Society for International Development
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The Society for International Development (SID), founded in Washington, D.C.
in 1957, is committed to stimulating dialogue and cooperation on global development issues, enhancing skills, knowledge and understanding among development practitioners, and providing a network for individuals and organizations working in various sectors of international development. Over the years, SID has consistently been at the forefront of shaping the theory and practice of development, challenging existing practices and suggesting alternative approaches.
Today, SID’s programme of work reflects the growing questioning of development as a point of reference for meaningful North-South
dialogues. Accordingly, the Society’s focus has shifted from debates on how to advance development, to ways of opening up spaces for a reflection on how to ensure an agenda for social justice can be carried forward in a climate that is increasingly conservative and inward looking.
. SID enjoys the highest consultative status, Category I, with the United Nations Economic and Social Council
(ECOSOC) as the Society operates in most fields of involvement of the United Nations. SID is a member of the board of the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Status with ECOSOC
(CONGO).
SID additionally maintains consultative status with the Council of Europe
, IFAD, International Labour Organization
, FAO
, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
, UNEP, UNESCO
, UNFPA and UNICEF.
press.
Since 1957 Development has explored the cutting edge issues of human-centred development. With alternative perspectives on civil society, development policy and community based strategies for livelihoods, gender and social justice, Development keeps readers up to date on the challenging issues of today's rapidly changing world.
membership organization that provides a space for dialogue and bridges a dynamic community of individuals and institutions working in international development.
SID-Washington is committed to three principal objectives:
In pursuing this mission, SID-Washington bridges diverse constituencies (including academia, policy makers, progressive business sector, and multilateral institutions) in order to serves as a knowledge broker that supports the generation, exchange and dissemination of ideas.
In September 2010, the first issue of SIDbaires' new magazine, Qué? Hacer para el Desarrollo, was launched.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
in 1957, is committed to stimulating dialogue and cooperation on global development issues, enhancing skills, knowledge and understanding among development practitioners, and providing a network for individuals and organizations working in various sectors of international development. Over the years, SID has consistently been at the forefront of shaping the theory and practice of development, challenging existing practices and suggesting alternative approaches.
Today, SID’s programme of work reflects the growing questioning of development as a point of reference for meaningful North-South
North-South divide
The north–south divide is a socio-economic and political division that exists between the wealthy developed countries, known collectively as "the north", and the poorer developing countries , or "the south." Although most nations comprising the "North" are in fact located in the Northern Hemisphere ,...
dialogues. Accordingly, the Society’s focus has shifted from debates on how to advance development, to ways of opening up spaces for a reflection on how to ensure an agenda for social justice can be carried forward in a climate that is increasingly conservative and inward looking.
SID’s consultative status
The relevance of the society’s programmes is officially recognized by the special status that SID enjoys with the United NationsUnited Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
. SID enjoys the highest consultative status, Category I, with the United Nations Economic and Social Council
United Nations Economic and Social Council
The Economic and Social Council of the United Nations constitutes one of the six principal organs of the United Nations and it is responsible for the coordination of the economic, social and related work of 14 UN specialized agencies, its functional commissions and five regional commissions...
(ECOSOC) as the Society operates in most fields of involvement of the United Nations. SID is a member of the board of the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Status with ECOSOC
Congo
Congo, Kongo, or Kongō may refer to:-Africa : ** , the name of the country under Mobutu regime...
(CONGO).
SID additionally maintains consultative status with the Council of Europe
Council of Europe
The Council of Europe is an international organisation promoting co-operation between all countries of Europe in the areas of legal standards, human rights, democratic development, the rule of law and cultural co-operation...
, IFAD, International Labour Organization
International Labour Organization
The International Labour Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations that deals with labour issues pertaining to international labour standards. Its headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland. Its secretariat — the people who are employed by it throughout the world — is known as the...
, FAO
Fão
Fão is a town in Esposende Municipality in Portugal....
, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development was established in 1964 as a permanent intergovernmental body. It is the principal organ of the United Nations General Assembly dealing with trade, investment, and development issues....
, UNEP, UNESCO
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...
, UNFPA and UNICEF.
SID Publications
Development is the flagship quarterly journal of the Society for International Development (SID), published by the Palgrave MacmillanPalgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan is an international academic and trade publishing company, headquartered in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom and with offices in New York, Melbourne, Sydney, Hong Kong, Delhi, Johannesburg. It was created in 2000 when St...
press.
Since 1957 Development has explored the cutting edge issues of human-centred development. With alternative perspectives on civil society, development policy and community based strategies for livelihoods, gender and social justice, Development keeps readers up to date on the challenging issues of today's rapidly changing world.
Secretariat
The SID Secretariat has been based in Rome since 1979. Additionally, SID opened a Regional Office for Eastern and Southern Africa in Nairobi in 2003.Governing Council
- President: Jan PronkJan PronkJohannes "Jan" Pieter Pronk is a Dutch politician and diplomat. Currently, he is a Professor of Theory and Practice of International Development at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague....
