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Social Innovation Competition 2021 – Jury Announcement
HDRI is thrilled to present to you all the the jury for this years Social Innovation Competition ! THE JURY ▪️ Mélanie Samson – holds a PhD in international law with a focus on global public health. Currently, she’s a senior manager at the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). ▪️ Daniel Benamouzig – currently directs Sciences Po’s Health…
HealthFactory’s Hacking Health Camp – Social Innovation Competition 2021 Prize Announcement
With fantastic prizes in the process of being announced, sign up now to our Social Innovation Competition ! THE PRIZE If you’re still on the fence, we wanted to let you know about one of the fantastic prizes for the winners: a place at next year’s edition of the HealthFactory.io Hacking Health Camp ! The SOCIAL INNOVATION…
Podcast – Let’s Talk About Development Eps 2 Practical Environmentalism
HDRI is excited to announce its first ever podcast series “Let’s Talk About Development”. Through a series of interviews and conversations we will tackle several topics from GBV to mobilizations and inequalities based on real-life experiences and stories. As the impacts of climate change intensify with each passing year, more and more young people are…
Podcast – Let’s Talk About Development Eps 1 #SciencesPorcs
HDRI is excited to announce its first ever podcast series “Let’s Talk About Development”. Through a series of interviews and conversations we will tackle several topics from GBV to mobilizations and inequalities based on real-life experiences and stories. By the hand of Lara Haoudi and Lilou Berenguier, this first episode aims to explore the #SciencesPorcs…
Social Innovation Competition 2021 – Jury Announcement
HDRI is thrilled to present to you all the the jury for this years Social Innovation Competition ! THE JURY ▪️ Mélanie Samson – holds a PhD in international law with a focus on global public health. Currently, she’s a senior manager at the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). ▪️ Daniel Benamouzig – currently directs Sciences Po’s Health…
Will 30 seconds ever be enough?
All it took for me to find my role-model was a hair clip. A girl with the same hair clip. The key to identification is hidden in the smallest details. But giving the possibility to identify is a hard struggle that should never be abandoned, but always taken into consideration. Alice Chempf, March 8th 2021…
Registrations for the Social Innovation Competition 2021 are now open !
This year’s theme for the social innovation competition is Global Health ! As a guiding framework, we are proposing three subtopics: Access to healthcareHealth & technologyMental health Of course, these are not exclusive topics but rather a starting point for you to begin growing your ideas. Intersectional proposals are more than welcome as they provide…
HDRI partners with the European Student Think Tank
We are proud to announce our new partnership with the European Student Think Tank ! THE PARTNERSHIP The European Student Think Tank is a student-led NGO whose purpose is to involve young Europeans in the EU policy-making process, empower them to make use of their EU level rights and to promote the values of and…
HDRI Brings You HDRI’s Friends Program
HDRI wants YOU ! HDRI’S VISION HDRI’s main goal is to generate new policy ideas to advance social change. In order to re imagine development towards a more inclusive, just and sustainable society, we need your help! We are looking for passionate collaborators to join us in the context of specific missions in order to…
Gender Equality: A Data and Policy Dialogue – From the Beijing Declaration to the Covid19 Pandemic and Beyond
25 years after the adoption of Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 2020 was meant to be a milestone for reducing the gender gap, but in fact we might be witnessing a dramatic backstep in the achievement of gender equality and SDG number five. As part of their global politics series, UN DESA hosted a…
What it means to address Global Health in the research field – Words from HDRI’s Global Health Research Coordinator
There is no global prosperity without global healthVincenzo Lorusso It is very timely for the “Human Development Research Initiative (HDRI)” to dedicate a full stream of its research to Global Health. An inevitable as much as a necessary decision, in these changing times when health-related issues are so inextricably intertwined with all the other development…
Economic Partnership Agreements: Losing policy space
We are pleased to share the research paper of Dr Andrew Ssemwanga as an external contribution to the HDRI. It has been presented at the Regional Policy Forum on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) in 2011. Download the study Abstract The general objective of this paper was to find out whether the EAC Partner states could…
International entrepreneurship in Rwanda
We are pleased to share the research paper of Dr Andrew Ssemwanga and Mr David Gatoya as an external contribution to the HDRI. It is formally entitled Factors that influence the role of expatriates in international entrepreneurship: a case study of Rwanda. Download the study Abstract International entrepreneurship is considered by many to have a great…
HDRI’s work published in UNESCO’s Inclusivity Policy Lab
HDRI’s research paper on “Internally displaced people and their access to health care in the metropolis – the case of Bogota” is now available on UNESCO’s Inclusivity Policy Lab. Our team’s work offers recommendations to inform municipal and national policies to improve health care access for internally displaced people. In many ways, these issues expand…
HDRI Celebrates Women’s Day
The Strategic Watch team is glad to share that it will be celebrating International Women’s Day with a special edition! The collaborative report by all members will focus on the role of women in public spaces, from politics to the workplace to international forums, with the aim of shedding light on their important experiences as…
HDRI gets published on the UNESCO Website!
HDRI’s publication is now available on the UNESCO website! Through a strong collaboration with the UNESCO’s Inclusive Policy Lab, we have created a dedicated team, the “Inclusivity Lab”, which will be contributing, at its own scale, to the collective reflection that UNESCO is building towards more inclusive and multicultural cities around the world. Like the…
HDRI @ Je M’Engage
“This city is yours, this house is yours, and without you, Paris would be nothing. Thank you so much for your commitment.” – Mayor Anne Hidalgo This past week HDRI paricipated in the Paris’ “Je M’Engage” event at the Paris City Hall and had the opportunity to connect with many other active and like-minded individuals…
The HDRI Open Space: A platform for young scholars
The HDRI Open Space is a series of events which grants young scholars, individually, a stage to present their original research to an interested audience — a rare occasion in the Sciences Po community. This opportunity is now open to all those with strong motivation and research work on any topic related to human development.…
Earth Overshoot Day
Earth Overshoot Day recognized August 2nd as the day the world’s population has collectively consumed all of the renewable resources our planet has to offer. Let’s #movethedate together, by pledging to consume less and consume better today! Look here for ideas on how you can contribute: http://www.overshootday.org/
Filmscreening of Demain: Event Review by Daniela Castaño
Attending the film event organized by HDRI was not only personally enriching but also encouraging for all attendees that day. The opportunity to gather among so many different nationalities and cultural origins allowed us to share many different points of view centering on a goal: create change to achieve sustainability for the future. In the…
Get to know us: the Urban Governance & Sustainability research group
The group has been actively engaged over the past few months. Beginning in October, they have been working to build an extensive understanding of the theoretical landscape of urban sustainability and governance. They have studied a number of articles and discussed their values, or lack thereof, in enriching the debate. This research has ultimately contributed…
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