LUNCHTIME SEMINAR AND SIDE EVENT GUIDE 4th OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy Measuring Well-Being for Development and Policy Making

16-19 October 2012 New Delhi, India

Measuring Well-Being for Development and Policy Making 16-19 October 2012, Ashok Convention Centre, New Delhi, India

Lunchtime Seminar and Side Event Guide

Lunchtime Seminars

Lunchtime Seminar: Networks – Well-Being Here, There and Everywhere – Regional Participation to a Global Movement ...... 2

Lunchtime Seminar: Measuring in Education ...... 2 Lunchtime Seminar: by the Human Development Report Office, Development Programme ...... 3

Lunchtime Seminar: India Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) ...... 3 Lunchtime Seminar: Big Data – Big Time? Statistical Capacity Building 2.0 ...... 3

Lunchtime Seminar: Open Data for Development ...... 4 Lunchtime Seminar: The OECD Better Life Initiative ...... 4

Lunchtime Seminar: Will a Greener Growth Path Head Off a Rather Brown Future?...... 5 Lunchtime Seminar: The Regional and Urban Dimension of Well-Being: Improving Measurement and Policy Making ...... 5

Lunchtime Seminar: The Measurement of Economic Performance: Alternative Approaches ...... 6 Side Events

Side Event: Global Progress Research Network (GPRNet) Strategic Workshop ...... 7 Side Event: Social Cohesion in a Shifting World – Global Development Network ­ OECD Development Centre Joint Policy Dialogue ...... 8 Side Event: Extensive Analyses of the Gross National Index: Release of a Report of the Centre for Bhutan Studies ...... 8 Side Event: Workshop on Multidimensional Poverty Measures by the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) ...... 8 Side Event: Launch of the 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring Report ...... 9

Side Event: Connections Count. Community Transformation: The Way to Achieve and Sustain Wellbeing ...... 9

Side Event: Measuring Progress – A Discussion of Different Dimensions ...... 9 Side Event: DevInfo, Database Technology for Measuring Development and Policy Planning ...... 9 LUNCHTIME SEMINARS 4th OECD World Forum, New Delhi, 16-19 October 2012 LUNCHTIME SEMINAR AND SIDE EVENT GUIDE 10 October 2012 (draft subject to change)

Lunchtime Seminar: Wikiprogress Networks – Well-Being Here, There and Everywhere – Regional Participation to a Global Movement Tuesday 16 October, 14:00-14:30, Parallel Room 4, Ashok Hotel Angela Hariche (Statistics Directorate and Development Centre OECD), Donatella Fazio (Italian National Institute of Statistics, Italy), Raj Mitra (African Centre for Statistics), Mariano Rojas (Foro Consultivo Científico Y Tecnológico, ) and Mike Salvaris (Australian National Development Index, Australia)

Wikiprogress is a global platform for sharing information on well-being and progress. Its goal is to create a web community around a shared vision on how to define and measure the progress of different societies by creating a place where progress data and research articles can be loaded, visualised and analysed so that good decisions can be made at the local, national and international levels. Today, the ‘beyond GDP’ discussion has moved beyond the realm of specialists and academics to involve policy-makers, civil society and citizens at large. Wikiprogress has become the global online hub for discourse on measuring the progress and well-being. Wikiprogress, including Wikigender, Wikichild, GPRNet, Wikiprogress.stat and the new Regional Progress Networks (for Africa, Europe and Latin America) enables a truly global discussion at a regional and subject matter level. This lunchtime seminar will enable participants to find out about the Wikiprogress regional and global networks. Some of the questions to be addressed will include the following: How can Wikiprogress support their regional networks? How can it foster more involvement at the county level? Looking ahead, what are the next steps in terms of regional participation in the progress and well-being discussion, that will enable political support for the production and dissemination of better statistics in this field?

Lunchtime Seminar: Measuring Progress in Education Tuesday 16 October, 14:30-15:00, Parallel Room 1, Ashok Hotel Barbara Ischinger and Michael Davidson (Directorate for Education, OECD)

The OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) provides the most comprehensive and rigorous international assessment of learning outcomes (numeracy, literacy and science) in education. By testing every three years about half a million high school students from around 70 countries, which account for nine-tenths of the world economy, PISA assesses the knowledge and skills of students aged 15 years and reports on the relationships between the quality and equity of educational systems. Since the first cycle in 2000, PISA results have not only identified some of the world’s top performing and most equitable education systems, but results also show that countries from a variety of starting points have managed to raise the quality of educational outcomes substantially. The 2009 cycle of PISA explored equality in learning outcomes, equity in the distribution of learning resources and equity in the distribution of learning opportunities for participating countries. Despite the growing number of countries participating in PISA, the value of PISA to a wider range of countries, including developing countries, needs to be better articulated. This lunchtime seminar will present PISA results that demonstrate how countries from differing starting points have made impressive progress in their schooling outcomes and will outline OECD’s plans for enhancing the relevance of PISA to a wider range of countries.

