1. RBEC Economic Governance Programme “strengthening the link between human development and poverty reduction”

2. Regional Economic Governance The Economic Governance team Main programmatic areas Regional dimension of economic governance programming

3. The Ecogov Team Renée Friedman, PhD: Senior Economist RBEC and CTA of Ecogov Sanjar Tursaliev: Junior Economist Andrey Ivanov, PhD: Human Development Advisor Dono Abdurazakova, PhD: Gender Specialist Veronika Krajcirikova: Programme Assistant Niki Beliczay: Programme Associate

4. Main programmatic areas Data for sustainable development Human development and human security Millennium Development Goals and Poverty Reduction Strategies Support for private sector development Reducing inequality in regional development Trade, trafficking and human development

5. Research Project Ideas 2003-2005 Economic Policy Institutes Network – Goal: develop economic policy institutes to build national capacity in CIS, SEE countries – Links to policy institutes in EU accession countries (CASE, CERGE, CED, Institute for World Economy) – Working papers, seminar series, workshops, forums TOPICS: – Rural development; fiscal decentralization and local development; trade, trafficking and human development; gray economy and informal labor; trade impacts on poverty; natural resource economies; energy policy impact on the poor

6. Publications 2003-2005 Human Development Report Series – Agriculture and Rural Development in the CIS – Transition in the CIS: What went right, what went wrong, and where can we go from here? – Avoiding dependency and creating security: Vulnerable groups in Southeastern Europe – Gender in Southeastern Europe and the CIS: 10 years after Beijing Human Development Handbook National Human Development Manual Transition and Development newsletter Journal: Problems of Transition

7. Training Understanding and developing statistics Transition and economic development A human development approach for sustainable growth Gender and change

8. Data for sustainable development New socio-economic indicators Regional database management Development of human security indicators and human security monitoring tool

9. Support for Private Sector Development Foreign direct investment – Conferences with government, private sector, experts participation – Tashkent (January), Bucharest (October) Small and medium-sized enterprises – Best practices in building an entrepreneurial environment – Microfinance for vulnerable groups (identifying and exporting best practices from EU accession countries)

10. MDGs, PRSPs and Debt issues Training on MDGs for governments, NGOs and others – Understanding MDGs, human development, and transition – Costing, financing, and implementation of MDGs PRSPs: linking the MDGs and the PRSPs – Sub-regional workshops – Forums with IMF and World Bank Research, policy advising on debt for development swaps

11. Regional projects in Southeastern Europe -Economic policy institutes network -Data collection for vulnerable groups -Disaggregated data for sustainable development -Microfinance for vulnerable groups -Publications: -Human development handbook -National human development report manual -Regional Human Development Report on gender -Training programmes -Foreign direct investment conferences/seminars

12. Regional projects in CIS countries - Economic policy institutes network -Data collection for vulnerable groups -Disaggregated data for sustainable development -Microfinance for vulnerable groups -Publications: -Regional human development reports: Rural development, CIS, gender -Human development handbook -NHDR manual -Training programmes -FDI conferences/seminars