Human development
Understanding what HD means in practice and how policies can be consistent with the HD paradigm is a necessary precondition for sustainable poverty alleviation. Thus, the team in Bratislava is addressing misunderstandings and applying the concept of sustainable human development to development challenges in the region. The team's work covers several areas: - Build an education network in development economics to increase capacity in HD and development economics at regional universities, and support the elaboration and introduction of a new university curriculum.
- Offer two-week summer courses for academics and mid-level policy-makers at an academic institution, e.g. the summer course entitled “Sustainable HD and MDGs” at Central European University in Budapest in 2006).
- Provide on-demand support to help translate important HD/MDG literature into local languages (and vice versa).
- Provide intensive training (three to five days) to policy-makers on HD/MDGs, implemented within the frameworks of civil service institutes and other existing frameworks for professional re-qualification at the country level.
- Provide on-demand workshops to policy-makers on social inclusion policymaking.
- Support country offices in their efforts to elaborate national Human Development reports.
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