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Lunchtime Seminar: Human Development Index by the Human Development Report Office, United Nations Development Programme Tuesday 16 October, 14:30-15:00, Parallel Room 2, Ashok Hotel Jon Hall (Human Development Report Office, UNDP) and K. Seeta Prabhu (UNDP)

This presentation will consider 20 years’ worth of experience of the Human Development Index: how has it been used to promote change, and how has it been applied around the world at global, regional, national and local levels to measure and foster development.

Lunchtime Seminar: India Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) Tuesday 16 October, 14:30-15:00, Parallel Room 3, Ashok Hotel Somali Cerise (OECD Development Centre), Dhrijesh Kumar Tiwari (Social Statistics Division, Central Statistics Office, India) and Yamini Atmavilas (Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, India)

Despite broad agreement that gender equality matters in its own right and as a driver of development, policy-makers continue to grapple with why stark gender gaps persist. Among the key root causes of unequal outcomes for women and men are social institutions – norms, laws and practices – which discriminate against women and girls. While conventional indicators of gender equality capture inequality in outcomes such as education and employment, the OECD Development Centre Social Institutions and Gender Index measures discriminatory social institutions across five dimensions including family discrimination, gender-based violence, access to resources, son bias and access to public space. India, under the leadership of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, is the first country to apply the SIGI framework at a country level, involving sub-national data collection on discriminatory social institutions in five states of India. The aim of the SIGI-India is to draw state-level comparisons of the prevalence of discriminatory norms and practices, understand their relationship with development outcomes and to promote the development of responsive policies that will address them. This lunchtime seminar will discuss the SIGI-India initiative and its policy implications.

Lunchtime Seminar: Big Data – Big Time? Statistical Capacity Building 2.0 Wednesday 17 October, 13:40-14:10, Parallel Room 4, Ashok Hotel Johannes Jütting (The Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century) Conventional wisdom has always held that policy makers and other development practitioners never have enough data to inform their decisions. Indeed, recent financial, food, and climate crises have highlighted the glaring need for more and better data. However, a data storm is currently brewing on the horizon. Public and private actors are clamouring to provide a cacophony of statistics, not all of which are relevant or of adequate quality. How can we surf this data deluge without undermining data quality and sustainable statistical capacity development, at a time when the need for statistics has never been greater and will only increase in the coming years? With the approaching MDG deadline, many initiatives and institutions have reflected on what form a post–2015 development goals framework could take. However, while discussions have thus far considered the framework’s possible goals and the indicators to monitor progress toward them, insufficient attention has been paid to the capacity of national statistical systems to produce the underlying data. Complicating this situation of increasing demands for data on already over-burdened statistical systems, a silent revolution in statistics has been gaining steam. The “big data” and “open data” agendas are practically daring national statistical systems to adapt. Big data refers to the “data deluge” resulting from call logs, mobile-banking transactions, online user-generated content such as blog posts and Tweets, satellite images, etc. For its part, the open data agenda aims to make

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government and non-government data freely accessible to all users. As many of the suppliers and producers of big and open data are not official statisticians, national statistical systems can be forgiven for feeling threatened with obsolescence. The session will address the following questions: • How can we reconcile these two competing worlds, that of the official data producer being asked to generate more and more data of an increasingly sophisticated nature and that of the non-official data producer flooding the data market with information of unchecked quality? • How do we take advantage of new IT tools to ensure data producers can deliver the goods to data users? • What are the best practices in sustainably developing statistical capacity in countries with limited resources?

Lunchtime Seminar: Open Data for Development Wednesday 17 October, 14:10-14:40, Parallel Room 4, Ashok Hotel Shaida Badiee and Neil Fantom () The Open Data movement has spread around the globe in recent years, with countries such as the United Kingdom, Kenya, and Moldova launching Open Data initiatives, and many more committing to do so as part of the Open Government Partnership. And institutions are doing the same – the World Bank is among them. But what is Open Data, and why is it such a big deal? And why does Open Data matter for development? Can it really transform the way that data are used to monitor progress and improve results? How can Open Data improve the measurement of well-being? This lunchtime seminar will aim to address these questions, and explore how being open about both what we know, and about what we do, can lead to new, open solutions to some of the World’s most pressing development problems.

