Webinar

What Works to Reduce Child Poverty? Insights from Across the Globe

Event Date: 21st May 2025, Time: 8.00 AM EST (2.00 PM CEST)

Background: Children experience poverty across multiple dimensions – whether deprived of shelter, food, water, education or health care. Growing up without these necessities is a violation of a child's rights, with consequences that can last a lifetime.

In its latest report, the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty present new multidimensional child poverty trend data and highlight countries that have made notable progress — Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Peru, Poland, Senegal, and Tanzania. By distilling the key policies, programmes, and contextual drivers behind these gains, the report aims to provide practical advice for other countries and the international community.

This webinar will aim to:

  1. Present the report and the latest multidimensional child poverty trends

  2. Highlight country experiences on policies that helped reduce child poverty

  3. Reaffirm the need to make child poverty a global priority again

Speakers:

  • Oliver Fiala, Save the Children

  • Enrique Delamónica, UNICEF

  • Vidya Diwakar, Institute of Development Studies

  • Julia Karpati and Chris de Neubourg, Social Policy Research Institute

  • Sanaa Maalouf, World Vision International

  • Kath Ford, Young Lives

  • Yehualashet Mekonen, African Child Policy Forum

  • Charlotte Bilo, UNICEF

Moderators:

  • David Lambert Tumwesigye, Co-chair, Global Coalition to End Child Poverty

  • Sola Engilbertsdottir, Co-chair, Global Coalition to End Child Poverty