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Workshop 2002

 

Innovation
Workshop 2003

Workshops 2003

About the Innovations for
Poverty Eradication Workshop, March 2003 CANCELLED

The United Nations Division for Public Economics and
Public Administration
is organizing an Ad-hoc Expert Group Meeting on the theme:
“Innovations in
Governance and Public Administration for Poverty Reduction” in Bahia,
Brazil
from 13 to 14 February 2003. Eleanor Glor will represent The
Innovation
Journal and deliver a paper on “Applying Innovative Processes to
Improve
Governance and Public Administration Performance”.

Updated

31/01/03

 

Innovations for Poverty Eradication Workshop

June 25, 2002

I just had a meeting yesterday to do some planning for this workshop.
It will apparently be in Bahia (Brazil) in March 2003. Although we will
have to put out some kind of “UN report” on the meeting, I think
that we can arrange to cooperate with The Innovation Journal for
publishing the actual papers, or a selection thereof. Right now, we are
working on guidelines for the papers. We are also putting together a draft
program (in a few weeks).

Right now, I am doing a literature search on poverty and development
strategies (and checking up on latest innovations). For instance, I just
heard about a program (in Pakistan, I think), where in a system, to
encourage parents to send girls to school, they are not only
“feeding” the girls at school, but also sending the girls home
each afternoon with stuff for the family’s evening meal. This is proving
to be a great incentive to families to send girls to school. We know that
when girls get educated, they marry later, have fewer children, are more
knowledgeable about health, nutrition, etc, and are more likely to send
their daughters to school. The long term poverty eradication effects are
substantial (as well as the human rights issues). Anyway, I am searching
for any and all examples of innovative ways to work on poverty issues.

While the main papers will come from people in developing countries,
and from some development practitioners and will emphasize spectacular
programs that have led to results (measurable), I think that we can make
some parallel sessions available for more of our “innovation”
friends that have some ideas and experiences that could contribute to the
discussion. We cannot have sessions dominated by western experts, but I
think that we can be creative about accommodating interest. In any case,
we are beginning to prepare some documentation in order to make sure that
we are not squeezed off the agenda.

Jeanne-Marie Col, Ph.D.
Interregional Adviser
Division of Public Economics and Public Administration
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
United Nations
Tel 1 212 963 8377
Fax 1 212 963 2916

Contact in Bahia: Center for Exchange of Information and Experiences
about Innovation in Public Administration

 

Updated

16/07/02

Last Revised November 2009