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Global Challenges: Multilateral Solutions: Launch of the Canadian Development Report


Wednesday, February 15, 2012
2:00 pmto4:00 pm

Date: Wednesday February 15, 2012
Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs (1 Devonshire Place Toronto, ON M5S 3K7)

REGISTRATION: http://www.cvent.com/d/8cq99h

CONTACT INFO: Dina Shadid

DESCRIPTION:
The North-South Institute (NSI) is pleased to invite you to the Toronto launch of the 2011 Canadian Development Report (CDR) – Global Challenges: Multilateral Solutions.

Global problems need global solutions. But as world economic power shifts, so too must the approach to multilateral development cooperation. Our panel will consider this challenge by addressing the following questions:

- What can research tell us about the state of development cooperation?

- How can we improve the aid architecture?

- How do we engage with (re-)emerging donors?

- What is the outlook post- Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness?

The report examines the ability of the multilateral development system to address global challenges as world economic power shifts. From the BRICS to the private sector, new actors are (re-)emerging, presenting both new challenges and opportunities for multilateral development cooperation.

Indeed, ongoing financial and food crises, resource scarcity and climate change are global problems that demand global as well as local solutions. Yet the international aid architecture is criticized for overlapping and incoherent initiatives just as pressure continues to mount on development agencies to achieve greater effectiveness, transparency and results.

Drawing on NSI’s June 2011 Forum, Multilateral Development Cooperation in a Changing Global Order, the CDR broaches the future of development cooperation by offering analyses of the evolving aid landscape, proposing alternative models for development cooperation and recommending reforms to the current system.

This event also includes a preview of the Canadian International Development Platform – an interactive web-enabled data and analytical platform of Canada’s engagement with the trends in the development world.

SPEAKERS:
Janice Gross Stein – Director, Munk School of Public Affairs (Welcoming address)

Danny Leipziger — Professor, George Washington University (Co-author)
Multilateralism, the Shifting Global Economic Order, and Development Policy

Joseph Ingram — President, NSI (Moderator)

Shannon Kindornay — Researcher, NSI (Co-author)
Multilateral Development Cooperation: Current Trends and Future Prospects

Aniket Bhushan — Senior Researcher, NSI (Co-author)

Using the Canadian International Development Platform to Enhance Understanding of Multilateral Development Cooperation

MAIN SPONSOR: External Booking

CO-SPONSORS: The North-South Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs

Filed under Events by Carolyn Ursabia on February 9, 2012

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