…Achille Mbembe, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand Discussants: Krushil Watene, Catherine Woollard and Denis Samnick Moderator: Gie Goris…
HDCA Conference 2022 HDCA Videos…iterature study showing that energy entrepreneurship can transform women’s lives and captures key lessons learned on including women in energy supply as entrepreneurs to increase access to energy for all. Read more: Building the Evidence Base for Women’s Empowerment and Entrepreneurship to Improve Energy Interventions’ Effectiveness The publication “Supporting last-mile women energy entrepreneurs: What works and what does not” examines, analyses a…
…data. Confirmed speakers at the event on 24 September include: Colombia: Bruce Mac Master, Director, Department of Social Prosperity Germany: Gudrun Kopp, Parliamentary Secretary of State Mexico: Gonzalo Hernandez, Director of the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL) Philippines: Arsenio Balisacan, Minister of Socioeconomic Planning Morocco: Ahmed Lahlimi Alami, High Commissioner of Planning Nigeria: Shamsudd…
The HDCA annual conference will take place from 19-22 September 2022.
How can we organize today for the world of tomorrow? Covid-19 has taught us that we are not ready. We have re-discovered our common vulnerability – not only to a virus, but also to problems and difficulties arising from policy mismatch, institutional hiccups, authoritarian backlash and the effects of increasing national and international inequality. Divided we have stood, unable to act well in concert. How can we improve the structures of living together and face the challenges ahead to build a more just and sustainable world? The HDCA Conference 2022 puts this question center stage.
Institutions, social arrangements, or the structures which emerge from our social ways of living, have been considered from many perspectives through the range of disciplines that engage with the capability approach. The conference will provide an opportunity to let these various understandings speak to and learn from each other.
…poverty during recent decades, finding somewhere decent and affordable to live is proving increasingly difficult in urban areas around the world. This is not by accident, but by design, since the forms of economic management that have held sway for four decades are intended to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a small elite, excluding the vast majority from meeting their basic needs. They force countless vulnerable, yet enterprising gr…
…freedom. Do people have opportunities to function well as human beings and live flourishing human lives? The CA does not give a blueprint on how to act to transform the world so that all may live flourishing human lives, let alone to give a blueprint of what it means to flourish as a human being – although some interpretation of CA, such as Martha Nussbaum’s capabilities approach, develop a more specific idea of human flourishing and the instituti…
