Relatório de Conferência

A Conferência sobre Biodiversidade Internacional para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável em Papua Land (Jayapura, 11–15 de novembro de 2009) reuniu contribuições e melhores práticas de várias fontes e iniciou compromissos em direção à conservação e desenvolvimento sustentável em uma das mais ricas biodiversidades e herança biocultural do mundo.

Este artigo faz um relato sobre a Conferência de Warwick sobre Humanitarismo, onde profissionais da área prática e acadêmicos compartilharam suas experiências quanto aos problemas e limitações do humanitarismo e como eles lidam com isto.

 

It may not be scientific, but it was interesting to hear journalists passing judgement among themselves on the 2009 World Food Summit organised by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ‘A waste of time and money’, one told this author. ‘What did it achieve? Nothing.’ The BBC and other news crews had already packed up their gear and departed well before the final day because, they said, the story had gone: ‘Our editorial desks have lost interest in it’.

The author reports on this conference, held in Tokyo in 1999, which brought together leading development thinkers and practitioners, and finance experts. The main discussions are summarised, often with reference to the recent Asian financial crisis, and the author states that the IMF's apparent neglect of the link between finance and development was worrying, and evidence of the need for its reform.

In November 1990 the South-North International Conference on Linking For Development was held in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, involving 100 participants from local authorities and NGOs from 21 countries. The representatives unanimously agreed on an Appeal, `From Dependency To Justice', and insisted on greater initiative from agencies and authorities in the South. The conference identified four priorities for future linking initiatives: development education, training, mutual development Cupertino, and working for change.

The author provides an overview of a seminar on the promotion of small enterprises, organised by the Aga Khan Foundation (UK). Representatives from official agencies, the private sector and NGOs discussed barriers to NGOs working effectively in this sector, and how these can be overcome, as well as best practice in the provision of credit and technical assistance, and the potential support role of other public and private institutions.

This Conference Report presents the recommendations taken from a Summary Report of the South Asian Agenda Regional Meeting for South Asia, held in New Delhi, India in 1999. The event was convened by the Disaster Mitigation Institute (DMI) and supported by the Department for International Development (DfID) of the British government. Measures to reduce the disaster vulnerability of poor communities, to improve the standard of, and review public expenditure on, relief, for example, are discussed.

The author reports on this conference held in Tromsö, Norway, in June 1999. Discussion centred on the discourse of `gender' and on the women's movement, and the author considers these themes from the dual viewpoint of the practitioner and the academic.

The author reports on the triennial conference of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), held in Paris in 1999. He found a disturbing lack of historical analysis and awareness, and a surprising dearth of discussion of the value of knowledge, or information sharing, in the North-South relationship of the future.

Relatando sobre a Conferência Anual de 2005 da AccountAbility, Hyatt observa que a “indústria de accountability (transparência e responsabilidade)” voltada para o hemisfério norte está mais preocupada em prever os resultados e controlar recursos e, assim, está perdendo em grande parte a natureza moral e política da accountability em termos da promoção da eqüidade e integridade, estando pouco preocupada com o fracasso em se aprender e incentivar o aprendizado.