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6 - 8 February 2019 | Geneva

PROGRAMMEInternational Conference on

Universal Child Grants

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07:45 - 09:30 REGISTRATION

09:30 - 10:00 WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS – Room II / GB

Introduction: Isabel Ortiz, Director of Social Protection Department, International Labour Organization.

• Moussa Oumarou, Deputy Director General, International Labour Organization.

• Henrietta Fore, Executive Director, UNICEF (Video message).

10:00 - 11:00 KEYNOTE SPEECHES – Room II / GB (Interpretation English-French-Spanish-Russian)

Chair: Alexandra Yuster, Associate Director, Social Policy, Programme Division, UNICEF.

• Sir Richard Jolly, Honorary Professor and Research Associate of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex.

• Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.

11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK – Espace Gobelin

11:30 - 13:00 HIGH-LEVEL PANEL – PERSPECTIVES ON UNIVERSAL CHILD GRANTS - Room II / GB (Interpretation English-French-Spanish-Russian)

Chair: David Stewart, Chief, Child Poverty and Social Protection, Social Inclusion and Policy Section, Programme Division, UNICEF.

• Isabel Ortiz, Director of Social Protection Department, International Labour Organization.

• Unurbayar Gombosuren, State Secretary of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, Mongolia.

• Nazgul Tashpaeva, Presidents Office, Kyrgyz Republic.• Gabriela Agosto, Executive Secretary of the National Council for

Social Policy Coordination of Argentina• Michal Rutkowski, Senior Director for Social Protection and

Jobs, World Bank.• Alexandra Yuster, Associate Director, Social Policy, Programme

Division, UNICEF.

13:00 - 14:30 LUNCH – ILO cafeteria

Sessions with this symbol will be livestreamed on socialprotection.org

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14:30 - 16:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS – KEY POLICY AND NORMATIVE CONSIDERATIONS

PARALLEL SESSION 1A: HUMAN RIGHTS - THE RIGHT TO SOCIAL PROTECTION FOR CHILDREN – Room II / GB (Interpretation English-French-Spanish-Russian)

Moderator: Christina Behrendt, Head, Social Policy Unit, Social Protection Department, International Labour Organization.

• Magdalena Sepúlveda, Senior Research Fellow at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD): ‘Universal Child Grants and the Human Rights Case’.

• Jurgen De Wispelaere (presenter), Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath, UK and Tampere University, Finland, and Leticia Morales, School of Law, Universidad Austral de Chile: ‘Universal Child Grants and Children’s Rights’.

• Catalina Devandas, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: ‘Reflections on Universal Child Grants from the Perspective of the Rights of Person with Disabilities’.

PARALLEL SESSION 1B: DIGNITY AND SHAME – Room V

Moderator and speaker: Keetie Roelen, Centre for Social Protection, Institute of Development Studies: ‘Setting the Scene and Framing the Debate’.

• • Frank Otchere, Social Policy Specialist at UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti: ‘Evidence from Low- and Middle-income Countries on Cash Transfers and Dignity, Community Involvement and Implications of Programme Design.’

• Tara Patricia Cookson, Ladysmith: ‘Conditionality and Targeting in Cash Transfers: Ethnographic Evidence of the Hidden Costs.’

• Ruth Patrick, University of York (video presentation): ‘The “Scrounger” Narrative and its Stigmatising Effects for Recipients of Out-of-Work Benefits in the UK.’

• Robert Walker (presenter) and Lichao Yang, with Chen, Jiexuan and Zhang, Rui, School of Social Development and Public Policy, Beijing Normal University: ‘Promoting Dignity through Universal Child Grants’.

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PARALLEL SESSION 1C: UCGs AND WIDER POLICY CONTEXT CONSIDERATIONS

Moderator: Simone Cecchini, Senior Social Affairs Officer, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.

• David Chipanta, Senior Advisor Social Protection, UNAIDS. ’HIV-Sensitive UCGs and Implications for Proagmming’.

• Shea McClanahan, Development Pathways: ’Multi-Tiered Child Benefits for Universal Coverage? An Exploration of Theory and Experience’.

• Laura Rawlings, Lead Social Protection Specialist, World Bank: ‘Child Grants Impacts on Human Capital Development’.

