Breaking the Cycle: What Drives Inter-Generational Poverty?

About this event

This invitation-only event for senior Dutch policymakers, practitioners and scholars working with an interest in childhood poverty and related poverty issues will discuss two key areas of concern that are currently emerging in international policy debates on poverty: How can we tackle persistent poverty, and intimately linked to this questions, what can be done to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty?

The aim is to stimulate and facilitate high-level exchange of new questions and ideas to progress policy debates on childhood poverty. Presentations of the latest research from the Young Lives team will be followed by questions, discussions, and reflections from the organising partners.

Participants have registered from the Bernard van Leer Foundation, Children’s Legal Action Network, Cordaid, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Institute of Social Studies, International Child Development Initiative, IREWOC, Plan Nederland, ROC Mondriaan, University of Amsterdam, University of Nijmegen, Woord and Daad.

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