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Future. City. Life!
Human Development by Farah Daghistani, 8th October 2013
The Need for People-Centred Development in a World in Transition
Farah Daghistani
October 8, 2013
For the first time in 150 years, the combined output of the developing world’s three leading economies – Brazil, China and India – is about equal to the combined GDP of… Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the UK and US.
HDR 2013
Over the past decades, countries across the world have been converging towards high levels of human development.
HDR 2013
Every person has the right to live a fulfilling life according to his or her own values and aspirations …. Inequality reduces the pace of human development and in some cases may even prevent it entirely.
HDR 2013
So, what is sustainable human development? We define human development as expanding the choices for all people in society… it also means “protection of the life opportunities for future generations…and the natural systems on which all life depends. This makes the central purpose of development the creation of an enabling environment in which all can enjoy long, healthy and creative lines.
HDR 2013
Governance can be seen as the exercise of economic, political and administrative authority to manage a country’s affairs at all levels.
UNDP
Good governance is … participatory, transparent and accountable, it is also effective and equitable… and it promotes the rule of law. Good governance ensures that political, social and economic priorities are based on broad consensus in society and that the voices of the poorest and the most vulnerable are heard in decision – making over the allocation of resources. UNDP
Civil Society is situated between state and market, monitoring the powers and roles of each to assure a balance between them.
Ziad Abdel Samad, Arab NGO Network
Dissa%sfac%on is on the rise in the north and the south as people call for more opportunity to voice their concerns and influence policy.
HDR 2013
One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.
Freire
If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed.
Freire
No one has a monopoly on good ideas, which is why NYC will continue to learn from the best practice of other cities.
Mayor Bloomberg
The more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can better transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled. This person is not afraid to meet the people or to enter into dialogue with them. This person does not consider himself or herself the proprietor of history or of all people, or the liberator of the oppressed; but he or she does commit himself or herself, within history, to fight at their side.
Freire