Transcript Concluding remarks and presentation

Next steps
Website – papers, emails, presentations
Conference report
Working papers and publication
Finalisation of ODI/UNICEF overview and
regional reports
Development Policy Review Special Issue
Advocacy – materials, partnerships, events
Future conferences?
Some themes
•The economic slowdown is having heterogeneous but real
impacts on children.
• The food and fuel price increases remain a major factor – and
could be more significant in the long run.
•Children are at great risk, with some groups particularly
vulnerable – a short crisis can have lifetime implications.
•Social protection and services have eased impacts where they
have been in place. SP must become established – but there are
institutional (and definitional) challenges. Basic social services
should remain, at least, on their pre crisis path.
•Fiscal difficulties may be coming – but cuts in social provision
must be avoided. – we should ask for what is needed.
•Looking toward the MDG review – the crisis underlines the need
to include vulnerability.
•Empirical work crucial on the impacts of crises children and
other vulnerable groups is shockingly unavailable – UNICEF
could have a key role here.
Financial Crisis - General
General regional and
international macroeconomic health
Dimensions of
the macroeconomic
environment
Remittances
General regional and
international macroeconomic health
Trade and prices
(commodities
and services)
Financial
flows
Exchange Rates
Meso-level
effects of the
financial crisis
Policy
responses
Functions of
the
household
Reduced access to
credit
Civil society
policy
advocacy +
service
provision
Household
management
of assets
and investments
Declining investment
in public services
(education, health, nutrition,
water and sanitation, housing,
protection, care)
Aid
Fiscal space
Rising
unemployment,
under-employment,
declining working
conditions
Declining social capital;
rising social violence
Policy responses
(Fiscal stimulus, trade policy, monetary policy, aid policy
pre-existing and crisis-response investment in basic services,
pre-existing social protection infrastructure and crisis-specific measures,
labour policy)
Household
consumption
(food and services,
both quantity
and quality)
Household
labour
allocation
Reproduction,
nurture, and
care
Intra-household dynamics & household composition
Child-specific vulnerabilities
Deprivations of rights to survival, development, protection, participation
Political
economy
dynamics
Protection
(physical
and emotional)
& promotion
of well-being
Contribution to
community life
Strategy
Continue Raising the game re children: Economic crisis,
poverty, MDGs, Aid, social protection
Working with differences
Leveraging donors/ governments/ MoF
Research
Data, Data, Data
Policy
macro-economic policies; Social protection/
Social services; labour and consumption;
credit; social capital.......
Action
Aid (outsourcing child rights expertise; cross
donor working group on child rights)
Crisis research; PRSP - Child rights toolkit
Recovery With a Human Face
Safeguarding and progressing
children’s rights
Turning Crisis
into Opportunity
for Children –
the Human Face
of the Future
Recovery with a Human Face
Five Actions at Country Level:
 Analyzing budgets for social and
economic recovery
 Scaling up social protection
 Maintaining (if not increasing) core
social expenditures
 Identifying sources of fiscal space
 Providing options to assist the
government in a country dialogue on
crisis responses