High Level Policy Forum - After 2015: Promoting Pro-poor Policy after the MDGs

23 June 2009, 9am, Residence Palace, Brussels / Belgium 

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The Millenium Development Goals have played a major role in focusing development policy since their original incarnation in the 1990s. Some development agencies, notably DFID, have gone as far as to judge their activities on the contribution to achieving the MDGs. What happens when we no longer have the MDGs? How will we promote pro-poor policy after 2015?

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Read the background article: Beyond 2015: Rethinking development policy by Andy Sumner, published in The Broker 

The Broker has live-blogged the event. Read more on their After 2015 special blog. See video interviews of speakers and participants at www.bit.ly/after2015

AGENDA

9.30-11.00       Plenary one: What has been the impact of the MDG paradigm on poverty reduction to date and what does that mean for an MDG plus agenda?

Salil Shetty, Director, United Nations Millennium Campaign; Enrico Giovannini, Chief Statistician OECD; Professor Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, New School, New York. Chair: Professor Lawrence Haddad, President, Development Studies Association (DSA).

11.30-1.00        Plenary two: What are the key meta-processes shaping development over the next 10-15 years and what do they imply for an MDG plus agenda?

Charles Gore, Research and Policy Analysis, UNCTAD; Alfred Nhema, Chief Executive, Pan African Development Center; Richard Morgan, Director of Policy and Practice, UNICEF. Chair: Professor Jean-Luc Maurer, President, EADI.

2.00-3.30         Parallel Participatory Powerpoint Task Forces

What should governments of low and middle-income developing countries do differently? Facilitator: Erik Lundsgaarde, DIE-GDI.

What should local and international civil society, the media, the private sector and others do differently? Facilitator: Clare Melamed, ActionAid UK.

What should the EC, other multi-laterals and bilateral donors do differently? Facilitator: Andy Sumner, IDS.

4.00-4.30         Task forces report back

4.30-6.00         Final Plenary: Towards an MDG plus agenda?

Louis Kasekende, Chief Economist, African Development Bank; Claire Melamed, Head of Policy, ActionAid UK; Yehualashet Mekonen, African Child Policy Forum. Andreas Rechkemmer, Executive Director, International Human Dimensions Programme . Chair: Andrew Steer, Director General of Policy and Research, DFID

RESSOURCES

  • Background Papers

Basarir, Hasan: On the Multidimensional Measurement of Poverty: An Empirical Study on South Africa

Bourguignon, François et al: Millennium Development Goals at Midpoint: Where do we stand and where do we need to go?

Fischer, Andrew M: Towards genuine universalism within contemporary development policy

Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko: Are the MDGs Priority in Development Strategies and Aid Programmes? Only a Few Are!

Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko / Hulme, David: International Norm Dynamics and ‘the End of Poverty’: Understanding the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

Gore, Charles: The Global Development Cycle, MDGs and the Future of Poverty Reduction

Hulme, David: Governing Global Poverty? Global Ambivalence and the Millennium Development Goals

Ireland, Sophia / Allison, Christine: The MDGs: past, present and future: views and voices of young people

Jahan, Selim: The Millennium Development Goals Beyond 2015, Issues for Discussion

Loy, Catherine / Gabrielle Russell-Mundine: Particularity and Inclusion: Why the MDGs do not address the unique needs of Indigenous peoples.

McCulloch, Neil / Sumner, Andy: Will the Global Financial Crisis Change the Development Paradigm?

Ohme, Stephan Klaus: Global parameters for the implementation of the MDGs up to and beyond 2015 – challenges and current discussion

Porter, Caitlin: After 2015: Promoting Pro-poor Policy after the MDGs

Sinha, Pranay Kumar: An Overview of Development Aid in 2040

Subasat, Jasmine: After 2015: Promoting Pro-Poor Policy after the MDGs

Vandemoortele, Jan: Taking the MDGs Beyond 2015: Hasten Slowly

Vargas-Hernández, José G: Economic, Social and Political Scenarios  of Mexico in the Next Two Decades

  •  Think Pieces

Currah, Kel: MDGs 2.0 – An Open-sourced Campaign

Garau, Pietro: The MDGs are modest, poorly defined and unreachable. Full speed ahead.

Gauci, Adrian: Disaggregation counts: Why progress towards MDGs in Sub-Saharan Africa is slow ?

Ghataoura, Rajpal Singh: Promoting Pro-Poor Policy after the MDGs, Thinkpiece 

Gooding, Kate/ Mulligan Diane: What has been the impact on poverty reduction of the MDG paradigm?

Gulrajani, Nilima: In 2015

Hawkins, Kate / Standing, Hilary: Bringing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in from the Margins

Jones, Nicola /Holmes, Rebecca: After 2015: Developing Social Protection Systems to Promote Child Well-being

Kasongi, Donald: After 2015: Promoting Pro-poor Policy after the MGDs

Mallick, Shahid: Policy Quest for Pro Poor Development During and End of MDG era

Melamed, Claire: What next after the MDGs: lessons from the financial and food crises

OECD MP Project: The Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies: A global movement for a global challenge

Sheperd, Andrew: Poverty Reduction and the MDGs Paradigm

Sumner, Andy et al: Designing child-sensitive policies

Sumner, Andy: What is Required to Meet the MDGs and What are the Key Elements of a Post-2015 Architecture?

Wolcott, Sara J: Opportunities and Challenges in Green Economies and Green New Deals



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