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Forthcoming OECD events 

 

• Second International Conference on National Urban Policy, Paris, France, 15-16 May 2017
• 32nd meeting of the Working Party on Territorial Indicators, 17 May 2017
• 21st meeting of the Working Party on Urban Policy, 17 May 2017
• 37th meeting of the Regional Development Policy Committee 18-19 May 2017
• 9th meeting of the OECD Water Governance Initiative, 3-4 July 2016, Paris France
• 10th meeting of the OECD Water Governance Initiative, 20-21 November, Vienna, Austria
• 38th meeting sof the Regional Development Policy Committee and its Working Parties, week 4-8 December 2017

 

Sharing Regional Development Policy Messages

 

Events addressing regional policy issues, organised by other international institutions, take place all over the world. The OECD Secretariat is regularly invited to participate in these events. Some recent key presentations/interventions are as follows:

   

 

Presentation on "Decentralisation Trends in OECD Countries" made at the Workshop on Decentralisation and Territorial Reforms in Ukraine and in OECD Countries held in Kiev, Ukraine, on 26-27 January 2017, by Dorotheé Allain-Dupré, Senior Project Manager, Public Investment and Multi-level Governance, Regional Development Policy Division.
Presentation on "Regional Development Strategies in OECD Countries: Trends and tools" made at the Workshop on Decentralisation and Territorial Reforms in Ukraine and in OECD Countries held in Kiev, Ukraine, on 26-27 January 2017, by Ms. Maria-Varinia Michalun, Regional Development Policy Division.
Presentation on "Effective Public Investment: Subnational capacities in a multi-level context" at the EU Economic Workshop: Fiscal Policy and Public Investment for Relaunching Potential Growth, held in Brussels on 24 January 2017. Presentation by Dorotheé Allain-Dupré, Senior Project Manager, Public Investment and Multi-level Governance, Regional Development Policy Division.
Presentation on "Effective public investment at subnational level in times of fiscal constraints" made at the Workshop on Ex-Ante Conditionalities in Cohesion Policies held on 29 November 2016 in Brussels, Belgium. Presentation by Dorothée Allain-Dupré, Senior Project Manager, Public Investment and Multi-level Governance, Regional Development Policy Division.
Presentation on Regional disparities innovation and productivity made at the AQR (Regional Quantitative Analysis Group) Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics held in Barcelona on 27-28 October 2016 by Karen Maguire, Counsellor, Regional Development Policy Division.
Presentation on OECD urban-related work by Rudiger Ahrend, Head of Urban Policy, Regional Development Policy Division.
Presentation on Rural-Urban Partnership for economic development made at the Habitat 3 conference held in Quito, Ecuador, 17-20 October 2016, by Joaquim Oliveir Martins, Head Regional Development Policy Division.
Better planning could avoid cities becoming inequality traps video interview with Rolf Alter, Director of the Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate.
European week of Regions and Cities which took place in Brussels, Belgium from 10-13 October 2016. Presention on Productive regions for inclusive societies by Mr. Joaquim Oliveira Martins, Head Regional Development Policy Division.

OECD events

 

Regional Development Policies and Governance

• Seminar: Innovations and Challenges in the Management of Regional Policy held in Bratislava, Slovak Republic on 22 February 2017 
• Decentralisation in Ukraine: Sharing OECD experience, held in Kiev, Ukraine, 26-27 January 2017 
• Public Investment Across Levels of Government in Colombia, held in Bogotá, Colombia on 3 May 2016
• Launch of OECD publication Regional Outlook 2014 at Open Days, Brussels, Belgium, 6 October 2014
• Third TDPC Ministerial Meeting, Regions and Cities: Where policies and people meet, Marseille, France, 5-6 December 2013
• Workshop: Firms’ networks, skills and competences: linkages between universities, research centres and the business community, organised by the OECD and the University of Groningen Abruzzo, Italy, 5 July 2012
• Workshop: Effective Public Investment at Sub-National Level in Times of Fiscal Constraints: Meeting the Co-ordination and Capacity Challenges, Paris France, 21 June 2012
• Understanding Growth in Different Types of Regions, Newcastle, United Kingdom 26-27 March 2012
• Forum: Building Resilient Regions after a Natural Disaster: Abruzzo 2030, L’Aquila, Italy, 17 March 2012
• Workshop: Improving Productivity in Lagging Regions, Paris, France, 28 June 2010

