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  1. 2024 HDCA Conference – Kolkata, India

    September 24-26, 2024

    Hosted by the Pratichi (India) Trust, the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK), and Health Information Systems Program (HISP)

    “Crises, Capabilities and Commitment”

    The 2024 HDCA conference has special significance as 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of HDCA. The conference is being held in Kolkata, West Bengal, India – home of the first HDCA president, Professor Amartya Sen. The conference theme of Crises, Capabilities and Commitment has been chosen because the inter-linkages between these three ideas require in depth discussion.

    Many multi-faceted crises assail us. Some are global in scope, linked with the assault on our environment, violent conflicts, pandemics and humanitarian challenges. Some crises emerge from episodic events. Others emerge less dramatically linked with a backlash to transformations in social relations, or technologies. Crises, both episodic and cumulative, reveal deep inequalities in capabilities. Crises may be associated with both ‘loud’ and ‘silent’ capability deprivations, in areas such as education, health, disability, political participation and wellbeing. The immediate and visible fallout from crises may precipitate further inequalities in capabilities linked to loss of income and employment, inequity, food insecurity malnutrition, and polarization between groups. The conference will be a setting to discuss the forms of commitment needed to analyze and address many interlinked crises and their stress on capabilities.

     

  2. Workshop on ethics and human rights (Managua, Nicaragua)

    …after the main HDCA conference. This small, 1-day workshop, with half-day site visit to follow later in the week, will bring together a handful of local and international development practitioners, or individuals whose work directly impacts development, to lead a series of discussions on the specific human rights and ethical issues on which they work, and the significance or special challenges of this work in the Central American context. These d…

  3. Global Dialogue Week 2023

    …address how citizens can have in practice an active role and expand their freedoms: the sustainable development demand of responsibility, the request of “effective and efficient institutions through which concept of freedom, justice, fairness, basic capabilities, and equity govern the access to and use of ecosystem services” underlined by Amartya Sen (2010) is a question that we have to think as a global challenge for the next generations. The ma…

  4. HDCA Launches New Website

    …laken, HDCA Officer-at-Large, who spearheaded the project! The revamped website features a more modern design, a new logo, and easier navigation. We hope that the site will encourage more active contributions on the part of members, including news items, events and publications. The site now offers more information and materials on the capabilities approach, and we will continue to expand these resources in the months to come. There is still work…

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