Advances of the Civil Society in the national plane and origin of the FORUM

In the national plane, in the decade of the 80, to the interior of the Political Parties, the existing Civil Society Organized of that time and the Community the International, they initiate the search of agreement processes and consensuses to obtain some levels of gobernanza.

In 1989 they created a denominated structure the Platform of Fight by the Democratization of Honduras “PLDH”. In 1993 the National Council of Convergence “CONACON” happens to him. The 4 of November of 1994, by means of Decree Law 155-94 do not happen the National Forum to him of Convergence “FONAC” like an Office of the tie Government to Special Sectors of the Civil Society, properly presided over by the President of the Republic I articulate 3 of the Law of the FONAC- and administratively handled by an Executive Secretary I articulate 4 of the Law of the FONAC- whose direct superior, is indeed Titular of the Executive authority. Four years later, by means of Executive Agreement Not 168-98 of date 30 of March of 1998, the Regulation of the Law of the FONAC is emitted - According to Articulo 7 of the Law of the FONAC it must be emitted 90 days counted from entrance in use of the Law; in order to obtain so longed for search of Consensuses and agreements of public policies with Organizations of the Civil Society, whose leaders in their majority more are identified with the cause of the ancestry of the third Man of Plato. After the Hurricane Mitch, in general, the organizations articulate in favor of the efforts of the Reconstruction and Transformation of Honduras, by means of the support and subscription in diverse agreements:

· Agreement of the Declaration of Stockholm

· National agreement of Transformation for the Human Development of Century XXI.

· Strategy for the Reduction of Pobreza (ERP)

· Vision of Country and National Strategy of Transformation for the Sustainable Human Development (2002 - 2021).

In order to give pursuit to these commitments, in Assembly of the 14 of October of year 2001, an instance of coordination of the Civil Society was constituted, event that was summoned and installed by the Secretariat of State in the Offices of Interior and Justicia and with the participation of different representative sectors from organizations and regions of the Country, like being: Labor, Settler, Ethnic Gremiales organizations, Women, Social, Ambient Economy, Human rights, etc.

Among other aspects of transcendental importance for the national life, this Assembly solved the creation of the Permanent Forum of Organizations of Sociedad Civil (FPOSC) with character of a aglutinador Organism of all the sectors and of indefinite life, choosing to its Board of directors with express mandate to develop a Global strategy of Incidence and Support of the Transformation of Honduras; like also, to elaborate the Statutes and other Regulations of the Forum for its respective discussion and approval in the corresponding legal Instance; situation that had a long-haul by the typical characteristics of the national folklore and that happily culminated with the emission and authorization of the Statutes and Legal Personality according to Resolution of the Secretariat of State in the Offices of Interior and Justicia Not 51-2004, of date 8 of January of 2004, with Registry in URSAC Not 2003002586, Not 3304 Registry Public Tomo 164 and published in the Official Newspaper Newspaper Not 30,300

During the institutional life of the FPOSC it has made different Assemblies in where their instruments have been approved internal, their strategies and areas of incidence and diverse actions of transformation of the country; such as: The Reformation to the Judicial System, the Legislative Reformation, Reduction of Poverty, Transformation of the Education, the Political and Electoral Reformation, Transparency and Surrender of Accounts, Modernization and Decentralization, Environmental Vulnerability doing emphasis in the handling and administration of River basins and Hydrographic Micro-River basins, Governability, Human rights, Social and Political, Social Economy and the one of Territorial Ordering.

Like part of the strategy of socialization of the diverse assemblies and taken resolutions, the Forum has published them in diverse means written and spoken of the Country. The FPOSC from their creation established like mechanism of relations and communications the entailment with Titulares of the Powers of the State and Secretaries of State; in order to be able to establish the fulfillment in the Agreements of Transformation of the Country; also, it maintains permanent communication with the Group of Pursuit to the Declaration of Stockholm (G15, now G-17); similarly, the Forum assumes like own the Resolutions of Not 1996/31 the United Nations and (A/53/170) that establish the adjustments and practices for the interaction of the Organizations of the Civil Society in all the activities of the system of the United Nations and the entailment of the Organization of American States (O.A.S.) with the Civil Society according to resolutions AG/RES. 1539 (XVIII/098). Like institutional strategy of entailment and international action, the Forum has transacted his membresía by Honduras to the World-wide Organization of ONG `s (WANGO), organism with representativeness of the five continents; also, the Forum is promotional of the Constitution of the World-wide Forum of the Civil Society “FMSC” that initiated its organization in Julio of year 2001 in Geneva, Switzerland, date in which solved that in the 2004 their control elements in the next World-wide Assembly will be integrated all.

With base to the antecedents already indicated, the Permanent Forum of Organizations of Civil Society “FPOSC”, has come acting in the national and international plane in order to manage to affect the formulation of consequent Public Policies with the high interests of the State and the defense of the communal property in Honduras; also and to internal it, it has defined a policy of Transparency and Surrender of Accounts with a Code of Ethics, applied to all the Organizations members of the FPOSC.

The Forum is an organism of third degree that acts within the framework of the Law. At the moment it agglutinates in his sine to diverse sectors and counts with more than 327 organizations of the Honduran Civil Society. It promotes and it participates in Mesas Sectorial like a strategy to arrange and to consensuar Political Public in the Strategy of Reduction of the Poverty, in order to manage to create the conditions so that the benefits of the Condonación of the External Debt and the consequent liberalization from the Resources of the State in the balance of payments of the External Debt, in its majority, arrive at the people objective goal from the Programs, Plans and Projects of the ERP and, that such is invested and executed with Described Audits and Certified to improve the levels of Transparency and Surrender of Accounts in the handling of the Resources of the State; conducive to obtain a better impact in the diminution of the Indices of Poverty and Extreme Poverty of and the Hondurans.