We invite you to watch the webinar for the occasion of the Second Summit of Social Development, which takes place on 4 – 6 November, in Doha, Qatar.

Despite the decades-old attempts towards the eradication of extreme poverty, progress is fragile and unequal, with many policies and programmes failing because they often neglect the voices and experiences of people living in poverty. Lack of participation is now recognized as one of the main causes of ineffectiveness of these policies.

To bridge this gap and move beyond symbolic participation, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, in partnership with the International Movement ATD Fourth World, developed the Inclusive and Deliberative Elaboration & Evaluation of Policies (IDEEP) tool. Rooted in the Merging of Knowledge approach, IDEEP is a participatory instrument designed to ensure the direct, meaningful involvement of persons experiencing poverty in policy design, implementation, and evaluation. This method aims to integrate their experiential knowledge with academic and professional knowledge to uncover the hidden dimensions of poverty, thereby creating more effective, evidence-based, and genuinely inclusive anti-poverty strategies. This side event will also be enriched by the experience of the participation seen from the perspective of an ATD Fourth World Activist (person with lived experience of poverty) as well as a participation approach implemented by the UN Research Institute for Social Development.

For further information about the Summit, please check the website: https://social.desa.un.org/world-summit-2025