2015 European Year for Development “What global thinkers think about development” A K A P U S C I N S K I D E V E L O P M E N T L E C T U R E — M AY 7 , 2 0 1 5 Blind Spots of Development Policy: Deepa D eepa N Narayan arayan Rethinking Gender Inequality Deepa Narayan “gender inequality” Blind Spots of Development Policy: Rethinking Gender Inequality If development is about achieving human potential for the maximum number of people in the world, our current public policy approaches have a huge blind spot. Can public policy deal with millions of daily acts of violence that are perpetrated by millions of people on millions of other people in their daily lives? These limit human potential. Why is it considered reasonable to intervene when the Taliban in Afghanistan organizes to stop girls from attending school? And why do we hesitate when millions of girls are prevented from attending school by the private decision of millions of individual fathers who are spread over large areas? How can we address gender inequalities that still persist in rich countries and in poor countries? In the USA, with an overall ranking of 20 on the Gender Gap index (World Economic Forum), the pay gap between men and women will take a century to close. The United Nations may have already given up. In the current UN efforts on developing Sustainable Development Goals, gender equality is about the only goal that is not time bound, a direction without commitment. Given these difficulties, how long then will it take India with more than 500 million girls and women, and an overall ranking of 114 on the gender gap index, to achieve gender equality? culture, the public rather than private, and the external rather than internal in our policy thinking. We need to fundamentally challenge existing development policy and practice to achieve greater gender equality more quickly. This event is livestreamed at Drawing on data from the USA and new research on India, a case is made to reconsider the primacy given to economics rather than http://kapuscinskilectures.eu. Ask questions on Twitter using #KAPTalks. Kapuscinski Development Lecture May 7, 2015 Deepa Narayan, PhD Welcoming remarks from Development advisor and writer • John Shattuck, CEU President and Rector • Tamás Szűcs, Head of the European Commission Representation in Hungary • Mehmet Erdogan, Kapuscinski Development Lectures, UNDP Dr. Deepa Narayan has worked on global poverty issues for the last 25 years, with international organizations and civil society. From 2002 through 2008 she served as Senior Adviser to the Vice-President in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network of the World Bank in Washington, D.C. She serves on the Global Advisory Councils of the World Economic Forum. Narayan was named as one of 100 most influential global thinkers by the U.S. Foreign Policy magazine, as one of 35 great minds by India Today magazine in 2011, and one of 100 disruptive heroes to bring about changes in large organizations by Hackers Work (2013). Keynote speech by • Deepa Narayan, Development Advisor and Writer Discussion with the audience moderated by • Julia Buxton, SPP Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Programs; and Professor of Comparative Politics She has written over 15 books including the Voices of the Poor series for the World Bank. She is the author of the forthcoming book, Womanhood: Made in India (2016). [email protected] www.deepanarayan.com Hungary’s international development cooperation policies After the start of its political and economic transition in 1989, Hungary shifted from being a donor country to a recipient of foreign aid. In 2001, Hungary rejoined the international donor community with new international development policies, spurred by its OECD membership in 1996 and eventual accession to the EU in 2004. Hungary’s approach to international development cooperation (IDC) is based on “ad hoc and decentralized initiatives with a practice adapted to UN, DAC, and EU standards.”1 In 2013, the Hungarian government refined its IDC by issuing a strategy document on Hungarian IDC for 2014–2020. The strategy document acknowledges Hungary’s failure to meet official development assistance (ODA) targets and seeks to outline a strategy for Hungarian IDC in line with IDC strategies in the international community such as the Millennium Development Goals. It is not yet clear how this strategy will be implemented. Hungary targets development partnerships with countries that are “important to its foreign and security policy and foreign trade relations…that are well known to Hungarian economic and social actors.”2 Hungarian IDC is focused on sectors and activities in which Hungary believes it has a comparative advantage, including: • the transfer of Hungarian experience related to the change of political and economic systems; • intellectual capital; • education; • health and pharmaceutical production; • agriculture; • water management, planning, and consultancy; • infrastructure planning; • consultancy on environmental protection; • protection of cultural heritage; and • general and transportation engineering activity and cartography. Governmental Committee, an inter-ministerial forum, chaired by the Minister for Foreign Affairs. The committee is supported by an inter-ministerial Working Group of Experts. Institutions of Hungarian IDC3 The Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible for planning and coordinating Hungarian IDC and humanitarian aid through the International Development Cooperation Department. The