340 representatives of Emmaus groups from 34 countries and four continents are participating in this highly significant moment in the democratic life of the movement. They will take part in five days of debate and workshops, discussing and deciding on the new guidelines for Emmaus International to run until 2025.
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To mark the release of Emmaus’ first Global Report on its fight against poverty, we are inviting you to get involved in our communication campaign! The aim is to publicise our work and our proposals on tackling poverty and its causes through one clear message: Our struggles are local, global, vital! The hashtag #OurVoicesMatter has also been chosen to highlight and make the voices heard of those leading this struggle.
The communication campaign will begin on 17 October, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
On this occasion, we will launch a new appeal from the Emmaus movement to make our demands heard, and we will send a press release and press kit to journalists. Over the following six weeks, we will spotlight one demand per week from our Report. For each of the six weeks, we will focus on one demand, illustrated with video, audio and visual content. For this campaign and to share our analyses and proposals as widely as possible, we will use:
In order to make the campaign as international as possible, all the communication material will be translated into Spanish, English and French.
So that each member of our movement can prepare, we are sharing a communication kit with you containing: appeal (please note, this is confidential until 17 October 2021!), report (also to be kept confidential until 17 October); a summary is being finalised, press kit, press release template to be sent to national and local media, ideas for events that can be organised locally, audios, videos and visual materials.
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We are also running two video conference sessions so you can become familiar with the campaign’s content and tools:
To sign up, please email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
We need your help with this campaign to make the release of our first Global Report a success! For this campaign, a single hashtag will be used: #OurVoicesMatter, which will allow us to track all publications and media coverage of the campaign. Make sure you don’t miss anything by signing up to follow us here: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram & LinkedIn !
This document outlines three requirements and six demands for tackling poverty and its causes, illustrated through twelve real-life experiences of initiatives run on the ground by Emmaus groups around the world. This important analytical and creative work is just the first step in our long-term advocacy strategy to make our voices heard, and it concerns all the members of our movement!
The idea of producing this report came about after the 2016 World Assembly in Jesolo, as part of the 4-year strategy voted on by the Emmaus International Board in November 2016 outlining the implementation of the resolutions from the chapter “Tackling the causes of poverty”. In 2018 and 2019, the Board refined its strategy and established the objectives of this report. This report is intended to be used both to address the media with a counterargument to government statistics on poverty, in addition to being used as a common tool by all the movement’s members for their advocacy work, to lobby political decision-makers, to hold debates with other organisations and civil society movements based on our analyses and proposals.
The groups present at the World Forum of Alternatives led with the most excluded in 2018, reaffirmed the importance of producing this first Global Report and inspired its content.
In an effort to develop this report in a participatory way, the Board, together with an ad-hoc working group, launched a call within the movement for “real-life experiences” that could be included in this report. Out of a hundred or so responses received from across our four regions, 12 initiatives were selected, with the main criterion being that they should be replicable on a large scale to clearly demonstrate that structural alternatives are possible. Based on these real-life experiences, it was possible to identify six important demands, which also highlight the three requirements that Emmaus International and its member groups are able to promote together, explaining how and under what conditions it is possible to tackle the causes of poverty.
Despite the pandemic, and the travel restrictions in place, the articles showcasing the twelve real-life experiences were written by a journalist during the first half of 2021, and video reports were produced for six of them with the help of local contacts on the ground.
The 60-page report will be made public on 17 October 2021, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
While this publication marks the completion of significant analytical and creative work, it is only the first step in our long-term advocacy plan. The requirements and demands presented in this report should then be taken to public decision-makers at all levels. We also hope to present it to international organisations, along with states and local authorities, thanks to the involvement not only of Emmaus International's elected representatives but also of our regions, national organisations and each of our groups. As it is only by working together, through our joint action, that we will manage to bring about change!
Abbé Pierre and the Emmaus founders carried out advocacy work for many years. It is now the time for each of us, wherever we are, in our groups or our decision-making bodies, to take up this collective effort for a fairer and more united world.
>> Find out more about the communication campaign that will be launched for the release of this report