GLOBAL COOPERATION NEWSLETTER
November 2010
In this edition
International Forum on Human Development
Sweden Development Cooperation Launches Research Database
The 2010 commitment to development index
Improving value in health care – new OECD publication
The Commonwealth Partners’ Forum Perth October 2011
New from UNRISD
Climate Change
Call for papers - Persistent Conflict in the 21st Century
Former Chilean President to head UN WomenInternational Forum on Human Development

ICSW President Christian Rollet reports on the November 2010 Forum organised by the Moroccan
Government in conjunction with the publication of the 2010 Human Development Report
http://hdr.undp.org/en/. The King of Morocco delivered an important speech on humandevelopment in 2005 and launched the “INDH” (Initiative Nationale pour le Développement
Humain), which is a long term strategic plan on social development and fight against poverty. A
second version of INDH is to be adopted this year.
Around 1.000 persons attended the forum, including many from Morocco.
The keynote speech was given by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the Managing Director of theInternational Monetary Fund (IMF). Christian Rollet said it was an interesting move to ask aspecialist of finance to talk on human development. Here are some quotations from his speech:“With the crisis, we are living through a dark period of globalisation….We had an unbalanced andunsustainable economic model…We need a new globalisation….Growth should be based more on
internal demand….We need a middle class, because it bears a sustainable growth…We need to set
up social protection nets…We need to invest in infrastructure and environment… Our main problem
is job creation, especially for youth - 400 million young people will arrive on the labour market
within 10 years. Mr Strauss-Kahn’s conclusion: priority N°1= youth employment; priority N°2=youth employment; priority N°3= youth employment! “Many ministers from Morocco, Africa and France attended. Papers were not distributed, but maybe
available on the forum website. (www.indh.ma French and Arabic).

Sweden Development Cooperation Launches Research Database

Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and the Swedish Ministry for
Foreign Affairs have launched a shared database called Researchers for Development Analysis(REDA). The purpose of the database is to strengthen the role of research in Swedish development
cooperation by making experts from all academic fields more accessible to Sida and the Ministry for
Foreign Affairs.
Researchers and research managers registered on the database will be considered for peer-review
processes, commissioned tasks and research, evaluations or direct consultations.

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Researchers interested in contributing to the role of research in Swedish development cooperation
are encouraged to register regardless of academic discipline or research focus area. To
register: http://sida.orbelon.com/researcher-database/for-researchers.aspx

The 2010 commitment to development index

CDI finds world’s richest nations make progress but fall short of potential to help
The Center for Global Development’s 2010 Commitment toDevelopment Index shows that the world’s richest nations
have made only modest progress in improving policies thatsupport development and still have a long way to go.
The CDI annually ranks 22 wealthy countries based on their
dedication to policies that benefit poorer nations. The 2010
edition finds most wealthy countries have modified theirpolicies in recent years to make them more supportive ofsustained growth and poverty reduction in the developingworld. But the CDI finds overall improvement has beenslight, and the seven major industrialised countries, inparticular, could do far better.
Sweden leads the Index. Denmark ranks second, then theNetherlands and Norway. The United States ties for 11th.
More at: http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/cdi/

Improving value in health care – new OECD publication
OECD Health Policy Studies
Measuring Quality
This publication describes what international comparable quality measures are
currently available and how to link these measures to quality policies such as
accreditation, practice guidelines, pay-for-performance, national safety programmes
and quality reporting.
Now available from the Online Bookshop.
Other publications in the Series OECD Health Policy Studies.

