A multi-country project with researchers from 31 African countries focused on #TransformativeSocialPolicy #GenderEquity #Africa @IASUG @UnivofGH
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We must re-establish the link between finance and holistic development to drive sustainable development. For Africa, this means using our natural, human, and financial resources, not just to generate wealth, but to reinvest in the future of our people and communities.
Botswana is a shining example of this approach. The country has achieved significant economic and social progress by reinvesting revenues from its diamond industry into education, infrastructure, and healthcare.
This is the blueprint. Leveraging resources to build wealth, reduce inequalities, and transform our economies for the long term. Africa has the potential. Let’s commit to reinvesting in our development!
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Looking forward to facilitating today’s @GETSPA_IAS Southern Africa Reading Group session on @lyn_ossome's “Thinking Care & Social Reproduction from the Third World.” Who sustains households & communities, who benefits, who bears the costs? Welcome all #FeministPoliticalEconomy
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Who carries the work of keeping households and communities going?
Tomorrow at 15:00 GMT, we will explore care and social reproduction through Lyn Ossome’s Thinking Care and Social Reproduction from the Third World.
Join here:
shorturl.at/ER50m
#SocialReproduction
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Social policy is more than a safety net. A transformative approach looks at how redistribution, production, social reproduction and social relations shape people's lives.
How do we respond to inequality?
What conditions produce it?
#GETSPA #TransformativeSocialPolicy
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Social policy can shape redistribution, social institutions, social reproduction, productive opportunities and social relations.
#GETSPA #SocialPolicy #TransformativeSocialPolicy #GenderEquity
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Join our South African Reading Group for a critical discussion of Lyn Ossome's analysis of the crises of social reproduction in Africa and their implications for transformative social policy.
27 August 2026
15:00 GMT | 17:00 CAT
🔗 Join the session:
shorturl.at/t4PKW
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GETSPA WEBINAR TODAY | 14:00 GMT
Join @AsensoAgyemangE and moderator @MarionOuma as they examine the legacies, lessons, and possibilities for a more transformative approach to social security.
20 August 2026
14:00 GMT
Register: shorturl.at/6w4n4
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Happening today at 14:00 GMT.
Register here: shorturl.at/6w4n4
Join our speaker for the next webinar @AsensoAgyemangE, moderated @MarionOuma as they explore the trajectories, challenges, and possibilities for social security in Africa.
20 August 2026
14:00 GMT
Register: shorturl.at/6w4n4
#TransformativeSocialPolicy
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Join our speaker for the next webinar @AsensoAgyemangE, moderated @MarionOuma as they explore the trajectories, challenges, and possibilities for social security in Africa.
20 August 2026
14:00 GMT
Register: shorturl.at/6w4n4
#TransformativeSocialPolicy
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Cooking. Cleaning. Caring for children and older persons. Much of this essential work is unpaid and disproportionately carried out by women.
How should social policy recognise the value of unpaid care work?
#GETSPA #TransformativeSocialPolicy #CareEconomy
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What if social policy guaranteed everyone a basic level of income security?
Universal Basic Income (UBI) is increasingly being discussed as a pathway to more inclusive and transformative social policy. This will be a thread 🧵
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UBI has the potential to reduce inequality by providing a secure income floor while recognising that everyone has a right to economic security, regardless of employment status.
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𝗣𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲
At GETSPA's recent webinar, Prof. Sabina Alkire explored how Multidimensional Poverty Indices (MPIs) help governments understand not just who is poor, but how they are poor. #GETSPA #MultidimensionalPoverty #EvidenceBasedPolicy
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Today Sabina Alkire will speak on using MPIs to drive social progress in Africa as part of the @GETSPA_IAS Webinar Series hosted by the Institute of African Studies at @UnivofGh
10 June 2026 | 14:00 GMT | 15:00 BST
Register online: bit.ly/4xdQhdq
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We are excited! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
Today Sabina Alkire will speak on using MPIs to drive social progress in Africa as part of the @GETSPA_IAS Webinar Series hosted by the Institute of African Studies at @UnivofGh
10 June 2026 | 14:00 GMT | 15:00 BST
Register online: bit.ly/4xdQhdq
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Have you registered for our upcoming webinar?
Join us as Prof. Sabina Alkire explores how multidimensional poverty indices are helping African countries better understand and address poverty.
📅 10 June 2026 | 14:00 GMT
Register here: shorturl.at/bifpG
#SocialPolicy
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How can poverty data drive transformative social policy in Africa?
Join GETSPA for a webinar with Prof. Sabina Alkire of @ophi_oxford on how multidimensional poverty indices are shaping policy and social progress across the continent.
10 June 2026
14:00 GMT
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How do historical health systems shape today’s inequalities?
At our recent GETSPA webinar, we examined how health policy trajectories across Africa continue to influence gendered outcomes and what transformation requires. This will be a📸thread.
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Across countries in Africa and the Global South, women continue to:
1. Carry the burden of unpaid care work.
2. Face barriers in accessing reproductive health services.
These are not accidental, they are structural. It will take reformed structures to implement equity.
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