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Wellbeing:Challenges
to International Development-
lunchtime seminar at the Palace of Westminster
The Wellbeing in Developing Countries (WeD) research group
held a lunchtime seminar, Wellbeing:
Challenges to International Development, at the Palace
of Westminster on 21st February 2008, to disseminate the
key findings from their five-year research
programme. In this seminar, four briefing
papers were presented
which argue that international development needs a practical
concept of wellbeing if it is to reach and then go beyond the
Millennium Development Goals to confront the major and interlinked
challenges of poverty, conflict and sustainability.
The seminar was chaired by Rt Hon John Battle
MP, chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Overseas
Development (APGOOD), with Simon Maxwell, Director of the
Overseas Development Institute (ODI) as a discussant.
The key findings from the WeD research
are discussed in the briefing papers and include the need
for the integration of wellbeing audits into development
practice. These
audits are a means of engaging with the realities of the
lives of poor people and more effectively promoting the factors
that enable people and communities to thrive. Adopting this
wellbeing perspective and approach changes how we think about
development policy and forces us to ask: ‘How are we
to live together in our neighbourhoods, and nation states,
and in the global community?’
For
more information, please contact Dr Allister McGregor: [email protected]
Briefing Papers
Press release available
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