The election victory of the Sandinista government in November 2006 brought to an end 16 years of neoliberal governments. The webinar looked at the progress which has been made during the last fourteen years in terms of achieving poverty reduction and ending hunger as outlined in the UN Millennium Development Goals and 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
With speakers Becca Mohally Renk who has lived in Nicaragua for 20 years working with the Jubilee House Community and its project, the Centre for Development in Central America and Nick Hoskyns who has worked with rural co-operatives since first visiting Nicaragua on a 1988 solidarity brigade. For the past 20 years he has worked with an ethical trading company called Ético owned by co-operatives and charities.
Chair: Tony Burke, Assistant General Secretary, UNITE
