tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29960234282163534712024-03-13T17:36:17.362+01:00Enlarging FAIRexchanging tools, experiences and knowledge to face the challenge of FAIR TRADE in the Enlarged Europe.
Enlargin Fair is a 2 year development education project co-financed by the European Commission. The blog does not reflect the opinion of the European Union but is the sole responsibility of the NGOs involved in the action.Enlarging Fairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13514708168213678838noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996023428216353471.post-22924108646879323222010-07-21T10:24:00.000+02:002010-07-21T10:24:27.952+02:00Dear Gaga, Claudia, Laura, Ilaria! We have only one thing to say...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Yxs3MoFakXk/TEarKv02kBI/AAAAAAAAACk/OuZ7gw1Ybfc/s1600/Ruma+2010+112.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Yxs3MoFakXk/TEarKv02kBI/AAAAAAAAACk/OuZ7gw1Ybfc/s320/Ruma+2010+112.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Yxs3MoFakXk/TEartuzzEjI/AAAAAAAAACs/0xl0-k9_8EU/s1600/Ruma+2010+115.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Yxs3MoFakXk/TEartuzzEjI/AAAAAAAAACs/0xl0-k9_8EU/s320/Ruma+2010+115.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Yxs3MoFakXk/TEasDT7P5qI/AAAAAAAAAC0/crpem_ncBPM/s1600/Vasek_fin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Yxs3MoFakXk/TEasDT7P5qI/AAAAAAAAAC0/crpem_ncBPM/s320/Vasek_fin.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Yxs3MoFakXk/TEasRADf2NI/AAAAAAAAAC8/kzv84l4UeJA/s1600/Tom_fin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Yxs3MoFakXk/TEasRADf2NI/AAAAAAAAAC8/kzv84l4UeJA/s320/Tom_fin.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Yxs3MoFakXk/TEasf0ikIpI/AAAAAAAAADE/obXiJwYdJtg/s1600/K_Y.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Yxs3MoFakXk/TEasf0ikIpI/AAAAAAAAADE/obXiJwYdJtg/s320/K_Y.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Yxs3MoFakXk/TEatVXCjnmI/AAAAAAAAADM/5HWTuGGR2-g/s1600/P1020175.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Yxs3MoFakXk/TEatVXCjnmI/AAAAAAAAADM/5HWTuGGR2-g/s320/P1020175.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Yxs3MoFakXk/TEatpxf3qdI/AAAAAAAAADU/Ta_EuO2dA-o/s1600/P1020179.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Yxs3MoFakXk/TEatpxf3qdI/AAAAAAAAADU/Ta_EuO2dA-o/s320/P1020179.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Yxs3MoFakXk/TEats9UXePI/AAAAAAAAADc/7BGAoi0AkIE/s1600/P1020181.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Yxs3MoFakXk/TEats9UXePI/AAAAAAAAADc/7BGAoi0AkIE/s320/P1020181.jpeg" /></a></div>Enlarging Fairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13514708168213678838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996023428216353471.post-55868080758464933772010-04-08T13:30:00.003+02:002010-04-08T13:33:01.450+02:00Listening the voice of producersHere you can find<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.altromercato.it/it/produttori/interviste/elements/tomy-vadakkancheril/?searchterm=tomy">7 small interviews</a></span> to Tomy Vadakkancheril, Director of the<br />
Indian Fair Trade organization ELEMENTS.<br />
Tomy partecipated the last Enlarging Fair training and his contributions have been crucial<br />
to the understanding of Fair Trade from a producer's perspective.Enlarging Fairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13514708168213678838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996023428216353471.post-88542440788761722522010-03-09T11:37:00.003+01:002010-03-11T14:06:28.454+01:006th Training in Slovenia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Yxs3MoFakXk/S5YlKzlqNiI/AAAAAAAAACU/84A4Fo0aaDs/s1600-h/DSC_1457.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Yxs3MoFakXk/S5YlKzlqNiI/AAAAAAAAACU/84A4Fo0aaDs/s320/DSC_1457.jpg" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Project partners gathered in Slovenia between 13th and 15th February for the sixth training on Fair Trade Rules and Criteria. Weather was wonderful, so were the sessions. </span><br />
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</div>Enlarging Fairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13514708168213678838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996023428216353471.post-55108500784172528502010-01-04T15:16:00.002+01:002010-01-18T11:05:09.003+01:005th training on Campaigning<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">WHERE: Budapest<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">A very dense training has involved 18 people from Czeck Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, Malta and Hungary for 2 days. The international group learnt about the European Agricaltural Policy, which represents the main framework for our rural development and it also effects the way the EU trades with its partner countries. Our interest in Nort/South relationship has been reflected in 2 regional focus: one on the ACP (Asian, Caribbean and Pacific countries) and the European Partnership Agreements with them, and one on the Mediterranean countries and the Barcellona process. Moreover, the group had the possibility to exchange experience and views with a Greenpeace Campaigner and a journalist, to understand what makes a campaign succesfull and how media interact with civil society and NGOs. During the workshop session, the participants planned a little campaign to put in practice the theory acquired during the training.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">One of the biggest challenge of trainers and educators is to adapt the teaching style to the group one is working with</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">. During this traing, we experienced different teaching styles, learning the "to do" and "not to do" to conduct a succesful activity. The main challenge has been to tackle a very sensitive age: the transitional age, meaning those that are between 15 and 25 years old. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">WHEN: 15th-17th June 2009<br />
