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ENPCP: Strategy for Dialog on Ethiopia- a Road Map The Problem Defined: Ethiopia as a country now faces the double risks of threatened national unity and absence of democratic governance. The common legacy of a united and sovereign Ethiopia is fast disappearing without a concerted action to reverse it. Efforts aimed at understanding, articulating, defining and prioritizing issues of national importance that impinge on questions of nationhood and democratic governance are lacking making it impossible to articulate and implement solutions for either. The Proposal to Address the Problem: In the ENPCP process, create an enabling environment for all stakeholders to bring their resources and wisdom to articulate, identify, catalog, and prioritize the country's problems of national significance to dialog, debate, discuss, and arrive at a common ground and formulate a plan of action accepted by all that will best serve the varied and competing political, social, cultural, and economic interests of its diverse communities and citizens. Word of Oath: To shun and desist the outdated political tradition of animosity, bitterness on perceived others, hatred, ethnic division, exclusion, prejudice, extremism and un-necessary competition that wastes valuable time. To vow to cooperate, to be honest, non-judgmental, to be a team player, to compromise, to dialog, debate, discuss and come to the middle-ground with a sense of a shared purpose and achievement. The Strategy Defined: The team of rights-based civil society organizations (CSOs) and civic minded individuals (forming the core) will furnish leadership to lead, coordinate, facilitate and promote an open and honest dialog, discussions, and debate to identify, catalog and prioritize and articulate problems of national importance. To accomplish these, it will create teams, task forces and committees as necessary The team will lead to facilitate the convening of a conference for a constructive dialog, debate and discussions in which all stakeholders make it their responsibility to propagate the seeds of amity, reconciliation, peace, mutual tolerance, empowerment, participation, civic culture of engagement to seek the middle-ground to reach at a consensus for addressing the problems with a declaration containing clear statements on the positions taken by the conference aimed at achieving democracy, stability, peace, national unity and development in Ethiopia The team will form a task force to help in the articulation of programs and plans of action and the ways of implementing the proposed solutions. The Road Map Defined : Introduce the ENPCP: Develop the Terms of Reference/Strategy of the ENPCP Develop criteria for selecting CSO and Individuals Identify CSO and Individuals and assign contacts Develop talking points to approach CSO and Individuals Develop letters of invitation Invite the CSO and Individuals to form the core The Core frames their goals on common agenda and the way forward through the ENPCP The exercise of identifying the burning issues of the day that Ethiopia faces politically, socially, economically, and in other ways. Call to convene a conference (with possible parallel sessions) to discuss and formulate solutions to the identified problems. Extend invitations to participating stakeholders Prepare agenda, programs and brochures Announce venue, date and distribute programs, agenda Ensure logistics for conference is in place and conference notes of arguments, points of consensus reached are recorded and documented Find the ways to implement the recommendations Define ENC's role in the process Issue Statements and PR activities |
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Dejen Le Democracy |
Ethiopian Forum for Peace, Democracy and Development |