• Josh Martin, Vice President, ideas42, ‘Madagascar’s Human Development Cash Transfer: Impact on Children’s Outcomes’.


16:30 - 17:15 PLENARY 1 - REFLECTIONS ON PRECEDING PARALLEL SESSIONS – Room II / GB (Interpretation English-French-Spanish-Russian)

Moderator: Alejandro Grinspun, Senior Economist, Food and Agricultural Organization.

• Christina Behrendt, Head, Social Policy Unit, Social Protection Department International Labour Organization.

• Simone Cecchini, Senior Social Affairs Officer, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Keetie Roelen, Centre for Social Protection, Institute of Development Studies.

17:15 - 18:15 SPEED NETWORKING SESSION – UNIVERSAL CHILD GRANT ACTIVITY AT THE COUNTRY LEVEL – Espace Gobelin

Moderator: Abdul Alim, Regional Adviser Social Policy for South Asia, UNICEF.

• Helena Andjamba, Director for Child Welfare, Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare, Namibia, and Frauke de Kort, Chief, Child Protection and Social Protection, UNICEF, Namibia, ‘Child Grants in Namibia: Considerations on Expanding Coverage to Reach the Most Vulnerable Children’.

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• Sebastián Waisgrais, Social Inclusion Specialist and Carolina Aulicino, Social Policy Officer, UNICEF, Argentina: ‘Universal Child Allowance (AUH): Expanding Social Protection Coverage to Reach the Most Vulnerable Children’.

• Stephen Kidd (presenter), Senior Social Policy Specialist, Development Pathways, and Gunilla Palm (facilitator), Policy Advisor, the Church of Sweden, Global Social Protection Floor Network and Development Pathways: ‘The Effectiveness of Targeting in Social Protection: An Analysis of the Evidence’.

• David Harris, Children’s Research and Education Institute, Columbia University Centre on Poverty and Social Policy, ‘A Universal Child Grant for the United States? Federal, State, and Local Possibilities’.

• Olivia Maria Faite, Chief of the Department of Social Protection, The National Institute of Social Action, Government of Mozambique: ‘The Child Grant (‘Cash and Care’) Pilot: Programme Design and Implementation Strategies in Mozambique’.

• NM Zeaul Alam, Secretary (Coordination and Reform), Cabinet Division, Government of Bangladesh: ‘Agamir Shishu: A Continuum of Universal Child Benefit in Bangladesh for 0-4 Years Children to Protect the Cognitive Capital’.

• El Habib Kinani, Directeur de L’appui Social Scolaire au Ministère de l’Education. Morocco: ‘TAYSSIR: Conditional Cash Transfer Programme for the most Vulnerable Children’ (in French).

18:15 - 19:45 WELCOME RECEPTION – Espace Gobelin

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9:00 - 9:15 WELCOME 2nd DAY – Room II / GB (Interpretation English-French-Spanish-Russian)

Host: David Stewart, Chief, Child Poverty and Social Protection, Social Inclusion and Policy Section, Programme Division, UNICEF

9:15 - 10:15PIVOTAL DEBATES ON UNIVERSAL CHILD GRANTS – HIGH-LEVEL ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION – Room II / GB (Interpretation English-French-Spanish-Russian)

Chair: Francesca Bastagli, Principal Research Fellow, Head of Programme - Social Protection and Social Policy, Overseas Development Institute.

• Margaret Grosh, Senior Adviser for Social Protection and Jobs, World Bank.

• Stephen Kidd, Senior Social Policy Specialist, Development Pathways.

• David Piachaud, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics.

• Olli Kangas, Professor of Practice at the University of Turku and the Director of the Equal Society Research Programme at the Academy of Finland.

• Pau Vicent Mari Klose, Spanish High Commissioner on Child Poverty, Government of Spain.

• Kumar Phuyal, Member of National Planning Commission Government of Nepal.

10:15 - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK

10:45 - 12:15 PARALLEL SESSIONS: THEMATIC CONSIDERATIONS

PARALLEL SESSION 2A: HOW DO DESIGN FEATURES AFFECT CHILD POVERTY OUTCOMES AND CHILD WELL BEING? (1st of 2 discussions on this topic) – Room II / GB (Interpretation English-French-Spanish-Russian)

Moderator: Atif Khurshid, Policy Specialist, Social Inclusion and Policy, UNICEF.

