WHO WE ARE
ABOUT LVC SOUTHERN AND EASTERN
As a region of LVC since 2008, the
LVC SEAf has had a number of years
of experience implementing activities
at a regional level.LVC SEAf currently
represents approximately 550.000
SSFPs and 8 member organisations
across 7 countries.
LVC SEAf works strategically with
women and youth empowerment, climate justice, agroecology, peasants’
rights, the struggle against corporate
impunity and land grabbing, and for
the fostering of food sovereignty in
the region and world. We continue
to build and strengthen our alliances with various networks and social
movements working on social justice issues through organising joint
mobilisations. LVC SEAf participates
in various actions and international
network activities calling upon the
governments to prioritise promotion
of reliable and remunerative local
markets rather than corporate led
free trade agreements.
The LVC SEAf Regional Secretariat
was hosted by UNAC (Mozambique)
between 2005 to 2016. Since 2017,
the secretariat is hosted by MVIWATA
(Tanzania), based in Morogoro.
The regional secretariat (based in Tanzania and Zimbabwe) holds the responsibility
of implementation of certain
regional activities related to the internal
structures of the region and some thematic activities, as well as energising and
supporting the implementation of the
regional strategic plan.
LVC SEAf’s activities are implemented in
a decentralised manner, through active
control and participation of the members
in both fundraising and management
of the resources. The regional work is
coordinated through regional working
collectives (RWCs) which offer space for
the regional delegates of the movement
to come together and work on specific political priorities of the movement,
develop action plans and follow up on
international and regional spaces and
institutions.
At national level all LVC SEAf member
organisations have formal or informal internal collectives working on issues that
are most relevant to them, and there is
an increasing alignment of national and
regional structures in this regard. LVC
SEAf is also in the process of strengthening the articulation of its national level
agroecology schools and programs,
which exist in various levels of maturity,
and each is created out of their own national and subnational realities.
The Peasant AE achieves CJ Initiative
We are proud to have partnered
with Global Aktion to develop
and implement this initiative
Global Aktion is a Danish solidarity
organisation run by around 100 volunteer activists organised in working
groups. GA works towards changing
the unequal power structures that
uphold the ever-growing global
inequality, aiming to empower and
enable people to mobilise and push
for change in their local setting, while
supporting their struggles on a global
scale. A central part of the GA strategy has since 2016 been Climate Justice, which has resulted in a national
push for climate justice in Denmark
through schooling, demonstrations
and political pressure.
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