SECOND GLOBAL FORUM ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Second Global Forum on Human Development
Candido Mendes University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
9-10 October 2000

Agenda


DAY 1 - 9 OCTOBER 2000
0830 - 0900	REGISTRATION
1000 - 1100	Opening Plenary
	Welcome	Sakiko Fukuda-Parr Director, Human Development Report Office (HDRO), UNDP
	Chair	Elena Martinez Director, UNDP Latin America and the Caribbean
	Speech	Keynote Speakers: Marco Maciel Vice-President, Brazil
	Why is it so hard to cancel unpayable debts?	Ann Pettifor Director, Jubilee 2000, UK
		Luis Filipe Marques Amado Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Portugal
1130 - 1200	Presentation of Human Development Report 2000: Human Rights and Human Development: Extending the Paradigm
	Chair	Bacre Waly Ndiaye Director, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations
	Human Rights and Human Development: Expanding the Paradigm	Presenter: Sakiko Fukuda-Parr Director, UNDP HDRO
		Discussants: Kenneth Roth Executive Director, Human Rights Watch
	Human Rights And Human Development: Some Reflections	Kamal Hossain UN Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan
1200 - 1300	Human development: key policy issues in national strategies
	Chair	Sakiko Fukuda-Parr Director, UNDP HDRO
	Brazil's Alvorada Program (Powerpoint)	Presenters: Wanda Engel Aduan Secretary of State for Social Assistance, Ministry of Social Assistance, Brazil
	Approaches to Human Development in the Philippines	Solita Monsod former Minister of Social and Economic Planning, Professor, University of the Philippines
1300 - 1430	Lunch
	Introduction
	Citizen, Constitution and Human Rights	Candido Mendes President, Candido Mendes University, Brazil
1430 - 1600	Parallel Session
	1. Human development trends in Brazil
	Chair	Walter Franco Resident Representative, UNDP Brazil
		Speakers: Roberto Martins Instituto de Pesquisa Economica Aplicada (IPEA), Brazil
	Desenvolvimento Humano Sustentavel: Parcerias no Brasil (Powerpoint)	José Carlos Libânio UNDP Brazil
		André Urani Secretary of Labor State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	Desenvolvimento Humano E As Desigualdades Étnicas No Brasil: Um Retrato De Final De Século	Marcelo Paixão Instituto de Economia -UFRJ/FASE, Brazil
	2. Human rights and statistics
	Chair	A.K. Shivakumar UNDP HDRO consultant
	Indicators and Standards for Monitoring Economic, Social and Cultural Rights	Presenters: Audrey R. Chapman American Association for the Advancement of Science
	The Challenge of Creating Human Rights Indicators	Christian Barry Programme Officer, Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, USA
	3. International human rights machinery: challenges and future prospects
	Chair	Kamal Hossain UN Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan
	Accountability of International Institutions: a Clash of International Public Goods	Presenters: Shin-Ichi Ago Professor of International Economic Law, Kyushu University, Japan
	Human Rights and Human Development in the Context of Globalization	François Trémeaud Executive Director International Labour Office
	Discussant	Joanna Weschler UN Representative Human Rights Watch
	4. Human rights and democracy in Latin America
	Chair	Roberto Bissio Executive Director Instituto del Tercer Mundo (IteM), Uruguay
		Speakers: Wanderley Guilherme dos Santos Candido Mendes University, Brazil
	A Social Policy of Inclusion Centered on Human Development	Carlos Flores-Alcocer Coordinator, Social Sector, Fox Transition Team, Mexico
1630 - 1800	Parallel sessions
	1. Human development and conservation: interdependent imperatives
	Chair	Nadia Hijab Consultant, UNDP HDRO
	Influence of the GEF/UNDP Small Grants Program on Public Policy in Brazil	Presenters: Donald Sawyer President, Institute for Society, Population and Nature, Brazil
	Human Development Index and Appropriation of the Natural Resources Benefit	Raul E. Murguia National Coordinator, Global Environment Facility GEF/SGP Mexico
	Addressing Human Development Through Local Environmental Projects	Jamarbar Malltezi National Coordinator, GEF/SGP Albania
