DSPD Focal Point on Family organized an Expert Group Meeting on Assessing family policies: Confronting family poverty and social exclusion & ensuring work-family balance, from 1-3 June 2011 in New York. The meeting was convened as part of preparations for the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family, 2014.
Aide mémoire
Agenda
Summary of the proceedings
Recommendations
List of participants
Papers
Family and cash transfer programmes in Latin America by Irma Arriagada
Health policies and families in poverty: A brief consideration of past, present and future policy initiatives by Mark Belsey
Family policy: why we need it and how to communicate its value by Karen Bogenschneider
Work-family balance and family poverty in Asia: an overview of policy contexts, consequences and challenges by Victoria Caparas
Construction of Gender Equity in various family settings by Juan Guillermo Figueroa-Perea
The concept of work-family balance seen from a Swedish perspective by Jonas Himmelstrand
Anti-poverty family policies in China: a critical evaluation by Qin Gao
Assessing family policies in a comparative perspective by Henning Lohmann
Anti-poverty polices focusing on families: regional overview: Africa by Zitha Mokomane
Work-family balance: Overview of policies in developing countries by Zitha Mokomane
Father-inclusive family policies: challenges and recommendations by Margaret O’Brien
Assessing family policies around the world: focus on Eastern Europe by Mihaela Robila
Family policies and poverty reduction in OECD countries by Dominic Richardson
Globalization and families: meeting the family policy challenge by Bahira Sherif Trask
Work family balance: the importance of family-focused solutions: challenges, opportunities and recommendations by Ignacio Socias
Ensuring work family balance: the importance of family-focused solutions: perspective of mothers in Europe by Joan Stevens
Transformations in the African family: a note on migration, HIV/AIDS and family poverty alleviation efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa by Baffour K. Takyi
Presentations
Victoria Caparas (Presentation 1) (Presentation 2)
Mihaela Robila (Presentation 1) (Presentation 2)
Bahira Sheriff Trask (Presentation 1) (Presentation 2)