Human Development Events Archive
3rd Global Forum on Migration and Development
Athens, Greece
4-5 November 2009
The Global Forum on Migration and Development is a voluntary, non-binding and informal consultative process open to all States Members and Observers of the United Nations. On the 16th of December 2008, Greece assumed the annual Presidency of the 3rd Global Forum on Migration and Development- GFMD, as well as and the organisation of similar meetings that will take place in Athens between the 2nd and 5th of November 2009 under the title: “INTEGRATING MIGRATION POLICIES INTO DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL”. The meeting will be conducted into two parts: the first part is dedicated to Civil Society Days, on the 2nd and 3rd of November, while the second is the Government part, on the 4th and 5th of November.
3rd OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy
Busan, Korea
27-30 October 2009
The 3rd World Forum on “Statistics, Knowledge and Policy” will be held in Busan, Korea on 27-30 October 2009. The Forum will attract some 1 500 high level participants with a mixture of politicians and policy makers, opinion leaders, Nobel laureates, statisticians, academics, journalists and representatives of civil society, from over 130 countries.
14th International Metropolis Conference
Copenhagen, Denmark
14-18 September 2009
Globalization has made international migration easier in many respects. The cost of travel has dropped; information about opportunities in destination countries has increased; the incentives to migrate are high, partly as a result of such increased information flows. These incentives are shared by those with the skills that are sought by destination countries as well as by those who do not possess them, or who migrate for other reasons, for instance as refugees, asylum-seekers, or family dependents.
Human Development and Capability Association International Conference
Lima, Peru
10-12 September 2009
The International Conference of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) sets out to explore the relationships between participation, poverty and power from the perspective of their contribution to human development and capabilities.
Measuring subjective well-being: an opportunity for National Statistical Offices?
Florence, Italy
23-24 July 2009
Enhancing societal progress needs timely and reliable data that allow policy makers and the public at large to understand and interpret the dynamics of social change. While this task has traditionally relied on objective measures, subjective measures of people’s attitudes, experiences and feelings are playing an increasingly important role in recent discussions among economists, psychologists and policy makers. These discussions
Seminar on Innovative Approaches to Turn Statistics into Knowledge
Washington, DC
15-16 July 2009
While dynamic graphics and communication tools are at the heart of the seminar, we also want to focus on a broader range of tools. The seminar will also include the use of videos, as explored by GapMinder and others, and participative approaches, as seen in some web 2.0 initiatives; and – although innovative tools are themselves of great interest, and worthy of being presented at the seminar – the focus of the seminar will be on innovative applications of tools, for example, so-called story-telling applications.
Data Designed for Decisions: Enhancing social, economic and environmental progress
Paris, France
18-20 June 2009
This is a conference for intermediaries between data, knowledge and empowerment. We will investigate selection, visualisation, interpretation and communication of data, and how it can be effectively used to: help understand complex issues, make data relevant at a personal level, close the gap between objective measurement and perception, and take decisions based on evidence.
Statistics, Knowledge and Policy: Understanding Societal Change
Ottawa, Canada
11-15 May 2009
The course has been designed for individuals wanting to understand the progress of their societies and promote evidence-based debate and policy making.
Teaching Human Development discipline in higher educational establishments
Uzbekistan: University of World Economy and Diplomacy
30 March – 10 April 2009
In the context of initiated joint work with the higher educational establishments, the is a growing demand in enlarging knowledge and skills of teachers of the higher educational institutions in introduce Human Development course into their teaching practices. The main purpose of the Training of Trainers is to (i) strengthen knowledge and skills of teachers from main higher educational institutions of Uzbekistan and (ii) graduate trainers for teaching Human Development discipline under the curriculum of their respective high educational institutions who are able to conduct training in Uzbek language at the regional level.
Tenth Annual Global Development Conference
Kuwait City, Kuwait
1-5 February 2009
The theme of the conference is 'Natural Resources and Development'. The conference host is the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD) and we be held at their headquarters in Kuwait.
International Economic Forum Latin America and the Caribbean
Paris, France
26 January 2009
The OECD Development Centre, the French Ministry of Finance, the Inter-American Development Bank and UBIFRANCE are organising the International Economic Forum on Latin America and the Caribbean 2009. This high-level event will bring together a selective group of ministers, central bankers, economist and representatives from the public and private sectors to discuss key economic issues for Latin America.