		Seemin Qayum Technical Advisor to GEF/SGP, UNDP/NY
	2. Innovations in the measurement of human development
	Chair	Ricardo Paes de Barros IPEA, Brazil
	The Social Watch Indicators	Presenters: Roberto Bissio Executive Director Instituto del Tercer Mundo (IteM), Uruguay
	In Search of Indicators of Culture and Development: Review of Progress and Proposals for Next Steps	Sakiko Fukuda-Parr Director, UNDP HDRO
	Innovative HD Measurement Tools in the NHDR Egypt Series (Powerpoint)	Heba El Leithy Professor of Statistics, National Human Development Report (NHDR), Egypt
	3. Legitimizing human rights within development: the Carnegie Council Human Rights Initiative
	Chair	Joanna Bauer Director of Studies Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, USA
		Presenters:
	The Public Legitimacy of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Rural Ecuador	Juana Sotomayor Fellow, Human Rights Initiative Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
	The Right to a Secure Environment	Carlos Basombrío Instituto de Defensa Legal, Perú
	The Human Rights Framework: Its Relevance for Development	Stephen P. Marks Harvard University, USA
	Human Development and the "Human Rights Box"	T. Jeffrey Scott Program Officer, Human Rights Initiative, Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
1800	Reception
	Mahbub ul Haq Memorial Lecture
	Introduction	Elena Martinez Director, Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, UNDP
	Speaker	Enrique Iglesias President Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
DAY 2 - 10 OCTOBER 2000
0900 - 1030	Plenary Session
	Promoting economic, social and cultural rights: accountability of state and non-state actors
	Chair	Stephen P. Marks Harvard University, USA
	Human Rights and Human Development: The Case of Thailand	Presenters: Vitit Muntarbhorn Law Professor Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
	Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Obligations of States and Accountability of Non-State Actors	Asbjørn Eide Director Norwegian Institute of Human Rights, Norway
	Human Rights to Food, Health, and Education	Siddiqur Osmani University of Belfast, UK
	Rules of International Economic Integration and Human Rights	Jayati Ghosh Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
1100 - 1300	Plenary Sessions
	Keynote Speaker Global Economic Justice and Human Rights	Leif Pagrotsky Minister of Trade, Sweden
	1. Income inequality: old and new lessons
	Chair	Nancy Birdsall Special Adviser to the Administrator, UNDP
	Education for the Masses? The Interaction between Wealth, Education and Political Inequalities	Presenters: Francisco H.G. Ferreira Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	Pro-Poor Growth and Income Inequality	Ernesto M. Pernia Lead Economist, Economics and Development Resource Center Asian Development Bank
	The Measurement of Poverty and Economic Inequality	Thomas W. Pogge Professor Columbia University, USA
	Economic Reform and Wage Differentials in Latin America	Miguel Székely Research Economist Inter-American Development Bank
	Discussant	François Bourguignon Professor of Economics University of Paris, France
1300 - 1430	Launch of World Energy Assessment with Jose Goldemberg Instituto de Eletrotecnica e Energia, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
	Introduction	Sarah Burd-Sharps Manager, Programme Development and Outreach, UNDP HDRO
1430 - 1600	Parallel Sessions
	1. Liberalization, poverty, and inequality: Latin America and the Caribbean in the 1990s
	Chair	Enrique Ganuza UNDP Latin America and the Caribbean
	Effects of Liberalization on Poverty and Inequality	Presenters: Ricardo Paes de Barros IPEA, Brazil
	Liberalización Comercial, Empleo y Desigualdad en Chile	Tomas Rau University of Chile
	Efectos sobre el crecimiento, el empleo y los ingresos en Argentina Tendencias de la distribución de ingresos en los años noventa	Roberto Frenkel, presented by Roxana Maurizio Centro de Estudios de Economia y Societad (CEDES), Argentina
	Balance of Payments Liberalization, Poverty, and Distribution in Jamaica	Damien King University of the West Indies, Jamaica
