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25-26 June 2007
Sala Celso Furtado, CEPAL, Santiago, Chile
Seminar on the MDGs and Human Rights: Producing National
Reports with an Emphasis on Rights
On 25th and 26th of June, government officials and UN staff from seven Latin American
countries (Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay and Uruguay) gathered
in Santiago de Chile to discuss on how to integrate human rights within national MDG Reports.
The workshop was an inter-agency initiative of ECLAC and the Regional Offices of UNFPA, UNDP,
UNICEF and OHCHR. Participants and experts from different agencies discussed about the relation
between MDGs and human rights and shared experiences on practical ways of applying a HRBA to NMDGRs.
A CD Rom with the results of this activity will shortly be available, and follow-up work will
include practical guidance on how to integrate human rights in NMDGRs. For more information please
contact Francesco Notti (fnotti@ohchr.org).
21-23 May 2007
Final Workshop for the 'Operationalising Human Rights
Approaches to Poverty Reduction - -Pilot Project'
On 21-23 May 2007, representatives from headquarters,
regional offices and country offices that have participated
in the pilot programme met in Yerevan, Armenia. The main
objective of the workshop was to:
1) Develop an inventory of the methodologies that some
of the country pilot teams have developed so far in
order to operationalise an HRBA to Poverty Reduction;
2) Identify & analyze the main success factors and
obstacles to the pilot teams’ work;
3) Conceptualize future work
A workshop report and review of the pilot programmes will both be available Summer 2007.
for questions regarding the workshop or the pilot project,
contact: julia.kercher@undp.org.
