Job guarantee programmes – whereby the government guarantees a job to anyone willing and able to work – not only have the ability to reduce poverty and retain jobs in times of crisis, they also have the potential to create jobs in areas of unmet, yet urgent, social need that are currently undersupplied by the market, such as the greening of the economy or the care economy.

Join the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, experts on poverty and employment policy, as well as leading job guarantee advocates and practitioners, as they unpack the role of the job guarantee in the fight against poverty and the conditions under which it can be successful.

 

Friday 30 June, 13:00 – 14:00 CET

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Read the UN Special Rapporteur’s report to the Human Rights Council on the role of the job guarantee in the fight against poverty

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Moderated by:

Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights

 

Panellists: 

Aye Aye Win, President of the International Committee for October 17th

Kate Philip, Programme Lead on the Presidential Employment Stimulus, South Africa

Mito Tsukamoto, Chief of the Development and Investment Branch (DEVINVEST) of ILO’s Employment Policy Department

Pavlina Tcherneva, Professor of Economics, Bard College; Director, OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative; Research Scholar, Levy Economics Institute

 

Jointly organized by the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights and ATD Fourth World.

Co-sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Belgium, the Permanent Mission of Luxembourg  and the Permanent Mission of South Africa to the United Nations in Geneva.

 

The event will be recorded and available to watch back on YouTube.