UNDP EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETINGAGENDA ITEM 5

Human Development ReportNew York, 11 June 2013

Timely and relevant – presenting a human development perspective to global change and overall progress Considerable interest and policy discussions

• Online • Special events

Spring time launch reverts to earlier timeline and longer ‘shelf-life’

HDR 2013

Key findings

• A dramatically changing, more connected world• Rapid and strong human development across the world – significant

human progress in low HDI countries; sharp rise of the middle class• Key success factors

- Proactive developmental states- Tapping global markets- Social policy innovations

• Historic opportunity to sustain human progress through promoting equity, voice and accountability

• Need for aligning existing global governance structures to new realities; specific proposals on new mechanisms to broaden and sustain progress

HDR 2013

Consultations covered: – 6 regions, diverse constituencies, ExB informals

Global launch in Mexico with President Enrique Peña Nieto and UNDP Administrator Helen Clark

• Wide global and regional media coverage • More than 40 major launches and special events so far with

leading policymakers, advocates and media

HDR 2013 editions published in 21 languages• Full reports in the 6 official UN languages plus German, Hindi,

Japanese and Portuguese• Summaries in Basque, Bengali, Danish, Farsi, Italian, Khmer,

Korean, Norwegian, Swahili, Swedish and Vietnamese

HDR 2013

Online HDR impact• A record 640,000 website visitors in the month after the global launch,

with total visits likely to exceed 4 million in 2013• Web-page views of 2013 HDR reached a record 1.6 million in one week

after the launch• Social media: in the first month-HDR Facebook page visited by record

333,000 people and first global tweeting campaign reached several million

Extensive coverage by international news media• TV news/discussion on Al Jazeera, CNN, Univision, others• Substantial coverage in major wire services/newspapers: The Economist,

Financial Times, Guardian, The Hindu, Le Monde, New York Times, El Pais, South China Morning Post, others

• Media focused on the topic and report messages rather than HDI rankings

HDR 2013 LAUNCH – GLOBAL UPTAKE

Human Development analysis & policy influence

• Regional and National Human Development Reports influence policy discussions at regional/national levels and contribute to agenda setting

• Update of R/NHDR guidance note to strengthen UNDP support system for quality assurance

• 16 national and 3 regional reports launched over the last year, with 32 national and 3 regional reports under preparation

• Global Human Development Forum initiated for high level policy dialogue and agenda setting. The first took place in March 2012 in Istanbul (on 2011 report) and the next one planned for autumn 2013 (on the 2013 report)

• Special events like the Flagship Forum in Berlin 12-13 June hosted by the German Govt on the 2013 report further dialogue on key issues

DEEPENING GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Strengthening partnerships

• Deepening existing and developing new partnerships with academic institutions to broaden and link research and teaching on human development

Measurement

• Regular review of Human Development Indices with experts from the statistical/development community

• Involvement of eminent partners, such as Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Jean-Paul Fitoussi

DEEPENING DIALOGUE ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

HDR 2014

Reducing vulnerabilities and deepening progress

Consultations

• As for the 2013 report, HDRO plans extensive consultations for the 2014 report:

- Diverse constituencies: participants from governments, academia, civil society

- Regional balance: Africa, South and East Asia, Latin and North America, Arab States, Europe

• Advice from distinguished members of the Advisory and Statistics Panel

• Informal briefing with EB in October/November

• Given emerging human/financial resource constraints, piggy backing on ‘like’ events (HDCA conference in Managua, Global Human Development Forum, etc.) and pursue co-sponsoring of key consultations (e.g. the East Asia consultation with JICA in March 2013)

HDR 2014

Why this topic? Why now?

• Vulnerability is of universal relevance – need for a better understanding to deepen human development progress

• HDR 2014 will focus on deepening human progress by reducing vulnerabilities (and strengthening resilience)

• Re-visit inter-related subject of human security in the context of changing vulnerabilities due to rapidly transforming, more connected world

• Highly relevant for the post-2015 agenda discussion

• Report will identify the underlying factors contributing to vulnerability, assess the policy actions and institutional arrangements critical to increasing resilience

HDR 2014

The concept

• To reduce vulnerabilities, capabilities, both individual and societal, have to be enhanced at the national and global level

• Reducing vulnerabilities is essential for making human development progress more robust (resilient)

• The HDR 2014 will introduce the concept of ‘structural vulnerabilities’, which pose complex long-term challenges to societies

- Focus on vulnerabilities caused by structural contexts that make some individuals or groups more vulnerable than others – what prevents them from taking advantage of available opportunities?

• Explore ‘life cycle’ capabilities, e.g. nutrition and nurture, pre-natal and from 0-3 years, has profound impacts on life-long learning and health outcomes

• To analyze policies and institutional arrangements that help reduce vulnerabilities in different areas of human life

HDR 2014

Thank you!http://hdr.undp.org/en/