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International Advocacy
CWS is a member of the South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication
an alliance of South Asian voluntary organizations campaigning with
European Union, multi-lateral and bi-lateral aid agencies to focus
attention on 400 million poor in the region and to step up efforts
to eradicate poverty. It works in close alliance with like-minded
European NGOs. It dialogues with international civil society
organizations to develop a pro-people agenda to inform the current
debates at the WTO.
CWS partners are involved in preparing bio-diversity registers as a
first step towards ensuring community control over bio-diversity.
Participation in the World Social Forum and Asian Social Forum has
helped to strengthen the various networks promoted by CWS in the
five states of its work.
Governance at CWS
CWS works with a team of 61 staff members providing professional and
administrative support services to more than 150 partner groups and
twelve fellows. It is managed by a board of trustees who take an
active interest in the management of the organization. Participatory
mechanisms are in place to ensure dialogue and consultation with
partners in the form of mandatory annual regional and national
consultations. A Programmes Committee comprising all CWS
professional staff meets bi-monthly to discuss project allocations.
Advisory Committees of well-known development professionals,
academics and civil society leaders in their work, advise each of
the different desks. A Finance Committee advises the Board on the
financial management of the organization. The annual budget of the
organization is approximately Rs 50,000,000.
Creating a Network of Institutions
CWS has promoted the founding of Watershed Support Services and
Activities Network (WASSAN), the Centre for People’s Forestry (CPF),
the Centre for Sustainable Agriculture (CSA), BODHI (for
Dalit-Bahujan-Adivasi development) and National Dalit Forum (NDF) to
serve marginalized communities effectively. |
