Phylos IPE Strategic Foresight
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About
Phylos International Political Economy and Strategic Foresight is a Canadian organisation specialising in international development issues. Its objective is to collect and disseminate policy recommendations aimed at assisting developing countries in planning for sustainable political, economic and social development, and measuring their progress over time. In this respect in 2002 it was responsible for editing and publishing “A Guide to Conducting Futures Studies in Africa (National Long Term Perspective Studies) aimed at countries in the Sahel, an initiative that had its origins in Maastricht at a high level conference on Africa organized in 1990 by the Dutch government.
At this time, a consensus had emerged recognizing the need to adopt long term perspectives as an appropriate framework for promoting sustainable development in Africa. Parties to the consensus included the World Bank, the African Development Bank (ADB), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Subsequently, the donor community requested that UNDP channel international support to those countries in Africa wishing to create a long term vision for development. In order to accomplish this mission, UNDP established the African Futures/National Long Term Perspective Studies (NLTPS) program in 1992.
Almost 20 years later the time has come to measure the progress achieved by those countries that adopted NLTPS programs. Phylos intends to conduct further research in this respect and issue corresponding reports to highlight the progress achieved by implementing such programs.
In addition to the above project, Phylos was actively engaged in the Millennium Project in 2007 as a contributor.
Phylos’s role as a Wikiprogress Correspondent
As one of the Wikiprogress Correspondents Phylos intends to contribute by highlighting examples of progress achieved through the implementation of national long term perspective studies and projects, and the study of the application of criteria that contribute towards expanding GDP as a measure of progress, an example of which can be found in the Genuine Progress Index conducted by the Province of Nova Scotia in Canada.
