I've been in Vienna for one of those big international meetings. In this case, it's the International AIDS Conference that takes place every 2 years (next one in DC in 2012). To be more precise, I've been at a pre-conference symposium of about 450 people, as well as some smaller meetings. The global conference has about 20,000 people and starts today - which is why I'm skipping town and heading home. I enjoy my work on most days, and I used to do even more of this global hob-nobbing, but I grew weary and had other interests in life besides moving the gears of international bureaucracy, so I've moved in a slightly different direction. Still when I'm back in the game, I get jazzed to be among my people talking about our stuff. Increasingly though, I'm a little glazed and slightly dazed at these things. As an outsider, I find myself slightly bemused in our meetings, where we speak alot and say nothing, so I've decided to develop a magnetic poetry set for attending global meetings. String together any of the below words and phrases, and you can participate, too!
inclusion participation participatory comprehensive inform disseminate society community community-based healthcare systems access quality services reduction elimination virtual elimination eradicate alleviate women and children safety and security society reach researchers and practitioners create develop support strengthen most vulnerable affirm re-affirm commit re-commit progress adequate progress appropriate process measure civil society contribute empower reach bringing together chronicle and document joint-efforts gatekeepers entry points advance rigor robust evidence knowledge gap action efforts initiative challenges and opportunities stakeholders partnerships public-private partnerships outcomes results resources goals 2012 2015 programmes
What, no "stakeholders"? :-) No "vision" or "strategy" (or "strategic vision")? Surely there must be "partnering"--no one can escape that these days.
ReplyDeleteOMG...how could I forget stakeholders? And partnerships? And public-private partnerships? And resources, of course! Strategic vision, not so much. ;-)
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