IDDC

IDDC and PHOS organising events at European Development Days 2010 in Brussels

The fifth edition of the European Development Days will take place in Brussels on 6 and 7 December 2010. The general aim of the European Development Days is to strengthen the effectiveness of the European Union’s development assistance with a view to the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals and the European Consensus on Development. It aims also to enhance public awareness of development cooperation issues.

IDDC together with PHOS, one of its member organizations will take part at the European Development Days by organizing the following events:

1) Celebrating Inclusive Development

- When: 3 December 2010; 14:30 - 19:00

- Where:
Flagey building, Foyer 1
Place de St. Croix / Heilig Kruisplein
1050 Ixelles / Elsene (Brussels)

- Programme details:

14:30   Debate: Keeping the promise "Mainstreaming disability in the Millennium Development Goals towards 2015 and beyond"

Keynote speakers:
- Hellen Asamo, Uganda
- Jayanth Kumar, India
- Huib Cornielje, DCDD
- Giampiero Griffo, EDF Board member

Moderator: Nadia Hadad, PHOS
Co-moderator: Enrico Pupulin, AIFO Board member

18:00   Shining Sound, dance performance by Saïd Gharbi

"Shining Sound of dance takes us to the world of blindness by exploring our environment through the sounds that surround us. It is an esthetic and sensorial presentation in which eyes make way for ears. Through this poetic preformance punctuated be speech, the presentation continues to question our relation with appearances. In a world where, by force of wanting to shed light on everything, we end up distinguishing anything. Shining Sound of dance blinds us, disorients us, shakes us in our certainties. The loss of our marks makes us perceive reality better. We can see so much when we close our eyes."

2) IDDC/PHOS Stand at the European Development Days Development Village

- When: 6 - 7 December 2010

- Where:
Square Brussels Meeting Centre
Glass entrance
Rue Mont des Arts
1000 Brussels

IDDC/PHOS Stand number: 105
Hall number: 1
Level: -2

When you visit the stand, you can also try your luck at our MDG-themed Development Lottery.

Please sign up at the website www.eudevdays.eu before 22nd of November because badges are needed to enter the building.

For more information, please download our invitations for Celebrating Inclusive Development 3 December and IDDC/PHOS stand 6-7 December.