• Ugo Gentilini, Senior Economist with the Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice and Jamele Rigolini (co-presenters), Lead Economist and Programme Leader Western Balkans – Human Development, World Bank: ‘Universal Basic Income and Impacts on Children: Emerging Results of Cross-country Simulations’.

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• Eszter Timár (presenter), Researcher and Franziska Gassmann, Professor of Social Protection and Development, Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, United Nations University-MERIT: ‘The Opportunities and Challenges of Targeting Child Grants in the Kyrgyz Republic’.

• Martin Evans, Senior Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute: ‘Universal Child Allowances in 14 Middle-Income Countries: Options for Policy and Poverty’.

PARALLEL SESSION 2B: FINANCING – Room V (Interpretation English-French-Spanish-Russian)

Moderator: Joanne Bosworth, Regional Advisor for Europe and Central Asia UNICEF.

• Luca Pellerano, Regional Social Security Specialist, International Labour Organization, Regional Office for Arab States, Beirut: ‘Financing a Universal Child Grant in Zambia, Redistribution and Poverty Analysis Using SOUTHMOD Tax-Benefit Simulator’.

• Mario Györi (presenter), London School of Economics and Fabio Veras Soares, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth: ‘Universal Social Protection in Tunisia: Comparing the Effective-ness and Cost-efficiency of Food and Energy Subsidies with a Proposed Universal Child Allowance Programme’.

• Wanga Zembe-Mkabile (presenter), Director and Senior Re-search Fellow, Southern African Social Policy Research Institute NPC, with Gemma C Wright, Michael Noble, and David McLennan: ‘Exploring Options for Financing a Universal Child Benefit in South Africa Using Personal Income Tax’.

• Fabio Duran Valverde, Head, Public Finance, Actuarial and Statistics Unit, Social Protection Department, International Labour Organization: ‘Fiscal Space for Financing a Universal Child Grant.’

PARALLEL SESSION 2C: GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN’S AND GIRLS’ EMPOWERMENT – Room IV

Moderator: Luis Frota, Social Protection Specialist Decent Work Team for Southern & Eastern Africa, International Labour Organization.

• Vijaya Lakshmi, Secretary to Government and MD, Womens Development Corporation, Government of Bihar, India: ‘The Mukhyamantri Kanya Utthan Yojana (MKUY) – Chief Minister’s Girl Child Upliftment Cash Transfer’.

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• Juan Gonzalo Jaramillo Mejia CGIAR – Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research, and Maja Gavrilovic (co-presenters) UNICEF Innocenti: ‘Can Universal Child Grants Lead to a More Gender Equal Society? Exploring Measures for their Gender-Transformative Design and Implementation’.

• Carolina Aulicino, Social Policy Officer and Sebastián Waisgrais Social Inclusion and Child’s Rights Monitoring Specialist (co-presenters), UNICEF Argentina: ‘To What Extent do Conditions in the Universal Child Allowance in Argentina Burden Women and Girls and Reinforce Traditional Gender Roles’.

12:15 - 12:45 PLENARY 2 - REFLECTIONS ON PRECEDING PARALLEL SESSIONS – Room II / GB (No Interpretation)

Chair: Luke Harman, Senior Social Protection Advisor, Save the Children.

• Atif Khurshid, Policy Specialist, Social Inclusion and Policy, UNICEF.

• Joanne Bosworth, Regional Advisor for Europe and Central Asia UNICEF.

• Luis Frota, Social Protection Specialist Decent Work Team for Southern & Eastern Africa, International Labour Organization

12:45 - 13:45 LUNCH – ILO CAFETERIA

13:45 - 15:15 PARALLEL SESSIONS 3 - COUNTRY AND REGIONAL EXPERIENCES

PARALLEL SESSION 3A: HIGH-INCOME COUNTRIES – Room V

Moderator: Dominic Richardson, Senior Education Specialist, UNICEF Innocenti: • Olivier Thévenon, OECD: ‘Can Better Coverage of Poor Children

by Cash Benefits Reduce Child Poverty in OECD countries?’• Christopher Wimer (presenter), and Sophie Collyer, Columbia

University: ‘Reforming the United States Child Tax Credit to Create a Universal Child Allowance’.

