Month: September 2024

NGO Committee on Ageing, GENEVA

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The overall goals and objectives of the NGO Committee are to further the United Nations’ mission of building a society for all ages; to raise awareness of ageing and intergenerational issues and ensure that they are adequately addressed by the UN System; to advocate for a new convention on the rights of older persons; and to influence global policy and monitor the implementation of existing commitments; http://ageingcommitteegeneva.org/events/

Seminar on “Basics on Aging”, joint event by NGO Committee on Ageing, ILO and WHO

UNECE Working Group on Aging

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The Working Group on Ageing is an intergovernmental body which was first convened in 2008. It is made up of national focal points on ageing representing the member States of the UNECE region, along with representatives from international organizations, NGOs and academia. https://www.unece.org/population/wga.html

10th meeting of the Working Group on Ageing, 23rd November 2017, Geneva

Official meeting at the United Nations in Geneva, 23-24 November 2017 in the presence of government delegates of the UNECE region as well as different Civil Society Organisations.

Working Group metting on Ageing

MIPPA Meets SDG1 Responses to Old-Age Poverty in the Unece Region

The side event provided an overview of old-age poverty in UNECE member countries and its determinants. Inclusive policies reducing the risk of old-age poverty and promoting active ageing were shared by Austria, France and Norway and the important role of civil society in addressing old-age poverty in the region were illustrated.

MIPAA Meeting

National Interdisciplinary Institute of Ageing. (NIIA), Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, People’s Republic of China

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NIIA organized the first China (Sichuan) Senior Welfare and Wellness Industry Development Summit Programme, on 26-28 October 2017, Chengu- China.

Presentation by Raymond Saner titled “ Silver Tsunami or Silver Opportunities? Platforms for Engagement.

Presentation

UN Library Event: “How to Ensure Ageing with Dignity?” (2017)

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CSEND is an independent, project-financed, non-profit research & development organization founded in 1993 in Geneva and accredited by ECOSOC with special consultative status to the United Nations. CSEND’s goal is to enhance collaboration between social, economic and political actors and to strengthen global governance through multi-stakeholder negotiations and inter-generational dialogue.

UN Library Talk: Roundtable on “How to Ensure Ageing with Dignity?”, 23 May 2017 – A Contribution to the Implementation of SDG3 of the “2030 Sustainable Development Goals”

Announcement

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Summative Report

Presentation Notes by Hans Peter Graf

The First China (Sichuan) Senior Welfare and Wellness Industry Development Summit Programme

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The First China (Sichuan) Senior Welfare and Wellness Industry Development Summit Programme, Chengdu, 26th October 2017

Presentation given by Raymond Saner titled “Silver Tsunami or Silver Opportunities? Platforms for Engagement”

Presentation

Swiss Executives as Business Diplomats in the New Europe: Evidence from Swiss Pharmaceutical and Agro-Industrial Global Companies

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Swiss Executives as Business Diplomats in the New Europe: Evidence from Swiss Pharmaceutical and Agro-Industrial Global Companies. 2005. Organisational Dynamics, Vol 34(3): 298-312.

This paper discusses the situation facing Switzerland for being in the middle of the European continent surrounded by EU member countries but at the same time being isolated due to its status as a non-EU member state. Switzerland’s relations with the EU have oscillated between confrontation and mutual accommodation thus requiring many rounds of bilateral negotiations and the creation of an alternative alliance.

Article

Negotiating Trade in Educational Services within the WTO/GATS context

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Trade in Educational Services (ES) is affecting the interests of many countries in trade, economics, education and culture resulting in heated debates between government representatives, private sector investors, teacher unions and student associations on how to approach liberalisation of this sector, if at all. What ever the approach, an agreement on GATS/ES should be sufficiently flexible to safeguard the multi-functional nature of education, as well as the different needs of developing countries’ education without falling into the trap of “managed trade” nor succumbing to short-term myopic protectionism.

The authors describe the complexities of the WTO/GATS negotiations on trade in educational services and outline ways on how negotiations of GATS/ES could be successfully completed within the timeframe of the Doha Round.

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Raymond Saner & Lichia Yiu : A Sisyphean Task:Managing Porous Boundaries During OD Interventions in UN Agencies

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Organization Development (OD) Practitioners working within the UN system encounter difficulties because of ill-defined organisational structures, multiple political interferences (external and internal), cross-cultural value differences of UN staff and different management practices of UN Agency leadership best described as “Porous Boundaries”. This article introduces and defines “Porous Boundaries”, shows its relation to power politics frequently used in UN Agencies and discusses the role of the OD consultant who needs to adjust his consulting approach to match these environmental challenges.

Key words: Organization Development, United Nations, Porous Boundaries, Power factor, Role of Consultant.

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Trends and influence of private finance on global health initiatives and development goals in resource-constrained countries

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Research project titled “Trends and influence of private finance on global health initiatives and development goals in resource-constrained countries”, funded by the Swiss Network of International Studies (SNIS), CSEND (Lichia Yiu; Raymond Saner) as Consortium member with Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basle; Global Health Programme, Graduate Institute, University of Geneva, FUNDS, London, Franklin University, Lugano (Fall 2012-2014). Working Paper, 31st September 2012 to 30th April 2015.

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Ex-Post Report

Inter-ministerial Coordination of Trade Policy at Central Government Level in Macedonia and Kyrgyzstan

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Research project titled “Inter-ministerial Coordination of Trade Policy at Central Government Level in Macedonia and Kyrgyzstan”, funded by the Scientific Co-operation between Eastern Europe and Switzerland (SCOPES 2005-2008) programme, Swiss National Science Foundation, CSEND (Raymond Saner) as Research Project Leader.

Book publication: R. Saner, “Trade Policy Governance through Inter-ministerial Coordination: A Source Book for Trade Officials and Development Experts”, Republic of Letters, Dordrecht NL, 2010.

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