Español
The Rehovot Conference 2010
  |   |
The Rehovot Conference 2010 came to an end.
Beforehand, we would like to thank all participants for contributing to this event, and for the successful results it produced. One hundred and eighty people, coming from thirty different countries attended the conference this year.
The first day of the Conference permitted us to enjoy high-level plenary sessions and a panel. We had the opportunity to gather together political personalities, experts, academics and professionals.
On the second day, participants took a more active role in the debate: Many of them shared presentations and led workshops that spanned a variety of issues related to inclusive sustainable development. The knowledge we gained will certainly bring us professionals to a new stage in our work.
The last day, we visited two projects carried out by JNF-KKL, notably a forested reserve developed to give access to disabled people. We also had the chance to visit the old city of Jerusalem. Finally, all participants were gathered together in a reception held by MASHAV, the Israeli Agency for International Development Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
For the Weitz Center, the event provided the opportunity to sign a cooperation agreement with the International Urban Training Center, represented by Prof. Kim Kwi-Gon from the Republic of Korea, and with the organization "Red de Protección Social para la Superación de la Extrema Pobreza – JUNTOS" from Colombia (to read more about the Memorandum of Understanding, please click HERE).
Following the conference, we look forward to keeping in contact and to develop further cooperation with our participants.
The Organizing Committee
Ms. Julia Margulies, Weitz Center for Development Studies
Mr. Louis Bar-Nir Municipality of Rehovot
Ms. Miriam Eger Weitz Center for Development Studies
Dr. Shai Finger The Jewish Agency for Israel
Mr. Ilan Fluss Israeli Agency for International Development Cooperation, Mashav Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Dr. Roby Nathanson The Macro Center for Political Economics & Weitz Center for Development Studies
Mr. Yossi Offer Weitz Center for Development Studies
Mr. Aviad Sar-Shalom Israel Planners Association
Lic. Roberto Spindel Israel Latin America Chamber of Commerce
Dr. Aliza H. Stark The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
Ms. Mandie Winston American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Mr. Pinchas Cahana Keren Kayemet le Israel
And the Secretariat
Ronit Shpindel
Ester Elisha
Daniela Zerahia
Amandine Desille
To read more about the Conference, you can also read this ARTICLE by Dr. Yosef Gotlieb.
The abstracts of the presentations are available HERE. The Conference Album is available HERE.
Please click on the name of the presentation you want to read on the program below to display the file.
Sunday, December 5th 2010
Prof. Alon Tal, Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Policy and sociological aspects of afforestation in Israel / Políticas publicas y aspectos sociológicos de la aforestación en Israel
Prof. Kwi-Gon Kim, Director of International Urban Training Center, South Korea.
Eco City Planning: The Korean experience / Planificación de eco-ciudad: La experiencia de Corea del Sur
Prof. Arza Churchman, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa Israel
The social aspects of sustainable development: who benefits and who doesn't? / Aspectos sociales del desarrollo sostenible: ¿Quien beneficia y quien no?
Prof. Mordechai Shechter, Director, Natural Resource & Environmental Research Center, University of Haifa, Dean, School of Sustainability, Herzlyia Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzlyia, Israel
Benefit transfer of the economic value of natural resources to vulnerable populations / Transferencia del valor económico de los recursos naturales a poblaciones vulnerables
Prof. Rachelle Alterman, Head - Center for Urban and Regional Studies, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa Israel
Affordable housing and the compact city ideal: Are they compatible? / La vivienda asequible y el ideal de ciudad compacta: ¿Son compatibles?
