 | Background |
DFID hosted a lively and engaging side event during the World Summit for Sustainable
Development in Johannesburg, in September 2002. The event aimed to provide insight
into a positive vision of socially sustainable development. Seven stories from
around the world drew out the elements of this positive vision as well as the
tensions in achieving socially sustainable development.  Outline
The
event was an interview-based panel discussion of the stories. Clare
Short, UK Secretary of State for International Development, Ian
Johnson, World Bank Vice President for Sustainable Development, Ravi
Naidoo, Director, National Labour and Economic Development Institute, South
Africa and Zahin Ahmed, Friends in Village Development,
Bangladesh, assessed these examples and drew out lessons that can be applied more
generally to promoting socially sustainable development.
Briefings
and Case Studies
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| Outcomes |
Meeting report
A report detaliling the debate which emerged during the panel, and which
summarises the key issues that were raised.
| | | Report
on Negotiating Social Sustainability Panel
| PDF | Word |
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Follow-up Event
DFID and The Countryside Agency held a lunchtime debate and workshop
entitled 'Social Sustainability Workshop: Enhancing Local/Neighbourhood Economic
Development' as a follow up to the Panel, in February 2003.
For
more information see the UK
Lessons page.
| Contact
| Julie
Thomas or Tamsyn Barton
Email:
j-thomas@dfid.gov.uk and t-barton@dfid.gov.uk
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