2nd Global Forum for Media Development
Athens, Greece
7-12 December 2008
In today's linked-up world where information races from one part of the globe to the other and where the process of globalisation affects all of us, a growing demand is emerging: "Quality information for All".
This is not only a demand from people who use and consume media. It is not only a demand from people who work in the media. Quality information is a necessity for all societies, whether rich or poor, whether in Europe or in Africa, in Asia or in North America, in Australia or in Latin America.
7th Global Conference on Human Development
Takayama, Japan
17-21 November 2008
The Institute of Cultural Affairs International, with support from UNDP Poverty Practice, CIVICUS and the Global Compact, will host the 7th quadrennial Global Conference on Human Development. The preliminary lens for the 7th Global Conference is a set of 10 major human development challenges, which serve as starting-points for preparatory conversations.
OECD-EC Course on Composite development indicators
Bratislava, Slovakia
20-21 October 2008
The objective of this course is to train officials from the National Statistical Offices of the New Member States on composite indicators development and assessment. In the course, besides the steps required to build a composite indicator, we explore the factors affecting country scores and ranking (such as the issue of weighting, the imputation of missing values, the type of hierarchical structure chosen to represent the framework, or the aggregation method chosen). The course will also illustrate how to gauge the robustness of the message conveyed by a composite indicator, through a combination of uncertainty and sensitivity analysis.
2nd Latin American and Caribbean Conference on Human Development and the Human Capabilities Approach
Montevideo, Uruguay
15-17 October 2008
The conference will include three types of activities: guest speakers,, workshops and
parallel sessions, including activities that examine the way in which the Capabilities Approach (CA) can be used to better understand the problems that confront the region. Four broad topics to be addressed in the conference are: normative questions, poverty and public policy, inequality and rights, and empowerment
and agency.
Human Development - Oxford Course 2008
Oxford, UK
14-26 Sept. 2008
The Human Development Report Office of UNDP, the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA), and the University of Oxford are pleased to announce the fifth training course on Human Development: From Theory to Practice. The course draws on the extensive intellectual resources of Oxford, as well as the practical experience of leading analysts from international development agencies. The aim of this course is to provide training on the theory and practical applications of the Human Development and Capability concepts. The course is designed to be an intensive learning experience for both practitioners within and outside of UNDP who have a long-standing interest and experience in development issues.
Human Development and Capability Association Annual Conference
New Delhi, India
10-13 September 2008
Organised by Institute for Human Development, New Delhi -
The Annual Conference of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) sets out to explore the relationships between equality, inclusion and human development. Equality here is understood not only as equality in incomes and capabilities between and within social groups, women and men or individuals, but also in terms of possessing the basic capabilities to overcome wider socio-economic and political constraints. It includes perceptions of inequality as well as more objectively measured inequalities.
Atelier technique régional sur la mesure du développement humain
Dakar, Sénégal
8 to 10 September 2008
Le Bureau du Rapport mondial sur le développement humain (BRDH), en partenariat avec le Bureau Régional pour l’Afrique (BRA), organise un Atelier Technique Régional sur la Mesure du Développement Humain à l’intention des pays francophones d’Afrique sub-saharienne. Le but de l’atelier est d’aider à mieux comprendre l’utilisation des statistiques en vue de l’analyse du développement humain pour la prise de décisions. Un atelier du même ordre a été organisé en septembre 2007, à l’intention des pays anglophones d’Afrique sub-saharienne.
Sustainable Human Development - Regional Challenges and Responses
Budapest, Hungary
7-18 Jul 2008
The course will be policy oriented and bring together practitioners, mid- and high-level policy makers, academics, and civil-society activists from the region as well as experts on issues of human development and the Millennium Development Goals.
Regional Technical Workshop on Measuring Human Development
Nairobi, Kenya
24-26 September 2007
The Human Development Report Office (HDRO) in partnership with the Regional Bureau for Africa (RBA) is collaborating on a statistical capacity building initiative to support Human Development Report (HDR) teams and partners on human development measurement issues - through a Regional Technical Workshop on Measuring Human Development.
GCC Qatar-led Technical Workshop on Measuring Human Development
Doha, Qatar
21-23 January 2008
The Government of Qatar has a GCC mandate to lead sub-regional work in the area of statistics. As such, the Government of Qatar has approached the Human Development Report Office and the Regional Bureau for Arab States for technical support to organize a GCC technical workshop on statistics and measuring human development.
