Info on Donor's Meeting and Short Calendar of Pre-Donor Conf meetings

Hi all,

Here's a brief synopsis of details related to the upcoming International Donors’ Conference Towards a New Future for Haiti on March 31, 2010 in New York at UN Headquarters. (I'll put dates up in our Google Docs Calendar and a summary of a conf call today with Sophie Toupin and her group who are drafting a Shadow Report gender analysis of the PDNA document and seek our individual input on different sections of the document.

NY Intl Donor's Conf 'Towards a New Future for Haiti' - March 31, UN Headquarters, NYC:

Delegations are encouraged to be represented at the ministerial level and will be invited to make brief statements summarizing their new pledges of recovery and reconstruction assistance. The Conference will be webcast live with select sessions open to other media.

Further details for delegations will be forthcoming in correspondence from the United Nations Office of Conference Services and will also be available through the UN Journal.

Participants will be asked to pre-register for the Conference through the Conference website.

Detailed information on how to register, along with technical details on pledge content and how to register pledges, will be forthcoming from UNDP.

For media inquiries, please contact: Carolyn Vadino, Deputy Spokeswoman for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations 212-415-4301.

Please note that this event is an opportunity for UN member states to register national pledges of assistance to Haiti. Private sector donors and others will have alternative opportunities to register their offers of assistance. Unfortunately, capacity considerations must limit the opportunity to pledge assistance during the event on March 31 to UN member states, international organizations, and representatives selected to report from the outreach consultations. .

Calendar of Pre-Donor’s Conference Preparatory Meetings:

• March 15, in Haiti. : Haitian civil society (over the preceding weeks, organized by the United Nation’s Office of the UN Special Envoy to Haiti, MINUSTAH, NGO’s, and local community groups), the private sector (organized by the Inter-American Development Bank)

• March 15-17 in Santo Domingo, a closed Preparatory Technical Meeting: with non-governmental organizations (co-hosted by the Government of the Dominican Republic and Haiti)
• March 21-23, in Washington, D.C : with the Haitian Diaspora (organized by the Organization of American States),
• March 23, in Martinique : With Haitian state and local government (organized by the Government of France)
• March 23, in New York With stakeholders to MINUSTAH (organized by the Government of Brazil and the Government of Haiti),
• March 25, in New York, organized by the Office of the UN Special Envoy to Haiti, InterAction, and the European Commission). Follow up to Santo Domingo meeting