INTERNATIONAL

VANI has been instrumental in putting together efforts to bring international civil society on a single platform through various means such as regular interface, meetings, and consultations and cross exposure visits. It is towards this goal that VANI has created some important liaisons with various Networks across the globe viz. INTRAC, CIVICUS, Common Wealth Foundation, Coordination SUD, ABONG and CONGAD.  

It has always been our endeavour at VANI to facilitate effective information dissemination among NGOs and create a platform for NGOs to voice their opinions not only at national but at international levels as well. VANI recently launched a programme to create an ASIAN PLATFORM to lend a voice to Networks/Organisations/Social Activists from Asia. (please refer to the link on this page)

Whether at intergovernmental events—United Nations conferences, G8 meetings—or at nongovernmental events—the World Social Forum, for instance—NGOs, in protest as in proposal, are acting in a much more open negotiation space. The time of pure inter-governmental deliberations is over.

Diplomats, who have always had the last word in negotiations, are working today in a field of forces where a huge variety of economic, social, territorial, or scientific actors are operating. Before taking place around a green, felt-covered table, a negotiation is won or lost in the public opinion. Another approach to diplomacy, open to new actors and new forces, is seeing the day!

The major economic actors and NGO collectives, international networks or national platforms, have acquired, for example, the power to put pressure on diplomacy, which now has to factor them in.

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