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News Bulletins
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Occasional Papers
- Paper 1: Key Issues for Development
The "key issues" are drawn from nine sets of papers written by Bahá'ís,
Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jains, Jews, Muslims, Sikhs and Taoists
on the relationship of their faith to economics and their views on
priority criteria for development policies and practice.
Drawing from these issues, Paper 1 further discusses globalization,
equitable sharing, ecology, social networks, and the fact that development
encompasses much more than economic growth.
- Paper 2: Papers Presented at the World Bank's Consultation on the World Development Report 2000, Johannesburg, South Africa, January 1999.
Prof. Premasiri (Buddhist) and Matthew Weinberg (Bahá'í)
discuss values and poverty from the standpoint of their respective faiths.
Dr. Azim Lakhani (Ismaili Muslim) gives examples of how the Aga Khan
Development Network works to overcome social exclusion.
- Paper 3: A New Direction for World Development?
Wendy Tydale expands upon a similar paper entitled
"Understanding Poverty", which makes a detailed critique of the World Bank's
World Development Report. In this paper, she examines issues that include values,
moral education, the media, cultural diversity, the relationshop between the rich
and the poor, trade, risk sharing, international aid, the environment, work and
visions of development.
Paper 4: This is not available on our web site, as it was the World Bank’s own
introduction to the World Development Report 2000.
- Paper 5: Some brief extracts
from comments and articles received by the WFDD in the wake of the
attacks on the United States of 11 September 2001
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Publications
- WFDD – The Future
At the meeting of the Trustees on 12 December 2003,
the future of WFDD
will be discussed. Your opinions on the suggestions in
the staff’s paper would be very welcome.
- WFDD Contribution
to WDR 2004 "Making Services Work for Poor People"
Every year the World Bank publishes a World Development
Report (WDR) on a different topic. The topic for 2004 is Making Services
Work for Poor People.
The World Bank invited contributions from civil society on a
draft version of the report and held several consultations itself in different
parts of the world. WFDD sent delegates to three of them. Dr. Emma Tomalin
from the University of Leeds, UK, went to the consultation in London at the end
of 2002, Dr. Hanumappa Sudarshan, Director Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra
(Vivekananda Tribal Welfare Centre) in Karnataka, India, went to the one held in
Dhaka, Bangladesh from 22-23 January 2003 and Remigius Munyonyo, Senior Lecturer
Kyambogo University, Kampala, Uganda went to the consultation on 29 January 2003
in Kampala, Uganda.
WFDD then invited these three delegates, together with ten
other people, to a workshop at the International Education Centre of Canterbury
Cathedral from 22-23 February 2003. The aim was to gather together comments from
the point of view of different faith traditions as the basis for a WFDD
submission to the World Bank. In addition, WFDD had received about 40 comments
by e-mail from people from different continents, cultures and religious
backgrounds in response to a discussion paper on the draft WDR 2004, sent out at
the end of 2002.
The WFDD contribution was written up by Dr. Emma Tomalin and
submitted to the World Bank on 28 March (see WFDDWDR2004)
A WFDD staff member attended a further consultation on the
first full draft of the WDR 2004 in London on 2 April.
The participants at the WFDD workshop in Canterbury were:
- Revd. Karoly Beres, Director,
Ecumenical Humanitarian Organisation, Novi Sad, Serbia
- Dr. Mohan Isaac, Professor of
Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro
Sciences, Bangalore, India
- Revd. Dr. Colin Jones, Provincial
Executive Officer, Archbishop of Cape Town’s office, South
Africa
- Arnold Mhango, Executive Director,
Christian Service Committee of the Churches of Malawi
- Remigius Munyonyo, Senior Lecturer,
Kyambogo University, Kampala, Uganda
- Dr. Patricia Nickson, Liverpool
School of Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom and Institut
Panafricain de Santé Communautaire/Church Mission Society,
Congo
- Gill Paterson, writer and consultant
on health issues, UK
- Dr. Hanumappa Sudarshan, Director
Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra (Vivekananda Tribal
Welfare Centre), Karnataka, India
- Abdoul Hamidou Sy, Director ACAPES,
Senegal
- Revd. Prof. Michael Taylor, Director,
WFDD
- Dr. Emma Tomalin, Lecturer,
University of Leeds, UK
- Wendy Tyndale, Researcher, WFDD
- Dr. Tsegaye Berhe Woldu, Director, Child and Family Affairs Organisation, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- WFDD Work Plan 2003
This document describes how the work plan was
drawn up as well as providing a summary of its contents.
