Under the umbrella of the Egypt National Observatory for Child Rights, its partners, the Egypt Cabinet Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC), the National Council of Childhood and Motherhood (NCCM) and the United Nations Children’s Fund in Egypt (UNICEF), are organizing an international conference on “Child Poverty and Disparities: Public Policies for Social Justice”.
The conference is open to the public, and there is no pre-registration required. Download the program.
This conference will be the first of its kind in Egypt and is meant to be the first in a series of bi-annual conferences organized by the Observatory and its partners. It will bring together academics, policy makers, practitioners as well as university students to exchange experiences and discuss proposals for inclusive and child-sensitive public social and economic policies which aim to reduce child poverty and are based on scientific evidence.
Childwatch International is organizing a round table discussion on child research networking in the Middle East and North Africa region during the event.
The conference is organized in close collaboration with the Egyptian Cabinet Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC), that is organizing a first ever international conference on the role and challenges of, and solutions for Think Tanks in developing countries on 17 and 18 January 2009 (see www.thinktanking.idsc.gov.eg for more information).
Read the call for papers. Deadline for proposal submission has passed.
Contact:
For more information on the Child Poverty and Disparities: Public Policies for Social Justice conference, contact:
Dennis Arends, Chief, Social Policy, Monitoring and Evaluation, UNICEF Egypt, egyptchildpovertyconference [at] unicef.org.