Monday, December 6th 2010, Parallel Sessions
Session 1A: Mainstreaming Inclusion and Sustainability into National Development Policies / Integración de la inclusión y la sostenibilidad en las políticas nacionales de desarrollo
Moderator: Manuel Cimadevilla
Sustainability Outlook 2030: Environmental Future for Israel (Perspectivas de Sostenibilidad para 2030: El futuro ambiental de Israel)
Dr Valeri Brachya, Environmental Policy Center, Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, Israel
Tourism Development Tools for Inclusive Sustainable Development: Towards a Green Tourism Policy (Herramientas del desarrollo del turismo para un desarrollo sostenible e inclusivo: Hacia una política de turismo ecológica)
Eran Ketter, Center for Tourism Research, University of Haifa
Estrategia de Superación de Pobreza de Colombia(Colombia Strategies to surmount poverty)
Julio César Grandas, Red de Protección Social para la Superación de la Extrema Pobreza – JUNTOS. Agencia Presidencial para la Acción Social y Cooperación Internacional
Sustainable Development Strategies (Local Agendas 21) in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine (Estrategias de Desarrollo Sostenible (Agendas locales 21) en Bielorrusia, Rusia y Ucrania)
Dr. Aleg Sivagrakau, UNDP Project 7quot, Belarus
Session 1B: Interactive session, organized and facilitated by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee / Sesión interactiva, organizado y facilitado por el American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Moderator: Mandie Winston
Part 1: Presentation of three different inclusiveness tools deployed successfully in three different cultural settings with three different populations / Presentación de tres herramientas de inclusión diferentes desplegado con éxito en tres contextos culturales diferentes, con tres poblaciones diferentes
Women Living with Breast Cancer in Russia – Developing Peer Support Groups as a Tool for Leadership Development (Mujeres que viven con cáncer en Rusia - Desarrollo de Grupos de apoyo entre pares como herramienta para el desarrollo del liderazgo)
People with Disabilities in Israel - Working with Agents of Change (e.g. Religious and Traditional Leadership) as a Tool for Changing Attitudes and Promoting Inclusion (Las personas con discapacidad en Israel - Trabajar con los agentes de cambio (por ejemplo, el liderazgo religioso y tradicional) como herramienta para cambiar actitudes y promover la inclusión)
Migrants and Diaspora as Development Agents - The Power of Networking and Collective Action to Make Change (Los emigrantes y la diáspora como agentes de desarrollo - El poder de las redes y de la acción colectiva para lograr un cambio)
Part 2: Participants will join a workshop that will examine one the following tools for inclusive development in more detail / Parte 2: Los participantes se unirán para estudiar en más detalle una de las siguientes herramientas para el desarrollo inclusivo
Session 2A: Local and regional development / Desarrollo local y regional
Moderator: Roberto Spindel, Chamber of Commerce / Camara de Comercio, Israel America Latina
Raanan Weitz Competition - First place prize winner:
Addis Ababa housing development program: a strategy for urban poverty reduction and sustainable Socio-economic transformation (Programa Integrado de Desarrollo de Viviendas en Addis Abeba: Una estrategia para reducir la Pobreza Urbana y llegar a transformaciones Socio-Económicas Sostenibles)
Mekonen Wube Ermed, Housing Development Project Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Reducir la pobreza desarrollando la clase media en Suchitepequez, Guatemala (Reduce poverty developing the middle class in Suchitepéquez, Guatemala)
Lic. Eddie Rodolfo Maldonado Rivera, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
Desarrollo Integral de la Cuenca Baja del Rio Napo en la Provincia de Orellana, Ecuador (Global development of the river Napo in Orellana Province, Ecuador)
Juan Patricio Marquez Eche, Provincia de Orellana, Guadalupe Llori Abarca
Proyecto: Desarrollo rural y territorial en la región norte-norte de Costa Rica (Project: Rural and territorial development in the north-north region of Costa Rica)
Jesús Ortega López, Fundación Escuela Andaluza de Economía Social, España
Session 2B: Partnerships and participation towards inclusive sustainable development / Alianzas y participación hacia un desarrollo sostenible y inclusivo
Moderador: Louis Bar-Nir, Rehovot Municipality
Mainstreaming financial inclusion in India: Sustainable initiatives (Integración financiera en India: Iniciativas sostenibles)
Dr K.G. Karmakar, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), India
Sustainable development: Aid effectiveness and efficiency in light of the Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action(Desarrollo sostenible: Eficacia y eficiencia de la asistencia a la luz de la Declaración de París y de la agenda de Accra para el cambio)
Jeremy Ben Shalom, environment and sustainable development consultant, Israel
Rethinking Public Participation as a tool for sustainable development: A lesson from the unrecognized Bedouin Village in the Negev (Repensando la participación del público como una herramienta para el desarrollo sostenible: Una lección de un pueblo beduino no reconocido en el Negev)
Ofer Lerner,Technion, Israel Institute of technology
Fighting transboundary river pollution in China: Is cooperation possible?(Lucha contra la contaminación de los ríos transfronterizos en China ¿Es posible la cooperación?
Dr Reut Barak, UK
Sustainable evolution: Can China be a model to the developing world? (Evolución sostenible: ¿China puede ser un modelo para el mundo en desarrollo?)
