The South Asia Alliance
for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE)’s fourth general assembly kicked off in
Kathmandu today with the theme 'People’s Struggles for Poverty Eradication:
Towards a New Development Agenda in South Asia'.
Over 80 members from the
eight countries of the region participated in the general assembly,
representing people’s organisations, peasant movements, women movements, youth,
workers' unions, informal sector, academia, human rights defenders, and
grassroots social movements.
SAAPE is a regional
people’s platform working against the structural causes of poverty and social
injustices. Founding member of SAAPE from Nepal Dr Arjun Karki highlighted that
SAAPE was founded to combat the ‘evils of anti-people’ neoliberalism invading
the region.
Likewise, president of
Jagaran Nepal Sharmila Karki, who is also president of NGO Federation of Nepal,
pointed out that despite the historical achievement of the second people’s
movement the consequent people’s mandate of writing the constitution has
remained incomplete, demonstrating the grave democratic deficit in the country
that has affected every other aspect.
The two-day general
assembly will conclude with a Kathmandu Declaration calling for pro-poor and
pro-people new development agenda in South Asia. 
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