28 de enero 2023 - 11 am - 12:30 pm EST (online, Zoom)

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Date & Time: 9am Tokyo on 7th December (7pm in EST, the US on 6th December)  

presented by Prof Haruo Miyata

A former Professor at Niigata University, Japan, Professor Haruo Miyata has tremendous policy and practical experience at the Japanese Environment Ministry, the Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center, and the International Lake Environment Committee Foundation. Over decades, he has engaged in policy development and implementation of environmentally sustainable development, especially in the Global South. In this webinar, Prof Miyata will talk through the development of the concept ‘sustainable development’ from the 1960s to the 2020s.

Please find attached the abstract of the webinar. We look forward to seeing many of you on the 7th!

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Best wishes,
HDCA East Asia Regional Network Coordinators (Raffaele, Ben, Yushan, Nozomi)

Tue, 6 December 2022, 16:00 – 18:30 CET/ 15.00 – 17.30 GMT/ 10.00 – 12.30 EST (US/CA East coast)/ 07.00 – 09.30 PST (US/CA West coast), Online workshop.

Registration for an online interactive workshop on the Capabilities approach and stakeholders in social entrepreneurship is now open. This workshop modifies Sen's (1999, cpt 3) parable of Annapurna and three unemployed laborers – Dinu, Bishanno and Rogini – and applies a similar model in the context of stakeholders within a social enterprise. Though the workshop is designed to introduce the capabilities approach to those who do not know of it, we welcome you to join in for a collaborative session with social entrepreneurs-practitioners and researchers from different disciplines to collaboratively address diverse (and even conflicting) stakeholder priorities in organizational decision-making. In this iteration, we are privileged to also have a representative of SOPHIA Oxford (a spin-off of OPHI working on Poverty with corporations) join us at the end to briefly share their work.

In this 2.5 hour collaborative workshop, participants are introduced to the Human Capabilities Approach (HCA) as a multidimensional, people-centered framework for social impact negotiation and assessment. As an entrepreneurial tool, HCA provides a fertile ground for coordination among diverse sets of stakeholder groups with varied values and priorities in settings of social entrepreneurship. Workshop participants are given opportunities to use the HCA framework to shift their entrepreneurial awareness beyond isolated impacts towards the broader set of multi-faceted (and, ideally, socially-sustainable) impacts of an enterprise.  The HCA framework is also relevant for board-level corporate governance and strategic management, particularly towards determining social impact objectives and assessing performance. It can also provide insight for impact investors, for civil society monitoring, or for government policy-makers working on multi-stakeholder initiatives.

Further details and registration here:
https://www.eventbrite.fi/e/pdw-assessing-multiple-enterprise-social-impacts-and-stakeholder-values-registration-464234697477

Hosted by the European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ECSB) and the Leuphana University Lüneburg's Transformational Entrepreneurship team.

Thursday, December 1, 16h00 UTC; 8 a.m. San Diego; 11 a.m. New York; 5 p.m. London; 9:30 p.m. Delhi.

The Human Rights thematic group of the Human Development and Capability Association is pleased to host the following presentation by Dustin Sharp of University of San Diego's Kroc School of Peace Studies:

The human rights idea raises a challenging question: How are humans connected to one another and how are they different? Why should people, as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says, “act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood”? Many mainstream human rights advocates would be reluctant—even embarrassed—to answer these questions using concepts of peace, love, and understanding, much less spirituality. Indeed, spirituality remains both a relatively obscure topic within mainstream international human rights discourse and a taboo subject within the academy. Yet, despite our impoverished vocabulary for talking about it, spirituality remains core to the realization of human rights, Sharp argues. The challenge is as follows: On the one hand, the rhetoric and projects of a shared center includes concepts of universal human rights, common humanity and dignity, spiritual brotherhood and sisterhood, citizenship, and nationality that point to a larger ‘we’. On the other hand, a rhetoric of distinction aims to honor and protect difference and diversity and to highlight power differentials, inequalities, and the ways that categories such as race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation are used to oppress. Sharp argues that an important dimension of peaceful flourishing in heterogeneous societies is finding the right fulcrum point: identifying a shared center, a common or larger ‘we’. Although not a panacea, spiritual perspectives that enhance a sense of interconnectedness and inclusionary identity would go a long way toward forging a larger “we” in diverse, pluralistic societies, in turn reinvigorating the human rights project.

Dustin Sharp is an Associate Professor at the Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego.  He formerly served as researcher for Francophone West Africa at Human Rights Watch. He has published with Human Rights Quarterly and the Journal of Human Rights. He is the author of Rethinking Transitional Justice for the 21st Century: Beyond the End of History (CUP 2018).

SSRN: http://ssrn.com/author=1401439

Please register through Eventbrite:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-larger-we-spirituality-identity-human-rights-and-social-change-tickets-469957945867

17 de Noviembre del 2022 en el Aula F0.6, Facultad de Economía, Empresa y Turismo, Campus de Guajara, de la Universidad de la Laguna, Tenerife, España. Entre las 16:00 y 18:00 hora local.

