Strengthening the Voices of

the Global South onDevelopment

Rathin RoyDirector

UNDP International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth

IPC-IG, Brasilia

Knowledge for Inclusive Growth:Opportunities in a Changing World

Abu Dhabi, December 2011

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Outline: The Global South Context

Accelerating MDG Progress

Addressing North-South Knowledge Gaps

South-South Exchanges for Alternatives in Social Policy

Fostering Employment Generation for Social Inclusion in the Arab States

Knowledge Management and Policy Dialogue for Inclusive Growth

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Development context Social policy innovations in the Global South

Public Works, Cash Transfers, Smallholder Agriculture

The New Global Bottom Billion: IPC-IG research 1990: 93 % of the global poor in low-income countries2008: 75 % of the global poor in middle-income countries

Policy questionHow to strengthen knowledge management mechanisms for effective policy design and implementation towards inclusive growth?

Addressing the gapsEnhance South-South policy dialogue frameworks that reflect the new balances of power in a changing global governance environment.

Outline: The Global South Context

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MDG Acceleration Framework (MAF): Addressing the

need for urgent and focused action on the road to 2015

10 pilot countries in 2010: Lessons from Belize, Colombia, Ghana, Jordan, Lao PDR, Papua New Guinea, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo and Uganda

Raising the Global South’s voice on the MDGsIPC-IG: Rate of Progress Matters Most

Knowledge for Policy Change in the SouthIPC-IG: Are MDGs priority in Development

Strategies? Are MDGs changing aid focus? Evaluation of 22 countries and 12 bilateral programmes

Accelerating MDG Progress

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Applied research on policy priorities for the Global South• Social Protection, Employment

Generation and Cash Transfers• Food Security• Green and Inclusive Sustainable

Development

Knowledge production in the South to give voice to a New Development Agenda

• Assessment of innovative social protection programmes in 70 developing countries

• Collaboration with research partners in 106 countries

• Knowledge networks reaching 189 countries

Addressing North-South Knowledge Gaps

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Policy Dialogue platforms in and for the South

India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Academic Forum

IPC-IG Annual Conference on Inclusive Growth

Global Learning Centre in UAE

Study Tours

South Africa: Social Cohesion Study Tour – Nov 2011

China-Brazil Study Tour on Social Protection

Over 30 Study Tours hosted in Brasilia

South-South Exchanges for Alternatives in Social Policy

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Arab Transformation Report

Yemen

A proposal for job creation and inclusive growth - IPC-IG advocacy work in 2011

Policy Dialogue on Inclusive Growth: Recent IPC-IG engagement

Egypt: Advisory support for the implementation of the first cash transfer pilot in Cairo

Syria: Capacity building and information management for social transfers

Tunisia: Dialogue on employment generation for the Youth

Fostering Employment Generation for Social Inclusion in the Arab States

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Humanizing Development Global Campaign Portraying the human face of development in the South 100 participating countries

Al Jazeera: Allow poor to define their future Launch of IPC-IG Poverty in Focus magazine

on The Dimensions of Inclusive Development – Nov 2011 Al Jazeera: Development in an Age of Economic Uncertainty – Oct 2011

The Ethiopian Herald: Green Economies with Social Futures – Oct 2011

Channel Africa: The Euro Zone Needs a ‘Shock of Ideas’ – Oct 2011

Inter Press Service (IPS): ‘Cash Grants must back Food Access’ – Sept. 2011

Valor Econômico/Brazil: Rio+20 – New concepts, same dilemmas? - Sept. 2011

Strengthening the Voices of the Global South on Development