EGM on Empowerment Policies

Expert group meeting Policies and strategies to promote empowerment of people in achieving poverty eradication, social integration and full employment and decent work for all

10 -11 September 2013 United Nations Secretariat Building, New York

Click here to view the recommendations of the meeting

1.  Draft agenda

2.  Concept note

3. Background paper - ''The role of the State in empowering poor and excluded groups and individuals'' - Duncan Green

4. Contributed papers

• ''National Implementation of International Human Rights, Social Inclusion and the Empowerment of People'' - Savitri Goonesekere
• ''Participatory Governance and Institutional Change''  - Jeremy Holland
• ‘’Social Protection and its Contribution to Social Inclusion''  - Babken Babajanian
• ''Can Participation Be Induced? Some Evidence from Developing Countries'' - Ghazala Mansuri, Vijayendra Rao
• ''Empowering Indigenous Peoples'' - Kanyinke Sena
• ''Supporting poor rural people’s empowerment through policy solutions for natural resource management and agriculture'' - Bettina Prato
• ''Experiences of policies and practices of empowering older people in Africa'' - Amleset Tewodros
• ''Empowerment and the Delivery of Public Services: A Note'' - Anil B. Deolalikar and Shikha Jha
• ''The Impact of Health and Nutrition Programmes in the Participation of Vulnerable Groups in Economic, Social and Political Life'' - Dianne J. R. Forte
• ''Towards Sustainable Development that Leaves No One Behind: The Challenge of the Post-2015 Agenda'' - International Movement ATD Fourth World
• "Supporting the Empowerment of Organizations of Persons with Disabilities: A strategy to promote poverty eradication, using the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)" - Catalina Devandas
• "Credit, Microfinance and Empowerment" - Raghav Gaiha and Vani S. Kulkarni

5. Presentations

• ''The role of the State in empowering poor and excluded groups and individuals'' - Duncan Green & Sophie King
• ''Supporting poor rural people’s empowerment through policy solutions for natural resource management and agriculture'' - Bettina Prato
• "Localizing Development: Does participation work?" - Ghazala Mansuri, Vijayendra Rao
• "Participatory Governance and Institutional Change" - Jeremy Holland
• "Addressing Discrimination Against People Living in Poverty" - NGO Committee for Social Development, represented by International Movement ATD Fourth World
• "Experiences of policies and practices of empowering older people in Africa" - Amleset Tewodros
• "Empowering At Risk Groups through Human Development" - Jon Hall
• "Credit, Microfinance and Empowerment" - Raghav Gaiha and Vani S. Kulkarni
•  "Empowerment and Public Services" - Anil B. Deolalikar
• "The Role of Active Participation and Citizen Engagement in Good Governance" - Elia Armstrong
• "Removing obstacles to justice" - International Development Law Organization (IDLO) to the United Nations
• "Strategies and Pathways of Empowerment: Issues and Framing of the EGM" - Sarah Cook
• "Empowerment through decent work and social protection floors" - Vinicius Pinheiro
• "Social protection and its contribution to social inclusion" - Babken Babajanian
• "E-Participation: Empowering People through ICTs" - Amine Lamrabat
• "Supporting the Empowerment of Organizations of Persons with Disabilities" - Catalina Devandas
• "Empowering Indigenous Peoples" - Paul Kanyinke Sena
• "The case for empowerment through intergovernmental action" - Patience W. Stephens
• "Empowerment of youth" - Satvika Chalasani

6. Additional reading

• Report of the Secretary-General on the priority theme of the 2013 session of the Commission for Social Development: Promoting empowerment of people in achieving poverty eradication, social integration and full employment and decent work for all English | Français | Español | Русский | عربي | 汉语
• Report of the Secretary-General on implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly  English | Français | Español | Русский | عربي | 汉语
• Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
• ''Citizen engagement'' - John Gaventa and Gregory Barrett
• ''Organizing workers in the informal economy'' - Naila Kabeer, Kirsty Milward & Ratna Sudarshan
• "Citizen Engagement and the Post-2015 Development Agenda" - UNESCWA

7. List of participants