The World Council of Churches(WCC) has, since its inception 54 years ago, emphasized the importance of global justice and the equitable sharing of resources as essential prerequisites for human development.
The WCC has also advocated appropriate public and non-governmental policies which will be a real benefit to people in poverty.
The WCC, the Lutheran World Federation, other churches and church-related organisations have collaborated in forming an Ecumenical Team which has attended the succession of United Nations Preparatory Committees for the International Conference. Partners include the Canadian Council of Churches, the General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church (USA), and the Roman Catholic religious order, Sisters of Mercy.
Official ICFD website
Looking
Ahead: Ecumenical Team statement presented at the Roundtables on "Looking
Ahead" (21.03.02)
From
Monterrey to Soweto and beyond: presentation by South Africa Council of
Churches general secretary Dr Molefe Tsele to the Ministerial Roundtable
Ecumenical
Team proposals for Roundtables on Coherence (19.03.02)
Ecumenical
Team proposals for Roundtables on Partnerships (19.03.02)
Justice,
the heart of the matter - an ecumenical approach to financing for development"
Staying
engaged - for justice: statement to 4th PrepCom of Financing for Development,
January 2002
WCC
statement on the Monterrey Consensus Document to be adopted at the ICFD
International
Peoples' Tribunal on Debt, Porto Alegre, Brazil, February 1-2 2002: VERDICT
Dalit women, Chennai/Madras