Social Protection: Making child poverty history
8th June - 8th July, 2005
Various locations throughout the UK
A public events series
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:
- 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 - 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 - June 22nd – Rights and social protection for children
- Hon. Irene Ovonji-Odida, FIDA
- Rachel Sabates Wheeler, IDS
- Fauzia Shariff, DFID - 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