Africa Japan Forum (AJF) functions as a bridge between civil societies in African and Japan, works to promote understanding and cooperation with Africa, advocate on policies and issues related to Africa, and establish networks and works together with people from Africa living in Japan. All activities of Project RING is carried out from the AJF office.

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PREFACE

: Civil Society and the G8 Process: Why We Advocate

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PART I

: Global Health Outcomes from the Toya-ko Summit

PART II

: G8 Pledges for Global Health

PART III

: HIV/AIDS and Global Health - G8 Guidebook

EPILOGUE

: Civil Society and the G8 Process: Creation of an Insitutuional Memory

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PART III: HIV/AIDS and Global Health - G8 Guidebook

2.The General Flow of the G8 Process

The G8 Process Setup
Meetings in the G8 Process

1The G8 Process Setup

The presidency of the G8 rotates annually among the member countries, with each new term beginning on January 1 of the new calendar year and ending on December 31. The time from January 1 to the actual G8 summit is the preparation process, where the country holding the presidency holds a series of meetings. The time following the summit is the transition and adjustment period with the chair of the next summit. The discussion held during this period will feed into the next G8 summit process.

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2Meetings in the G8 Process

The meetings that make up the G8 Process can be divided into the following:

Meetings exclusive to government officials of G8 countries
Meetings held with additional countries, institutions and foundations
Meetings held with civil society

i) Meetings exclusive to government officials of G8 Countries:

Meetings of the Sherpas:
Meetings held by the G8 Sherpas in preparation for the summit.
Ministerial Meetings:
Ministers responsible for various sectors, held a meeting in preparation for the summit. The ministerial meetings that were held are as follows:
Foreign Minister, Science and Technology, Finance, Justice and Home Affairs, Energy, Environment, Labor and Development.
G8 Summit:
Besides the Outreach Sessions with non-G8 countries (Africa and emerging countries), the G8 Summit is exclusive to the leaders of G8 countries.

ii) Meetings held with additional countries, institutions and foundations:

World Economic Forum (Davos Conference):
Top business and national political leaders of the world gather annually to have dialogue on major global issues. The chair of the G8 host Country traditionally participates and makes a speech.
Africa partnership Forum:
An initiative launched in 2002 Kananaskis G8 Summit, is a meeting consisting of leaders of member countries of NEPAD ( New Partnership for African Development), the chair of the African Union, additional institutions, OECD and the APRs (Africa Personal Representative). This meeting is held twice a year: once before and once after the G8 Summit.
G8 Outreach Sessions:
A meeting held twice during the actual summit. There are two types of outreach sessions:
- Outreach Session:
  A meeting which includes the leader of the five major emerging economies (China, India, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa). Sometimes the session includes other major developing countries.
- Africa Outreach Session:
  A meeting which includes the five NEPAD countries (Egypt, Algeria, Senegal, Nigeria and South Africa) as well as the chair of the African Union. Sometimes the session includes a few other major African countries.

iii) Meetings held with Civil Society

Civil G8 Dialogue:
A dialogue held between G8 Sherpas and civil society members representing different issues and different parts of the world. This meeting first began during the 2006 G8 Summit process in St. Petersburg and continued in the Germany and Japan's G8 Summit processes.
Session between International NGO's and the Chair of the G8:
The chair of the G8 host country met with a few number of International NGOs working in global issues such as poverty and climate change to have policy dialouge. First held in the 2006 St. Petersburg G8 process by Russian President Vladimir Putin in which he had a discussion with numerous civil society organizations for over three hours. This type of meeting continued in Germany and Japan, although the chair of the G8 met with a much smaller number of NGOs and held in a more discrete manner.

These meetings, which are a part of the G8 process, are held continuously from January to the actual summit. An aggregate of all the schedules of the meetings held in Japan is attached to this guidebook. Civil Society strategically approached each of the meetings as part of their strategy for the G8 process at large.

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