'Social Policy for Development'

Date
From: 11 October 2012 11:30
Till: 11 October 2012 13:30

Location:
ISS, Kortenaerkade 12, Den Haag

Description
Colloquium on the occasion of the ISS 60th anniversary

A discussion between ISS MA participants and policy-makers on 'European Spring 2020'

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About the colloquium

This Colloquium will consist of a discussion between ISS MA participants and policy-makers from The Netherlands and/or the EU on 'European Spring 2020'.

MA participants will engage in a dialogue with EU representatives for how to deal with the social policy challenges that Europe faces resulting from the Financial Crisis of 2008 and the austerity measures introduced.

Topics of the dialogue are likely to evolve around Europe’s move away from universalist social policies and the resulting threat of discrimination and greater vulnerability for marginalized groups.

The debate will showcase ISS students’ expertise in an engaging way, while simultaneously pointing to the possibility of a sea change regarding where innovative social policy ideas come from – namely from the global South.

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Panelists

	Egbert Holthuis - Head of Unit, EMPL/D1 Social Protection, Social Inclusion Strategy at the European Commisssion. Egbert Holthuis has the Dutch nationality and has Masters degrees in Business Administration and Geography. Before joining the European Commission in 1993 he worked respectively in the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Dutch Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO. He started his career for the European Commission working in the Commission's Delegation in Chad as an economic counsellor. Upon joining DG Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion in 2004 he was involved in analysing the employment and social situation of the European Union (e.g. in the Employment Analysis Unit) as well as in coordinating and monitoring national employment policies in the context of the Lisbon and the European Employment strategy (in the Employment Policy Unit). Egbert is now heading the Social Protection, Social Inclusion Strategy Unit. This Unit monitors progress towards the headline target for the reduction of poverty and exclusion and coordinates the implementation of the European Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion and supports the coordination EU Member States' policies in the social policy field in the context set by the Europe 2020 Strategy on smart sustainable and inclusive growth.
	Dinnia Joedadibrata, ISS MA participant 2011/2012 Dinnia Joedadibrata's background is NGO programme management. She has worked with mostly international NGOs for around eight years in the post conflict and development setting in Indonesia and Timor Leste, mainly in the health and disability sector. In the last NGO for which she worked for four years before coming to the ISS, she had to start up and maintain partnerships with the Indonesian Government at the national, provincial and district level for a capacity building programme (both North-South and South-South knowledge/skills sharing). She came to the ISS to get the 'bigger picture' of the poverty-development nexus. For her bachelors degree, she studied architecture. The topic of her ISS MA thesis (research paper) is the role of middle class in social policy. She is investigating the political economy of social policy for reduction of poverty/inequality and how the ‘emergence’ of middle class plays a role in it.
	Glenda Tambudzai Muzenda, ISS MA participant 2011/2012 Glenda Muzenda is a gender justice and development researcher working on the areas of economic transformation in South Africa. She is currently studying for her MA in Development Studies with specialization in Work, Employment and Globalization at ISS. Her area of interest is redistribution and non-discriminative policies in a Post-Apartheid era with the background on social justice of women, children, men and LGBTI communities. She has worked in Southern Africa on women's unpaid care, gender-responsive budgeting as a measure for social policy and interventions in Sub Saharan Africa with UN Women. Glenda is a writer and has been published on several local and international platforms.
	Shipra Saxena, ISS MA participant 2011/2012 Shipra Saxena is currently pursuing her MA degree in Development Studies, specializing in Children and Youth Studies at ISS. She has over five years of work experience in the development sector focusing on issues related to youth such as education, employability, healthcare and environment. She has worked in the social development division, Young Indians of the Confederation of Indian Industry, giving her a rich experience in policy, advocacy and awareness campaigns. Shipra holds a Masters Degree in Social Work from University of Delhi and a Bachelor's (Hons.) Degree in Sociology from the University of Delhi.
	Moderator, Iffat Mahmud, ISS MA participant 2011/2012 Iffat has worked primarily with the private sector, markets and value chains for pro-poor growth for the past three years, prior to coming to ISS for her MA in Social Policy. At present, she is working on her MA Research which centres around the capacity of the private sector to act as poverty reduction agent in Bangladesh. She also co-founded an education project for slum children in Bangladesh, JAAGO Foundation, which houses almost 1200 children throughout the nation.