main decision-making body for Hungarian IDC is the Development Cooperation The committee is also assisted by a Civil Advisory Board, comprising representatives from political parties, trade unions, employers’ associations, academic communities, civil organizations, and individual experts. The board is also tasked with increasing awareness in Hungarian society about issues related to IDC and humanitarian aid. HUN-IDA, a non-profit contractor employed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, implements IDC activities. ODA/GNI levels among Central and Eastern European donors5 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 0.10 0.11 0.11 0.12 0.11 0.12 0.12 0.12 Estonia — 0.05 0.08 0.09 0.08 0.10 0.10 — Hungary 0.03 0.06 0.11 0.13 0.08 0.08 0.10 0.09 Latvia 0.01 0.06 0.07 0.06 0.06 0.07 0.08 — Lithuania 0.01 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.11 0.11 0.11 — Poland 0.01 0.05 0.07 0.09 0.10 0.08 0.09 0.08 Romania — — — — — 0.08 0.09 — Slovakia 0.05 0.07 0.12 0.10 0.09 0.10 0.09 0.09 Slovenia — — 0.11 0.12 0.12 0.13 0.15 0.13 0.25 0.26 0.33 0.31 0.28 0.31 0.31 Czech Republic OECD DAC average Hungarian IDC flows Since rejoining the international donor community, Hungary has slowly increased aid levels. Hungarian’s official development assistance (ODA) as a share of gross national income (GNI) has stagnated in recent years, “a symptom of a more general lack of progress within Hungary’s international development policy.”4 Aid distribution channels Hungary provides the majority of its ODA through multilateral channels in the form of core and voluntary contributions to international organizations and funds. Partner countries based on Hungary’s medium-term Country Strategy Papers (CSPs) are Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Palestine, Serbia, and Vietnam. Based on international commitments, Hungary also provides bilateral aid to Afghanistan and Iraq. 1. “Hungarian Policy For International Development Cooperation (IDC),” Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, http://www.mfa. gov.hu/NR/exeres/184E9815-2519-4DB0ABC4-3AB8AE1D2042.htm Hungary also provides project-based bilateral aid to countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Cambodia, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Macedonia, Mongolia, Montenegro, Ukraine, and Yemen. These projects are often focused on technical assistance with the goal of sharing knowledge and experience. 4. Szent-Ivanyi, Balazs, “Hungarian international development co-operation: context, stakeholders and performance,” Corvinus University, http://unipub.lib. uni-corvinus.hu/687/1/Szent-Ivanyi_PEPS_ special_issue.pdf 2. Ibid. 3. Paraphrased from “Inspired by Experience: Hungarian Development Cooperation,” Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, http://www.mfa.gov.hu/NR/rdonlyres/ 09524B2E-76D7-4DCC-ADF6-67D3E1A14 FA7/0/InspiredByExperience.pdf 5. Ibid. About the Kapuscinski Development Lectures Top global thinkers discuss development in the European Union countries. The series “Kapuscinski Development Lectures,” named for Ryszard Kapuscinski, a Polish reporter and writer who covered developing countries, is organized jointly by the European Commission, the United Nations Development Programme, and partner universities and development think tanks. Over 60 lectures have gathered over 20,000 participants since 2009. From October 2014 to December 2015, the lectures organized in all EU member states contribute specifically to development policy debates as part of the European Year for Development 2015. The lecture series offers students from the European Union member states an unprecedented opportunity to learn about and discuss development issues such as climate change, human rights, aid effectiveness, Europe-Africa relations, and Millennium Development Goals among others. The high-level events contribute to the debate and formulation of European development policy. The lectures are livestreamed at www.kapuscinskilectures.eu, and their content is shared on this website. VISIT www.kapuscinskilectures.eu to learn more about the Kapuscinski Development Lectures and future events. “our world our dignity our future” The lectures honor the name of Kapuscinski, a Polish journalist and writer, who died in 2007. Kapuscinski, whose books were translated into many languages, was often named the “Third World Chronicler” or the “Voice of the Poor” for his famous reports and books describing developing countries on all continents. Among other books, he was famous for The Emperor about Ethiopia, Shah of Shahs about Iran, The Shadow of the Sun about Africa, Another Day of Life about Angola, and Imperium about the Soviet Union. Deepa Narayan’s lecture is a joint initiative of the European Commission, the United Nations Development Programme, and the School of Public Policy at Central European University. The project is funded by the European Commission. About SPP The School of Public Policy (SPP) at Central European University (CEU) is committed to the values of public service and the promotion of open societies through interdisciplinary research, innovative teaching, and engagement with policy practice. Our goal is to empower students by giving them the knowledge and skills they will need to effect positive change for the common good in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. About CEU CEU is an English-language, graduate university in Budapest, Hungary. It is accredited in the United States and Hungary. 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