Premiados en Japón
The Global Development Network (GDN) on Wednesday named developers from Peru and India as the first winners of its development research and project awards.
The awards, presented at a ceremony held at the end of the GDN»s second annual conference in Tokyo, recognize outstanding academic accomplishments and innovative practices in the field of development.
GDN, an organization comprising development research institutions worldwide, was launched a year ago with the aim of promoting the generation and sharing of development information among developing and developed nations.
Two papers from Peru were corecipients of the award for outstanding research on development. Jeanine Anderson of the Catholic University of Peru studied the evolution of gender relations in a town near Lima that is urbanizing, and Maximo Torero and Javier Escobal of the Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo (Group of Analysis for Development) explored how to deal with «adverse geography» in realizing development.
The award for the most innovative development project was given to S.R. Mohanty of India for a hospital management project that utilized community participation in an industrial town in India.
The awards were created at the sugGestión of Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, who attended the award ceremony.
In a speech he made before awarding the prizewinners, Miyazawa stressed the need for innovative ideas and methods to make development projects more effective and efficient.
«I look forward to seeing the global development awards continue to stimulate deeper and broader discussions in the theory and practice of poverty reduction,» he said.
