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12 August 2015
August 12 marks International Youth Day, which in 2015 focuses on civic engagement, because the “engagement and participation of youth is essential to achieve sustainable human development. Yet often the opportunities for youth to engage politically, economically and socially are low or non-existent.”[i] Nonetheless, the development of a number of...
23 July 2015
Todas las sociedades tienen personas dependientes a quien cuidar (menores, adultos mayores y personas con discapacidad) y personas que cuidan. La capacidad para resolver las necesidades de cuidado es crítica para el bienestar de la sociedad. Si bien existen diferentes maneras de organizar la provisión de cuidado, aún hoy en día esta labor sigue...
23 July 2015
All societies have people to care for and care-givers. An ability to meet care needs is critical to national well-being. Although there are different ways of organizing care activities, most of them are still undertaken by family members, mostly women and girls whose labor is usually unpaid.
In Argentina, a country which has made remarkable...
15 July 2015
Deep shifts in economies, societies and the environment are changing the way citizens worldwide live, work and interact.[1] These changes also affect the public sector, which in 2013 employed over 110 million people worldwide.[2] Although much of the thinking on how public services could evolve has been done in the advanced economies of the West[3...
15 July 2015
Los funcionarios públicos ya trabajan en ambientes complejos e inestables que surgen de cambios acelerados dentro de la sociedad y la tecnología. Las tendencias globales indican que los servicios públicos en el futuro tendrán que lidiar, entre otras cosas, con diferentes necesidades, exigencias y aspiraciones de los ciudadanos; la rápida...
10 July 2015
Expert Group
Meeting
“Gender Equality in Human Development – Measurements Revisited”
18-19 June, 2015UNU-GEST, Reykjavik,
Iceland
INTRODUCTION
The Human Development Report Office (HDRO) and UNU-GEST jointly hosted an expert meeting on gender equality in human development. Some of the most prominent composite gender-related indices in the...
10 June 2015
Human security has played a significant role in the global development discourse since the term was introduced in the 1994 Human Development Report. Nowhere more so than
in Japan, where the Development Cooperation Charter sees human security as "the guiding principle that lies at the foundation of Japan's development
cooperation."...