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28 June 2000
Geneva, Switzerland
 

UNESCO’s MOST (Management of Social Transformations) Programme, CROP (the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty), and the ISSC (International Social Science Council) organized a joint symposium in Geneva (Switzerland), 28 June 2000. It took place in the context of the United Nations General Assembly’s Special Session on « Copenhagen +5 ».

The symposium was entitled « Social Capital Formation in Poverty Reduction: Which Role for the Civil Society Organizations and the State ? », and was open to the public.

Publication of the proceedings of the Symposium. Read more ... (PDF file, 438 Kb) 

Programme

Francine Fournier – Introduction
Assistant Director-General of UNESCO’s Sector of Social and Human Sciences

Else Øyen – Social Capital Formation as a Poverty Reducing Strategy ?
Past President of the International Social Science Council and Chair of CROP

Miquel Darcy de Oliveira – Presentation
Member of the Council of Comunidade Solidaria and Coordinator of the National Programme of Volunteer Work in Brazil.

Faith Innerarity – Comments to Øyen’s and Oliveria’s presentations
Director of Social Security in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Jamaica

Michael Woolcock – Social Capital in Theory and Practice: Reducing Poverty by Building Partnerships Between States, Markets and Civil Society Organizations
Social scientist with the Development Research Group at the World Bank ; also adjunct-lecturer in public policy at Harvard University

Sanjeev Prakash – Social Capital and the Rural Poor: What can Policies and Civic Actors do?
Director of the Environment, Technology and Institutional Consultants in New Dehli, India

Faith Innerarity – Comments to Woolcock’s and Prakash’ presentations

Else Øyen – Summary of the discussion

Francine Fournier – Closure of the Symposium

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