Next stepsWebsite – 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?

•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.

Some themes

Financial Crisis - General

Exchange Rates

Rising unemployment,

under-employment, declining working

conditions

Declining investment in public services

(education, health, nutrition, water and sanitation, housing,

protection, care)

Intra-household dynamics & household composition

Child-specific vulnerabilities Deprivations of rights to survival, development, protection, participation

Declining social capital; rising social violence

Household management

of assets and investments

Household consumption

(food and services, both quantity and quality)

Household labour

allocation

Reproduction, nurture, and

care

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)

Protection (physical

and emotional)& promotion of well-being

Fiscal space

Contribution to community life

Political economy dynamics

General regional and international macro-

economic health

Remittances Financial flows

Trade and prices (commodities and services)

Aid

Dimensions of the macro-economic environment

Functions of the household

Reduced access to credit

Civil society policy

advocacy + service

provision

Policy responses

Meso-level effects of the financial crisis

General regional and international macro-

economic health

StrategyContinue Raising the game re children: Economic crisis, poverty, MDGs, Aid, social protectionWorking with differencesLeveraging donors/ governments/ MoF

ResearchData, Data, Data

Policymacro-economic policies; Social protection/ Social services; labour and consumption; credit; social capital.......

ActionAid (outsourcing child rights expertise; cross donor working group on child rights)Crisis research; PRSP - Child rights toolkitRecovery 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 FaceFive 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