	2. The UN System's rights-based approach: lessons from the field
	Chair	Bacre Waly Ndiaye Director, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations
	Toward Effective Monitoring of Compliance with Obligations and the Progressive Realization of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights	Presenters: Clarence J. Diás International Centre for Law in Development
	UNDP and the Rights-Based Approach to Development	Rebecca Rios-Kohn UNDP Bureau for Development Policy / Management Development and Governance Division
	UNICEF and the Rights-Based Approach to Development	Marta Santos Pais Director, UNICEF Division of Evaluation, Policy and Planning
	3. Strategies for reducing inequality and poverty
	Chair	Roberto Martins President, IPEA, Brazil
	Listening to Citizens as a Means to Enhance Public Services (Powerpoint)	Presenters: Ceres Alves Prates State Secretary, Government of Brazil
	Has income distribution really worsened in the South? And has income distribution really worsened between the North and the South?	Pablo Rodas-Martini UNDP HDRO Consultant
	Private Adjustments: Household Responses to the Erosion of Work	Mercedes González de la Rocha Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Anthropologia Social (CIEASAS Occidente), Mexico
		Rohini Nayyar Planning Commission, India
	Discussant	Enrique Vasquez Universidad del Pacifico, Peru
	4. National Human Development Reports: challenges in advancing a human development agenda
	Chair	Solita Monsod Professor, University of the Philippines
	National Human Development Reports: The Chilean experience	Presenters: Rodrigo Marquéz NHDR Chile
		Virgilio Juvane NHDR Mozambique
		Riad Tabbara NHDR Lebanon
		Lin Dapeng NHDR China
		Nune Yeghiazarian NHDR Armenia
1630 - 1800	Parallel Sessions
	1. Measuring short-term progress: rethinking conventional wisdom
	Chair	Enrique Ganuza UNDP Latin America and the Caribbean
	Measuring short-term changes in human development	Presenters: A.K. Shivakumar UNDP HDRO consultant
	HDI as reference frame to measuring efforts and short-term progress in human development at subnational level: SEADE Foundation's work proposal to São Paulo State Legislature	Flavio Favas de Moraes Fundaçao Sistema Estadual de Analise de Dados (SEADE), Brazil
	Living Conditions in Three Brazilian Metropolitan Regions: some comparative results Condições De Vida Em Três Regiões Metropolitanas Brasileiras: Alguns Resultados Comparativos	Fernando Martins Prates Fundação João Pinheiro, Brazil
	Discussants	Matthew Sudders Consultant, Paris 21 Secretariat, OECD
		Maznah Mohamad University Sains, Malaysia
	2. National and regional strategies on the rights-based approach to development
	Chair	Marta Santos Pais UNICEF
	Human Rights and Human Development: Learning from Those Who Act	Presenters: Nadia Hijab UNDP HDRO Consultant
	Human Rights and Human Development in Jordan	Asma Khader UNDP HDRO Consultant
	A Report on Human Rights in Malaysia	Johan Saravanamuttu University Sains, Malaysia
	Human Development and Social Integration Issues in Turkey	Yilmaz Esmer Boshporus University, Turkey
	3. New perspectives on corporate accountability
	Chair	Shin-Ichi Ago Professor of International Economic Law Kyushu University, Japan
	Toward Accountability: The External and Internal Influence of NGOs	Presenters: Roberto H. Valentin Trustee, The Rotary Foundation
	Business and Decent Work	Hans Hofmeijer Special Assistant to the Executve Director International Labour Office
	Indicators on Social Responsibility	Oded Grajew Ethos Institute of Business and Social Responsibility, Brazil
	New Frontiers of Corporate Responsibility and Accountability: The Response So Far and Remaining Challenges	Malini Mehra Director, Centre for Social Markets, UK
1800 - 1900	Closing Plenary
	Chair	Elena Martinez Director, UNDP Latin America and the Caribbean
		Presenters: Nancy Birdsall Special Adviser to the Administrator, UNDP
	NHDR Awards (including remarks from several NHDR team leaders)
	Speech of Miss Soledad Godoy* on behalf of the Chilean NHDR team regarding the reception of the award on excellence in analysis