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Presentation of the Human Development Report 2009
WMO
14 October 2009
This year, the Office of the United Nations Development Programme in Geneva is partnering with the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies for the presentation of the Human Development Report 2009. The annual report ranks most countries around the world in terms of their human development, and presents a particular theme related to the human condition. The theme of this year’s report is "Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development".
The main message of the Report, which will be officially launched in Bangkok on 5 October, is that migration has the potential to enhance human development while benefiting both source and destination communities. The report states that governments can and should take steps to assure that migrants are successfully integrated. Yet, as the Report shows, policy and other barriers constrain movement, and also lead to disparities in the gains and costs of migration. By examining policies with a view to expanding people’s freedoms rather than controlling or restricting human movement, the report argues that, when tailored to country-specific contexts, these changes can amplify human mobility’s already substantial contributions to human development.
The report will be presented to the public in Geneva on 14 October, in Salle A, Ground Floor of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). A welcome coffee will be served at 10:30 am.
Programme
10:30-11:00 Welcome coffee
11:00-12:15
Panel presentation
Introduction: Ms. Cécile Molinier
Presentation of the Report by Ms.Jeni Klugman, HDRO Director, UNDP
Discussants
- Mr. Jeff Crisp, Head of Policy and Development Evaluation, UNHCR
- Ms. Michele Klein Solomon, Director of Migration Policy and Research Department, IOM
- Mr. Ibrahim Awad, Director of International Migration, ILO
- Mr. Vincent Chetail, Professor, Graduate Institute of International & Development Studies
- Ms. Susan Thieme, Head of Research on Migration in Central Asia, University of Zurich
12:20-13:00 Questions & Answers
Mr. Michel Carton, Vice Director, Graduate Institute of International & Development Studies (Moderator)
To attend, please RSVP to salwa.al-dalati@undp.org
