Fellow listers Please find below information on a TICAD sensitisation meeting happening this week Thursday and Friday at the Royal Orchid hotel in Westlands. I hope some of us can make it. Please RSVP to Florence Syevuo <flosyevuo@gmail.com> if you will be available. Kind regards, Muchiri

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From: Florence Syevuo <flosyevuo@gmail.com> Subject: Invitation to TICAD Sensitisation Meeting- 9th - 10th June Date: 6 June 2016 at 2:41:27 PM EAT Cc:

Dear Colleague, RE: INVITATION TO A TICAD VI NON-STATE ACTORS SENSITIZATION MEETING

Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) is a multilateral process for African development started and led by the Government of Japan since 1993. TICAD VI will be hosted for the very first time in Africa in Nairobi Kenya on the 27th-28th August 2016.

TICAD VI will create an important momentum for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals; Africa’s AU Agenda 2063 development agenda and the implementation of the outcomes of the COP21, given it is one of the first international conferences directly focusing on Africa's development after the approval of the Sustainable Development Goals and the COP 21 outcomes and the G7 Ise-Shima Japan Summit.

Led and hosted by the Government of Kenya, National NGO Board, Civic Commission for Africa, IPPF, KANCO, PACJA and Civil Society Organizations working on TICAD, AU CIDO, Afri-Can and UNDP. A TICAD VI Sensitization Meeting will be held on 9th to 10th June 2016 at Royal Orchid Hotel Azure in Nairobi. Just before the TICAD VI 16th-17th June Ministerial meeting in Gambia.

The main purpose of the consultative meeting will be to reach out to all African and Kenyan Non State Actors, namely civil society organizations, private sector, media, academia, the diaspora and development partners to develop and agree on :-

I. Deeper understanding and a sense of ownership of the TICAD process on the role of Africa’s Non State Actors

II. Lobby and pursue advocacy strategy for the involvement and full participation of Africa’s Non State Actors in the TICAD process

III. A CSO/NSA 2016 TICAD VI Declaration capturing the three priority pillars identified for TICAD VI

The workshop’s theme is “Engaging Non State Actors to Bring African Voices to the 2016 TICAD VI.’’ The main objective of the workshop is to accelerate coherent efforts and alignment of Africa’s development efforts to the TICAD process as the world embarks on the new Sustainable Development Goals.

Kindly confirm your participation with Florence Syevuo at flosyevuo@gmail.com <mailto:flosyevuo@gmail.com> and Ann Gitonga: kobia@pacja.org <mailto:kobia@pacja.org> at your earliest convenience. Attached find the invitation, concept note and tentative programme.

We look forward to your presence and participation at the Workshop.

Yours Sincerely,

Florence

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