International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG)

Social Sustainability: Towards Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development

by Leisa Perch, Team Leader – Rural and Sustainable Development

A Clearer Green Agenda

Contributions to the Global Debate • Op-Eds in Brazil media and elsewhere in the South• Inclusion in the CDKN Roster of Experts (recent

development• Policy Background Paper for pre-Rio+20 meeting

(CARICOM region• IPC Working Paper 79 referenced in UN Working

Group paper on the Social Dimensions of Climate Change

• IPC working paper referenced in Arab States Report on Sustainable Development

• IPC paper on PAA summarized in UN publication on Public Procurement

Partnerships : • SAE, UN Women Brazil, MDA, MDS, UNDP Brazil,• UNEP, SADC-PF, UNEP/ ROLAC, FANRPAN, ODI/IDS,

CIRAD, CDKN, CIFOR, World Bank, Saudia Arabia CO, IIEB, UNDP Bratislava Centre, International Alert, TNC (emerging)

Focus for 2012

Emerging IPC-IG visibility and space

Flagship: Green Guide Project – Green Growth:• Mobilized 120K pounds • Participation in World Bank

Forum on Green Growth for All (2012)

• Viewpoint in UNRISD series (forthcoming)

• Technical Advisory Support to UN women Offices to Gender, Food Security and Climate Change Research Project in SIDS

– Social Innovations for Sustainability • Module on Gender and Climate

Change for Asia/Pacific GEPMI training and manual

Rio +20..........The Social Pillar

• Discussion Paper on Green Growth• Discussion Paper on Managing

Resource Dependence in SIDS (to be presented at Planet Under Pressure Meeting in March 2012

• Contributions to Edited Volume on Gender and Sustainable Development

• Side-events with TERI and UNDP Gender Team

• Issue Briefs Series (Gender in Biofuels Production, Social Accountability in Natural Resource Management)

• Collaboration with ODI/IDS as part of the Futures Agricultural Consortium on The Role of SSC in African Agriculture

• Poverty in Focus on SSC and Sustainable Development