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Report of The First Annual WANA Forum
In April 2009, 70 individuals from WANA, and global partners, met in Amman to identify regional challenges and discuss possible opportunities and approaches for addressing these concerns and advancing regional cooperation. Two overarching themes arose:
- Cross-cultural exchange in WANA to learn more about each other, break down stereotypes and share knowledge of best practices.
- Greening WANA – seeing the ‘green lining’ in the global economic crisis and making ‘green’ thinking a lucrative part of the social, economic and environmental recovery strategy.
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Report of WANA Forum 2010
WANA Forum 2010 gathered 130 individuals in Amman, from the region and elsewhere, in order to address the theme of Pursuing Supranational Solutions to the Challenges of Carrying Capacity.
Building on the work of the First Annual WANA Forum in April of 2009, the 2010 Forum focused on advancing the priority issues of reconstruction and recovery, green economy, water and energy, education for sustainable development, the revival of hima, and social cohesion, including the legal empowerment of the poor. The principle aim of the three-day meeting was to create partnerships for collaboration towards concrete policy proposals by 2011. WANA Forum 2010 recognised the need for people across the region to begin to transcend national carrying capacity through regional thinking and a regional policy framework that overcomes the multi-layered choke-points within WANA.
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Reconstruction & Recovery Expert Consultation Report
Conflict has cost the region around $12 trillion in missed economic growth and development over the last two decades, according to the Cost of Conflict in the Middle East 2009 report by the Strategic Foresight Group. In October 2009, regional experts met to to identify barriers to and opportunities for innovative, WANA-led approaches to reconstruction, integrating multidimensional thinking and planning into reconstruction strategies. The three pivotal areas of focus were social and economic reconstruction and development, green reconstruction and effective donorship and accountability.
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Greening WANA Consultation Report
Facing up to the threats of our long-term economic and environmental sustainability means responding comprehensively to these challenges. With that aim, a group of WANA Forum leading experts met in November 2009 to discuss and debate the challenges and opportunities for Greening WANA, particularly in the areas of environmental education for sustainable development and greening the economy, with a focus on electric vehicle production and green mass transport. This report seeks to capture their fruitful discussions and recommendations for ways forward.
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Social Cohesion Consultation Report
Social Cohesion is the intangible bond that holds members of a society together and facilitates coexistence, development, progress and prosperity. Relations between and within communities suffer when people lack work and food security and endure debt, ill-health and bad living conditions. In October 2009, a consultation was held to further a research study proposal that aims to promote social cohesion and present policy recommendations at the regional level. The study involves understanding the numerous forces at work in the region that promote or inhibit social cohesion.
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