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The seminar “Cash transfers, resilience and agriculture development” is streaming LIVE!
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Agenda
10.00-10.15 Introduction and welcome – Kerstin Jonsson Cisse, Lead Policy Specialist, Agriculture, Forestry , Sida
Morning Theme: Cash transfers, poverty reduction, resilience and agriculture development
10.15-10.55 Background on social cash transfer programs and the impact on agriculture development in Africa – Solomon Asfaw, Economist, FAO,
10.55-11.15 Basic income grant pilot project in Namibia – Uhuru Dempers, Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Republic of Namibia
11.15-11.25 Short break
11.25 -11.50 Cash transfers for poverty reduction: a human rights perspective- Kate Donald, Adviser to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
11.50- 12.30 Panel discussion: Uhuru Dempers, Solomon Asfaw, Kerstin Jonsson Cisse and Kate Donald
12.30 -13.30 Lunch
Afternoon Theme: The role of ODA in the development of social cash transfer systems
13.30-13.50 Social security VUP Rwanda – Lars Johansson, First Secretary Program Sida
13.50-14.10 Cash and voucher transfers for food security – Annalisa Conte, Chief of the Cash-for-Change Service, World Food Program
14.10-14.30 The social protection and labour strategy – Laura Rawlings, Head of Strategy and Results in Social Protection and Labor , World Bank
14.30- 15.30 Panel discussion: Lars Johansson, Laura Rawlings, Annalisa Conte, Annika Lillemets,Green Party and Desiree Pethrus, Swedish Christian Democrats .
15.30 Seminar Ends