5.1 Development Opportunities

1. Development opportunities

Ways of supporting the processes of human development

The multidimensional process of human development and ways to measure it:

• UN Sustainable Development Goals criteria

• validity and reliability of development indicators and indices, including the human development index (HDI) and gender inequality index (GII)

• empowering women and indigenous or minority groups

• Detailed illustrative examples of affirmative action to close the development gap

The importance of social entrepreneurship approaches for human development:

• the work of microfinance organizations and their networks

• alternative trading networks such as “Fairtrade”

• TNC corporate social responsibility frameworks and global agreements

Synthesis, evaluation and skills opportunities

How actions to support human development involve spatial interactions from local to global scales

5.1B empowering women and indigenous or minority groups

• Detailed illustrative examples of affirmative action to close the development gap

5.1C - The importance of social entrepreneurship approaches for human development:

• the work of microfinance organizations and their networks

• alternative trading networks such as “Fairtrade”

• TNC corporate social responsibility frameworks and global agreements