Right to Development Agenda - Measurement & Human Rights, Harvard Kennedy School

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OHCHR

OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS
HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

PROGRAM ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN DEVELOPMENT
Harvard School of Public Health

MHR MEASUREMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM
Harvard Kennedy School
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

EXPERT CONSULTATION
ON ELABORATION OF CRITERIA AND OPERATIONAL SUB-CRITERIA
FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT

By Invitation only

17-18 December 2009

Harvard Kennedy School
Bell Hall-5th Floor Belfer Building,
Cambridge, MA

Provisional programme o

Thursday 17 December 2009
9 - 9:30 a.m.	Registration of participants
9:30 - 9:45 a.m.	Welcome and opening of the meeting Carr Center for Human rights Policy
	Mandate of the high-level task force and perspective on the right to development in the United Nations Ayuush Bat-Erdene, Officer-in-Charge, Right to Development Unit, Development and Economic and Social Issues Branch, Research and Right to Development Division, United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
9:45 - 10:00 a.m.	Expectations of the consultation Stephen Marks, Director, Program on Human Rights in Development and Chair, High Level Task Force Andrea Rossi, Director, Measurement and Human Rights Program
10:45 - 11:15 a.m.	“Bringing Theory into Practice” Susan Randolph, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Connecticut Maria Green, Assistant Professor of Human Rights and Development, Brandeis University
11:15 - 11:30 a.m.	Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 p.m.	Plenary discussion of the report and methodological issues relating to what is being measured Chair: Eibe Riedel (TBC)
1 - 2.00 p.m.	Lunch break
2:00 - 2:45 p.m.	Critical review and suggestions for the refinement of the criteria and indicators Chair: Eibe Riedel (TBC)
2:45 - 3:45 p.m.	Collective obligations of states
	Working group I: Detailed examination of the draft criteria Chair: Rajeev Malhotra (TBC)
	Working Group II: Detailed examination of the draft indicators Chair: Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
3:45 – 4:15 p.m	Plenary discussion to reconcile recommendations of Working Groups I and II
4.15 - 4.30 p.m.	Coffee/tea break
4:30 – 5:30 p.m	Individual obligations of states towards those under their jurisdiction
	Working group I: Detailed examination of the draft criteria Chair: Helen Potts (TBC)
	Working Group II: Detailed examination of the draft indicators Chair: Felix Kirchmeier
6:00 – 6:10 p.m.	Plenary discussion to reconcile recommendations of Working Groups I and II and preparation for day two
7:30 – 9:30 p.m.	Dinner

Friday 18 December 2009
9:00 – 11:00 a.m	Individual obligations of states towards those not under their jurisdiction
	Working group I: Detailed examination of the draft criteria Chair: Helen Potts (TBC) Working Group II: Detailed examination of the draft indicators Chair: Felix Kirchmeier (TBC)
11:00 – 11:15 a.m	Plenary discussion to reconcile recommendations of Working Groups I and II
11:15 – 11:30	Coffee/tea break
11.30 – 12.30 a.m	Plenary discussion of the relation between MDG8-specific criteria and a comprehensive and coherent set of guidelines on implementation of the right to development Chair: Ayuush Bat-Erdene
2:00 – 5:00 p.m	Consideration of revised criteria and indicators and next steps Chair: Ayuush Bat-Erdene
3:45 - 4.00 p.m	Coffee break
5 – 5.30 p.m.	Closing