Lunchtime Seminar: The OECD Better Life Initiative Thursday 18 October, 12:30-13:00, Parallel Room 4, Ashok Hotel Romina Boarini (Statistics Directorate, OECD) and Antony Gooch (Public Affairs and Communications Directorate, OECD) The OECD has played a pioneering role in promoting the well-being agenda, in particular in terms of measurement. In 2011, the OECD Secretary-General launched the OECD Better Life Initiative. This initiative developed a set of indicators based on a ‘well-being framework’ that focuses on people and households, that concentrates on outcomes (as opposed to inputs and outputs), that looks at both average country achievements and at inequalities across population groups, and that recognises that both objective and subjective aspects (e.g. people’s evaluations and feelings) are important for people’s lives. The seminar will explore the two main elements of the initiative, the report How’s Life? and Your Better Life Index (BLI), an interactive web application that allows users to compare countries based on their own views on the importance of the various aspects of well-being. This information provides unique feedback to policy-makers on the well-being priorities for their citizens. Since its launch a year and half ago, the BLI has received over one million visits from just about every country on the planet and over 2 million pages have been viewed. The continuous traffic from new visitors and so many countries demonstrates the global reach of the Initiative. The seminar will present the OECD Framework for Measuring Well-Being, summarise the main findings from the How’s Life? report and the main results of the Index as shared by users since May 2011. The seminar will also highlight the next steps of the Initiative and discuss opportunities for the Forum participants to join and support the Initiative.

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Lunchtime Seminar: Will a Greener Growth Path Head Off a Rather Brown Future? Thursday 18 October, 13:00-13:30, Parallel Room 4, Ashok Hotel Simon Upton (Environment Directorate, OECD) The OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050 shows that without bolder policy action, a world economy four times larger than today is projected to use 80% more energy in 2050 and greenhouse gas emissions to grow by another 50%. To feed a growing population, agricultural land is expected to expand globally in the next decade though at a slowing rate. This leads to increased competition for scarce land, driving global biodiversity loss to continue with a projected further 10% loss by 2050. Freshwater availability will be further strained in many regions, especially in India and the rest of South Asia. Worldwide, 2.3 billion more people than today are projected to be living in river basins under severe water stress by 2050 and farmers competing for the resource with industries and growing cities. Continued environmental degradation and erosion of natural capital into the future comes with the risk of irreversible changes that could endanger two centuries of rising living standards. To safeguard economic prosperity and wellbeing in the long-term, countries must implement the necessary reforms to shift towards green growth. By analysing economic and environmental policies together, by looking at ways to spur eco-innovation and by addressing other key issues related to a transition to a greener economy such as jobs and skills, investment, taxation, trade and development, the OECD is working to develop joined-up policies that can make a cleaner low-carbon economy compatible with growth. Towards Green Growth provides recommendations to help governments to identify the policies that can help achieve the most efficient shift to greener growth, focusing, for example, on: • green jobs and social aspects • green taxes and regulatory approaches • industrial restructuring and renewal • fiscal consolidation • green technologies • peer reviews • co-operation between OECD countries and emerging economies • involvement of stakeholders

Lunchtime Seminar: The Regional and Urban Dimension of Well-Being: Improving Measurement and Policy Making Friday 19 October,14:00-14:30, Parallel Room 4, Ashok Hotel Lewis Dijsktra (DG Regional Policy, European Commission), Joaquim Oliveira Martins (Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate, OECD), Walter Radermacher (Eurostat) and Paola Annoni (The Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen, European Commission) This seminar will show (1) how measurements of regional and urban dimension of well-being are improving; (2) how they are used in policy decisions; and (3) how analysis and research are contributing to better understanding of this dimension. It explains how internationally comparable statistics at regional and local scales can be improved by using harmonised regional and local typologies such as remote regions or cities. Producing indicators with high-spatial resolution can be facilitated by integrating administrative sources, geographic information systems and using small area estimates. Effective policy making at all geographical levels requires reliable and regularly updated well-being indicators, and many of the policy decisions influencing are taken at the regional or local level. A new OECD-EC project 'How's life in region?' will focus on the policy needs for regional and local well-being measures to determine the objectives of regional and local policies and to assess the impact of policies on people's well-being. Lastly, a new European project is measuring dimensions of quality of life at the regional level and by degree of urbanisation. This project demonstrates that many issues vary more within countries than between countries. Often, it is more

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telling for well-being to know if someone lives in a city or rural area than the country a person lives in. People are also more likely to recognise regional and local measures as corresponding to their situation than national averages. In short, internationally comparable regional and local measures of well-being can be produced in a cost-efficient manner, they respond to real policy needs, they capture more variation and can help to restore the public's confidence in official statistics.

