Human Development by Farah Daghistani

1. Future. City. Life!
Human Development by Farah Daghistani, 8th October 2013

2. The Need for
People-Centred
Development in a
World in Transition
Farah
Daghistani
October 8, 2013

3. For the first time in 150 years, the
combined output of the developing
world’s three leading economies –
Brazil, China and India – is about
equal to the combined GDP of…
Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the
UK and US.
HDR
2013

4. Over the past decades,
countries across the world
have been converging
towards high levels of
human development.
HDR
2013

5. Every person has the right to
live a fulfilling life according
to his or her own values and
aspirations …. Inequality
reduces the pace of human
development and in some
cases may even prevent it
entirely.
HDR
2013

6. So, what is sustainable human
development? We define human
development as expanding the choices for
all people in society… it also means
“protection of the life opportunities for future
generations…and the natural systems on
which all life depends. This makes the
central purpose of development the
creation of an enabling environment in
which all can enjoy long, healthy and
creative lines.
HDR
2013

7. Governance can be seen as
the exercise of economic,
political and administrative
authority to manage a
country’s affairs at all levels.
UNDP

8. Good governance is … participatory,
transparent and accountable, it is
also effective and equitable… and it
promotes the rule of law. Good
governance ensures that political,
social and economic priorities are
based on broad consensus in
society and that the voices of the
poorest and the most vulnerable are
heard in decision – making over the
allocation of resources.
UNDP

9. Civil Society is situated
between state and market,
monitoring the powers and
roles of each to assure a
balance between them.
Ziad
Abdel
Samad,
Arab
NGO
Network

10. Dissa%sfac%on
is
on
the
rise
in
the
north
and
the
south
as
people
call
for
more
opportunity
to
voice
their
concerns
and
influence
policy.
HDR
2013

11. One cannot expect positive
results from an educational or
political action program which fails
to respect the particular view of
the world held by the people.
Such a program constitutes
cultural invasion, good intentions
notwithstanding.
Freire

22. If the structure does
not permit dialogue
the structure must
be changed.
Freire

23. No one has a monopoly on
good ideas, which is why
NYC will continue to learn
from the best practice of
other cities.
Mayor Bloomberg

24. The more radical the person is, the more fully
he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it
better, he or she can better transform it. This
individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to
see the world unveiled. This person is not
afraid to meet the people or to enter into
dialogue with them. This person does not
consider himself or herself the proprietor of
history or of all people, or the liberator of the
oppressed; but he or she does commit
himself or herself, within history, to fight at
their side.
Freire