Welcome
The Human Development Initiative (HDI) aims to promote and foster development education, produce quality research in partnership with southern universities and raise awareness of contemporary development issues through various outreach programmes. It is comprised of an inter disciplinary group of academics, researchers and students whose work focuses on contemporary development issues.
Upcoming Events
The Dublin Kapuscinski Lecture – 'Climate Change and Development' on 31st May 2011 at 1700-1900 in the UCD John Hume Global Ireland Institute.
Professor Dirk Messner will deliver the keynote lecture. Jan Szczycinski (UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre) will chair. Professor Messner is the Director of the German Development Institute, Bonn, Professor of Political Science at the University Duisburg-Essen and a Member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU).
Contact:
Jan Szczycinski, UNDP, Email: jan.szczycinski@undp.org, Website: http://ec.europa.eu/development/services/events/kapuscinski, http://europeandcis.undp.org/go/lectures
Africa Day "Investing in Africa: Society, Agriculture and Enterprise":
Wednesday 25th May • 2.30pm – 4.30pm
Davis Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
This event is hosted by Trinity International Development Initiative (TIDI) and the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) at Trinity College Dublin, Self Help Africa and University College Dublin.
Irish Aid, Ireland’s official aid programme to developing countries, is delighted to support events marking Africa Day. The focus of Ireland’s aid programme is the fight against poverty and exclusion in some of the world’s least developed countries, particularly in Africa.
This conference will be addressed by distinguished speakers:
Dr. Marcela Villarreal
(Food and Agriculture Organization)
Kalongo Chitengi
(Self Help Africa, Zambia)
Prof. Margaret Kigozi
(Uganda Investment Authority)
Dr. Eoin Gahan
(Forfás)
Prof. Keith Palmer
(AgDevCo)
Opening Address:
H.E. Catherine Muigai Mwangi Kenyan Ambassador
Jan O’Sullivan Minister of State for Trade and Development
Chaired by:
Charlie Bird Chief News Correspondent, RTE
