Event

Technical Consultations (Virtual): Next Generation of Human Development

South-South Global Thinkers Team
Event date 6 July 2023 13:00 - 15:30 (UTC)
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Human Development Report consultations intend to start a conversation on the themes of the upcoming report, with the purpose of seeking input and advice on report content from thematic and regional experts. Consultations inform the process of developing the report and ensure that it speaks to key human development issues for people and policymakers. The partnership between the Human Development Report Office (HDRO), UNOSSC, and South-South Global Thinkers Network, a global coalition of Think-tank Networks on South-South Cooperation, aims to draw key insights and perspectives from the Global South that will inform the preparation of the upcoming HDR 2023. Events are by invitation only, to spur an open and productive dialogue.

A virtual consultation will be organized on 6 July 2023. The invited speakers are encouraged to address guiding questions, as well as other related questions that may arise, from their regional, country, and disciplinary perspectives. Speakers are requested to present 10 -15-minute remarks, presentation slides are optional and speak as discussants during the roundtable. All consultation participants are encouraged to actively participate in the discussion, contributing their expertise to the topics at hand.

Guiding questions for the consultation include:

  1. A paradox of our time: Despite mounting evidence of the distress that human planetary pressures are causing our ecological and social systems, why are we failing to act? What are the main constraints for South-South and triangular cooperation?

  2. Governance Mismatches: From Global South's perspective, what are the gaps in current institutional designs affecting our ability to achieve adequate responses to interlinked global crisis and challenges? What are the key elements for institutional innovation in the Global South?

  3. Investing in one another: how do we address political polarization and conflict, and how can we foster cooperation, including South-South cooperation, in times of uncertainty and transformations?

Moderated by: Josefin Pasanen, Research and Partnership Specialist, UNDP HDRO

Consultation Programme

Time

Welcoming remarks

·        Pedro Conceição, Director, UNDP Human Development Report Office

·       Dima Al-Khatib, Director of the UN Office for South-South Cooperation

09.00 – 09.15

Framing of the Discussion

·       Fernanda Pavez Esbry and Rehana Mohammed, HDRO Research Team

09.15 – 09.30

Session 1: Governance Mismatches

Invited Speakers to give 10 minutes presentations each

  • Speaker 1: Luis Hernán Vargas , Executive Director, Public Space, Chile

  • Speaker 2:Jiajun Xu, Executive Deputy Director and Assistant Professor, Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University, China

  • Speaker 3:Ishac Diwan,Director of Research, Finance for Development Lab, Paris School of Economics   

  • Speaker 4:Vanesa D´Alessandre, Social Protection and Education Researcher CIPPEC, Argentina

09.30 – 10.10

Session 2: Investing in one another

Invited speakers to give 10 minutes presentations each.

  • Speaker 1:Dr. Debapriya Bhattacharya, Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Policy Dialogue, Dhaka  

  • Speaker 2: Dr. Xu Jin, Associate Professor & Assistant Dean. College of International Development and Global Agriculture（CIDGA)/ China Institute for South-South Cooperation in Agriculture (CISSCA)/ China Agricultural University, China

  • Speaker 3: Prof. Kanchan K Malik, Department of Communication and Faculty Fellow, UNESCO Chair on Community Media at the University of Hyderabad, Indi

  • Speaker 4: Dr. Tania Vásquez Luque, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Peruvian Studies (IEP), Peru

10.10 – 10.50

Roundtable discussion

  • Discussant 1: Dr. Abid Suleri, Executive Director, Sustainable Development Policy Institution (SDPI), Pakistan

  • Discussant 2: Dr Jing Gu, Director, Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development, Institute of Development Studies, UK

  • Discussant 3: Ms. Nigar Islamli,Grants and Programs Director/ Head of Gender Development Group,Center for Economic and Social Development (CESD), Azerbaijan 

10.50 – 11.20

Closing remarks:

Heriberto Tapia, Research and Partnerships Advisor, UNDP HDRO

11.20 – 11.30