 

 Regional Innovation

• OECD Workshop: Regions and Innovation: Collaborating Across Borders, Paris, France, 16-17 September 2013
• International Roundtable: Innovative and Competitive Regions,  co-organised by the Piedmont Region and the OECD, Novara, Italy, 25 June 2012
• Symposium: Innovation and Green Growth: The Regional Dimension, Paris, France, 2 December 2009
• Territorial Development Policy Committee meeting at Ministerial Level, Investing for Growth: Building Innovative Regions, 31 March 2009

 

Urban Development

• International Roundtable for Citites: Exchanging citites' experiences on resilience, Lisbon, Portugal,  21 June 2016
• Creating a Sustainable and Resilient Cebu, 9-10 December 2015, Cebu, Philippines
• Green Growth and Sustainable Urban Development, COP 21 Side Event in the OECD Workspace, Le Bourget, 3 December, 2015
• Resilient Cities Workshop, OECD Headquarters, Paris, France, 5-6 November 2015
• 6th OECD Roundtable of Mayors and Ministers, Mexico City, Mexico, 15-16 October 2015
• 4th OECD Knowledge Sharing Workshop on Urban Green Growth in Dynamic Asia, Hai Phong, Vietnam, 25-26 June 2015
• Launch of Compact City Policies: Korea, OECD Paris, France, 28 November 2014
• Resilient Cities Project Kick-off, OECD Paris, France, 28 November 2014
• Knowledge Sharing Workshop: Spatial development strategies in Iskandar Malaysia: how to plan, manage and maintain local assets under rapid urbanisation?, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, 5-6 November 2014 
• International Roundtable for Cities: Sustainable Urban Development Policies in Ageing Societies, Toyama, Japan, 17 October 2014
• Japan-OECD Forum on Urban Development and Green Growth, Tokyo, Japan 14-16 October 2014
• Bangkok Knowledge Sharing Workshop on Urban Green Growth in Dynamic Asia, 6-7 August 2014
• Paris Policy Forum: Urban green growth in Dynamic Asia, OECD Paris, France, 10 June 2014
• Fifth OECD Roundtable of Mayors and Ministers, Better Cities for Better Lives: Bridging national and local policies to deliver growth and well-being, Marseille, France, 4-5 December 2013
• International Conference on the Future of Cities and Mayors Forum, 20 October 2013, Kitakyushu, Japan
• Launch of the OECD report “ Green Growth in Kitakyushu” Japanese version, 18 October 2013, Kitakyushu, Japan
• OECD Conference on Port-Cities, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 9 September 2013
• Symposium: What Cities for the Next 3 Billion?, Paris, France, 4 December 2012
• Workshop: The Future of Port-Cities, Paris, France, 12 September 2012
• Workshop: The Compact City: A Model for Sustainable Urban Development and Green Growth? Learning from Best Practices, Paris, France, 13-14 June 2012
• Fourth OECD Roundtable of Mayors and Ministers, Mobilising Investments for Urban Sustainability, Job Creation and Resilient Growth, Chicago, United States, 8 March 2012
• Third OECD Urban Roundtable, Cities and Green Growth, Paris, France, 25 May 2010
• OECD Participation in COP15 Copenhagen Climate Change Talks, Copenhagen, Denmark, 7-18 December 2009
• Workshop: Green Cities: New Approaches to Confronting Climate Change, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain, 11-12 June 2009
• Third OECD Urban Roundtable, Competitive Cities and Climate Change, Milan, Italy, 9-10 October 2008
• What Policies for Globalising Cities? Rethinking the Urban Policy Agenda, Madrid, Spain, 29-30 March 2007
• Sustainable Cities: Linking Competitiveness with Social Cohesion, Montreal, Canada, 13-14 October 2005
• Enhancing City Attractiveness for the Future, Nagoya, Japan, 2-3 June 2005
• City Competitiveness, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, 3-4 March 2005
• Competitive Cities in the Global Economy, Sevilla, Spain, 23-24 October 2003

 

