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Micah Challenge India is part of the global Micah Challenge Campaign
an initiative of the Micah Network and the world Evangelical Alliance.
The campaign aims to deepen Christian engagement with the poor and
the marginalized and to influence leaders of rich and poor nations
to fulfill their promise to achieve the Millennium Development Goals
and so halve poverty by 2015.
A consultation was held at Pune on May 29 – June 1, 2004
to introduce Micah Challenge Campaign and to discuss on the launch.
About 56 people from India, Nepal and Sri Lanka representing 36
churches, networks and organizations participated in it.
The consultation resulted in the formation of a National Steering
Committee to guide the campaign. The National Steering Committee
acts as a functional committee and is responsible for:
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Making policy decisions |
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Oversee the direction of the campaign
and set the priorities and strategies |
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Reflecting and communicating International
Campaign’s values and goals |
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Approving the budget |
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Providing direction and support for the
National Coordinator (NC) |
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Raising funds needed to meet the Budget
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Promoting Micah Challenge within the Networks |
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Members of the National Steering Committee are drawn from endorsing
organisations and have been invited on to the Committee because
of their expertise in advocacy, campaigning and development issues,
linked to their Christian faith.
The Micah Challenge India campaign will be led by a Steering
Committee. The Steering Committee members are as follows:
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Rev. Richard Howell, General
Secretary, EFI, |
Co-chair |
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Mr. C.B. Samuel, Chairman, Prabhaav, |
Co-chair |
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Rev. Dino L. Touthang, General Director,
EFICOR |
Treasurer |
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Mr. Santhosh Mathew , Executive Director, EHA |
Member |
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Mr. Subhasis Bastia, Associate Director, World Vision India |
Member |
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Rev. Mansang Songate, Executive Director, NEICORD |
Member |
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Mr. Shailendra Awale, Chief Coordiantor,SBSS- CNI |
Member |
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Col.Lahasse Commissioner Salvation Army India |
Member |
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Mr. David Jayakumar , General Secretary UESI |
Member |
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Rev. Kennedy Dhanabalan, Director EFICOR |
Member |
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Ms. Tehmina Arora, Secretary (CLA) EFI |
Member |
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Ms. Lalbiakhlui (Kuki) Rokhum, National Co-ordinator |
Co-ordinator |
Secretariat is provided by EFICOR
Effective engagement of churches, Christian organizations and
individuals in India in the Millennium Development Goals agenda
and processes, at national and international levels
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To encourage, build capacities
of churches, Christian organizations and individuals to be
part of the Micah Challenge and to become aware of and to
be involved in working towards achieving the MDGs in three
years. |
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Facilitate and coordinate
churches, Christian organizations and individuals to participate
in MDG campaigns and advocate at the national and regional
levels |
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1000 churches and Christian
organizations who have signed the Micah call would have been
actively involved in Micah Challenge.. |
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500 churches, Christian organizations
would be involved in implementing programmes/restructured
their existing programmes towards achieving the MDGs in the
poorer districts in India. |
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Networks would have been formed
in all the states/Union Territories/regions to advocate at
national and regional level towards achieving MDGs |
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Network groups would have
published the progress of MDG goal achievement in their region
and campaigned with the government on policies affecting specific
MDGs. |
The strategies of the campaign are broadly laid out as:
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Compile the list of Churches,
NGOs mission agencies, individuals who are interested |
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Making information on Micah Challenge available
to churches/ Christian organizations and individuals and encourage
them to sign the Micah Call (see Appendix) |
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Publicity of the campaign in the media. |
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Research on India’s plan for achieving
MDG. |
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Information on MDG and PRSP of India to
be printed (Hindi, English, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada,
Oriya and Bengali. |
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Making information on MDGs and PRSP available
to churches/ Christian organizations and individuals |
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Encouraging Christians to join regional
and national organizations (Christian/non Christian) that
are already involved in the campaign |
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Identifying lead organizations/churches
on MDG issues to lead the campaign on those issues. |
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Facilitate and enhance the capacities of
Christian churches and groups in the knowledge of MDGs, advocacy
skills, Biblical understanding on the issues, Government’s
PRSP, methodology to identify poverty issues in the region
and bring in change, monitoring skills to monitor progress
towards MDG and to participate in campaigns in India. This
will done using various forums and meetings. |
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Three regional coordinators to be appointed
for advocating MDG in the region. |
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Identify organizations/churches in each
state to be the lead agency for advocating on MDG. |
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Partners’ organize campaigns in their
regions |
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Partners network together to influence
policies, people and programmes |
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To network with national and global groups
involved in MDGs. |
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To advocate on the issues affecting the
MDGs with government and other constituencies. |
SIGN THE MICAH CALL
AND BE PART OF THE GREAT MOVEMENT!!
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