, Institute of Social StudiesInstitute of Social StudiesThe International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Hague is a unique, independent and international graduate school in the social sciences... - Vice Presidents: Juma Volter MwapachuJuma Volter MwapachuJuma Volter Mwapachu is a Tanzanian politician and former Secretary General of the East African Community. He replaced Amanya Mushega of Uganda who completed his five-year term on March 24, 2006....
, Secretary General, East African CommunityEast African CommunityThe East African Community is an intergovernmental organisation comprising the five east African countries Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. Pierre Nkurunziza, the President of the Republic of Burundi, is the current Chairman of the East African Community. The EAC was originally...
; Jacqueline Pitanguy, Director, Citizenship, Studies, Information and Action (CEPIA) - Treasurer: Stephen F. Moseley, Academy for Educational DevelopmentAcademy for Educational DevelopmentAED, formerly the Academy for Educational Development, is a 501 nonprofit organization that focuses on education, health and economic development for the "least advantaged in the United States and developing countries throughout the world." AED currently operates more than 250 programs in the...
- Managing Director: Stefano Prato
Washington D.C. Chapter
The Washington D.C. Chapter is the largest and most active chapter of the Society for International Development, with 150 member organizations and over a thousand individual members. SID-Washington's twenty regional and topical workgroups hold monthly events which connect a global forum of international development practitioners. SID-Washington is a leading international developmentInternational development
International development or global development is a concept that lacks a universally accepted definition, but it is most used in a holistic and multi-disciplinary context of human development — the development of greater quality of life for humans...
membership organization that provides a space for dialogue and bridges a dynamic community of individuals and institutions working in international development.
SID-Washington is committed to three principal objectives:
- Stimulating dialogue and cooperation on global development issues
- Enhancing skills, knowledge and understanding among development practitioners
- Providing a network for individuals and organizations working in various sectors of international development
In pursuing this mission, SID-Washington bridges diverse constituencies (including academia, policy makers, progressive business sector, and multilateral institutions) in order to serves as a knowledge broker that supports the generation, exchange and dissemination of ideas.
Notable event speakers
- J. Brian AtwoodJ. Brian AtwoodJohn Brian Atwood is a diplomat and former Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. From 2002 to 2010, he was dean of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota...
, former Administrator of USAID and currently Dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public AffairsHubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public AffairsThe Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs is a graduate public affairs school located at the University of Minnesota, ranking among the top 15 professional schools of public affairs at public universities in the country. It is named after Hubert H. Humphrey, former Vice President of the... - Paul CollierPaul CollierPaul Collier, CBE is a Professor of Economics, Director for the Centre for the Study of African Economies at The University of Oxford and Fellow of St Antony's College. From 1998 – 2003 he was the director of the Development Research Group of the World Bank.-Life:Collier is a specialist in...
, CBECBECBE and C.B.E. are abbreviations for "Commander of the Order of the British Empire", a grade in the Order of the British Empire.Other uses include:* Chemical and Biochemical Engineering...
, Director of the Centre for the Study of African EconomiesCentre for the Study of African EconomiesThe Centre for the Study of African Economies has been undertaking research on Africa since 1986, and is thought to be one of the largest concentrations of academic economists and social scientists working on Africa outside the continent itself. It is part of the Department of Economics under the...
and author of The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done about ItThe Bottom BillionThe Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It is a 2007 book by Paul Collier, Professor of Economics at Oxford University, exploring the reasons why impoverished countries fail to progress despite international aid and support... - Amb. John J. Danilovich, Chief Executive Officer, Millenium Challenge Corporation
- Dr. Kemal DervişKemal DervisKemal Derviş is a Turkish economist and politician, and former head of the United Nations Development Programme. He was honored by the government of Japan for having "contributed to mainstreaming Japan's development assistance policy through the United Nations." In 2005, he was ranked 67th in the...
, former Administrator of the UNDP and currently Director of the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings InstitutionBrookings InstitutionThe Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C., in the United States. One of Washington's oldest think tanks, Brookings conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and... - Dr. William EasterlyWilliam EasterlyWilliam Russell Easterly is an American economist, specializing in economic growth and foreign aid. He is a Professor of Economics at New York University, joint with Africa House, and Co-Director of NYU’s Development Research Institute. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings...
, author of The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good - Michael Fairbanks, Co-Founder of SEVEN and co-author of Plowing the Sea, Nurturing the Hidden Sources of Advantage in Developing Nations
- Richard FeachemRichard FeachemSir Richard George Andrew Feachem, KBE, FREng is Professor of Global Health at both the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the at UCSF Global Health Sciences...
, KBE, FREng, Director of the Global Health Group - Henrietta H. ForeHenrietta H. ForeHenrietta Holsman Fore was the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development and Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance. She was designated these positions by President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, respectively, on May 7, 2007...