Rural Development

• Seminar: Delivering Productivity and Competitiveness for Rural Areas, Paris, France, 7 November 2016 
• Workshop: A territorial approach to food security and nutrition, OECD Headquarters, Paris France, 29 April 2016
• Opportunities for Rural Areas, OECD Headquarters, Paris France, 18 March 2016
• The Territorial Approach to Food Security and Nutrition Policies, FAO-OECD-UNCDF Conference, Milan, Italy 19-20 October 2015
• Tenth Rural Development Policy Conference, National Prosperity through Modern Rural Policy: Competitiveness and well-being in rural regions, Memphis, Tennessee, United States, 19-21 May 2015
• Workshop: The Governance of Land use Policies, Prague, Czech Republic, 15-16 May, 2014
• Ninth OECD Rural Development Policy Conference, Rural-Urban partnerships: an integrated approach to economic development, Bologna, Italy, 23-25 October 2013
• 2nd European seminar on sustainable urban rural partnerships, 24-25 April 2013
• Eighth Rural Development Policy Conference, Innovation and Modernising the Rural Economy, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, 3-5 October 2012
• Linking Rural Energy to Rural Development: Drivers and Constraints, Paris 14-15 June 2012
• Workshop: The Production of Renewable Energy as a Regional Development Policy for Rural Areas, Quebec, Canada, 15 September 2010
• Seventh Rural Development Policy Conference, Developing Rural Policies to Meet the Needs of a Changing World, Quebec, Canada, 13-15 October 2009
• Workshop: Innovative Service Delivery - Designing services for rural communities: the role of co-design and co-delivery, London, United Kingdom, 11-12 June 2009
• Sixth Rural Policy Conference, Innovative Service Delivery- Meeting the Challenges of Rural Regions, Cologne, Germany, 3-4 April 2008
• Fifth Rural Policy Conference, Innovative Rural Regions: The Role of Human Capital and Technology, Cáceres, Spain, 22-23 March 2007
• Fourth Rural Policy Conference, Investment Priorities for Rural Development, Edinburgh, 19-20 October 2006, Scotland, United Kingdom
• Third Rural Policy Conference, Designing and Implementing Rural Development Policies, Oaxaca, Mexico, 7-8 April 2005
• Second Rural Policy Conference, New Approaches to Rural Policy: Lessons from Around the World, Warrenton, United States, 25-26 March 2004
• Rural Development Conference, The Future of Rural Policy, Siena, Italy, 10-12 July 2002

 

Statistics and Indicators

• OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy, Guadalajara, Mexico, 13-15 October 2015
• Launch of OECD publication How's Life in Your Region? at Open Days, Brussels, Belgium, 6 October 2014
• Workshop: How's Life in Your Region? Measuring regional and local well-being, Paris France, 23 January 2014
• Workshop: Accessibility to services in regions and cities: measures and policies,  Paris, France, 18 June 2013
• Workshop: Measuring well-being to enhance local and regional development policy, Paris, France, 11 June 2012
• Workshop: Measuring regional development: Issues from emerging economies, Paris, France, 14 June 2011
• Worksop: Regional Mobility and Regional Innovation Networks, Paris, France, 7 June 2010

 

Water governance

• 8th meeting of the OECD Water Governance Initiative, Rabat, Morocco, 12-13 January 2017
• 7th meeting of the OECD Water Governance initiative, The Hague, Netherlands, 23-24 June 2016
• 6th Meeting of the OECD Water Governance Initiative, OECD Headquarters, Paris, France, 2-3 November 2015
• 5th Meeting of the Water Governance Initiative, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 26 May 2015
• 4th meeting of the OECD Water Governance Initiative, Paris, France, 24-25 November 2014
• Multi-stakeholder Workshop: Stakeholder Engagement for Effective Water Governance, Paris, France, 19 September 2014
• 3^rd Meeting of the OECD Water Governance Initiative, Madrid, Spain, 28-29 April 2014 
• Water Integrity Workshop, Paris, France, 20 March 2014
• 2^nd Meeting of the OECD Water Governance Initiative, Paris, France, 7-8 November 2013
• 1^st Meeting of the OECD Water Governance Initiative, Paris, France, 27-28 March 2013
• Improving Water Governance: Towards a Community of Leaders, 26 October 2011