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The following suggestions do not constitute the "model" for Proposal Booklets. They are merely indications aiming to highlight the aspects that should be taken into account, which we feel are essential to the relevance of these Booklets and also to their legibility. These Booklets are intended for extensive circulation, both to be discussed and rediscussed, and to be used as of means for action.	

 	

This is to be a summarized one- to two-page presentation of the list of proposals. To focus the reader directly on the core of the subject, every proposal should have a title followed by a brief description in a few lines. 
Ideally, this presentation should both bring about a "list effect" (a determined number of proposals, chosen according to their emblematic nature and their capacity to underscore the needed breaks, in order to stimulate the discussion) and provide a preview of the overall issues of the topic under consideration. 
This list is all the more important that it is likely to be used as such, separately from the rest of the Booklet (in the printed press and on the Internet) and translated into other languages. It should clearly highlight the decisive and innovating aspects of the proposals (breakthroughs). 

	

To avoid having the proposals seem too general or abstract, their formulation should be completed by a description of the way in which they take shape or can take shape in society. This would require three elements to be included (and to be relatively consistent with each other) : 	

1. Context 	

A description of the economic, social, cultural, etc. context that constitutes both the basis from which the proposals have been drawn and the situation that they intend to change. This implies identifying the scale at which the proposals are formulated: it could be an urban or rural district, a country, a continent, or the world. Nonetheless, the questions on the links between the local and the global and between the short and the long terms must be tackled at every level. 	

2. Perspectives	

The proposals must be oriented by a prospective vision. It is important to describe this vision, at least briefly, so as to give the proposals their full meaning. This description should not just be a list of universal values, which could give too abstract a vision of the perspective opened by the proposals. The purpose is not only to express the "desirable" perspectives, but those that will become possible and "realistic" from the moment proposals are implemented.	

3. Actors	

In order to keep the proposals connected to concrete social realities and to prevent them from appearing as simple wishful thinking, it is indispensable to identify the actors that will implement or are liable to implement these proposals. We cannot be content, for instance, to put responsibility for the changes exclusively on the legislative options of governments. Regarding this, it would be useful to ask, for every proposal, what it means or could mean for young people, political and institutional leaders, scientists, business leaders, farmers, etc.

	

 	

To give the previous points more strength and to fuel the Proposal Booklets with concrete elements, it will be essential to give a lot of room to experience reports, whether they are at the source of the formulation of certain proposals or they report on attempts to put these proposals into practice. 
Several Alliance Workshops have already accumulated a large number of experience files in the course of their work. It will be important to exploit these experience reports when elaborating the Booklets. 	

 	

All these elements can be presented in the form of successive texts, but it is also possible to explain for each proposal its context, the perspectives it opens, etc. These elements could then be summarized in the form of a set of "proposal reports."
The File should also include the history of the elaboration of the proposals and an invitation to participate in the drafting and discussion process of these proposals.

	

	
	
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