[afro-nets] eForum on Global Reports and Global Policy Challenges

[Vikas Nath <vikas.nath@undp.org>]

Invitation: eForum on Global Reports and Global Policy Challenges
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- Match or Mismatch?
on the global public goods Network

Dear colleagues at AFRO-NETS,

We invite your participation in the e-discussion forum "Match or
Mismatch?: Global Reports and Global Policy Challenges" to be
held on the global public goods Network (gpgNet) platform from
26 April to 10 May 2004.

Global reports are defined as: studies that present and analyze
issues of global concern and reach. Examples of global reports,
for instance in the health sector, include the World Health Re-
port, the Infectious Diseases Report, the Weekly Epidemiological
Report, the State of the World's Vaccines and Immunization Re-
port, the AIDS Epidemic Update, and the Report on the Global
HIV/AIDS Epidemic.

Looking at global reports over time gives us a sense of the
various issues that have captured sufficient attention from pol-
icy makers and civil society to justify the effort to produce
and diffuse a global report. A recently released study shows
that not only has the number of global reports increased, the
range of issue areas addressed has grown too. One way to inter-
pret the growth in the number and widening range of issues cov-
ered by Global Reports is to suggest that this growth in global
reporting reflects the fact that an increasing range of Global
challenges has emerged.

The point up for debate is: Has there been a match or a mismatch
between the two? To the extent that global reports influence
(and are influenced by) policymaking, addressing this question
would contribute to giving us a better sense of where the world
is headed, where the shortcomings and problems lie, where pro-
gress is being made and what needs to be done to ensure a better
future.
Read the complete background paper at:
http://www.gpgnet.net/topic06.php

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Join us for this debate and share with us - and the global pub-
lic - your observations on this topic. We would very much appre-
ciate it, if you could also forward this message to colleagues
within your organization who may be interested in this debate.

Yours sincerely,

Inge Kaul
Director
Office of Development Studies

Vikas Nath
Manager, global public goods Network (gpgNet) Forum

United Nations Development Programme
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26 April to 10 May 2004: e-discussion forum "Match or Mismatch?:
Global Reports and Global Policy Challenges."

To join this debate, send a blank e-mail to:
mailto:subscribe-gpgnet-reports@groups.undp.org