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Activities
Building
Civil Society Legitimacy and Accountability Workshop
The
Building Civil Society Legitimacy and Accountability Workshop
took place in
Montral
,
Canada
from May 26th to
May 28th, 2005
. Teams
from the
Hauser
Center
and Harvard (Professors Dave Brown
& Jim Honan) and CIVICUS co-led the workshop, with participation
from leaders of several other initiatives on legitimacy and
accountability. The
workshop aimed to foster regional initiatives, both to use existing
tools and create new approaches for dealing with legitimacy and
accountability challenges. The
workshop brought together twenty-one regional leaders and experts
who are enhancing civil society legitimacy and accountability.
Participants discussed existing experience and how to adapt
it to fit regional necessities and realities and will meet again in
a year to discuss progress in each region.
International
Advocacy NGOs Network Annual Workshop
The
third annual International Advocacy NGOs (IANGOs) Network
Workshop took place in
Amsterdam
, the
Netherlands
from June 5th to
June 7th, 2005
. The
workshop was co-organized by the
Hauser
Center
(Dave Brown, Sanjeev Khagram,
Srilatha Batliwala), Greenpeace International, Oxfam
International, and CIVICUS. It
was hosted in the offices of Greenpeace.
The workshop convened chief executives of international
organizations and networks concerned with human rights, poverty
alleviation, environmental degradation, humanitarian relief,
governance, women's rights and other transnational issues to discuss
strategies and leadership challenges for advocacy.
This year the workshop focused on issues such as the roles of
civil society organizations in constructing new transnational
institutions to deal with global problems, a draft charter of
accountability for transnational NGOs, and the possibilities of
cross-network alliances on issues such as the Global Call for Action
on Poverty and the Climate Change Alliance.
Participation
with Responsibility: Civil Society Responses to Accountability and
Legitimacy Challenge
The
Hauser
Center
and CIVICUS organized a panel at the
Global Governance 2005 Conference convened by the Montreal
International Forum (FIM) from May 29th to
June 1, 2005
in
Montral
,
Canada
. The
panel, entitled Participation with Responsibility: Civil Society
Responses to Accountability and Legitimacy Challenge took place
in two sessions on May 31st as a part of the conference track
Civil Society Participation:
Opportunities and Responsibilities.
Dave Brown facilitated the panel with panelists
Kristina Mand (Network of Estonian Non-Profit Organizations), Simon
Burall (One World Trust) and David Kalete (CIVICUS).
Religion,
Politics and Public Life Faculty Seminar Series
On
May 9th, the
Hauser
Center
's Program on Religion and Public Life (PRPL)
held its fifth panel discussion in its Religion, Politics and Public
Life Faculty Seminar Series. The
discussion was titled "Religion and Politics at the Level of
World Politics" with distinguished panelists Profs. Timothy
Byrnes (Professor of Political Science,
Colgate
University
), Harvey Cox (Hollis Professor of
Divinity,
Harvard
Divinity
School
) and Timothy Shah (Senior Fellow in
Religion and World Affairs, Pew Forum on Religion & Public
Life). The panelists
shared remarks on the role that religion plays at the level of world
politics. This (by
invitation only) series is co-convened by J. Bryan Hehir and Mary
Jo Bane and will continue in academic year 2006.
Promoting
Financial Stewardship in the Public Sector Conference
Elizabeth
Keating and The Hauser
Center hosted a two-day conference on April 1-2 on Promoting
Financial Stewardship in the Public Sector. The session brought
together 70 leading practitioners and academics. The goal of the
session was to develop better understanding of sound stewardship in
these institutions is important to many stakeholders, including
taxpayers, service recipients, donors, regulators and employees.
Featured speakers included: Marion
Fremont-Smith (co-convener of the Independent Sectors Expert
Advisory Group to its Panel on the Nonprofit Sector), Marty Benison
(Controller,
Commonwealth
of
Massachusetts
), Ernest Almonte (Auditor-General of
Rhode Island
), Robert Culver (President,
MassDevelopment), Jack McCarthy (Senior Partner,
PriceWaterhouseCoopers). The dinner panel featured a debate on
Social Security between Stephen Goss (the Chief Actuary of the
Social Security Administration), David Mosso (the Chair of the
Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board), and Howell Jackson
(Professor,
Harvard
Law
School
).