Lunchtime Seminar: The Measurement of Economic Performance: Alternative Approaches Friday 19 October, 14:30-15:30, Parallel Room 4, Ashok Hotel Charles Seaford (New Foundation, United Kingdom) There is an increasing consensus that GDP () is an inadequate proxy measure for economic performance and that treating it is as such has created a bias in policy making towards increasing output and away from the goals of human well-being, equity and . A new approach to measurement is required, one that goes “Beyond GDP,” and numerous initiatives have set out to take on this challenge. One possibility is to create two or three indicators that complement the existing suite of GDP, inflation and unemployment – perhaps one for sustainability, one for equity and one for the ultimate goal of economic activity, human well-being. However experience shows that it may be difficult for supplementary indicators of this kind to gain the political and policy making traction enjoyed by the existing indicators. This means they may not help correct the bias in policy making that is the problem. On the other hand, attempts to create a single metric to replace GDP, such as the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW), have run into the sand, lacking as they do transparency and clarity. In this seminar we will explore this problem and look at alternative approaches, including simpler modifications to GDP and new efficiency measures that could build on the approach used by the new economics foundation’s , which measures the efficiency with which scarce environmental resources are used to create human well-being.

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Side Event: Global Progress Research Network (GPRNet) Strategic Workshop Monday 15 October, 14:00-17:00, Room 293, Ashok Hotel

At the 3rd OECD World Forum in Busan, Korea in 2009, delegates agreed to establish a global network of researchers, practitioners and community organisations, the ‘GPRNet’ (Global Progress Research Network). Its purpose is to support the OECD-UN led projects and the wider world movement to ‘redefine progress beyond GDP’ through shared information and knowledge exchange, mutual support and collaborative projects. A key goal is to establish a GPRNet ‘node’ in each major global region to link researchers and practitioners across the world. GPRNet has been supported through the OECD-hosted global platform Wikiprogress. Background information on the GPRNet, including a detailed strategic overview (‘GPRNet Concept note’) can be found at www.wikiprogress.org/index.php/GPRNet. Information on all aspects of progress and its measurement around the world can be found on the Wikiprogress website: www.wikiprogress.org The purpose of the workshop will be to review progress so far, discuss the strategic development of the research network over the next five years and to plan a global programme of research and action aimed at developing and mainstreaming better measures of progress, well-being and sustainability, through the engagement of citizens and policy makers with universities and other researchers. The agenda will include: • A report on GPRNet’s progress to date and on the status of Wikiprogress • A review of key issues and developments in measuring progress since 2009 • A proposal for the formation of a “Global Progress Universities” network • Discussion of a number of specific action research projects • Planning for a 3-day strategic workshop in Bellagio, Italy in 2013

All delegates to the 4th World Forum who will be in New Delhi on 15th October (the day before the Forum’s formal opening) and are interested to attend are welcome to do so, but are requested to advise, as soon as possible beforehand, Philippa Lysaght ([email protected]) as places are limited. Workshop participants are invited to join us for a dinner at the Hotel Ashok in the evening after the workshop.

Agenda: 1. GPRNet overview, report on progress of the network and roundtable discussion (Mike Salvaris, RMIT) - 45 Minutes 2. Progress University Network proposal (Mike Salvaris, RMIT / Laszlo Pinter, IISD) - 45 minutes 3. Bellagio II Conference and DGI (Laszlo Pinter, IISD) - 20 minutes 4. Fundraising (Angela Hariche, OECD) - 30 minutes 5. Next Steps / The Way Forward (All)

