Federation Internationale pour l´Economie Familiale

International Federation for Home Economics (IFHE)

Internationaler Verband für Hauswirtschaft

RESOLUTION

passed by Congress and Council in Accra/Ghana, July 2000

A New Century. Focus on the Future

The expanding Role of Home Economics

- in developing human resources

- in improving living conditions

and fostering human rights

- in advocacy for families and households

WHEREAS

IFHE is an organisation of professionals who in their work deal with matters concerning households and families in various areas:

- working directly with households and families

- educating family members

- working with community, government agencies and business

- promoting programmes with support and strengthen households and families
- doing research on issues relevant to the daily lives of households and families.

IFHE mission is to strengthen the Home Economics profession so that it can act as an advocate for families and households assisting them to meet their needs in ways which are compatible with the needs of global citizens.

As an international organization in this way IFHE is concerned with the improvement of the living conditions of households and families all over the world in their societies.

BE IT RESOLVED

that IFHE meets the challenges of the new century: globalization, new markets, new information and communication technologies, increasing poverty gap, gender inequities, and epidemics in their consequences with respect to daily life;

that IFHE meets the challenges into the above mentioned professional fields through

· promoting public awareness and research of human resources (visions, social capital, experiences, responsibilities, creativity etc.);

· establishing educational programmes to enable families and households to represent their human resources and ideas of more human living conditions and legal frameworks that secure people`s rights to common property;

· protecting and promoting the rights of households and families as a production and consumption unit with the focus on information, product safety and access to products and services that they need.