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Evenemang
11 September 2012

Cash transfers, resilience and agriculture development

Photograph: Vanderlei Almeida/AFP/Getty Images/Guardian Newspapers

Photograph: Vanderlei Almeida/AFP/Getty Images/Guardian Newspapers

Cash transfers help to tackle poverty and vulnerability. During the last decade, middle income countries such as Brazil, Mexico and the Republic of South Africa have rapidly expanded their cash transfer schemes. The rapid and successful introduction of these programs indicates that cash transfers can contribute to increased resilience and pro-poor growth by serving as an effective risk management tool, empowering poor households to lift themselves out of poverty. There is currently a huge demand for the introduction and provision of basic social protection schemes in the Least Developed Countries-LDCs.

Sida, Svenska kyrkan (Church of Sweden), FAO Norden and SIANI invite you to seminar where the role of cash transfers in the context of social protection in stimulating local production and increasing resilience’s  of  rural communities  will be scrutinized.

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Moderator: Erika Bjerström
Speakers: Marie Gaarder, Norad,  Kate Donald, Adviser to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Annalisa Conte, WFP, Uhuru Dempers, Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Republic of Namibia, Lars Johansson, Sida, Soloman Asfaw, FAO, Laura Rawlings the Head of Strategy and Results in Social Protection and Labor at the World Bank

Times

Från 11 september 2012 vid 08:00 till 11 september 2012 vid 13:30

Venue

Norra Latin, Drottninggatan 71B

Agenda

10.00-10.15      Introduction and welcome – Kerstin Jonsson Cisse, Sida

 

Morning Theme: Cash transfers, poverty reduction, resilience and agriculture development

 

10.15-10.35      Overview of the development of social cash programs – Marie Gaarder, Norad, tbc

 

10.35-10.55      Basic income grant pilot project in Namibia – Uhuru Dempers, Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Republic of Namibia

 

10.55-11.10      Fika

 

11.10-11.30      Cash transfers and the impact on agriculture development   in Africa – Solomon Asfaw, FAO,

 

11.30 -11.50     Cash transfers for poverty reduction: a human rights perspective –  Kate Donald, Adviser to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights 

 

11.50- 12.30     Panel discussion: Uhuru Dempers, Marie Gardner, Solomon Asfaw, and Kate Donald

 

12.30 -13.30     Lunch

 

Afternoon Theme: The role of ODA in the development of social cash transfer systems

 

13.30-13.50      Social security VUP Rwanda – Lars Johansson, Sida

 

13.50-14.10      Social protection and food security – Annalisa Conte, World Food Program

 

14.10-14.30      The social protection and labour strategy – Laura Rawlings the Head of Strategy and Results in Social Protection and Labor at the World Bank

 

14.30- 15.30     Panel discussion: Lars Johansson, Annalisa Conte, Salomon Asfaw, Christian Holm (tbc), and Laura Rawlings. 

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