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Young Lives international conference: 25 to 27 March 2009
Focus on Children: Breaking the Poverty Cycle
| What | Conference |
|---|---|
| When |
2009-03-25 10:00
to 2009-03-27 16:00 |
| Where | St Anne’s College, Oxford |
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The Young Lives international conference gathered together 150 participants from over 25 countries for 3 days of vibrant discussion and debate on the causes and consequences of childhood poverty, food for thought and new insights.
The conference offered a unique opportunity to explore the ways in which poverty affects children’s lives and what governments and donors can do to address it. Participants included researchers from Young Lives and other longitudinal poverty studies, policymakers from the Young Lives study countries and international organisations, as well as practitioners from a range of child-focused development organisations.
Speakers at the conference included: Patrice Engle (California Polytechnic State University), Frank Hagemann (International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour), David Mepham (Save the Children UK), Lant Pritchett (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University), Robert Serpell (University of Zambia), Jan Vandemoortele (former Chief of Policy Analysis, UNICEF) and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (The Independent).
Themes
The conference explored the importance of a longitudinal perspective for highlighting how the many dimensions of childhood poverty interact, showing how children and families on the margins move in and out of poverty.
Themes included:
1) Dimensions and dynamics of childhood poverty
2) Breaking the cycle of poverty
3) Innovations in methodology for research and policy influence.
Conference programme: [PDF file 100KB]
Conference report: [PDF file 2651KB. n.b. large file]
Conference video: A 10 minute video of participants reflecting on the key challenges in tackling childhood poverty [QuickTime video]
Conference papers: Many of the papers from the parallel sessions will be published as Young Lives working papers and a series of background papers. See full list of papers and abstracts, with links to published papers.
Focus On Children: View selected profiles of Young Lives children and pictures from our photos exhibition on-line at The Guardian