Dr. Richard Hardiman, Dept. East Asian Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Session 2C: Ecosystems and human well-being / Ecosistemas y bien estar humano
Moderator: Aviad Sar-Shalom, Environment and Planning management
Raanan Weitz Competition - Second place prize winner:
"The Omora Ethno botanical Park: conceptual and methodological advances for linking ecological sustainability and social wellbeing in Southern South America" ("El Parque Etno-botánico Omora": Avances conceptuales y metodológicos para la vinculación de la sostenibilidad ecológica y del bienestar social en el sur de América del Sur) Prof. James Kennedy Sub-Antarctic Biocultural Conservation Program, University of North Texas and Universidad de Magallanes, and Alexandria Poole, Center for Environmental Philosophy, USA and Chile
The Megiddo Biosphere Region: a bottom-up initiative for sustainable development (La región de la biosfera de Megiddo: Una iniciativa de abajo hacia arriba para el desarrollo sostenible)
Yoel Siegel and Hadas Bashan, Regional Council of Megiddo, Israel
Integrating monitoring and managing systems for sustainable tourism development (Sistemas de seguimiento para el desarrollo del turismo sostenible)
Tobias Mendelovici, Environmental consultant for Total Tourism and Environmental Solutions Australia
The Water Crises across the Jordan Valley and the Reflects On Environment and Human Dignity )La Crisis del Agua en el Valle del Jordán y el reflejo sobre el Medio Ambiente y la dignidad humana(
Dheeb Hussien, Pella Heritage Society
Session 3A: Partnerships and private sector initiatives for inclusion and sustainability / Alianzas e iniciativas del sector privado par inclusion y sostenibilidad
Moderator: Arq. Fernando Romero, WCI
“Alcaldía al Campo y Alcaldía al Barrio” (Partnerships for inclusive sustainable development at local and regional levels)
Oscar Sánchez Léon, Facatativá, Cundinamarca, Colombia
Proyecto Integración, Inclusión social a través de Políticas Publicas (Integrating inclusion and sustainability in development national policies)
Arq. Julian Peña and Arq. Antonio Rinaldi, WCI, Argentina
El Compromiso del Sector Privado con la Superación de la Pobreza (Colombia Líder: Compromizing the private sector to overcome poverty)
Karem Judith Labrador Araujo, Colombia Líder, Colombia
RSE en la aeronavegación comercial (Sustainable development initiatives in the commercial aviation)
Maria Albertina Lavigne, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Vegetables and fruits production for children nutrition in Kenya
Patrick G. Muriuki, ICOSEED, Kenya
Monetisation of Carbon Credits in Kenya Produced by Use of Low-Carbon Efficient Cooking Stoves (Monetización de créditos de carbono en Kenia, producido para el uso de estufas de cocinas eficientes, con bajas emisiones de carbono)
Geoffrey Kiringa, Carbon Manna Africa Ltd, Kenya
Session 3B: Inclusion and sustainability in rural areas and agriculture / Inclusión y sostenibilidad en las áreas rurales y en la agricultura
Moderator: Gabriel Bechar, Weitz Center
Revitalizing and modernizing smallholder agriculture : The Aldeia Nova Project in Angola (Revitalización y Modernización en medio de los pequeños agricultores: El proyecto Aldeia Nova en Angola)
Prof Ayal Kimhi, Department of Agricultural Economics and Management Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Olives groves plantations as a sustainable solution to abandoned agricultural land (Plantación de olivares como una solución sostenible para las tierras agrícolas abandonadas)
Dr. Adi Naali, Environmental Consulting Services.Sustainability-Environment, Economy and Society,Israel
A African success story
Agricultural Services & Training Centers (ASTC). Advanced agriculture and the transfer of know-how(Historia africana de éxito: Servicios agrícolas y Centros de Formación (ASTC), la agricultura avanzada y la transferencia de know-how)
Mark Fishman, Green 2000
Environmentally friendly technologies for managing pests of agriculture and vectors of livestock and public health importance in Tanzania (Tecnologías respetuosas del medio ambiente para la gestión de plagas en la agricultura y los vectores de la importancia de la ganadería y la salud pública en Tanzania)
Epiphania e Kimaro, Tropical Pesticides Research Institute , Arusha, Tanzania
Agriculture and tourism as tools of regional development of Republic Northern Osetia – Alania, Russia (La agricultura y el turismo como instrumentos de desarrollo regional de la República Osetia del Norte - Alania, Rusia)
Natalia Romanova, Julia Stagnieva and Constantin Antipov,North-Caucasian mining and smelting institute, Russia
Session 3C: Youth and development Session organized by Jewish Agency for Israel / Juventud y desarrollo Sesión organizada por la Agencia Judía para Israel
Moderator: Shai Finger, Jewish Agency for Israel
KA'ET: A Model for Encouraging Business Initiatives of Young Communities in the Periphery (KA'ET: Un modelo para la estimulación de iniciativas de negocios para las comunidades jóvenes de la periferia)
Offer Isseroff, Director of Priority Regions Division, Israel Department, Jewish Agency for Israel
The Youth Futures Model: An Intervention Model for Children and Youth at Risk to Help Overcome Under-Utilization of Social Services (El modelo Juventud Futura: Un modelo de intervención para niños y jóvenes en situación de riesgo para ayudar a superar la subutilización de los servicios sociales)
