Solutions for Climate Change and Food Security to be Highlighted at South-South Expo 2011

Seeking to showcase successful Southern solutions to the complex challenges facing the South today, the GSSD Expo 2011 will focus on the urgent crisis of food insecurity in the South, a development challenge that cross-cuts virtually all of the significant development challenges of today

The Global South-South Development Expo (GSSD Expo) is the FIRST EVER Expo solely from the South and for the South. It showcases successful Southern-grown development solutions (SDSs) to address the need to meet Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

With much of the world's population chronically hungry owing to extreme poverty, food insecurity is a particularly grave challenge, one that exacerbates and is exacerbated by the critical challenges of climate change, lack of access to education and social safety nets, and HIV/AIDS and other global health pandemics.

Please join us at the Global South-South Development (GSSD) Expo for a thought-provoking discussion on Global Health, Agriculture and Food Security co-hosted by FHI 360 and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).

This Solution Exchange Forum will feature national and regional solutions, responses and innovative policies, to health and nutrition issues related to food insecurity and agriculture, infectious and non-communicable diseases, including outreach and delivery mechanisms, bio-agricultural health products and techniques for increasing access to health information, and ways of exchanging effective solutions across regions through South-South and triangular cooperation.

Our efforts to find solutions to the complex development challenges facing the South require collective action and broad-based partnerships. The strength of the GSSD Expo is that it showcases concrete development solutions in the most pivotal areas, thus further promoting critical sharing and exchange of solutions across the global South.

With continued support from the international development community, we are confident that the GSSD Expo 2011 will serve as a powerful platform from which to support the implementation and scaling up of successful solutions and strengthen efforts to achieve internationally agreed development goals, including the MDGs.

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) is a partner of the UNDP on the South-South Global Assets and Technology Exchange (SS-Gate) Track V - Global Health.

For more information, please contact the GSSD Expo Secretariat:
Special Unit for South-South Cooperation, UNDP
304 East 45th Street, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10017 USA
Telephone: +1 212 906 6392
Fax: +1 212 906 6429
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Social and Economic Costs of Violence

October 25, 2011. Violence not only causes physical and emotional damage, but also creates a social and economic burden on communities. Measuring these costs can be difficult, and most estimates only consider the direct economic effects of violence, such as productivity loss or the use of health care services. Beyond these clear-cut costs, however, the pain and suffering of violence can affect human and social development and increase the risk of chronic outcomes later in life. Communities and societies feel the effects of violence through loss of social cohesion, financial divestment, and the increased burden on the health care and justice systems. Initial estimates show that the cost of implementing successful violence prevention interventions is usually less than the cost borne by individuals and society if no action is taken.

April 28-29, 2011, the IOM’s Forum on Global Violence Prevention held a workshop to evaluate the social and economic costs of violence. The workshop was designed to examine cross-cutting public health approaches to violence prevention from multiple perspectives and at various levels of society. Participants focused on exploring the successes and challenges of calculating direct and indirect costs of violence, as well as the potential cost-effectiveness of intervention. Speakers discussed social and economic costs of violence at four levels: individual, family, community, and societal. This document is a summary of the workshop.

Released: October 25, 2011. Type: Workshop Summary. Topic: Global Health
Activity: Forum on Global Violence Prevention. Board: Board on Global Health

Front Matter (R1-R10)

1 Introduction (1-6)

2 Approaches to Measurement and Costing Methodology (7-14)

3 Challenges in Calculating Costs (15-18)

4 Toward a Bigger Picture of the Costs of Violence (19-26)

5 The Promise of Investing in Violence Prevention (27-32)

6 Direct and Indirect Costs of Violence (33-76)

7 Context and Place (77-100)

8 Investing in Prevention (101-122)

Appendix A Workshop Agenda (123-128)

Appendix B Speaker Biographical Sketches (129-138)

Appendix C Planning Committee Biographical Sketches (139-140)

Appendix D Forum Member Biographical Sketches (141-150)