Final agenda of the Forum

Chair: Mr. Jean-Louis Bodin, former President of the International Statistical Institute and Chairman of the Metagora Independent Panel of Experts

• Welcome address by Mr. Richard Manning, Chairman of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC)

• Introductory remarks on the Forum's background and objectives, by Dr. Mark Orkin, CEO, Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa, and Chairman of the Metagora Partner's Group (by video-conference)

• The Metagora Community and beyond: the need for an inclusive Forum, by Mr. Raul Suarez de Miguel, Metagora general co-ordinator

• What is Metagora accomplishing? Summary of Metagora intermediary results, by Mr. Jan Robert Suesser, Director of ADETEF (France) and head of the Metagora Task Team on Global Synthesis

• Recording and transmitting lessons and good practices for measuring democracy, human rights and governance (DHRG): a prototype tool for making available relevant training materials, by Mrs. Jana Asher, StatAid (USA), head of the Metagora Task Team on Training Materials

• Identifying and documenting on-going initiatives aimed at measuring DHRG around the world: current coverage, content and utility of the Metagora database, by Mrs Roberta D'Arcangelo, Metagora associated expert, and Mr. Thomas Heimgartner, Metagora co-ordination team.

• Discussant 1: Focusing on the objective: to increase knowledge and capacities for monitoring effective implementation of human rights and democracy, by Mr. Michel Tubiana, Vice-President of the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues and President of the French League for Human Rights (France).

• Discussant 2: Improving evidence-based reporting on DHRG issues: the Project's strengths, weaknesses and perspectives, by Prof. Stephen E. Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon (USA)

• Discussant 3: Enhancing policy orientation: challenges and perspectives opened up by Metagora, by Mr. Emilio Álvarez Icaza Longoria, Chairman of the Commission for Human Rights of Mexico City (Federal District)

• General discussion

• Summary of comments of the Independent Panel of Experts on the Project's progress, and conclusions of the session by the Chair

Chair: Atty. Dr. Purificacion Valera Quisumbing, Chairperson, Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines

• Measuring Indigenous People's Rights in the Philippines: quantitative and qualitative outcomes, by Atty. Anita Chauhan, Metagora national co-ordinator, Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines

• The work of NGOs in collecting data for measuring human rights violations in Sri Lanka: networking, harmonization and capacity building, by Ms. Lakmali Dasanayake and Mr. Kohilanath Rajanayagam, Human Rights Accountability Coalition of Sri Lanka

• Experiences and perspectives on collecting and analyzing human rights data during conflict situations, by Dr. Peggy Jennings and Dr. Shana Swiss, Women's Rights International, USA

• Discussant 1: Mr. Romesh Silva, Metagora Associated Expert
• Discussant 2: Mr. Narandran Kollapen, Commissioner, South Africa Human Rights Commission
• Discussant 3: Dr. Susannah Sirkin, Deputy Director, Physicians for Human Rights

• General Discussion

• Rights-based international indicators: aim, options and outcomes of the world statistically-based report on poverty and the rights of the child, by Prof. David Gordon (University of Bristol) and Prof. Peter Townsend (London School of Economics and Politics)

• Rights-based national indicators: aims, options and outcomes of a national statistically-based report on the rights of the child, by Mrs. Linda Hewitt, Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Development (CIRD), Trinidad and Tobago

• General discussion
• Conclusions by the Chair

Chair: Mr. Antoine Simonpietri, Manager of PARIS21, OECD

• Using official household surveys to build policy-oriented indicators on democracy and governance, by Dr. Javier Herrera, Dr. Mireille Razafindrakoto, Dr. François Roubaud, DIAL (France)

• Developing national governance indicators: the outcomes of New Dehli, by Mr. Ramaswamy Sudarshan, Senior Policy Advisor - Justice, UNDP Oslo Governance Centre and Prof. Christopher Scott, Consultant to UNDP

• Measuring corruption in Colombia and Kenya, by Mr. Cobus de Swardt, Director of global programs, Transparency International

• General discussion

• Mr. Jean Razafindravonona, Director-General of the National Statistical Institute of Madagascar;
• Mr. Loay Shabaneh, President of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, PCBS (Palestine)
• Dr. Romulo Virola, Secretary-General of the National Statistical Co-ordination Board of the Philippines, NSCB (Philippines)
• Mr. Guillermo Lecaros, Head of Statistics, General-Secretariat of the Andean Community;
• Mr. Lamine Diop, former Director-General of AFRISTAT

Chair: Mr. Miloon Kothari, UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing (India)

• Process and first outcomes of the design of a statistically-based database on the right to education in Palestine, by Mr. Mustafa Khawaja, Metagora national co-ordinator, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

• Specific characteristics and aims of rights-based indicators in the field of education, by Dr. Audrey Chapman, Director, Science and Human Rights Program, American Association for the Advancement of Science (USA)

• Complementarity of aggregate governance indicators and national policy-oriented governance indicators, by Mr. Daniel Kaufmann, Director Global Programs and Governance, World Bank Institute (by video-conference)

• Measuring government's commitment to economic and social rights - some illustration regarding the right to education, by Mr. Eitan Felner, Director, Center for Economic and Social Rights

• General discussion

• Expert meeting on "human rights indicators" (Turku, Finland, 10-13 March 2005), convened by the Institute for Human Rights, Abo Academy University, in collaboration with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - by Dr. Rajeev Malhotra and Mr. Nicolas Fasel (OHCHR)

• Workshop on "measuring impact in human rights: How far have we come, how far to go?" (Harvard, 5-7 May 2005), convened by the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy, Kennedy School for Governance, Harvard University - by Ms. Eleanor I. Benko and Mr. Rory Stewart (Carr Centre)

• Expert meeting on "human rights impact assessment: from human rights analysis to measuring change" (Utrecht, 25-26 November 2004), convened by the Humanist Committee on Human Rights (HOM, Netherlands) - by Mr. Jan de Vries (HOM)

• General discussion about the main orientations emerging from the forum on:
  • i) the complementary approaches to measuring DHRG;
  • ii) interaction and synergies between relevant on-going initiatives;
  • iii) next steps of the Metagora working program;
  • iv) follow-up to Metagora achievements after the term of the pilot project.