From health systems to social policy, the #CapabilityApproach is helping scholars and policymakers ask: Are we really improving people’s lives?
🗓 12 March 2026 | ⏰ 09:30–11:00 UTC | 💻 Online
https://shorturl.at/8REyv
✨ Don’t just study economic, reimagine it.
What if #economics measured more than #GDP: real well-being, opportunities, and equality? 🤔
Join the HDCA Asia-Pacific Regional Network for Webinar #2: Capabilities Approach in Economics and explore how this lens is changing the way we think about #development, #policy, and human flourishing.
These papers do more than document inequality, they ask key questions:
➡️ When policies claim success on gender equality, whose lives are improving?
➡️ What forms of labour, risk, and constraint remain invisible in policy frameworks?
📖 A timely read for International Women’s Day
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The Journal of HDCA is featuring a special virtual collection of research on women’s lives, freedoms, and struggles across the Global South. 🌍
Curated by Melis Cin, it brings together 11 papers from the past decade exploring education, livelihoods, care, dignity, sanitation, safety, and more. 📚
The book offers a wide-ranging reassessment of global labour markets, from employment deprivation and informality to the impact of AI, across the Global North and South.
Nicolas Bueno will join as discussant, followed by an open Q&A.
We look forward to the conversation and to your questions!
Join the Work & Employment Thematic Group for an online discussion with Kirsten Sehnbruch on her forthcoming book "Modern Labour Markets: An Employment Capability Framework for the Future of Work".
🗓 17 March 2026
⏰ 15:00–16:30 (UTC/GMT)
💻 Online (Zoom)
New article 🌾
Building Collective Capabilities to Respond to Gender-based Constraints in Smallholder Farming: A Case from Rural Nepal
Acharya et al. show how collective capabilities helped women farmers push back against evolving gender barriers in the post-COVID context
🎥 Missed HDCA’s first Speaker’s Corner of 2026?
Watch the recording of “Engaging Capabilities Worldwide: Participatory Methodologies in Comparative Perspective”
Join the conversation on participatory approaches in capability research!
From health to development policy, the #CapabilityApproach is changing the game in #Economics.
Hear top scholars from the Asia-Pacific region share research, debate ideas, and imagine policies that actually improve lives.
Don’t just study economics: reimagine it. 🌏
What if economics measured what really matters? 🤔
Join HDCA’s Asia-Pacific Regional Network for Webinar #2: Capabilities Approach in Economics and explore a new way to think about well-being, inequality, & public policy.
🗓 12 March 2026 | ⏰ 09:30–11:00 UTC | 💻 Online
¿Cómo puede la formación docente desafiar las opresiones que atraviesan nuestros cuerpos?
En este nuevo artículo, Leivas, repiensa el cuerpo como territorio de saberes, privilegios y resistencias.
¿Qué lugar debería tener el cuerpo en la educación? 📚💡
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Power, #Identity & #Equality shape who gets access to opportunities ✨
The HDCA #Gender & #Sexuality Thematic Group explores gender divisions & inequalities, including impacts on women & #LGBTQIA+ communities 🌏
Join the conversation on #intersectionality & capabilities 🏳️🌈📚
🚀 HDCA Asia-Pacific 2026 Webinar Series kicked off!
‘Introduction to the Capability Approach’ (24 Jan 2026) gave a clear, accessible overview of the framework perfect for anyone new to it 💡
Missed it? The recording is now available! 📚
Who gets to produce knowledge in education?
In this article, Maldonado-Castañeda challenges a familiar assumption: are children just participants in #education or knowledge-makers? 🌱📚
A sharp reflection on #voice, #power and #EpistemicJustice in #Colombia
An invitation to bridge disciplines, connect ideas & rethink transformation through justice, capabilities & inclusion 🌏💡
With support from: P-WILL, COST Association & European Union
#HDCA #CapabilityApproach #SustainabilityTransitions #Justice #Webinar
🌍HDCA Webinar: Bridging Epistemic Worlds – Linking Capabilities & Transitions Research for Just & Sustainable Futures 🌱
Can sustainability transitions be truly just & human-centred? How can the Capability Approach help expand freedoms rather than reproduce inequalities?
