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Context

The Accra Agenda for Action approved in 2008 by the Ministers of developing and donor countries responsible for promoting development and Heads of multilateral and bilateral development institutions mentioned in Article 20: “We will deepen our engagement with civil society organizations (CSOs) as independent development actors in their own right whose efforts complement those of governments and the private sector. We share an interest in ensuring that CSO contributions to development reach their full potential.”

From this statement, the organizations of civil society are recognized for the first time officially as key actors in the implementation of development policies.

Better yet, in the Accra Agenda for Action, donors require formal administrations of developing countries to involve civil society in the definition, implementation and monitoring of policies and national development plans.

So today, these independent actors are systematically consulted in the preparation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) in the South countries.

In this context, it’s obvious that effective advocacy for the development of responsible tourism projects is both necessary and appropriate.

 

Goals

One of the fundamental goals of responsible tourism is to contribute effectively to the objective to eradicate poverty. It is therefore necessary that the actors and promoters of responsible tourism are able to interact with governments by formulating opinions, proposals and implementing concrete actions.
Therefore, the building of their organizational, technical and communicational capacities is more than relevant.

Thus, beyond the organization of World Responsible Tourism Day, the International Coalition for Responsible Tourism has set a goal to support this process through the following objectives:

• Arouse a dynamics of creation of networks capable of defending the principles of responsible tourism beside the governments.
• Promote and support civil society organizations in developing and implementing responsible tourism projects.
• Promote responsible tourism as new theme of cooperation and tool of local Development in the South countries.

 

These actions are aimed exclusively at supporting concrete initiatives of actors and local networks invested in promoting responsible tourism as a tool of local development in south countries.