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This presentation identifies opportunities to strengthen South-South Knowledge Management in the field of social policy. It discusses the Global South Development Context and the Issue of Knowledge Inequities with an aim to address the following challenges: (i) How to strengthen knowledge management mechanisms for effective policy design and implementation towards inclusive growth?; and (ii) How to enhance South-South policy dialogue frameworks that reflect the new balances of power in a changing global governance environment?.
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Knowledge Management
for Innovation inSocial Policy
Francisco FilhoCommunications Officer International Policy Centre
for Inclusive Growth IPC-IG
Comparative Research and Knowledge Sharing for Inclusive Growth
II National Development Conference (CODE)
Brasilia, 24 November 2011
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1 - The Global South ContextInclusive GrowthEconomic Governance South-South Cooperation
2 - The Inequality IssuePoverty and ‘The Excluded South’Global Knowledge Inequities
3 - Addressing the Gaps Alternatives in Policy DiscoursePolicy Dialogue and ExchangesNews and Media Outreach
Knowledge Management for Innovation in Social Policy: Outline
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Main challenges:
How to strengthen knowledge management mechanisms for effective policy design and implementation towards inclusive growth?
How to enhance South-South policy dialogue frameworks that reflect the new balances of power in a changing global governance environment?
Knowledge Management for Innovation in Social Policy: Outline
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Social policy innovations in the South:
Cash Transfers, Public Works, Food Security and Smallholder Agriculture
MDG Progress Sub-Saharan Countries Leading MDG A
chievements
Poverty and Inequality Reduction 26 million Brazilians left poverty betwee
n 2004 and 2009
Inclusive Growth
The Global South Context
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Profound and Multidimensional Crises in the
North The Euro Zone Needs a ‘Chock’ of Idea
s
Lack of effective and innovative policy responses to the crises in the ‘developed world’ Traditional neoliberal ‘recommendations’
being now directed towards Europe Reform of the Bretton Woods Institutions?
Economic Governance
The Global South Context
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The Emerging Donors and New Trends
Brazil: 129% increase in the funds for international development cooperation
The Same Old Game or a New Paradigm
Growing demands for South-South policy dialogue on inclusive growth-related areas
South-South Cooperation
The Global South Context
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Think Tanks Distribution
Global ‘Go-To Think Tanks’ Report 2010 North America and Europe: 57% USA: 1816 Brazil: 81 South Africa: 85 India: 292
World Impact of Scientific Output 2000-2010 (ISI/Thomsons Reuters) Brazil:0.62% India: 0.53 % South Africa: 0.74 %
Global Knowledge Inequalities
The Inequality Issue
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Global Poverty Trends and The New Bottom
Billion
1990: 93 % of the poor in low-income countries
2008: 75 % of the poor in middle-income countries
2008: 25% of the poor in 39 low-income countries
Poverty and ‘The Excluded South’
The Inequality Issue
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Knowledge Production and Management to give voice to a New Development Agenda from the South
Key Policy Areas
Social Protection and Employment for Inclusive Growth
Rural Development and Food Security
Green Inclusive Sustainable Development
Addressing the Gaps
Alternatives in Policy Discourse
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Policy Dialogue Platforms in and for the South
India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA)
UNASUR
ALBA
MERCOSUR
Study Tours and Learning Exchanges
Inclusive Growth Annual Conferences
Addressing the Gaps
Policy Dialogue and Exchanges
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The Poor in the Media: Are development innovations contributing to national policy debate and agenda?
Coverage of the poor by the main daily news programmes under an empowering perspective (percentage of the total time):
Brazil: 7%
South Africa: 9%
Mexico: 6%
Argentina: 13%
Addressing the Gaps
News and Media Outreach
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Obrigado!
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Photos: Humanizing Development Global Photography Campaign,
IPC-IG
Knowledge Sharing for Innovation in Social Policy