As the autumn leaves start to fall and summer winds down in the UK, our team are doing anything but winding down! Over the coming weeks, we are busy speaking at some very exciting online events.
To celebrate the launch of our new paper Can a leopard change its spots? A critical analysis of the World Bank’s ‘progressive universalism’ approach to social protection, author Daisy Sibun will be speaking at the End Austerity festival on Friday 30th September, and join a panel together with Stephen Kidd at a Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors event on Friday 7th October.
On Thursday 6th October, we’re running a webinar hosted by socialprotection.org discussing social registries. While this kind of registry is rarely debated, it is a further technical design issue in the area of social protection which is deeply political and influences the degree to which millions of men, women, girls, and boys are included or excluded from social protection. Our speakers Stephen Kidd and Diloá Bailey-Athias will be joined by Emma Cantal, from Erasmus University Rotterdam, in a panel moderated by Gunnel Axelsson Nycander, from our partner organisation, Act Church of Sweden.
Looking further ahead, Richard Chirchir will be moderating a Digital Convergence Initiative webinar, Dialogue Series Talking Interoperability Zambia, on 11th October, and Daisy Sibun will be speaking on 20th October at ‘World Bank, IMF and Universal Social Protection following COVID-19: The Good, the Bad and the Unclear’.
30th September: End Austerity Festival: Can a leopard change its spots? A critical analysis of the World Bank’s ‘progressive universalism’ approach to social protection.
6th October: Social registries: a short history of abject failure?
11th October: Integrated Social Protection Information System in Zambia: Opportunities, Impact and Challenges
20th October: World Bank, IMF and Universal Social Protection following COVID-19: The Good, the Bad and the Unclear