Welcome to the United Nations
The International Forum for Social Development
First Meeting on "Financing Global Social Development"
7-8 February 2002
This Report relates the debates of the first meeting of the Forum, which took place on 7-8 February 2002, in New York at the Headquarters of the United Nations and was attended by 44 invitees from different regions of the world. An open symposium on the first day was followed by a closed seminar on the second day.
Presentation by the Coordinator of the outcome of the first meeting of the Forum
to the 40th session of the Commission for Social Development, under the priority theme of its agenda: " Integration of social and economic policy".
These notes provides extracts from United Nations and related documents on the question of financing global social development, including quotes from main UN conferences and from the "Zedillo Report".
Annotated agenda and programme of work
Social development, in the Agenda for this Forum, is presented as an encompassing term. It includes in particular the objectives of provision of economic opportunities for all and reduction of poverty. It refers to the well being of individuals and to the harmonious functioning of societies. It is the equivalent of social progress. And it refers to both objectives and processes. According to this logic, economic growth is one of the means to social development and a “social perspective” is used to consider issues of development and their financing.