Forthcoming Events.
To reserve a place at any of the meetings below please email HEMMINGWAYG@parliament.uk
For advice on how to access the
Parliamentary Estate, please consult this
Map.
1st JULY 2009
'Sexuality and Development'
evening
venue tbc
Chair: David Borrow MP
17th JUNE 2009
It's Not Easy Being Green: Making ODA Greener
17.00 - 18.00 Venue tbc
Speakers: Gareth Thomas, MP and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for International Development; second speaker tbc
10 JUNE 2009
‘GM Crops and the Global Food Crisis’
18.00 - 19.30
Part of the Dangerous Ideas in Development series, co-hosted with the Institute of Development Studies. For IDS info on this event, go here
Recent Events.
19 MAY 2009 - Dangerous Ideas in Development
'How Children are Affected by Development': Stories from Child Slaves, Street Children and Children Growing Up in Violent Contexts
Speakers: Joy Moncrieffe, Research Fellow in the Participation, Power and Social Change team, IDS, and David Mepham, Director of Policy at Save the Children UK.
Chair: Andrew George MP
‘Intergenerational Transmissions- Promoting Agency’ - an IDS Bulletin edited by Joy Moncrieffe
24 MARCH 2009
The Great Stink Continues: Tackling the 21st Century's Sanitation Crisis
18.00 - 20.00 Committee Room 20
Speakers: Mike Foster, MP and Under Secretary of State for International Development; Lyla Mehta, Research Fellow IDS; Margaret Batty, Policy and Campaigns Director WaterAid; Gary Streeter, MP.
Chair: David Borrow, MP.
In conjunction with IDS; End Water Poverty; the APPG on Debt, Aid and Trade; and the APPG on Water and Sanitation...
[Audio
Podcast available:
]
Sanitation: A Statement by Dr Rhona MacDonald
Sanitation is
central to many of the Millennium Development Goals, and 2008 was
the UN International Year of Sanitation – but are we making
progress? In the week after the 2009 World Water Forum in Istanbul,
join a panel of speakers who will discuss their varied experiences
of tackling the frequently taboo issue of sanitation - from the
global to the local.
Lyla Mehta will report on
Community Led Total Sanitation, a participatory approach in
which communities are facilitated to analyse and take their own
action to end open defecation; Margaret Batty will speak about how
civil society is calling for greater action through the
End Water Poverty campaign; and Michael Foster MP will give an
overview of government thinking on this subject. There will be time
for questions and discussion after the presentations.
11 MARCH 2009
Launch of BOND's Put People First: 'Jobs, Justice, Climate' Campaign for the G20 meeting
The forthcoming G20
London Summit offers a momentous opportunity for the UK Government
to broker a new global deal that puts people and the planet first in
the face of the world's worst economic crisis in decades. The Put
People First platform has united unions, environmental groups, faith
groups, development NGOs and others to call for a response to the
current economic crisis that delivers reform to the governance of
the global economy, provides decent jobs and public services for
all, tackles global poverty and builds a green economy.
The All Party Parliamentary Group for Debt, Aid & Trade, Trades Union Congress and BOND – the network of development NGOs launched the Put People First platform with a panel debate and Q&A session:
Speakers: Rt. Hon. Stephen Timms, MP, Financial Secretary to the
Treasury
Adam Lent, Head Of Economic and Social Affairs, TUC
Kirsty Hughes, Head of Advocacy, Oxfam GB
Tom Picken, Head of International Climate Change, Friends of the
Earth
Chair: Larry Elliot, Economics Editor, The Guardian
[
Notes
on the launch of the publication Put People First]
10 MARCH 2009
MPs meet with Claire Durkin, head of DFID/BERR Trade Policy Unit to discuss the WTO Doha Round, EPAs, China, Supply Chains and Aid for Trade
24 FEBRUARY 2009
MPs meet Dorothy Ngoma from Malawi to discuss Aid, Health and Direct Budget Support
Malawi Essential Services Report
11 FEBRUARY 2009
China and Global Health Markets: Co-operation or Competition?
Speakers: Dr Gerry Bloom, Research Fellow IDS
[Presentation];
and
Anjali Radcliffe, Government Affairs Emerging
Markets – Asia/Pacific GlaxoSmithKline. Chair: Mark Hendrick, MP.
[Audio Podcast
available]
As we enter the ‘industrious and practical’ Chinese Year of the Ox, the country is emerging as a significant player in global health markets. Margaret Chan has recently become the first Chinese national to lead a UN agency with her appointment as Director-General of the WHO, and on 21 January the Chinese government made a dramatic announcement of its intent to provide free basic healthcare to all of its people in urban and rural areas within three years. Successful co-operation with this new powerhouse is crucial if we are to meet the three Millennium Goals that relate to health; but there are concerns that increasing Chinese influence could in fact disrupt existing trade relationships and throw regulatory arrangements into disarray. Dr Gerry Bloom, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies and a qualified physician, will discuss China’s potential impact on global health – for good or ill.