🗓 Tue, 24 Mar 2026
💻 Online
🔹 HDCA Webinar
Bridging Epistemic Worlds: Linking Capabilities and Transitions Research for Just and Sustainable Futures
🗓 Tue, 24 March 2026
🔹 HDCA Thematic Group Webinar – Book Talk
Modern Labour Markets: An Employment Capability Framework for the Future of Work with Kirsten Sehnbruch & Mauricio Apablaza
🗓 Tue, 17 March 2026
🔹 HDCA Asia-Pacific Regional Network
2026 Webinar Series #2: Capabilities Approach in Economics
🗓 Thu, 12 March 2026
https://hd-ca.org/event/hdca-asia-pacific-regional-network-2026-webinar-series-2-capabilities-approach-in-economics
#HDCA #CapabilitiesApproach #Economics
📣 HDCA Update
This year, HDCA is taking a different approach to community engagement. Rather than our annual conference, we’re offering a series of events designed to foster ongoing dialogue and connection across our global community. 🌍
📅 This March, join us for three exciting events:
🌱 New #OpenAccess article!
This research explores how ecological heritage and intergenerational learning around Moringa oleifera can support youth livelihoods in #SouthernAfrica, strengthening #CulturalIdentity, #CollectiveAgency, & sustainable socio-ecological futures.
📘✨ Nuevo artículo open Access
Cáceda-Adrianzen analiza el Modelo de Renovación de Licencia Institucional y la reforma universitaria en #Perú, explicando cómo la #EducaciónSuperior puede contribuir al #DesarrolloHumano y a los #ODS desde el Enfoque de Capacidades.
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🔎 Topics include:
• Gaza and the human development imperative
• Sustainability education & relational capabilities
• Ecological heritage & youth learning
• Gender, farming & collective capabilities
• And more!
🔗 https://shorturl.at/4QjRI
📣 Which topic resonates most with your work right now?
📘 Have you checked out the new issue of the Journal of HDCA?
Volume 27, Issue 1 is out: #Education, #Sustainability and #SocialJustice
Guest editors: Fenella Somerville & Sarah Ward 🌍
Voices and lessons from the #GlobalSouth on expanding #HumanCapabilities through education and sustainability.
Update! ⏰✨
We’ve extended the deadline for the HDCA #MentorshipProgram to give you more time to apply
🆕 New deadline: 8 Feb 2026
If you’ve started an application (or were planning to), now’s your chance!
📝 Apply: forms.gle/qeyLMBkKeHaF...
Don’t miss out & feel free to boost this for your networks
Dr. Bitar will share key ideas from her paper, followed by reflections from Prof. Jean-Michel Bonvin, and then we’ll open the floor for an informal, off-record discussion.
📖 Reading ahead encouraged, questions very welcome.
👉 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📢 Online discussion coming!
From Critique to Action: A #CapabilityApproach (CA) to Reimagining #HumanRights Due Diligence
We’re excited to host Dr. Bitar for a conversation around her recent article, bringing the CA into business & human rights debates.
🗓 Mon, 2 Feb 2026
⏰ 14:00–15:00 UTC
💻 Online
Applications are open for the OPHI Summer School 2026.
Do you currently work in - or want to gain skills in - multidimensional poverty measurement? Apply now to join us on between 20 - 31 July 2026 at Universidad Latina, San José, Costa Rica.
Apply now: ophi.org.uk/event/ophi-s...
New to the Capability Approach? This session is for you 🌱
Learn key concepts and how CA is used in research, policy & practice.
🎤 Speakers: Raphael Ng & Dorothy Ferary
💬 Moderator: Erdal Bayraktar
#HDCA #CapabilityApproach #Webinar #HumanDevelopment #EarlyCareer
🌟 Kickstart 2026 with a deep dive into the Capability Approach!
We’re launching the HDCA Asia-Pacific Regional Network 2026 Webinar Series with:
🎉 Introduction to the Capability Approach
🗓 Sat, 24 Jan 2026 | 08:00 UTC
📍 Online (Zoom)
🔗 Register: shorturl.at/oGKqz
