This year’s Battle of Ideas Festival has seen the participation of Anna Mdee, CPAN Research Fellow. Anna participated in the debate ‘Do we need the Sustainable Development goals?’ taking place Saturday 17 October, 16.00 until 17.00, at Free Stage, Barbican Hot Off the Press.
Read MoreHow can we eliminate extreme poverty? Public Event 21st October 2015
The first of the SDGs challenges us to end poverty by 2030: join this day-long event to discuss how.
Photo Credit: Woman selling potatoes in Ecuador, Dottie Day
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? .
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