It's the end of the first day and we are all tired and weary and we feel like we've known each other for years. So just before we were allowed to go into Strasbourg and have a few...coffees, we were brought together in "breakout groups" (an americanism, no doubt) to discuss different parts of the advocacy package. My group (I was the only girl, by the way) was deemed "qualified" enough to tackle the Millennium Development Goals themselves, and we discussed the following:
What have the targets left out? Why have certain countries (NL, L, NL, DK, SE) managed to reach the targets and not others? What are new innovative ways to raise money?
It was great. One of the Dutch lads made a small presentation afterwards of our findings. Hardly MDG experts, we managed to pull together for some fairly intelligent points of discussion.
breakout group is MOST DEF an americanism :)
ReplyDeletego team america!