The Commonwealth Partners’ Forum Perth, Australia 25 to 28 October 2011

In November the Commonwealth Foundation conducted its regular consultation with accredited civilsociety organisations. (ICSW is accredited to the Commonwealth although we have a brief beyond
Commonwealth countries). Deputy Director Vijay Krishnarayan outlined the new arrangements forcivil society meetings at the time of the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) meeting tobe held in Perth in 2011.
For the past 20 years Commonwealth civil society has come together with a view to influencing
Heads of Government. The Commonwealth Foundation has consistently supported these gatheringsin conjunction with partners from civil society, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the hostgovernment.
The Commonwealth Foundation proposes to organise a new look CPF at Perth in 2011. For the firsttime it is proposed that the CPF be organised as a Commonwealth Partners’ Forum, rather than aPeople’s Forum.
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CPF Aims
The Commonwealth Partners’ Forum will have three principal aims:• To provide opportunities for learning among and between Commonwealth non state actors
and civil society;• To explore emerging Commonwealth issues and identify innovative, cross-sectoral solutions;and• To provide a platform for advocacy within the Commonwealth arena.
ICSW will convey more information on the CPF in future editions of Global Cooperation.
At the November consultation Director Mark Collins provided some astute observations. Dr Collins
noted that the Commonwealth should resist recognising a multiplicity of organisations. Within theCommonwealth he welcomed the establishment of umbrella organisations in health, education andmedia. He expressed interest in the development of other clusters which have common causes andhave shared and achievable objectives. On another note Dr Collins referred to a trend fororganisations to avoid the commitment of membership of organisations. He saw a preference fororganisations to join causes e.g. MDG campaign, rather than sign up to structured organisations.
Alignment with causes had the advantage of no membership fee and limited commitment.
There were many other discussions of interest during the consultation including the Commonwealth
Clearing House for Zimbabwe. Its aim is to strengthen links between civil society organisations inZimbabwe and the Commonwealth. The Clearing House aims to strengthen the capacity of future
leaders in Zimbabwe by providing access to opportunities for training and for the exchange ofinformation and ideas. For more information contact Patrick Wintour p.wintour@commonwealth.int

New from UNRISD

Defining & Measuring Social Cohesion: Social Policies in Small States Series, No. 1
Social cohesion is a concept with multiple definitions and uses in the development community. Its
general aim is to ensure that all citizens, without discrimination and on an equal footing, haveaccess to fundamental social and economic rights. Jane Jenson examines this concept in policy
debates and assesses its role in social development.
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Religion, Culture and the Politicization of Honour-Related Violence: A Critical Analysis ofMedia and Policy Debates in Western Europe and North America
This paper analyses how media, parliaments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
conceptualize honour killing and honour-related violence in four states with relatively large
immigrant streams from predominantly Muslim countries: the Netherlands, Germany, Britain andCanada.
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Social Movements and Poverty in Developing Countries
Poverty and inequality are both products and producers of the prevailing relationships of power in asociety. By many definitions, social movements are understood to question the nature and exerciseof power in society. As such they also play roles in challenging relationships of poverty andinequality. This paper explores some of these roles.
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Climate Change

In the run-up to the next World Summit on Climate Change in Cancun the international community
faces once more the challenge to reach an internationally binding agreement on climate protection.
Major emerging countries such as India are holding firm to their position not to accept
internationally binding emission targets for fear that they may impede development prospects.
However, India’s vulnerability to the impacts of climate change and its interest to become a leader
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in the renewable energy sector indicate a strong self-interest in a successful continuation ofinternational climate negotiations.
A new Perspective has been published by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES):"After Copenhagen and before Cancun - India on the Way to a Global Agreement on Energy andClimate Policies" (click here to open publication in PDF-Format)
The paper was written in the context of a series of international expert roundtables on energy andclimate policy organized by the FES. With this publication, the FES aims to promote dialogue
between industrial and emerging countries as well as developing countries and to contribute tofinding common ground in the international energy and climate policy.

Call for papers - Persistent Conflict in the 21st Century

The London School of Economics & Political Science Global Governance is conducting aninternational conference on persistent conflict in the 21st Century. Much of the scholarly debate
about contemporary conflicts has focused on root causes and other factors that relate to theinitiation of conflict. Much less attention has been directed to understanding why contemporary
conflicts are so difficult to end. Once set in motion, violent conflict tends to persist, recur, mutate,and spread across borders as currently seen in places like Afghanistan, Somalia or Yemen. It has
been estimated that the average duration of civil war has increased from two to fifteen years overthe past half century and that fifty percent of peace agreements collapse within five years. Thisconference will put the issues of conflict duration, persistence, and recurrence front and centre andwill seek to shed light on these understudied and under-theorized dimensions of contemporary
conflict.
The conference seeks to foster a multi-disciplinary discussion that draws on a broad range of
methods and intellectual resources in the social sciences.
LSE invites proposals for papers
particularly from advanced PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, early-career academics andpractitioners that address any of the three broad themes of the conference:
1 Conflict duration and the stages of conflict; 2 Drivers of conflict persistence; 3 Externalinterventions.
Please send a CV and a paper abstract of 300-500 words to Tom Kirk at t.kirk@lse.ac.uk by 4
January 2011. For other enquiries, please contact the conference convenor Dr. Iavor Rangelov ati.p.rangelov@lse.ac.uk.

Former Chilean President to head UN Women

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named former Chilean president
Michelle Bachelet to head UN Women (full name: UN Entity for Gender
Equality and the Empowerment of Women), a new UN entity. Ms
Bachelet in addition to being a national president from the global Southis a paediatrician and epidemiologist.
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