Overcoming Social Insecurity in the Global South

Event Type
Workshop

Location / Date
Bonn, 16.06.2011

Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ), Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) + International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD)

We are living in the age of insecurity. A South-South interdisciplinary research project at the International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD) examines how the government of India, Brazil and South Africa are responding to social insecurity through innovative social protection and public work programs.

How can informal workers be protected in times of social insecurity? Which social protection instruments work best? In what ways can civil society and trade unions participate in formulating and implementing social protection policies? Are there lessons to be learned for Germany Development Cooperation?

Programme

• 13:30 h
  Welcome and Introduction
  Stefanie Ruff, Division 310 Millennium Development Goals, poverty reduction, social protection, sectoral and thematic policies, BMZ
  Michael Holländer, Division 311 Education, BMZ
• 13:40 - 13:55 h
  An introduction to the International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD)
  Christoph Scherrer, University of Kassel
• 13:55 - 14:30 h
  Reducing social insecurity through social protection – Lessons from India and South Africa
  Sharit Bhowmik, Tata Institute for Social Sciences, Mumbai
  Edward Webster, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
• 14:30 - 15:00 h
  Debate with audience
  Moderator: Markus Loewe, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

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