Shai Lazer, Director of Youth Futures Program, Israel Department, Jewish Agency for Israel
Youth Participation for Development: Strategies and best practices (Participación de la juventud en el desarrollo: Estrategias y mejores prácticas)
Daniela Ben Attar, International development Consultant, Israel
The impacts of high incidence of urban poverty on students’ educational performance & effects on inclusive sustainable urban development (Impactos de alta incidencia por la pobreza urbana en el nivel de la educación y los efectos en el desarrollo inclusivo y sostenible en zona urbana)
John Koyier Barreh, Strategic Consultants, Kenya
Transmitting life skills to basic education pupils for performance and sustainable development (Educar a niños de escuela primaria y desarrollo sustentable)
Marieanne BarrehSession 4A: Changing collective behavior towards sustainable development / Cambiar la conducta colectiva hacia desarrollo sostenibleModerator: Dr. Aliza H. Stark, H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
Raanan Weitz Competition – Special mention:
Promoción de la cultura ambiental en la gestión integral de residuos sólidos en Pedecuesta Santander Colombia (Promoting environmental awareness in the integrated solid waste management in Piedecuesta, Santander Colombia)
Ruth Zarate Rueda y Christian Humberto Niño Rincón, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia
Desafios de Centros de Capacitacion de ONG's (Challenges of capacity building Centres for NGO's)
Carlos Sztyglic, SHATIL - The New Israel Fund’s Empowerment and Training Center for Social Change Organizations
Culturally inclusive nutrition education for Ethiopian Immigrants in Rehovot Israel (Educación a la nutrición inclusiva y respetuosa de la cultura para inmigrantes de Etiopía, Rehovot, Israel)
Dr.Aliza H. Stark and Dr. Eitan Israelí, School of Nutritional Sciences The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Manejo Sustentable de la Vicuña con inclusión social, económica y ambiental (Sustainable management of the vicuna with social, economic and environmental inclusion)
Maria del pilar Tuppia Villacorta,Dirección general Forestal y fauna silvestre, Ministerio de Agricultura, Perú
Utilizing the Environment for Educational and Economic Purposes – The Case of the Nitzana Educational Community in the Desert(Utilisación del medio ambiente para efectos educacionales or economicales: El caso de la comunidad educacional Nitzana en el disierto)
David Palmach, Director of Nitzana, Israel Department, Jewish Agency for Israel
Session 4B: Local and regional development towards sustainability / Desarrollo local y regional hacia sostenibilidad
Moderator: Yitzhak Abt
Raanan Weitz Competition - Third place prize winner:
Integrated rural development through cooperative lease farming in Nepal (Desarrollo rural integrado por contrato de arrendamiento en cooperativa en Nepal)
Krishna Bahadur Kunwar, Three S Foundation, Anamnagar, Kathmandu Nepal
A Life cycle Approach to Capacity Building in Rural Semi-Arid Lands (Enfoque del ciclo de vida para el desarrollo de las capacidades en las zonas rurales semi áridas: Un estudio del caso FPR el pueblo Saura, Kenya y el nuevo centro de Arava para el desarrollo sostenible de las tierras áridas)
Clive Lipchin, Samuel Brenner, Shira Kronich, Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, Israel
The environmental cost of poverty to a society: the Kenyan experience (El costo de la pobreza sobre el medio ambiente de una sociedad: La experiencia del Kenia)
Mulongo, Leonard Simiyu; Kerre Patrick; Oseko Jacqueline, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya
A Research Approach to a Sustainable Development Strategy by using space Technology(Enfoque de investigación para una estrategia de desarrollo sostenible mediante el uso de la tecnología espacial)
Prof. Massimo Ruggero, Universita degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Dr. Steffano Bonfa, Oxford Sustainable Development Enterprise, UK
Session 4C: Empowerment and socio-economic inclusion / Empoderamiento y inclusión social y económica
Moderator: Esti Doron, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services
Community work and local economic development:" Maavarim" project in Israel (Obra comunitaria y Desarrollo Económico Local: El proyecto "Maavarim" en Israel)
Esti Doron, Community Work Service, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services
Empowering rural girls through self initiatives programmes: The case of Oruba mixed and Lifunga girls (Empoderar a las niñas rurales a través de programas de iniciativa independiente: El caso del mezclo Oruba y de la niñas Lifunga)
Dr Anne Aseey, University of Nairobi, Kenya
Empowering Excluded Women through Feminist Concepts (Empoderamiento de las mujeres excluidas a través de conceptos feministas)
Beth Offer, Counseling Center for Women, Israel
The Disabled of Bangladesh: Running a Replicable Model for Sustainable Development (Personas con discapacidad en Bangladesh: Un modelo replicable para el desarrollo sostenible)
Tamara Edell Gottstein
BPKS Bangladesh
Micro Business as a Way for Improvement of Social Economic Status and Personal Satisfaction (Microempresa para mejorar la situación social y económica y la satisfacción personal)
Lena Gurary, Diana Ahdout, and Amy Slaiter Ovadia, Supportive Community, Israel