David Miliband's Statement on China - 17 May 2009
5 FEBRUARY 2009
Africa: Sustaining Success in the face of Global Turmoil
Speakers: Antoinette Sayeh, Director Africa Department IMF and former Liberian Finance Minister and; Charles Aburge, Head of Global Policy and Advocacy Christian Aid
Chair: Hugh Bailey, MP
The current global financial turmoil presents and unprecedented challenge for African policy makers. In recent years, many African countries have sustained high rates of economic growth and rising income levels. But can this success be sustained in the face of the global economic downturn? IMF in Africa: A Brief
27 JANUARY 2009
Vulture Funds
Speakers: Sarah Edwards, Jubilee Debt Campaign; Tamara Gaw, TransAfrica Forum; John Richards, Tout Cacheris; Richard Murphy, tax Justice Newtork: Profiles
Chair: David Borrow, MP
The Threat of Vulture Funds for development
3 DECEMBER 2008
Children and AIDS: Prevention and/or Protection?
Speakers:
Jerker
Edstrom, Research Fellow at IDS [
Audio
Zip] [Presentation],
and Valerie Leach, Policy Analyst, REPOA (Research on Poverty
Alleviation), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania [Presentation]
[Audio
Zip]
It is well
known that children need protection from the effects of HIV and
AIDS – but they are also key to prevention of the disease. New
infections among children are affected by social and gender-based
inequality, and child protection policy and adolescent sexual
health services need to be working together. This event will
explore these issues, as well as the potential for social
protection to make a difference to children and AIDS, and the
difficult decisions that must be made with regard to the resources
needed.
19 NOVEMBER 2008
The
WTO Doha Round Impasse: Implications for Africa
Speakers:
Dr Christopher Stevens, Director of Programmes, ODI; H.E. Ransford
Smith, Deputy Secretary-General, Commonwealth Secretariat
[Ransford
Smith Presentation].
Disscussant: Dr Mareike Meyn, Research Fellow, International Economic Development Group, ODI.
Negotiations of the WTO Doha ‘Development’ Round stalled at the end of July 2008 for a number of reasons. The question as to whether talks can (seriously) be revived remains open. It is often argued that the success of Doha would only benefit big developing countries like Brazil, India or China while small vulnerable economies, and particularly African countries, would lose out. This argument broadly follows the assumption that African countries do not have the capacities to benefit from broad tariff cuts on the export side but would see their export preferences eroded. On the import side they would become more vulnerable when further reducing tariffs.
Based on the latest draft modalities for agriculture and NAMA (non-agricultural market access), how would small vulnerable economies in Africa and elsewhere be affected? What are African interests at WTO and is there a joint African position? What is the role of South Africa and to what extent do South Africa’s interests mirror those of other African countries?
Faizel Ismail was due to speak at this event but was unable to travel - his views can be found in this document:
Mainstreaming
Development in the WTO
12 NOVEMBER 2008
The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Developing Countries
Speakers:
Carlos
Fortin, former Deputy Secretary-General of UNCTAD and IDS
Research Associate, and
Dr
Neil McCullough, Research Fellow in the Globalisation
team at IDS.
The current economic climate is already having a major impact in several developing countries. This meeting presented the latest thinking about the ways in which the downturn may affect developing countries including: the macroeconomic causes of the crisis, the possible impact on aid, the types of social protection programs that might be needed to respond, and the sort of international financial architecture that might be needed for the future. The discussion was based on a consultation paper with 15 of our leading research partners in developing countries about the implications for their countries, available below:
Individual
Country Evidence Can be Viewed Here
4 NOVEMBER 2008
US Development Policy in 2009: Maverick or Audacious?
Speakers: Lawrence
Haddad, Director of IDS; and David Bonbright, Director of Keystone
Accountability.
Part of APPG-DAT and IDS co-hosted series, Dangerous Ideas in Development
15 OCTOBER 2008
The Role of Innovative Finance in Addressing Climate Change and Development
A meeting with the APPG Debt, Aid and Trade in conjunction with the APPG on Climate Change and the Stamp Out Poverty Network. The meeting addressed the role of innovative finance mechanisms in funding climate change mitigation and adaptation in the developing world. The effects of climate change will hit the world’s poorest people the hardest, and the developed world has an ethical responsibility to help developing countries prepare for those effects. Speakers from prominent NGOs examined the scale of the problem and explored ways to deliver desperately needed aid to communities on the front lines of climate change
The Stamp Out Poverty Network is a prominent and highly active network that brings together more than fifty organisations, trade unions, and faith groups to campaign for innovative financing to combat poverty.
14 OCTOBER 2008
Dangerous Ideas in
Development,
Half
Way to What?
Development Beyond the MDGs
Speakers:
Andy
Sumner, Research Fellow at IDS, and Karim Hussein
[Presentation],
Regional Economist, Western and Central Africa Division, IFAD
The world in 2015 and beyond is difficult to predict. The current pace of global change is accelerating and creating both challenges and opportunities. International development is likely to become more global, more complex and about more than material wellbeing. We are likely to see new actors, new contexts, new institutions, and new emerging policy narratives. In this event IDS Fellow Andy Sumner and IFAD economist Karim Hussein discussed what the MDGs mean for the future of development, and what development policy will look like after they have been met - or missed.
10 SEPTEMBER 2008
Aid Trafficking and Aid Effectiveness: A Researcher's Introduction
Kenny Osborne, DFID Glasgow's Aid
Effectiveness Team [Presentation];
and Sarah Mulley, UK AID Network
[Presentation]
; spoke about Aid
Effectiveness and Aid Transparency.
Kenny also recommended a useful website, which can be accessed
here
as well asDFID
Results Action Plan