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Education as a Driver towards Poverty Alleviation, Sustainable Economic Growth, and Reducing Inequality| Workshop Partner |
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The CEE-GIDR workshop looked at three key Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) namely (SDG-1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere; SDG-8:Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all; and, SDG-10: Reduce inequality within and among countries). The common thread running through these themes are equal access to opportunities to the most vulnerable analysed through the prism of the education as a driver for change.
Specifically the workshop focused on:
- Education as a driver to create sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international levels based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies to support accelerated investment. (Target 1b)
- Education as a driver for achieving high economic productivity through diversification, upgraded technologies and innovation. Promoting development related policies using education as a driver to support productive activities, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation and encouraging the formalization and growth of micro- small- and medium-sized enterprises (Target 8.2, 8.3, and 8.9). These goals are to be achieved through appropriate skill and entrepreneurship development with the help of suitable policies aimed towards creation of jobs that promote local culture and products by 2030.
- By the same target year, the other goals envisage that the poor and vulnerable to have equal rights for economic resources and have control over land and other forms of property and natural resources. In this context, laws, policies and practices are to be discussed that aim toward building resilience which may reduce the exposure and vulnerability of the poor to climate related extreme events, environmental shocks and disasters. (Target 1.4, 1.5 and 10.3)
Workshop Activities and Outcomes
The workshop shared innovative cases, approaches, strategies and learning in how education has been as been a driver of change toward the specific outcomes. This involved identifying initiatives, means, strategies for scaling up experiments and good practices. These processes also facilitated creation of networks of policy makers and practitioners working on these goals to explicitly identify the possible areas where education could be driver to achieve the ends.
CEE Focal point: Rejini Simpson, Annie Gregory
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Workshop Sessions
Time/Date |
11/1/2016 (Monday) |
12/1/2016 (Tuesday) |
13/1/2016 (Wednesday) |
0800-0900 |
Registration |
Registration |
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0930-1045 |
Inaugural Plenary |
Plenary 2 |
Session V Sunita Narain, Director, Centre for Science and Environment Apoorva Oza, Chief Executive at Aga Khan Rural Support Programme(India) |
1045-1115 |
Tea Break |
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1115-1315 |
Plenary 1 |
Session III Keshab Das, Professor, Gujarat Institute of Development Research Meera Goradia, Director, KHAMIR Dinesh Awasthi, Visiting Professor, Sardar Patel Institute of Economic and Social Research |
Session VI R.Parthasarathy, Director, Gujarat Institute of Development Research Ashoke Chatterjee, Former Leela Visaria, Honorary Professor, Gujarat Institute of Development Research Kiran Desai, Senior Programme Director, Centre for Environment Education |
1115-1430 |
Lunch Break |
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1430-1445 |
Inaugural by Yoginder K Alagh, Chancellor of Central University, Gujarat |
Session IV P. Sivakumar, Assistant Professor Jayanti Ravi, IAS, Commissioner Principal Secretary, Rural Development, Govt. of Gujarat |
High Tea |
1445-1600 |
Session I Leela Visaria, Honorary Professor, Gujarat Institute of Development Research Chandrika Bahadur, Director, Education Initiatives, United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UNSDSN) |
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1600-1630 |
Tea Break |
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1630-1730 |
Session II Shilpa Vasavada, Convenor, Working Group for Women and Land Ownership Kishore Joshi, Professor of the Economics of Higher Education, MK Bhavnagar University |
Plenary 3 |
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* Workshops’ Recommendations are in the draft stage, and open to comments and feedback.