I was very much involved in promoting civil society participation at the Miami Summit.

Later on I led an intense process to achieve the same goal at the Santa Cruz Summit, with a great political support from the Bolivian Government.

The Santiago Summit lost a lot of this dynamic.

Since then we all - Governments, Inter-governmental organizations and Civil Society - preach the need to seriously institutionalize civil society participation in these important events.

What is being done to ensure that the Canada Summit and OAS as a whole involve and incorporate in its agenda and results the contributions of civil society groups?

Yolanda Kakbadse

President

Fundaci�n Futuro Latinoamericano