USAID 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.

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CPAN 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?

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CPAN 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. 

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CPAN 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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