• Valerija Korošec, Office for Macroeconomic Analysis and Development, Office of the President of the Republic of Slovenia: ‘Unconditional Basic Individual Universal Child Grant for Belgium Following the Slovenian Approach’.

• Palash Ranjan Sanyal, University of Saskatchewan: ‘Effective-ness of the Canadian Child Benefit Programme: A Review’.

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PARALLEL SESSION 3B: SUBSAHARAN AFRICA – Room IV

Moderator: Jean Dupraz, Regional Adviser Social Policy, Eastern and Southern Africa, UNICEF.

• Hon. Abdu Bahari, Cabinet Administrative Secretary (Deputy Minister) of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, Kenya, ‘Kenya’s Context and Pathways Towards Universal Child Grants’.

• Meltem A. Aran (presenter), with Nazli Aktakke, and Martin Evans: ‘Ex-ante Simulation for Fuel Subsidy Reallocation and the Expansion of a Universal Child Grant in Madagascar’.

• Martin Evans, Senior Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute: ‘Simulating Policy Options for Universal Child Allowances in Ghana’.

PARALLEL SESSION 3C: MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA – Room II / GB (Interpretation English-French-Spanish-Russian)

Moderator: Ruslan Yemtsov, Global Lead, World Bank

• Mohamed Trabelsi, Minister of Social Affairs, Tunisia. ‘A Progressive Universal Child Allowance in Tunisia?’

• Anna Carolina Machado and Charlotte Bilo, (co-presenters) International Policy Centre International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth: ‘Cash Transfer Programmes in MENA from a Child Rights Perspective’.

• Atif Khurshid, Policy Specialist, Social Inclusion and Policy, UNICEF, ‘Reflections on a Universal Child Grant in the Context Iraq.’

15:15 - 15:45 COFFEE BREAK

15:45 - 17:15 PARALLEL SESSIONS 4 - COUNTRY AND REGIONAL EXPERIENCES

PARALLEL SESSION 4A: LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN – Room V

Moderator: Alexandra Barrantes, Senior Social Policy Specialist, Development Pathways.

• Simone Cecchini, Senior Social Affairs Officer, United Nations Eco-nomic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, ‘Reflections on Universal Child Grants in the Region of Latin America and the Caribbean’.

• Fabio Bertranou, ILO (presenter) and Roxana Maurizio, IIEP-BAIRES (UBA-CONICET) ‘Has Argentina´s Universal Cash Benefit for Children and Adolescents been Effective in Reducing gaps in Social Protection and Improving Living Standards?’.

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• Sergei Soares (presenter), with Graziela Ansiliero, Aline Diniz Amaral, Pedro Ferreira de Souza, Applied Economic Research (Ipea), and Luis Henrique Paiva, Public Administrator, Bolsa Família Programme: ‘Towards a Universal Child Benefit in Brazil: What Needs to be Done and What can be Expected?’.

PARALLEL SESSION 4B: ASIA – Room IV

Moderator: Andrea Rossi, Regional Advisor for East Asia & Pacific, UNICEF.

• Bjorn Gelders, Senior Social Policy Specialist, Development Pathways, ‘Microsimulations of a Universal Chid Grant in Indonesia’.

• Karishma Huda (presenter) Social Protection and Labor Markets Specialist, MAHKOTA, with Fernando Carrera Chief of Social Policy, UNICEF-Indonesia, Hector Salazar Salame, Team Leader, MAHKOTA, and Anton Tarigan, BANGGA Papua Operations Spe-cialist: ‘An Inclusive Child Grant in Papua: Lessons Learnt from Implementing Cash Transfers in Remote Contexts’.

• Somchai Jitsuchon, Thailand Development and Research Institute, Christina Popivanova, Chief of Social Policy, UNICEF Thailand (co-presenters), and Michael Samson: ‘Tackling the Exclusion of Poor and Near-Poor Children from the Child Support Grant in Thailand: Status Quo and Policy Options’.

