian Women at the Forefront of Community Solutions and Locally-led Change
Moderator
Safa Shahkhalili – Producer, OCIC ‘Tapestry 2030’ Season 1
Contributors
Denis Côté – Policy Analyst, Association Québécoise des Organismes de Coopération Internationale (AQOCI)
Miselande Parisien – General Secretary, Fédération des Femmes de Haut-Saint-Marc (Haitian Women’s Federation, Haut de St. Marc)
Heather Smith – Executive Director, Rayjon Share Care Canada
Renaud Thomas – Community Coordinator and RSCH Manager, Rayjon Share Care Haiti
OCIC ‘Tapestry 2030’ Season 2
PODCASTING & ILLUSTRATION SERIES
OCIC’s Global Citizens Forum 2022: ‘Localization’ Matters includes a number of workshops and other engagement activities, and is also the topical focus of our ‘Tapestry 2030’ podcast and illustration series Season 2. This series will further our exploration on the future of international cooperation and global solidarity, and the partnerships needed for gender transformative, sustainable development.
We look forward to launching Season 2 in partnership with Cultural Seeds, Heart-Links | Lazos de Corazón, the Primate’s World Development and Relief Fund, and Rayjon Share Care of Sarnia Inc., and their respective international and community partners in March 2022.
This series builds on ‘Tapestry 2030’ Season 1, which profiles contributions from Bhutan Canada Foundation, CAP Network, CMETrust, Heart-Links | Lazos de Corazón, Inter Pares, Partners in Health Canada, Rayjon Share Care of Sarnia Inc., the YMCA of Greater Toronto, and their respective international partners in conversation with podcaster Safa Shahkhalili. Illustrations for both series are created by Amanda Schutz.
To view OCIC’s call for expressions of interest to partner in Season 2, click here: (PDF) | (Word)
Re-imagining International Solidarity: Foundations of Equitable Relations in International Cooperation Workshop
Canada’s international cooperation organizations are grappling with the global call to shift the power within the sector in favour of equity-seeking communities and the values of self-determination, human dignity, and global solidarity. Such a sector transformation, however, requires individual and institutional capacity to reflect on our own motivations, mandates, as well as processes we follow in our attempts to achieve them. This workshop guided participants through personal and collective reflection, offering insight on privilege, standpoint, positionality and feminist reflexivity as an instrument of solidarity.
On Friday, January 7th from 10:00 am – 1:00 pm ET, OCIC and Gloria Novovic presented this free foundational session that helped inform the scope, form and focus of OCIC’s Global Citizens Forum 2022, and future efforts.
About the Facilitator
Gloria Novovic is a feminist policy and global governance specialist. She holds a PhD in Political Science and International Development from the University of Guelph and has spent over a decade in community and international development spaces. In her work, Gloria aims to apply decolonial feminist approaches and leverages her understanding of social and policy change to strategically disrupt traditional paradigms of international cooperation.