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Side Event: Social Cohesion in a Shifting World – Global Development Network ­ OECD Development Centre Joint Policy Dialogue Monday 15 October, 16:00-19:00, The Claridges, 12 Aurangzeb Road, New Delhi in the last two decades has been characterised by a major realignment of the global economy towards emerging and developing countries – a phenomenon dubbed "shifting wealth" and documented in the first edition of the OECD Development Centre's Perspectives on Global Development. Shifting Wealth offers new opportunities to improve not only economic but also social outcomes. However, rapid growth in emerging economies in Asia and elsewhere is also associated with increasing stresses to the social fabric, persisting vulnerability and high inequalities, putting social cohesion the sustainability of long-term development prospects under threat. This situation calls for an examination of development paradigms and the policy options for more equally shared progress. The discussion will explore how policies need to be reassessed and reshaped so as to build more cohesive societies by fostering social inclusion, social capital and social mobility. The OECD's Perspectives on Global Development 2012: Social Cohesion in a Shifting World tackles several of these issues and will serve as an input to the discussion.

Side Event: Extensive Analyses of the Index: Release of a Report of the Centre for Bhutan Studies Monday 15 October, 19:00-21:00, Room 292, Ashok Hotel By invitation only The report provides a nuanced picture of the composition, diversity and evolution of happiness across Bhutan, using the latest representative data for the country. Dasho Karma Ura, President of CBS, will present the report and Dr. Sabine Alkire will provide commentary.

Side Event: Workshop on Multidimensional Poverty Measures by the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Tuesday 16 October, 18:20-19:00, Room 293, Ashok Hotel This workshop will introduce our work on multidimensional measurement, which can be used for: • National or international measures of poverty or well-being that are tailored to each context and purpose; • Monitoring and evaluation; and • Targeting individuals and households. A brief presentation will illustrate the methodology using examples such as the international Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), which has featured in UNDP’s Human Development Report since 2010; national measures that have been implemented by countries including and Mexico; and subnational initiatives in progress. We will respond to common questions such as how to tailor the MPI to different contexts, how to select and test weights, what survey and technical skills are required, and relevance to post-2015 discussions. There will be sufficient time for discussion during the workshop, and for follow-up during the OECD meetings, individually or via our exhibition booth. OPHI is an economic research centre at the University of Oxford that develops and implements multidimensional measures of poverty and well-being, in order to summarise complex information, communicate it succinctly, break it down by dimension and group, and hence support the design and implementation of effective and targeted policies.

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Side Event: Launch of the 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring Report Tuesday 16 October, 18:20-19:00, Room 292, Ashok Hotel The tenth edition of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report shows how vital it is to ensure that all young people have the skills they need to prosper. As the Report reveals, however, across the world there is a lost generation of young people who are leaving school without the skills they need. Many living in urban poverty or in remote rural communities, and young women in particular, are unemployed or working for low pay. They need to be given a second chance to achieve their potential.

Youth and skills: Putting education to work describes how governments can give young people a better start in life so that they can greet the world of work with confidence. It also identifies the current status of funding for achieving the Education for All Goals, outlining the roles that governments, donors and the private sector can play in raising new resources and using them more effectively.

Developed by an independent team and published by UNESCO, the Education for All Global Monitoring Report is an authoritative reference that aims to inform, influence and sustain genuine commitment towards Education for All.

Side Event: Connections Count. Community Transformation: The Way to Achieve and Sustain Wellbeing Wednesday 17 October, 07:45-08:45, Room 293, 2nd floor, Ashok Hotel Join community researchers & special guests (including Shailaja Chandra, Jon Hall & Fiona Stanley) for guided discussions about community wellbeing and economic success.

Side Event: Measuring Progress – A Discussion of Different Dimensions Thursday 18 October, 07:45-08:45, Parallel Room 4, Ashok Hotel Overseas Development Institute Director Alison Evans and members of the Development Progress team will share their most recent work which charts a course for the coming years of a major research project that explores how development progress is measured, achieved, financed and valued by governments and citizens across the world.

Side Event: DevInfo, Database Technology for Measuring Development and Policy Planning Thursday 18 October, 11:50-13:10, Room 293, Ashok Hotel By invitation only Please join Claes Johansson (DevInfo Global Administrator), Kris Oswalt, Chris Dickey and Arun Kapuria (DevInfo Support Group) for this exclusive, invitation-only lunchtime seminar that will feature the Global release of the web-based DevInfo 7.0.

DevInfo is a UN-sponsored and endorsed data management and visualisation application currently utilised by more than 130 countries and regions to monitor socioeconomic and financial data.

The new DevInfo 7.0 includes dozens of new features that increase the accessibility and value of your data, particularly because of its powerful graphing and mapping functionality. The lunchtime seminar will include a short demonstration of the new application and comments by key stakeholders.

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