by Yolande Wright and Luke Harman, Global Director Poverty Reduction, Climate Resilience, Gender Equality and Inclusion at Save the Children International; and Senior Social Protection Adviser at Save the Children UK, respectively.
Together with Mauritania’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Development and in collaboration with UNICEF, we provided an advanced social protection training in Nouakchott, Mauritania, from February 3rd to 7th.
Cash transfers are now a key element of humanitarian aid and social policy in many countries. But adoption lags behind in low-income countries. Could and should the EU do more to support the adoption and expansion of cash transfers, not just as a humanitarian aid tool but as a broader development instrument?
In support of UNICEF, the government of Mauritania, and other development partners, SPRI Global will be carrying out a social protection training course from the 3rd-7th of February 2020, in Mauritania’s capital city of Nouakchott. This training builds upon SPRI Global’s work in developing and carrying out a social protection course package for the West and Central Africa Regional Office of UNICEF.
As part of the Viet Nam Ministry of Finance efforts to implement the Public Finance for Children project 2017 – 2020, a comprehensive workshop on Public Finance for Children (PF4C) was held during the second week of December 2019.
A Special IARIW – World Bank Conference, New Approaches to Defining and Measuring Poverty in a Growing World, was held on 7-9 November 2019 at Convene, Washington DC, and we were happy to be part of it, presenting new research on multidimensional poverty. The International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW), established in 1947, organizes conferences on topics related to income and wealth throughout the world, generally in partnership with national statistical offices. With a focus on facilitating communication and interchange on measuring poverty, the conference succeeded in bringing together academic and government scholars in the field of economic and social statistics from many countries.
We are excited to announce our joining the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty, synergizing our efforts with other members to raise awareness about children living in poverty across the world and support global and national action to alleviate it. We work together with other members as part of the Coalition, as well as individually, to achieve a world where all children grow up free from poverty, deprivation and exclusion.
With solid strides made in development over the last decade, Kenya is in a strong position to make remarkable progress in poverty reduction. It will require specific policies to translate Kenya’s progress into poverty reduction and to make sure that no groups are left behind.
Reducing poverty and inequality is the overriding concern of South Africa’s development policies and programs, from the onset of democracy in 1994 in the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) to the current National Development Plan: Vision 2030 (NDP). The guiding principle, as captured in the NDP, is that “no political democracy can survive and flourish if the mass of our people remain in poverty, without land, without tangible prospects for a better life.
During the week of October 1, a team of our experts led a technical training on quantitative data analysis, measuring the well-being and social inclusion of children with disabilities in Viet Nam. This training focused on the process of conducting the analysis and writing of the report, “Social Inclusion of Children with Disabilities: An in-depth analysis of the Viet Nam National Surveys of People with Disabilities”.
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