, former Under-Secretary of State and former Acting Administrator of USAID - Dr. Francis FukuyamaFrancis FukuyamaYoshihiro Francis Fukuyama is an American political scientist, political economist, and author. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford. Before that he served as a professor and director of the International Development program at the School of...
, Director of the International Development Program at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International StudiesPaul H. Nitze School of Advanced International StudiesThe Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies , a division of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington, D.C., is one of the world's leading and most prestigious graduate schools devoted to the study of international affairs, economics, diplomacy, and policy research and...
and author of The End of History and the Last ManThe End of History and the Last ManThe End of History and the Last Man is a 1992 book by Francis Fukuyama, expanding on his 1989 essay "The End of History?", published in the international affairs journal The National Interest... - Amb. Zalmay KhalilzadZalmay KhalilzadZalmay Mamozy Khalilzad is a counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and president of Khalilzad Associates, an international business consulting firm based in Washington, DC. He was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush...
, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations - Former U.S. Representative Jim KolbeJim KolbeJames Thomas "Jim" Kolbe is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for Arizona's 8th congressional district, serving 11 terms from 1985 to 2007.-Early life:...
, former Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations - Dr. Carol Lancaster, Interim Dean of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign ServiceEdmund A. Walsh School of Foreign ServiceThe Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service is a school within Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., United States. Jesuit priest Edmund A...
and former Counsel to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory BoardPresident's Foreign Intelligence Advisory BoardThe President's Intelligence Advisory Board is an advisor to the Executive Office of the President of the United States. According to its self-description, it "...provides advice to the President concerning the quality and adequacy of intelligence collection, of analysis and estimates, of... - U.S. Representative Nita LoweyNita LoweyNita Melnikoff Lowey is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1993. She is a member of the Democratic Party. She previously represented the 20th district from 1989 to 1993.-Early life, education and career:...
, Chair, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations - Ad MelkertAd MelkertAdrianus Petrus Wilhelmus "Ad" Melkert is a Dutch politician of the Labour Party . He served as chair of the parliamentary party and Minister of Social Affairs and Employment for the social-democratic PvdA. He led the PvdA to a historic low in the contentious 2002 general elections, which were won...
, Under-Secretary General of the UN and Associate Administrator of UNDP - Andrew NatsiosAndrew NatsiosAndrew S. Natsios is an American civil servant who has served in a number of Massachusetts and high level federal government positions. From 2001 to 2005 he served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, and was appointed as Special Coordinator for International Disaster...
, former USAID Administrator and President's Special Envoy for Sudan - Amb. John D. Negroponte, former Director of National Intelligence and former Deputy Secretary of State
- U.S. Representative David Obey, Chairman, House Appropriations Committee.
- Ngozi Okonjo-IwealaNgozi Okonjo-IwealaNgozi Okonjo-Iweala was appointed in July 2011 as Nigeria's “de facto prime minister” and the new Minister of Finance for the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Prior to this appointment, she was the Managing Director of World Bank and has also held the position of a Finance Minister and Foreign...
former Finance Minister and former Foreign Minister of Nigeria - Anne-Marie SlaughterAnne-Marie SlaughterAnne-Marie Slaughter was the Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department from January 2009 until February 2011. She is the Bert G...
, Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State - Aaron Williams, Director of the Peace CorpsPeace CorpsThe Peace Corps is an American volunteer program run by the United States Government, as well as a government agency of the same name. The mission of the Peace Corps includes three goals: providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States to understand US culture, and helping...
Buenos Aires Chapter
The Buenos Aires Chapter (SID-Baires) was created at the end of 1957, by a group of Argentinean intellectuals and scholars – like the economist Raul Prebish – committed to promote critical thinking and dialogue around development ideas on the eve of the increased attention and interest to new strategies for development, taking place in Argentina – at that time run by the Desarrollista government of Arturo Frondizi – as well as in the rest of the world. The chapter – known as “Argentine Chapter” changed the name to “Buenos Aires Chapter” in 2000, following the creation of two new chapters in the cities of Rosario and La Plata. The Buenos Aires Chapter is one of the oldest chapter of SID that has engaged consistently and continuously for more than 50 years in activities and programmers addressing development questions and processes from a both national and international perspective.Mission
The Buenos Aires Chapter seeks to become a hub for holistic, multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral thinking able to contribute to the construction of a vision of development that is harmonic, inclusive and sustainable.Activities
SIDbaires is divided in departments that debate and produce critical thinking and propose public policies for Argentina’s complex reality. A series of policy dialogues are carried out with the aim of exploring and better understanding what model of development is suitable for Argentina and for Latin America as a whole. In that effort, the Chapter has set up a virtual newsroom to produce opinion pieces and analysis – published on the national press - presenting the main findings and key issues emerging in the discussions. SIDbaires members are key rising figures in business, union and government circles.In September 2010, the first issue of SIDbaires' new magazine, Qué? Hacer para el Desarrollo, was launched.