ENVI @ WB SCF - successes and disappointments

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One BIG thanks to all of you for your inputs so far! On behalf of the Heinrich Boell Foundation, I would like to let you know that we will consolidate your inputs from this discussion and put them up for a vote in one week. This public vote will enable us to transparently select up to three topics to be discussed during the Civil Society Forum in Trieste in July 2017. Outcomes of these consultations and those of our discussions in Trieste will result in a Western Balkans CSO Declaration on Environment, Energy and Climate Change to be included in the overall CSO Declaration that will be presented to the WB Prime Ministers on the WB Summit on 12 July 2017.

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I would like to stress the need of promoting direct action parallel to policy making. Where most of us fail in the region is when our papers, policies or studies get ignored by the politicians. When we get ignored often we dont do nothing about it, and i feel that this is a waste of time and materials. We need to combine policy proposals with direct action in order to be successful and to make sure that our voice is heard. We have been stressing this during Paris Forum as well, but still not much has been done in order to put more light to grassroots organisations and their success stories, in order to stimulate and inspire a stronger link between think-tanks and grassroots. We have some very good examples of success stories coming our of such a collaboration in Albania. I would suggest that we add this to the agenda as well, along with policy proposals. The better the CS is organised, the more they will listen.

@besjanpesha Agreed! Do you have any success stories from Albania or elsewhere in WB6 to share with us here?

New paper on regional cooperation from the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung is out (attached). Environemtn/energy/climate change topics do not hold a prominent place there, if at all. What do you all think?

I am attaching a description from one of the best actions we have organised so far against fracking and environmental damages from an oil company in Albania.