Conferences and Workshops organized by PEGNet

PEGNet organizes conferences and workshops as well as sessions at major international conferences, both on its own initiative and in cooperation with other organizations.
PEGNet conference factsheet (pdf)
Details of past and forthcoming events can be found below.

PEGNet Best Practice Award

At the PEGNet conferences the PEGNet Best Practice Award for effective cooperation between research and practice is granted to a programme, project, or initiative. For more information about past winners see the award homepage.

Forthcoming Conferences and Workshops

• PEGNet conference 2012 on "How to make African Economic Lions: Tapping Africa's Growth and Poverty Reduction Potentials" in cooperation with (PEP) Partnership for Economic Policy in Dakar, Senegal, September 6 and 7, 2012, conference website

Past Conferences and Workshops

• PEGNet co-organizes an international workshop on Large-Scale Agricultural Investments, Hamburg, 11 May 2012, of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies, call for paper, project website
• Joint international workshop with DIE and GIZ on "The Millennium Development Goals and beyond: Lessons learnt for the development of an international goals system after 2015" on November 21 and 22, 2011 at the DIE in Bonn, event website, call for papers, workshop report
• PEGNet conference 2011, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg, Germany, September 7-9 (Conference Homepage 2011, program and papers, press release (in German), Photos, D&C article)
• PEGNet co-organized the CAADP-Workshop at Kiel Institute, 2-3 July 2011: Modelling and Evaluation of CAADP-Policies: Theory, Methods and Application.
• Specific session on: Evaluating cash transfers –Latin American and African Experiences at the World Bank's ABCDE 2011 conference, Paris, 30 May - 1 June 2011 (conference program). See this blog post on the key results of the session.

• Bolivian Conference on Development Economics, La Paz, November 18-19, 2010, co-financed by PEGNet
  (Conference homepage, Highlights (Blog))

• PEGNet conference 2010, Development Bank of Southern Africa in Midrand, South Africa, September, 2-3 (Conference homepage, Conference Photos)
  
• PEGNet Workshop on HIV/AIDS and Development in Zambia: Taking Stock and Rethinking Policies, 4 February 2010, Taj Pamodzi Hotel, Lusaka (Summary, Program including presentations, Videos)
• PEGNet Conference 2009, Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague (Netherlands), September 3-4 (Conference Homepage, Conference Program including papers for download and videos of panel sessions, Photos of the Conference) 

• PEGNet Conference 2008, La Palm Royal Conference Centre, Accra (Ghana), September 11-12 (Program; Papers; Photos)

• Specific session on: HIV/AIDS and Pro-Poor Growth in Sub-saharan Africa at the World Bank's
  ABCDE 2008  conference, Cape Town (South Africa), June 9-11

• PEGNet Conference 2007, Berlin (Germany), September 6 to 7, 2007 (Program; Papers)
• Workshop on Poverty Reduction, Equity, and Growth: New Issues and Findings, Kiel (Germany), April 28, 2006 (Program; Papers)
• Symposium on Poverty, Inequality, and Policy in Latin America, Göttingen (Germany), July 14-16, 2005