The Millenium Development Goals: Taking stock of progress and imagining development directions beyon

Hosted by: AIIA ACT

The event will start on: Tuesday, 21 February 2012 5:30 PM

And will end on: Tuesday, 21 February 2012 7:00 PM

At Stephen House, Canberra

32 Thesiger Court, Deakin , Canberra ACT

(02) 6232 4978     act.branch@aiia.asn.au

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In the year 2000 the United Nations General Assembly agreed to work towards a set of Millenium Development Goals by 2015.  The year 2015 is now nearing and debate is beginning about what the MDGs have achieved to date, as well as what should happen after 2015.  In recent years development has been faced by four crises: financial, food , fuel, and climate change, and these have caused setbacks in progress towards the global goals. Chronic poverty and marginalisation along with widening inequality remain major challenges to improving wellbeing for all the world’s people.  In this talk I want to take stock of the MDG global initiative and sketch out some of the issues and challenges ahead for development.

Janet Hunt is a Fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) at the Australian National University where she conducts research and lectures in Australian Indigenous Development.  Prior to this, Janet was a senor lecturer in International and Community Development at Deakin University and Program Coordinator, International Development at RMIT University and a freelance development consultant.  From 1995-2000 she was Executive Director of the Australian Council for Overseas Aid, the peak body of international development NGOs in Australia, and prior to that was Executive Director of the International Women’s Development Agency, based in Melbourne.  She has served on a number of Ministerial Advisory Committees.  Her PhD research, for which she won the Vice Chancellor’s Award, is about nongovernment organisations in East Timor and she continues her interest in NGOs as a member of AusAID’s NGO accreditation panel, and as a member of the Independent Reference Group for the international NGO Accountability Charter.  She is currently a Chief Investigator of a major international research project supported by the Australian Research Council, on developing a new gender-sensitive poverty measure.  She is also a co-author of “International Development: Issues and Challenges”, published by Palgrave.