Discutiremos sobre:

• Concepción del Bienestar Sustentable y su dimensionamiento.
• Indicador Sintético: Índice de Bienestar Sustentable.Ensayo para Latinoamérica
• Los Derechos de las Generaciones Futuras vs los Derechos de la Naturaleza.
• El nuevo contrato social, la constitución cosmopolita y la conexión cultural.
• Los enfoques alternativos del desarrollo: Desarrollo Sostenible yDesarrollo en Libertad.
• La medición del desarrollo.
• Elenfoque de Capacidades.
• La Agenda de Desarrollo Sostenible y el Post 2030.

Puede conseguir más información sobre el contenido en el siguiente enlace de la universidad: https://www.ull.es/portal/agenda/evento/bienestar-sostenible-y-derecho-al-futuro/ donde además se puede inscribir para asistir de forma presencial. En caso de querer participar online, notificar al correo: jhonerperdomo@statussostenible.es para enviarle el enlace 1 día antes de la conferencia.

Monday 17 October, 10:00 am US EDT

The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is jointly produced by UNDP’s Human Development Report Office and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). The index complements monetary-based measures of poverty, illuminating deprivations that are manifested in people’s daily lives in ways that go beyond the ability to purchase goods and services.

The 2022 MPI features the latest estimates and analyses on multidimensional poverty, providing a closer look at the interlinked deprivations of the poor and shedding valuable insights on how to tackle poverty by addressing it in its multiple dimensions.

Join us in this global launch on Monday 17 October at 10:00 am EDT  by registering at https://undp.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_v88qbO35Tbi9IK0SM3CFMg

 October 24th, 11:30 am Santiago / 9:30 am Bogota / 10:30 am Washington DC

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lessons-learned-from-covid-19-when-protecting-peoples-capabilities-tickets-441603165957

Agenda:

1. 10:30 am. - 10:40 am. Introduction, Carlos Garzón (HDCA General Secretary)
2. 10:40 am. - 11:10 am. World Bank presentation "World lessons from Covid-19 relating to social protection" (Ugo Gentilini, Lead for Social Assistance with the Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice)
3. 11:10 am. - 11:40 am., CEPAL presentation "Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic with lessons learned and proposals to strengthen social protection systems in Latin America" (Claudia Robles, Social Affairs Officer of the Social Development Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America, and the Caribbean (ECLAC)).
4. 11:40 am - 12:00 m., questions, and comments.

First presentation

Title: Lessons from Covid-19 relating to social protection.

Paper: Cash transfers in pandemic times. Evidence, practices, and implications from the largest scale up in History.
Link:  https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099800007112236655/pdf/P17658505ca3820930a254018e229a30bf8.pdf

Description:

Is Covid-19 a “game changer” for cash transfers? This tantalizing question has animated a large body of recent literature and over 60 virtual panels. This talk offers some clues to address the question by bringing together data, evaluations and practical experiences generated over the course of the pandemic. In particular, the presentation flashes out differences between Covid-19 and other crises; it lays out an anatomy of global responses and offers novel data analysis around stylized international trends; synthesizes fresh empirical evidence on response effectiveness based on over 40 evaluations; discusses country-level operational practices as emerging from an array of high and lower-income contexts; and distills key insights with possible future implications.

Speaker: Ugo Gentilini

Ugo Gentilini is Global Lead for Social Assistance with the Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice at the World Bank. His interests encompass research and practice on social protection from high-income countries to fragile states. With a PhD in Economics, he has published extensively on social assistance in the context of, for example, labor markets, urbanization, food security and nutrition, subsidy reforms, humanitarian assistance, displacement, and mobility. His recent books include Exploring Universal Basic Income (2020), Adaptive Social Protection (2020), and the 1.5 billion People Question (2017); he is leading the global tracker of social protection responses to COVID-19; he has been a team member of the World Development Report 2019; and he is co-founder of the flagship The State of Social Safety Nets in the World Series. Ugo began his career in 2002 with the UN World Food Programme, and since 2016 he has been producing a weekly newsletter on social protection reaching thousands of subscribers

Website: Ugo Gentilini | Global Lead for Social Assistance, World Bank

Second presentation

Title: Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic with lessons learned and proposals to strengthen social protection systems in Latin America.

Paper: Social protection tools for coping with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic: The Latin American experience
Link: https://www.cepal.org/en/publications/47748-social-protection-tools-coping-impacts-covid-19-pandemic-latin-american

Description:

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has triggered an unprecedented worldwide social, economic and health crisis. This emergency has prompted the Latin American and Caribbean countries to deploy a series of social protection measures to mitigate its impacts, especially for the most vulnerable population groups. In view of this situation and given the possibility of other crises in the future, the role of social protection systems has become one of fundamental importance, and strategies must be devised for making those systems universal, comprehensive, and sustainable based on an approach that is sensitive to difference. This study looks at several the social protection measures implemented by the countries of the region in response to the pandemic and explores different social protection tools that could contribute to a recovery with equality and sustainability.

Speaker: Claudia Cristina Robles Farias

Social Affairs Officer of the Social Development Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). She has a degree in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and a Master's in Sociology of Development. She holds a doctorate from the University of Essex. Sociologist specializing in social policies and social protection, development studies, and human rights. She has worked at ECLAC as a Social Affairs Officer and a consultant on social protection policies, policies for social development. She previously worked at UNICEF in the El Salvador office as a Social Policy Specialist.