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  1. Call for support: Big Jump Challenge – European water solidarity youth campaign

    …The benchmark is not only based on the water quality but also water body structure. Water bodies that have not been changed nor polluted serve as a model – the final objective being: living and free-flowing rivers. At least, that’s the theory. In practice however, progress has been slow. Although many rivers are no longer as heavily polluted as before and some floodplains have been rehabilitated, there remain many unresolved issues. It’s clear tha…

  2. Conference: Meta-capability measurement. Measure of Social and Individual Agency

    …. The Conference will be held on November 6 and 7 2014. Spoken languages : English and Spanish. It will take place at the Institut Catholique de Paris, 21 Rue d’Assas, 75006 Paris. The Conference’s fee is set at 20 Euro for students, 40 Euros for professionals and covers the basic cost of the Conference and Friday’s lunch. Upon demand, accommodation facilities in the centre of Paris are available. Please register at crp.hdca@gmail.com before Octob…

  3. ECINEQ Meeting – Call for Papers

    …ourg from July 13 to July 15, 2015. The ECINEQ conference will provide a forum for rigorous analysis of inequality, welfare and redistribution issues, both at the theoretical and at the empirical level, as well as for a discussion of the policy implications of the research findings in these fields. ECINEQ aims at achieving high scholarly standards in both the selection of topics and their debates, whether they concern theoretical issues, empirical…

  4. Call for Submissions: International Workshop on Empowerment, capacity and capability (Berlin)

    …bility resulted in giving it its multi-faceted meaning and favouring its spread; they have, however, hampered conceptual clarity. Related to the concepts of ability, capacity, skill, competence, opportunities, choice and power to act, capability is often reduced to one of these notions to the detriment of the more complex nexus articulating all of them in a whole. In addition, the difficulty of its translation into other languages reinforces the f…

  5. 2016 HDCA Summer School

    …ram, Caroline Sarojini Hart and Graciela Tonon and all sessions will be in English. The two-day programme will include sessions on the nature of human development; foundational concepts in human development and the capability approach; inequalities and capabilities; education; health and communities. There will also be workshop-style sessions on developing research methods with opportunities for participants to present and discuss their own resear…

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