• Dipak Kaphle, Director general of Department of National ID and Civil Registration, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of Nepal: ‘Development and Expansion of a Universal Child Grant Programme in Nepal’.

PARALLEL SESSION 4C: EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA – Room II / GB (Interpretation English-French-Spanish-Russian)

Co-moderators: Yukie Mokuo, UNICEF Representative in Kyrgyzstan and Ulukbek Kochkorov, Minister, Ministry of Labour and Social Development, Kyrgyzstan.

• Larysa Popova, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Social Policy, Ukraine: ‘Universal Support for Young Children in Ukraine: The Child Birth Grant and Baby Box’.

• Valery Kavalkou, Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Republic of Belarus: ‘The Universal Child Grant for Children Under Three in the Republic of Belarus’.

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• Yulia Oleinik (presenter), Chief, Programme Section, UNICEF Uzbekistan and Stephen Kidd, Senior Social Policy Specialist, Development Pathways: ‘Options for Restoring Universal Child Benefits in Uzbekistan’.

• Alexander Pick and Caroline Tassot (co-presenters), OECD: ‘Assessing the Feasibility of a Universal Child Grant in Kyrgyzstan’.

17:15 - 18:15PLENARY 3 – ‘COMPRESSED’ REFLECTIONS ON PRECEDING PARALLEL SESSIONS – Room II / GB (Interpretation English-French-Spanish-Russian)

Chair: Mayke Huijbregts, Chief, Programme Section, Pretoria, UNICEF South Africa.

• Dominic Richardson, Senior Education Specialist, UNICEF Innocenti.

• Jean Dupraz, Regional Adviser Social Policy, Eastern and Southern Africa, UNICEF.

• Ruslan Yemtsov, Global Lead, World Bank.• Alexandra Barrantes, Senior Social Policy Specialist,

Development Pathways.• Andrea Rossi, Regional Advisor for East Asia & Pacific, UNICEF.• Yukie Mokuo, UNICEF Representative in Kyrgyzstan.

9:00 - 10:30 PARALLEL SESSION 5 – THEMATIC CONSIDERATIONS

PARALLEL SESSION 5A: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF UNIVERSAL CHILD GRANTS – Room II / GB (Interpretation English-French-Spanish-Russian)

Moderator: Anush Bezhanyan, Practice Manager, World Bank.

• David Piachaud, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics: ‘The Political Economy of Social Protection: The Comparative Advantage of the Universal Child Grant’.

• Nabila Idris, University of Cambridge: ‘The Politics of Resistance to Universal Social Protection: The Case of Bangladesh’s “Targeted Universal”’.

• Luke Harman, Senior Social Protection Advisor (presenter) and Mathew Tasker, Save the Children: ‘First 1,000 Day Maternal and Child Grants: A Step Towards Universal Child Grants in Low- and Lower-middle Income Countries?’

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• Abdul Alim, Regional Adviser Social Policy for South Asia, UNICEF: ‘Universal Cash Grants as State-Building: Addressing the Social Contract in South Asia through Increased and Coherent Social Protection Investments’.

PARALLEL SESSION 5B: HOW DO DESIGN FEATURES AFFECT CHILD POVERTY OUTCOMES AND CHILD WELL BEING (2nd DISCUSSION) – Room V

Moderator: Juergen Hohmann, Social Protection Expert, European Commission, International Cooperation and Development (DEVCO).

• Ruslan Yemtsov, Global Lead, World Bank. ‘How Social Protection Programmes Affect Child Poverty: Status quo, and Options to Achieve Greater Impact’.

• Camila Arza, National Scientific and Technical Research Council and CIEPP, Argentina: ‘A Segmented Expansion of Child Benefits: Lessons from the Argentina’s Mixed System’.

• Yi Wangy (presenter) Columbia University, School of Social Work and Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work, Director, China Centre for Social Policy: ‘Child Poverty in China: The Roles of Social Assistance versus Universal Child Grants’.

• Krzysztof Hagemejer, Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (Sankt Augustin, Germany) and the International Centre for Research and Analysis (ICRA, Warsaw, Poland): ‘Family 500+ Child Grant Scheme in Poland: Costs, Impacts and Controversies’.

