CSEND prepared a background paper for a policy seminar on “Designing a Strategy to Improve the Functioning of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol”, organised by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels. The title of the CSEND paper was “Hype or Reality: Can the CDM trigger FDI?, Brussels, October 2005. […]

CSEND co-conducted an interdisciplinary study from 2002-2004 on resolution of environmental conflicts titled “Governing the Use of Landscape and Habitats in Alpine Areas: Negotiations as a Means to co-ordinate Stakeholder Interests” together with colleagues form the University of Basle. The study was part of the Swiss National Science Foundation programme Nr. 48. Results of the […]

CSEND wrote a background paper for the meeting of the Educational Contact Group held at WTO in Geneva and participated in the meeting as educational expert and member of the Swiss delegation. The title of the paper was “Trade in Educational Services and the Doha WTO Round: the Need to Move out of Current Impasse” […]

CSEND worked on a USAID-sponsored policy project for Booz Allen Hamilton. The goal of the study was to identify success factors of the Integrated Framework (IF), a WTO instrument targeted to support Least Developed Country’s supply-side deficiencies. Structured interviews were conducted with officials of the Geneva-based IF agencies namely WTO, UNCTAD, UNDP and ITC. Policy […]

CSEND conducted in-depth research on how to best include employment and decent work agenda into the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP), the successor instrument of the failed Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) devised and imposed  on heavily indebted countries by the IMF and the World Bank. CSEND drafted a major document titled “Decent Work and Poverty […]

CSEND gave two policy presentations entitled “Economic Growth, National Competitiveness and Education” (Raymond Saner) and “Continuous Learning: Key Driver for Social and Economic Development” (Lichia Yiu) at an international conference on “Governance and Education for Sustainable Development and European Integration” organized by OECD, Paris for government officials of Central and South-Eastern European countries. The conference […]

CSEND chaired an expert panel and gave two papers during an International Seminar on the Development of Higher Education and Financing Policies co-organised by OECD, Paris and the Ministry of Education, Beijing, China July 2004. Papers presented were on “The link between higher education and employability” (Raymond Saner) and “Quality Evaluation in a Diversified Higher […]