Alide Roerink (The Netherlands) is an anthropologist and has been involved over the years in networking, advocacy, and policy development for gender justice, international solidarity, and global governance. Alide was coordinator of Vrouwenberaad Ontwikkelingssamenwerking, a network of gender experts in development agencies in The Netherlands. Between the year 2000 and 2013 she worked at the National Committee for International Cooperation and Sustainable Development (NCDO).
Alide coordinated the NCDO Earth Charter programme and the Round Table of Worldconnectors for People and the Planet. NCDO served for many years as EC Affiliate to Earth Charter International and cooperated with the Earth Charter Initiative in the launch of the Earth Charter in 2000 in the Peace Palace in The Hague, in the Earth Charter+5, +10 and +15 Events in The Netherlands. Alide Roerink initiated and co-edited the book Earth Charter in Action: Towards a Sustainable World. Alide Roerink was advisor to the Earth Charter Initiative before she joined the Council.
Currently she is active as family farmer of a food forest, next to taking part in the Earth Charter ‘ShareHood’ community in The Netherlands (https://www.earthcharterdeelgenootschap.nl/).
