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2009 Human Development Awards for Excellence Winners

HDRO/UNDP

This year’s contest was very competitive. The process involved several stages – nomination of candidates, internal and external review. Comments were received from several external reviewers – namely Sabina Alkire, Director, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative; Enrico Giovannini, former OECD Chief Statistician; Hernando Gomez Buendia, Academic Director of the UNDP Virtual School for Latin America and the Caribbean; Professor Alberto Minujin, Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School; Professor Frances Stewart, Oxford University; Jan Vandemoortele, UNICEF advisor and former UNDP Poverty Group Leader; and Insill Yi, Commissioner of Statistics, Korea.

The winners of the respective awards categories are as follows:

Innovation in Measurement

WINNER   Bosnia and Herzegovina 2007 Social Inclusion in Bosnia and Herzegovina   India – West Bengal – Bankura 2007 District Human Development Report Bankura

Participation and Inclusiveness in Report Preparation

WINNER   Colombia – Valle del Cauca 2008 On the path to an inclusive and peaceful Valle del Cauca   Swaziland 2008 HIV/AIDS and Culture

Policy Analysis

WINNER   Bolivia 2008 The Other Frontier: Alternative Uses of Natural Resources in Bolivia   Egypt 2008 Egypt’s Social Contract: the Role of Civil Society

Influencing National Policy Debate

WINNER   Turkey 2008 Youth in Turkey   Cambodia 2007 Expanding Choices for Rural People

Special Recognition

Swaziland 2008 HIV/AIDS and Culture A Special Recognition for the inclusiveness of the process in addressing responses to HIV/AIDS was also endorsed for: Swaziland 2008 - HIV/AIDS and Culture

These awards will be presented to a representative of each winning team at a ceremony hosted in Busan on 26 October 2009. This ceremony will be held as part of the second global NHDR Meeting and the third OECD Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy.

Congratulations to the winners, and to all the HDR teams taking part in this year’s competition.

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