</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">WHAT: 3 days training on the fair trade standards for organizations and labels</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What is a Fair Trade organization? How does a product get a Fair Trade certification?</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And what is the difference between the two Fair Trade tracks, products versus organizations? The 3rd Enlarging Fair training answered those questions and raised new ones, fostering a debate among young Fair Traders, mostly from the New Member States of the EU. During the training , we explored the history and the recent updates of the World Fair Trade Organization and the Labelling Initiative FLO, thanx to the participation of international speakers. </span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We believe that a more equal world is possible only through individual change. To make the change possible, education has a fundamental importance in </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">raising the awareness of the future generations. For this reason, Fair Trade volunteers are often involved in educational activities in the schools, or during public event, involving school age youngster. Talking to a young public is not always easy and the need of new and dynamical metholody is string among educators.To create an informal environment but yet a learning experience, to mix games and contents, to involve students and activate their curiosity, this is the challenge of those that are committed in the development education, including Fair Trade.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">WHEN: 5<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">th</span>-8<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">th</span> December 2009</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana;">WHAT: 4 days training to design a common campaign </span></span><br />
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</div>In the 4 days of our first training, we experienced the sharing of information on a very crucial topic for a Fair Trade organisation (<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">FTO</span>): the campaigning. Indeed, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">FTOs</span> are active at 2 main levels: on one hand, they promote Fair Trade products enabling their partners from the Global South to access the market and give <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Northern</span> consumers a Fair option in their daily shopping. On the other hand, they <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">commit</span> to make a cultural change possible: to make every individual aware about the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">responsibility</span> of his /her own actions, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">especially</span> in the South. Indeed, even if <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">FTOs</span> believe in consumers' power, this is often not enough to change the rules of the game and a pledge for institutional change is needed also, when we look at the roots of the exclusion of our Southern partners.<br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the framework of the contemporary challenge of our global world, we act in the middle of 3 major crisis (financial crisis, environmental crisis, food crisis). The several interconnections among the 3 different crisis underline the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">unsustainable</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">neoliberal</span> economic model, that Fair Trade aims at changing. We experienced that our partners are <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">particularly</span> suffering the effects of the so-called FOOD CRISIS, with high increase in crops' price that not always means higher profits for peasants but that, on the contrary, shows all the paradoxes and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">distortion</span> of the global food market. We believe that the food crisis is not due to a lack of available food, as many say, but is the predictable result of a model that doesn't put the FOOD <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">SOVEREIGNTY</span> first, but the exploitation of man and Earth.<br />
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</div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Our campaign consists, then, in the common claim for the RIGHT FOR FOOD as a fundamental human right to be assured for every human being. The right for food can be achieved by respecting farming <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">agriculture</span> and natural <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">biodiversity</span><span style="color: #ff6600;">y</span>, by giving the Global South the possibility to enter a market without <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">distortion</span> and by promoting sounds patterns of production, such as the organic and Fair Trade ones.</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFNkDp_yfsk"><br />
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<span style="font-size: 180%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Training materials available <a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?f=5H8TYT99">here</a> <br />
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</div></div>Enlarging Fairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13514708168213678838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996023428216353471.post-3291067883326256772009-07-02T16:18:00.000+02:002009-09-01T17:40:48.729+02:00training activities<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 130%;">The core objective of the Enlarging Fair project consists in training an international group of Fair Trade activists that therefore will be able to run educational and campaigning activities in their own country, being part of a network. Nonetheless, at the basys of our daily activity lays the need to strenghten our organizations' capacity to address public opinion, decision makers and institution, in one word to build our identity as Fair Trade organization.<br />
These are the reasons why the TRANING ACTIVITIES of the project focus on the following topics:<br />
1) campaigning<br />
2) education<br />
3) rules and criteria<br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></div>Enlarging Fairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13514708168213678838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996023428216353471.post-45159429486380878262009-07-01T16:27:00.001+02:002009-09-01T17:40:48.729+02:00New challenges to faceThe Enlarging Fair project is at its 2nd year of activity. Until May 2010, 8 NGOs will cooperate to promote Fair Trade in an Enlarged European dimension. The NGOs actually involved are from Czech Republich, Slovenia, Malta, Slovakia and Hungary. The vision of the project is to emprove the capacities of those NGOs through exchange of experience with an "old" country, where Fair Trade is more than of age: Italy. Coordinated by a grassroot NGOs , with the contribution of the main Fair Trade import organization and the Italian General Assembly on Fair Trade, the network established with this project aims at training its volunteers and activists on 3 main topics: Campaigning, Education, Rules and Criteria.<br />
This blog is meant to become the virtual square where the involved NGOs can share documents and opinions but also a meeting point for other NGOs interested in taking similar actions and people that want to be involved in Fair Trade.<br />
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Learn more about the NGOs at the "who we are" section.Enlarging Fairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13514708168213678838noreply@blogger.com0