PARALLEL SESSION 5C: ADMINISTRATIVE DESIGNS OF CHILD GRANTS AND THEIR IMPACT – Room VII

Moderator: Veronika Wodsak, Social Protection Policy Specialist, International Labour Organization.

• Karen Hall, Director General, Social Policy Directorate, Employ-ment and Social Development Canada, Government of Canada.

• Jurgen De Wispelaere, Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath, UK and Tampere University, Finland: ‘Universal Child Grants: A Public Administration Perspective’.

• David Coady, Division Chief of the Expenditure Policy Division at the Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund: ‘Administra-tive Costs and Benefits’.

• Margaret Grosh, Senior Adviser for Social Protection and Jobs, World Bank, ‘Towards a Reasonable Discourse on the Administrative Costs of Targeting: Framing and Fact’.

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PARALLEL SESSION 5D: CHILD DISABILITY GRANTS – Room IV

Moderator: Alexandra Barrantes, Senior Social Policy Specialist, Development Pathways.

• Stephen Kidd, Senior Social Policy Specialist, Development Pathways: ‘An Overview of Child Disability Benefits in Low- and Middle-Income Countries’.

• Helen Barrett, Disability and Social Inclusion Advisor, ‘The Challenges Faced by Families of Children Living with Com-plex Disabilities in Rural Rwanda’.

• Umid Aliev, Social Policy Officer at UNICEF Uzbekistan: ‘Child Disability Grants and the Case of Uzbekistan’

• Usha Mishra Hayes, Chief, Social Policy, Evidence and Evaluation (SPEE) Section, UNICEF Nepal and Dipak Kafl, Director General, Department of National ID and Civil Registration, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of Nepal: ‘Nepal: Evidence of What Works and What Does Not’.


11:15 - 12:00 PLENARY 4 – REFLECTIONS ON PRECEDING PARALLEL SESSIONS – Room II / GB (Interpretation English-French-Spanish-Russian)

Chair: Luca Pellerano, Regional Social Security Specialist, International Labour Organization, Regional Office for Arab States, Beirut.

• Anush Bezhanyan, Practice Manager, World Bank.• Juergen Hohmann, Social Protection Expert, European

Commission, International Cooperation and Development (DEVCO).

• Veronika Wodsak, Social Protection Policy Specialist, International Labour Organization.

• Alexandra Barrantes, Senior Social Policy Specialist, Development Pathways.

12:00 - 13:30 LUNCH – ILO CAFETERIA

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13.30 - 15:00HIGH-LEVEL PANEL: TIME FOR UNIVERSAL CHILD GRANTS? TRANSLATING LESSONS INTO PRACTICE – Room II / GB (Interpretation English-French-Spanish-Russian)

Chair: Francesca Bastagli, Principal Research Fellow, Head of Programme - Social Protection and Social Policy, Overseas Development Institute.

• Anantaporn Kanjanarat, Minister, Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, Government of Thailand.

• Aida Kasymalieva, Vice Speaker of the Kyrgyz Parliament.• David Coady, Division Chief of the Expenditure Policy Division

at the Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund.• Michał Rutkowski, Senior Director for Social Protection and

Jobs, World Bank.• Alexandra Yuster, Associate Director, Social Policy, Programme

Division, UNICEF.• Isabel Ortiz, Director of Social Protection Department,

International Labour Organization.

15:00 - 15:15 CLOSING – Room II / GB (Interpretation English-French-Spanish-Russian)

• David Stewart, Chief, Child Poverty and Social Protection, Social Inclusion and Policy Section, Programme Division, UNICEF.

• Francesca Bastagli, Principal Research Fellow, Head of Programme - Social Protection and Social Policy, Overseas Development Institute.

• Christina Behrendt, Head, Social Policy Unit, Social Protection Department, International Labour Organization.

6 - 8 February 2019 | Geneva

PROGRAMMEInternational Conference on


Please find a detailed agenda, speakers' programme and more information on the Conference webpage:

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Universal Child Grants - Overseas Development Institute · 2019-11-11 · ‘Universal Child Grants and the Human Rights Case’. • Jurgen De Wispelaere (presenter), Institute for