Tuesday, March 05, 2024
This is a hybrid event.
The combined effects of globalisation, deregulation and automation have changed the employment relationships and patterns on which our social protection systems are built. These changes pose a number of challenges: on the one hand,...
Location:
Europe, United Kingdom
Monday, November 08, 2021
Climate-related disasters are happening more and more frequently, significantly outstripping capacity and funding in the humanitarian system. Women and girls, especially the poorest or those with intersecting vulnerabilities, are disproportionately...
Location:
Europe, United Kingdom
Monday, June 22, 2020 to Thursday, June 25, 2020
Further your knowledge of approaches to social protection and gain the skills to improve policies and programmes for positive social change.
Get up to speed with current knowledge, evidence and practice of social protection. You will broaden your knowledge...
Location:
Europe, United Kingdom
Monday, December 02, 2019 to Thursday, December 05, 2019
In recent years, the use of cash and voucher assistance in humanitarian action has increased dramatically. Cash Week 2019 will provide a space to reflect, learn, and look ahead, to ensure quality in our use of CVA at scale. Bringing together cash actors and...
Location:
Europe, United Kingdom
Thursday, November 07, 2019
Older people are often forgotten or overlooked in the ‘money and savings’ conversation. Yet they are the most vulnerable to poverty. By bringing together diverse research, evidence and experience as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science in an exciting...
Location:
Europe, United Kingdom
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Researchers, activists, policy professionals, and practitioners across sectors and disciplines are working to tackle global challenges such as poverty, inequality and climate change through influencing policy and practice at local, national and global levels...
Location:
Europe, United Kingdom
Monday, December 10, 2018
Access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is widely acknowledged to play a transformative role in reducing poverty and strengthening livelihoods. Although many countries achieved significant progress in extending access to these basic...
Location:
Europe, United Kingdom
Thursday, December 06, 2018
The welfare state in the UK was revolutionary: it lifted thousands out of poverty, provided decent homes, good education and security. But it is out of kilter now: an elaborate and expensive system of managing needs and risks. Today we face new challenges....
Location:
Europe, United Kingdom
Wednesday, December 05, 2018
In recent years the geopolitical landscape has changed, with powerful effects on the context and practices of humanitarian action. Irregular migration, epidemics and conflict have stretched the capacity of the humanitarian system and are reshaping the...
Location:
Europe, United Kingdom
Thursday, November 15, 2018
Since 2012 researchers from the Participation, Inclusion and Social Change team at IDS, have been working with members of the Participate network to bring perspectives and knowledge generated by people living with poverty and marginalisation, into the SDG...
Location:
Europe, United Kingdom