Side Event on “The Impact of IFIs on Social Protection in the Arab Region”
On the margin of IMF-WBG Annual Meetings – Marrakech, 2023
Date: October 10, 2023 from 16pm to 18pm Marrakech time
Location: 2 CIELS LUXURY BOUTIQUE HOTEL & SPA. Or, register to attend via Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2016962509125/WN_N3GveORdQWqmISsF0cSFMg
Description: This event falls on the first day of the IMF-WBG Civil Society Policy Forum (CSPF) and gathers the community of CSO representatives working on social and economic policies in the Arab region to discuss the status quo of social protection systems in the region and the role that IFIs are playing in shaping these systems. It aims to mobilize a critical mass on the subject in question and equip the participants with latest updates, needed information, policy recommendations, and key tactics to advocate for the right to universal social security at the CSPF and annual meetings at large.
Event Agenda:
- Welcome and Opening Remarks (10 minutes):
- Farah Al Shami, Arab Reform Initiative (ARI)
- Salam Said, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES)-MENA
- Shereen Talaat, MENAFEM Movement
Refreshments will be available to bring into the room
- Presentations:
- Howaida Roman, Arab Reform Initiative (ARI) _ presenting her latest book for ARI titled “The Guide Towards Universal Social Protection in the Arab Region: Challenges and Opportunities” (15 minutes)
- Shereen Talaat, MENAFEM Movement _ The impact of IFIs on social protection, and the gender and environmental lenses (15 minutes)
- Speaker from FES-MENA _ IFIs, subsidies, and debt and social activism in reaction to consequent rights violations (15 minutes)
- Isabel Ortiz, Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) _ Alternatives and Solutions (15 minutes)
- Q&A (40 minutes)
- Wrap-up and next steps (10 minutes)
Moderated by Mohamad Haddad, Tunisian Journalist
- Cocktail Reception (18pm-19.30pm)