WCIA Annual Reports and Archives

WCIA Annual Reports – Contents

All WCIA annual reports between 1973 and 1997 follow the same layout and content format

• WCIA Membership – Standing Conference of organisations (CSOs & NGOs, Local Authorities (County councils & district councils), educational bodies, trade unions, churches, media, political parties)
• Economic & Social Affairs – advocacy and policy work feeding in to UN conferences and consultations (eg Population, Food, Seas, Energy, Development), and coordinating public participation / awareness raising (eg International Women’s Year, US Bicentennial, Int’l Year of the Child)
• Political & Security Affairs – Topical conferences within Wales; participation in international civil society and intergovernmental / UN conferences; research and advocacy papers on issues of public concern.
• Environmental Affairs – initially a subset of social affairs activities (feeding in to the ‘Law of the Seas’ from 1974), this becomes a broadening aspect of WCIA’s work to the 1990s – when the Rio Earth Summit and Local Agenda 21 are at the heart.
• Work in Schools – CEWC, Council for Education in World Citizenship – including curriculum development, learning resources for primary, secondary and tertiary education; Model UN Summits and World Debating championships; scholarships
• Youth involvement – IYS, International Youth Service volunteers, work camps, European and ‘north south’ exchange placements.
• Human Rights & Campaigns – UNA Wales
• Humanitarian & Development – FFHC, Freedom from Hunger Campaign, and UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund – WCIA was initially the ‘Welsh agency’ for these 2 initiatives, but from 1977 hosted the FFHC’s UK headquarters (as an international movement).
• Public Information Centre – from 1974, WCIA resourced an Information Officer / Librarian to manage and develop the Temple Library as a UN Information Centre (UNIC), evolving in the 1980s to a Development Education Resource Centre.