Madrid, November 2009 IJR Mid Way Meeting
The World in 2009 Why is it that we only document the big events? In IJB we always seem to release “minutes”, “documents” and “attachments” that are either related to IJBC or to the IJR Mid Way Meeting. Over some coffee in Madrid, this year’s IJRs thought that perhaps it would be a good idea to document the big-picture improvements of IJB as a whole, and of IJB throughout the year. We are a global movement, and we work towards furthering our goals every day, not just at conferences or at meetings. We are constantly developing: both in the way we do things, and in the kind of things we attempt to do. As a way to celebrate this, we decided to stitch together a document that would reflect our impressions on how IJB developed in the past year. We hope this is interesting to those who were involved in Junior Branch in the past, to those who are currently working within our movement, to those who might be curious about what happened in 2009 in a few years from now, and to people who are working in other areas of our organisation and want to get a better picture of what Junior Branch has been doing. With love, Maru Ayam | Rowan El Shimi 2009-2010 International Junior Representatives ijr@cisv.org
How this document was thought out and written You’ll see that the content is structured under four headers: JB Goals, Decentralisation, Theme and LMOs. These four titles are not arbitrary – they are the topics that the IJB Team chose as Foundational Content for the first Global Training Strategy (GTS). You can read more about the GTS below, under the Decentralisation section. Also check out the GTS page on JBPedia to be referred to further resources related to it.