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Social Protection: Making child poverty history

8th June - 8th July, 2005
Various locations throughout the UK

A public events series

CPRC and ODI

PlanUK

Description

This meeting series examined different challenges in the design and implementation of social protection interventions that will impact on child poverty. Each session brought together a combination of speakers with different backgrounds and perspectives.

Speakers and schedule

Key speakers and seminar titles:

  1. June 8th – Can low income countries effectively deliver cash transfers which impact on child poverty?
    - Armando Barrientos, CPRC
    - Sylvia Beales, Help Age Intl.
    - Sonya Sultan, DFID
  2. June 15th – How can the abolition of users’ fees and the provision of in-kind support impact on child poverty?
    - Dr Josef Decosas, Plan West Africa Regional Office
    - Francis Sathya, Plan Intl.
    - Christina Behrendt, Social Security Dept., Intl. Labour Office
  3. June 22nd – Rights and social protection for children
    - Hon. Irene Ovonji-Odida, FIDA
    - Rachel Sabates Wheeler, IDS
    - Fauzia Shariff, DFID
  4. July 8th – What is the role of community in the effective delivery of social protection for children
    - Nikhil Roy, Anti-Slavery Intl.
    - Roger Hart, Children’s Environment Research Group
    - Chikonde Chiweze, Malawi
    - Gordon Oyoo, Kenya

View full schedule and information here

Event website

ODI’s conference webpage

Meeting reports

Presentations from speakers at all four conferences are available here

  • June 8th Event report available here
  • June 15th Event report available here
  • June 22nd Event report available here
  • July 8th Event report available here

 Papers

Background Paper:

User charges for health care: Progressive reform or regressive social policy?

Resources and links

ODI Programme: Social Protection 

 

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