- Meeting of World Leaders on Faith and Development
October 6-8 2002 saw the third meeting of World Leaders on
Faith and Development. It took place at the Canterbury International Study
Centre in the Precincts of Canterbury Cathedral, UK. It was hosted jointly by
George Carey (then Archbishop of Canterbury, now retired) and James Wolfensohn
(President of the World Bank).
The agenda of the meeting was inspired by the same concerns
which have inspired the work of WFDD from the beginning. How can faith communities,
working together and in dialogue with major agencies like the World Bank,
maximise their contribution to poverty eradication and human development?
The discussions focused on the Millennium Development Goals
which aim to cut abject poverty in half by 2015; the scourge of HIV/AIDS;
empowering poor communities so that their voices are heard and they can be
influential participants in Poverty Reduction Strategies; and conflict.
- WFDD Report 2001-September 2002
This brief report gives an overview of the work
carried out in the transitional year 2001 and during the first
six months under the directorship of Michael Taylor
(until September 2002).
- WFDD Report on Poverty Reduction Strategy
Consultation
In July 2002 the WFDD hosted a conference in Canterbury,
England, to find out how far religious communities have been involved in the
drawing up of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) and to discuss ways
in which WFDD might encourage them to become more engaged with the process
of consultation about development policies in their own countries.
The PRSP are country-based strategies being drawn up
by governments together with civil society as a pre-requisite for receiving
debt relief and concessionary loans from the World Bank and the International
Monetary Fund. They thus provide a meeting point for religious communities
and the International Financial Institutions at the country level.
16 people from 15 different countries participated in
the conference, as well as consultants from Eurodad, the UK Department
for International Development and the World Bank. The discussion broadened
out far beyond the PRSP, with particular focus on the link made by
faith-based communities between spirituality and development.
- WFDD Team visits Malawi and Uganda
In May 2002, Michael Taylor and Wendy Tyndale visited Malawi
and Uganda with the aim of getting a first hand impression of the extent to
which the religious communities in these two countries have been involved
in the PRSP processes and what kind of contribution they have been making
to development in general. Discussions were held, too, on how, if at all,
the WFDD might encourage further religious participation in the processes
of national and international policy dialogue and advocacy work.
- WFDD Progress Report 1998-2000
This report gives a summary of the history of the WFDD
up to the end of 2000. It cannot include everything but it is an attempt
to record the first years of a unique attempt to bring the development
institutions and the faith communities into a constructive dialogue.
- Poverty and Development: An Interfaith Perspective
This small book is the summary of an interfaith comment
on the first draft of the World Bank’s World Development Report 2000:
Attacking Poverty. The multi-dimensional nature of poverty and the meaning
of true development are discussed from the standpoint of the faith communities.
No consensus is claimed, or even sought but a great deal of common ground
has been uncovered. The faith communities make challenging recommendations,
above all that development should be grounded on moral values and focused
on people, rather than on economic processes. They call for action,
for new alliances and for new visions and practice at this critical time
when we urgently need to change the way we order our lives and the world around us.
- Pauvreté et Developpement: Une Perspective Interreligieuse
- Pobreza e Desenvolvimento: Uma Perspectiva Inter-Religiosa
- Pobreza y Desarrollo: Una Perspectiva Inter-Religiosa
- Cultures, Spirituality and Development
This booklet puts forward the point of view that
development processes will only be successful - even in material terms -
if they take into consideration the cultural and spiritual dimensions
of people’s lives. With the help of examples from different places in
the world, it discusses some aspects of what this means in practice
and suggests some ways in which it may be done. The presentation is
often bold but there is no pretence at coming up with any final answers.
The aim is to open up a debate among our readers about these issues
which have often been ignored in the past because of their intangible
and sometimes sensitive nature.
Cultures, Spirituality and Development has been translated
into French and Spanish by Development In Practice on whose web site several
translations of other documents are to be found as well
(www.developmentinpractice.org):
- Cultures, spiritualité et développement
- Las culturas, la espiritualidad, y el desarrollo
These publications are available free from WFDD.
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