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QUADRENNIAL PROGRAMME PLAN 2008-2011 Content
I. INTRODUCTION In 2004, we took a different path in the development of the Alliance’s Quadrennial Programme Plan. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) had caused the postponement of the 16th General Assembly from September 2003 to April 2004. We did not have specific General Assembly mandates on which to base our programme plan. A Quadrennial Programme Plan (QPP) was developed encompassing the outcomes of the review of the past plans in 2003, the outcome/mandates of 16th General Assembly, national concerns and issues, and, the Leaders’ Roundtable in 2004. II. OUR JOURNEY TOGETHER IN SPIRITUALITY AND MISSION The Second Leaders’ Quadrennial Roundtable of the constituent members of the Asia and Pacific Alliance was held on 6-9 December 2007 in Kuala Lumpur, attended by 41 key leaders from 15 movements, to share, deliberate, and determine together:
OUR SPIRITUALITY, OUR MISSION We took cognisance of the fact that there was an urgent need for the YMCA to look beyond the present and the work it has been engaged in - to seek a Contemporary Mission that is socially relevant. As people of faith we are called to and challenged with a Mission to extend His reign of Justice, Love, Truth, and Peace, to take a prophetic role to speak out when we have to against injustices and what takes away humankind’s dignity and freedom. We also reaffirmed that Spirituality is a foundational pillar of the YMCA and its mission. It is “our connectedness to God, to our human roots, to the rest of nature, to one another, and to ourselves.” 1 Spirituality is a personal experience of “that which is beyond us”. It involves everything that enhances the sense of the sacred, that promotes connectedness and unity in human life. Spirituality as a process is seeking to discover God in our lives - in its totality in the context of everyday living - how we go about our daily lives. We listen to God who speaks to us in the depths of our being. We experience the grace that comes to us in the unfolding of our lives. It is an awakening to the divinity or sacredness within every human being to be compassionate…. We recalled that at the 17th General Assembly we explored and entered into a deeper understanding of spirituality and solidarity in ensuring sustainability for transformation of self and community. We were reminded of justpeace - a justice that at the heart of the Scriptures and our Faith, a peace that eradicates of the root causes of poverty, violations of human rights, aggression, violence, counter violence and war. That accepts the need to respect each human person and enables all to live in harmony. We believe that we are commissioned as a body of God’s people - youth, women and men - to be catalysts and actors for transformative actions. To be partners in building community, promoting Global Citizenship and Social Responsibility, Peace with Justice, Sustainability for Life. We can respond through education and awareness building, networking and the development of rights-based initiatives to address the concerns of youth, women, men, the ageing population, the poor and dispossessed, the oppressed and suffering, the discriminated against, the marginalized, the special populations, and the indigenous populations we can respond. At the core of the new paradigm and a new mindset we need to develop, is a partnership with the suffering and oppressed to build new models of communities of justice, love, truth and peace in the globalised world for a sustainable future. III. OUR QUADRENNIAL VISION AND RESPONSE Preamble We affirm the Statement of the 17th General Assembly adopted in Chiang Mai in 2007 We are a community-based, people-focused movement in a globalised world where injustice, suffering and inequities are prevalent. We are positive and innovative agents of transformation - leading initiatives in supporting the last, the least and the lost of our communities. We work in spirituality and solidarity for the holistic development of new mindset in response to the advent of information society Vision Statement Striving as One Body in Christ, to respond as Global Citizens in carrying our Social Responsibility, fostering Peace with Justice, and promoting Sustainability for Life, through awareness building and enablement with practical and challenging models of inclusion, cooperation, strategic partnerships. IV. QUADRENNIAL THRUSTS We reaffirmed the 17th General Assembly Statement that declares: Our Common Calling: Together as God’s people, we are called to act for justice and peace. We find new ways of proclaiming and doing the great (good) news of God’s reign to all creation ~ bringing light to the lives of others. We are called by God to respond to: Global Citizenship and Social Responsibility which is a spiritual and moral disposition that guides individuals’ understanding of themselves as members of communities - both on local and global levels - and their responsibility to their communities. This moves us towards building more responsible communities, transforming individual lives with a sense of universal equality and care for human beings and the earth in its entirety. Peace with Justice Sustainability for Life V. OUR PRIORITY CONCERNS/ISSUES AND FOCUS GROUPS Through sub-regional group discussions, the following were identified as priority concerns and issues for the Quadrennium based on the above Quadrennial Thrust:
In our contextual engagement in the priority concerns/issues, we will seek to address them within the following focus groups:
VI. IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES The following broad strategies were recommended:
VII. IMPLEMENTATION METHODOLOGY A key concern was how to involve movements in the process of QPP implementation. Learning from the evaluation of the QPP 2004-2007, the APAY Secretariat will seek to implement the recommendations from the evaluation and the LQR-2: 1. Capacity Building
2. Communication for Information, Knowledge-sharing
3. Create greater interest, greater participation and more tangible outcomes.
VIII. MPLEMENTATION MANAGEMENT
IX. CALL TO PARTNERSHIP TO STRENGTHEN SPIRITUALITY, We recognise that it is our call and opportunity in this quadrennium to change our mindset as we advocate and work for transformation of self and community. We can work together to encourage and foster change. We can connect movements to knowledge, experience and resources for transformation and help people build a better life. Together we can develop new initiatives and find new solutions to address local, national, regional and global development challenges. We have been mandated by the 17th General Assembly and the Leaders’ Quadrennial Roundtable to strengthen our spirituality and solidarity and as responsible global citizens work towards sustainability within our movement, the community, the nation and the earth. We will work in solidarity with all sectors of community to achieve peace with justice. Without justice, there can be no peace. With poverty and suffering, there can be no peace. Without equality there can be no peace. With justice and peace, there can be sustainable development. As a movement we have committed to seek new paradigms in our mission. We are committed to develop a new mindset as global citizens to work in solidarity on common, contextual issues and concerns. Underlying all our activities, we will promote the rights-based approach to building a sustainable civil society. In our participatory, people-oriented development work, we will seek integration of human rights into activities to contribute to the fulfillment of the inherent dignity and worth of the human person ? children, youth, women, men, the elderly, and the differently-abled. This can help to create an environment for sustainable development wherein initiatives for civic education and engagement, awareness campaigns and actions can take root and grow. YMCAs can network with similar NGOs to attain our goals. This framework for the Quadrennial Programme Plan (QPP) 2008-20011 developed after extensive and expansive consultative processes and joint thinking together, will be the guide for us to make a difference where we are - as global citizens at local, national, subregional or regional levels. We call each to provide or create the Space and Vehicles to do so, and to be the prophetic Voice for justice and for peace in our times. APPENDIX 1
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