Renewal: A New Era for International Development Professionals
2016 Annual Conference, May 9 - 10, 2016
Hellenic Meeting & Reception Centre, 1315 Prince of Wales Drive, Ottawa, Ontario
| Session: | How will we Use the SDGs in International Development Work? |
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Bernard Wood, President, Bernard Wood & Associates Ltd. Margaret Biggs, Skelton-Clark Fellow, School of Policy Studies and Department of Political Studies, Queens University Khalil Z. Shariff, Chief Executive Officer, The Aga Khan Foundation of Canada |
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In this opening panel of the Conference’s SDG Stream, three senior panellists from different perspectives (Government, International NGO, and Independent Evaluation) will launch the discussion with their personal reflections on how to make best use of the SDGs in international development work over the coming years. Since subsequent sessions will focus on the climate change/environment and economic Goals, this session will concentrate of expectations and approaches for applying the full, integrated set of Goals.
Bernard Wood will set the scene with his experience around the predecessor MDGs and their application, assessed and projected through the lens of some 50 evaluation studies over the past 15 years, including the international Evaluation of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness.
Margaret Biggs will draw on her 5 years’ experience as President of CIDA as well as other responsibilities at the centre of Government – and her recent work as chair on the CIPS report Towards 2030: Building Canada’s Engagement with Global Sustainable Development - to outline the potential for using the SDGs to target and advance shared goals in a new era of global development.
Khalil Shariff will offer a conceptual and operational perspective based on his ten years as CEO of one of the leading international development NGOs in Canada, as well as the extensive, integrated and deep-rooted development experience of the Aga Khan Development Network across many countries
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Biographies: |
Bernard M. Wood, President, Bernard Wood & Associates Ltd.
Bernard Wood has over 40 years experience as an evaluation specialist, senior multilateral manager, think tank director in development and security policy, and parliamentary advisor. In the 1980s, he was a pioneer in taking evaluations of official programs of development assistance to the critical country level and in deepening assessments of civil society assistance.
From 2009 to 2011, he led the international core team for one the largest ever development evaluations - the Evaluation of the Paris Declaration - for which he accepted the 2012 Outstanding Evaluation of the Year Award from the American Evaluation Association. In recent years he has led several major projects for the WTO and ITC on trade and development and for the African Development Bank on fragile states, while also serving as methodological advisor and quality assurance expert for firms in the UK and Sweden.
From 1993-99 he served as the Director of Development Cooperation and head of the DAC secretariat at the OECD in Paris. Earlier he was Deputy Director of the Parliamentary Centre, then founding CEO of The North-South Institute and CEO of the Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security.
Margaret Biggs, Skelton-Clark Fellow, School of Policy Studies and Department of Political Studies, Queens University  Margaret Biggs is currently the Skelton-Clark Fellow in the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University. From 2008-2013 she was President of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) responsible for overseeing Canada's international development and humanitarian assistance efforts world-wide. In this role, Ms. Biggs spearheaded Canadian initiatives on maternal and child health, education, sustainable economic growth and food security. She contributed to the management of major foreign policy priorities including he whole-of-government mission in Afghanistan. Previously, Ms. Biggs served as Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet and Assistant Secretary, Priorities and Planning, in the Privy Council Office. She has extensive background in policies and programs related to social development, labour markets, skills and learning.Ms. Biggs has represented Canada in numerous international fora and has served as Canada’s Alternate Governor to the World Bank, as International Executive Co-chair of the China Council on International Cooperation on Environment and Development, and on the Board of Governors for the International Development Research Centre. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of World University Services Canada and chairs the International Advisory Committee for the United Nations University Institute on Water, Environment and Health. Ms. Biggs is a graduate of the University of British Columbia and the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University.
Khalil Z. Shariff, Chief Executive Officer, Aga Khan Foundation of Canada
 Mr. Khalil Shariff joined Aga Khan Foundation Canada as Chief Executive Officer in August 2005. He was previously with the Toronto office of McKinsey & Company, an international management consultancy, where he advised governments, financial institutions, and health care providers on strategy, organization, and operational improvement.Khalil served on AKFC’s National Committee for five years, and has cultivated his interest in international development and conflict resolution issues through a variety of activities including as: Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Harvard Negotiation Law Review; Policy Co-ordinator and Research Associate, Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research; Legal Intern, Chambers of the Vice-President, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania; Intern, Office of Under-Secretary-General, UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations. He was the youngest member ever elected as a School Trustee in 1993 for the Board of School Trustees in Richmond, B.C.
Khalil holds a B.A. in International Relations and Economics from the University of British Columbia and a J.D. magna cum laude from the Harvard Law School.
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