April 25, 2018 5:51 am
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- CALD Climate Change Strategic Planning Workshop
14 – 17 March 2014 | Malacca, Malaysia
In recognition of the year of climate action, CALD began 2014 with a workshop aimed at coming up with strategies on how to make its climate change programs more efficient, as well as for these to be able to raise awareness and provide the most recent data on the state of climate change in Asia. The event, which was hosted by Party Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (PGRM), with the support of Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF), also exposed delegates to the environmental initiatives of the Malaysian federal government and those of the state of Malacca.
- CALD General Assembly 2014
11-14 April 2014 | Siem Reap, Cambodia
With the theme relating to minorities and indigenous groups, the CALD General Assembly (GA) Conference aimed to assist its member parties and other stakeholders in formulating policy responses to protect and empower minorities and indigenous peoples in Asia. The conferences also had a special session on women, who to a large extent share many of the issues concerning marginalized communities. The event in the end paved the way to drafting a resolution clarifying CALD’s stance to the issue confronting marginalized sectors.
- 5th CALD Party Management Workshop
8-11 August 2014 | Rangoon, Burma/Myanmar
In August, CALD convened in Rangoon for the 5th CALD Political Party Management Workshop that had the theme. “Project 2015: Winning Elections Towards Continuing Reforms.” The Burmese opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) hosted the event that included some 40 prospective candidates and campaign officials from the party as participants. The three-day workshop aimed to equip the CALD member-parties and the NLD with the knowledge and skills in winning elections. Aside from those from NLD, participants from Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and the Philippines shared their experiences on campaign strategies, organization, communication, dirty tricks prevention, resource mobilization, and poll watching and canvassing.
- CALD Youth Climate Change Communications Seminar and Climate Change Workshop
19-22 September 2014 | Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
With CALD continuing to push for climate action, a climate change communications seminar and workshop was organized in September. The event, held in the Mongolian capital, was spearheaded by CALD Youth and hosted by the CALD chair party Civil Will Green Party (CWGP). The seminar tackled the use of new media and social media to spread and maintain awareness about climate change among the youth, while the youth camp served as an experimental and hands-on activity for leadership capacity-building on climate change. Gang Badoy, founder of RockEd Philippines, reminded participants about the importance of communication strategies in making climate change understandable to the public, noting, “If you want to say something, you have to choose the best language to say it and where to say it.”
- CALD-LI-EFN-FNF Conference
7-10 November 2014 | Hong Kong
Some 200 liberals from all over the world convened in Hong Kong in November, their conference coinciding with the so-called “umbrella protests” there. The conference, highlighting the theme “Liberalism: Promoting Growth, Reducing Inequality,” brought together government officials, political party leaders, businessmen, academics, policy advisors, among others, to discuss how the liberal economy relates to wealth production and inequality. CALD, in cooperation with the Liberal International (LI) and Economic Freedom Network (EFN), organized the event, which was supported by FNF.
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