Social Entrepreneurship Collaboratory (SE Lab)
Gordon
Bloom, Mark Moore, Dutch
Leonard and Chris Winship launched the Social Entrepreneurship
Collaboratory (SE Lab), an incubator for US and international social
change initiatives, in Spring 2005 at the Kennedy School of
Government, with 60 students from four
Kennedy
School
degree programs, the
Harvard
Business
School
,
Harvard
College
, the
Divinity
School
, and the
Graduate
School
of Arts & Sciences.
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People In Action
In the interest of
space, the E-News does not included titles for Hauser faculty,
researchers or staff. For full titles and bios, please visit our
People pages.
Information about our Doctoral Fellows is available
here.
Gordon
Bloom is
publishing The Social Entrepreneurship Collaboratory (SE Lab): A
University Incubator for a Rising Generation of Social
Entrepreneurs", a chapter in the forthcoming book "Social
Entrepreneurship: Paradigms of Sustainable Social Change"
(Oxford University Press, 2005).
Dave
Brown
met
with Mexican NGO leaders and faculty from the
Monterrey
and
Mexico
City
campuses of Monterrey Tec on May 12 in
Mexico
City
to discuss possible civil society executive development programs
that might be offered jointly by the Tec and the
Hauser
Center
as part of the
Hauser
Center
's
Executive Education Distance Learning Partnerships Program.
Dave
Brown and
Gowher Rizvi traveled to
New
Delhi
,
India
for meetings on May 19-20 with civil society leaders and academics
to explore the possibilities of organizing a major conference on the
future of civil society in the South Asian region, the leadership
demands that future will impose, and possible joint strategies for
leadership development initiatives.
Rajesh Tandon, Founder-President of the Society for
Participatory Research in
Asia
,
and a Visiting Fellow at the
Hauser
Center
in the Fall 2004, was the host and organizer of the meetings.
Marty
Chen was
asked to speak at the book launch at the Ford Foundation in New York
for Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, No Jobs:
Labor Markets and Informal Work in Egypt, El Salvador, India,
Russia and South Africa, which was edited by Tony Avirgan, L.
Josh Bivens and Sarah Gammage.
Marty co-wrote the concluding chapter of the book,
"Informal Employment: Rethinking Workforce Development"
with Joann Vanek, Director of WIEGO's Statistics Program.
For more information on the book please click here.
Additionally,
Marty has been working on UNIFEM's flagship publication, The
Progress of the World's Women 2005, with co-authors Joann Vanek
and Francie Lund, Director of WIEGO's
Social Protection Program and Associate Professor at the University
of KwaZulu Natal, and James Heintz, Assistant Research
Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
The book called Women, Work, and Poverty and will be
launched by UNIFEM at the Millennium Development Summit at the
United Nations in September 2005.
Brent
Coffin
is publishing an article in the September issue of Voluntary and
Nonprofit Sector Quarterly titled, "Ethical Competence and
Capacity in Collaborative Research."
Hauser
Community Branches Out
Several
members of the Hauser Center Community are taking on new roles.
Christine Letts will become the Associate Dean for
Executive Programs at Harvards John F. Kennedy School of
Government. While Chris
will assume leadership of Executive Programs as her primary
responsibility, she will continue as a faculty member and will
remain an important participant in the intellectual and collegial
life of the
Hauser
Center
and will stay involved with our Executive Education Distance
Learning Partnership. In
addition, Chris will continue with her research interests in
philanthropy and effective nonprofit management and governance.
Peter
Frumkin will
leave the
Kennedy
School
in August to assume his new role as Professor of Public Affairs at
the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the
University
of
Texas
at
Austin
.
At the
LBJ
School
,
he will also be the director of the new
RGK
Center
for Philanthropy and Community Service. Drawing on his
experience at the
Hauser
Center
,
he has an exciting challenge ahead to create an effective nonprofit
center for the university.
Sanjeev
Khagram will
leave the
Kennedy
School
in July to assume his new role as Associate Professor of Public
Affairs and International Studies, as well as Director of the
Mark
Lindenberg
Center
for Humanitarian Action, International Development and Global
Citizenship at the
University
of
Washington
.
In addition, he will take on a new role as the Senior Advisor
to the
Tutu
Peace
Center
in
South
Africa
.
He will remain co-director of the Transnational Studies
Initiative
which will be based at both the
Lindenberg
Center
and Harvards
Weatherhead
Center
for International Affairs.
In
growing the programs at Executive Education and in establishing
these new centers, Chris, Peter and Sanjeev sow the seeds for
fruitful partnerships with the
Hauser
Center
for years to come.
They will also continue to collaborate with the
Hauser
Center
on specific research projects.
Please join us in congratulating Chris, Peter and Sanjeev as
they branch out.
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