The Chronic Poverty Advisory Network is recruiting research assistants to assist with a systematic review, which will look at the impact and effectiveness of anti-discrimination measures in improving the lives of the poorest people.
Read MoreUSAID Summit on Ending Extreme Poverty
Andrew Shepherd attended the USAID Summit on Ending Extreme Poverty for senior USAID staff in May in Washington D.C., with a draft USAID Vision on Ending Extreme Poverty on the table, and presented the Chronic Poverty Report 2014-5 on getting to zero extreme poverty, as well as the ODI Poverty, Disasters and Climate Extremes 2030 Report. The purpose was to help lay out the programming challenge, and to highlight the interaction between poverty and climate change-induced disasters.
Read MoreCPAN at UNDESA-DSPD Expert Group Meeting on “Implementation of the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008 – 2017)”, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Chiara Mariotti, CPAN Research Officer participated in the UNDESA-DSPD Expert Group Meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Implementation of the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty on 27-29 May 2015. On this occasion Chiara presented the paper Challenges in eradicating chronic poverty: what policies for pro-poorest growth and decent work for all? .
Read MoreCPAN at the UNDESA Expert Group Meeting "Strengthening Social Development in the Contemporary World", 19-20 May 2015
On 19 and 20 May, Andrew Shepherd, participated in the Expert Group Meeting at UNDESA, in New York at United Nations Headquarters. The aim of the meeting was to provide concrete, evidence-based recommendations for promoting and strengthening social development and for improving the formulation and implementation of policy frameworks that affect social progress.
Read MoreCPAN contributing to the European Report on Development 2015: Finance for Development
The 2015 edition of the report “Combining Finance and Policies to implement a transformative Post-2015 Development Agenda” was led by Dirk Willem te Welde at ODI and involved other European research institutes. CPAN (Andrew Shepherd and Chiara Mariotti) contributed to Chapter 6 “The link between finance and policies for selected enablers”.
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