Stepping Up Action at the Regional Level — a Focus on Africa
2025-09-18 13:00 - 14:30 (Europe/Paris)
Part of the webinar series:
“I was born. I exist. Add me to the list.”
Accelerating birth registration for the hardest-to-reach populations — those living in poverty
This webinar will cover:

Understand the challenges: Explore the specific obstacles hindering birth registration, particularly for families and children living in extreme poverty. (An ATD Fourth World activist from the Central African Republic will provide context.)
Gain a regional overview: Get a continental perspective on the current situation, gaps, and opportunities. (The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC’s) Special Rapporteur on the Right to Name, Birth Registration, and Nationality)
Defining regional policy priorities for civil society advocacy in birth registration. How civil society organisations can effectively organise and advocate for change at a regional level. (African Child Policy Forum)
Identify policy priorities: Define key policy areas that need attention to advance universal birth registration. Discussion of ID4Africa and other regional initiatives.
Explore partnerships: Understand the role of organisations like UNICEF and potential avenues for collaboration.

13h00 to 14h30 Paris time; 11h00 to 12h30 Dakar time; 7:00 to 8:30 a.m. New York time

End Poverty Day Webinar - Social Rights & the new EU Anti-Poverty Strategy
2025-10-16 17:30 - 19:00 (Europe/Paris)
Join us online on 16th October 5.30pm Strasbourg time for an insightful session (interpretation French/English) on how we can work together to combat poverty and promote social rights in the European Union.
The webinar will be introduced by a keynote speech from Olivier De Schutter (UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights and member of the Council of Europe’s European Committee of Social Right).
The webinar is a follow up of the Declaration on the announced EU anti- poverty strategy – approved by CINGO on 9 April 2025 (opens PDF).

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (IDEP) 2025
2025-10-17
“On the part of non-governmental organizations and civil society, a major impact of the International Day [for the Eradication of Poverty] has been its empowerment of poor people. The International Day provides an important opportunity for people living in poverty to be visible, to have voice and to provide their testimonies on one day of the year. People living in poverty are also empowered because the International Day gives them a sense of belonging in the community, through their participation and involvement in community development programmes.”
(United Nations, Report of the Secretary-General, A/61/308, paragraph 53).
Each year, UNDESA, along with other partners including ATD Fourth World International, prepares initiatives and events to mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (IDEP).
For 2025 the theme is Ending Social and Institutional Maltreatment: Ensuring respect and effective support for families living in poverty. To learn more read the Concept Note for October 17, 2025.
See if there is an October 17 event near you or come to or watch the event at the UN.
October 17, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, is a day for understanding and togetherness, a day to put the furthest behind first and a day to recommit ourselves to ending poverty in all its forms everywhere. People experiencing poverty are at the heart of every October 17 commemoration and the drivers in choosing the global theme. The 2025 commemoration will focus on ensuring respect and effective support for families. We need to better understand why poverty persists and why despite all the efforts made by parents, their children continue to experience the same deprivation. We need to better understand the reality of poverty as experienced by the people affected, so that appropriate support can be actioned. By focusing on families, we continue to highlight the hidden dimensions of poverty — in particular the social and institutional maltreatment they suffer in their daily lives, including situations of family separation due to poverty, and the pressing need to end it.
Concept Note for October 17, 2025

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2025 at the UN
2025-10-17 13:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | United Nations Headquarters, 405 East 45th Street, NY, 10017, United States
On behalf of the International Movement ATD Fourth World, UN DESA, the International Committee for October 17th, and the Permanent Mission of France to the United Nations, we are pleased to invite you to the 33rd commemoration of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (IDEP2025).
Friday, October 17, 2025
1 – 3pm: ECOSOC Chamber of the United Nations Headquarters in New York
3:00 – 3:30pm: United Nations Garden North Lawn
The opening ceremony will be conducted in the ECOSOC Chamber of the United Nations Headquarters, and will be followed by observance at the Commemorative Stone in Honor of the Victims of Extreme Poverty, United Nations Garden North Lawn.
This year’s title: Ensuring respect and effective support for families.
To join us in person at the United Nations:
By October 12th please register by getting a (FREE) ticket here (use the blue button on the upper right) if you haven’t already.
On Friday October 17, please come between 12:15pm and 12:45pm to the United Nations Visitors Entrance (46th St & 1st Ave, New York, NY 10017) to retrieve your nominative UN pass. Volunteers will be present to distribute passes. You cannot enter the UN building without a nominative UN Pass.
Each person will need to show ID at the UN gate: please register with the name shown on the ID of each person attending.
It is required to show your Picture ID to enter the UN. Contact information provided on the Givebutter registration form must match names as they appear on ID. Valid forms of Picture ID include: State ID, Passport, and Student ID.
To join us online:
You do not need to register. To watch online there will be a facebook live on the ATD Fourth World USA facebook page. You can also watch on UN TV on October 17.

Exploring Responsiveness in Social Services: from research findings to practical tools for improvement.
2025-10-23 18:00 - 19:30 (Europe/Paris)
Join us for an insightful webinar dedicated to understanding and enhancing responsiveness in social services — from research findings to practical tools for improvement.
This session will bring together experts and practitioners to discuss key factors shaping responsiveness, present new tool for self-assessment, and share inspiring examples from across Europe.
🗓 Date & Time
📅 23/10/2025
🕒 18.00-19.30 CET
💡 Program Overview

WP4: Introduction and Methodology. An overview of the work package and the methodological framework guiding the study.
Obstacles and Drivers of Responsiveness as Seen by Professionals and Policy-Makers. Presentation of qualitative and quantitative findings on what fosters — and hinders — responsiveness in social services.
Q&A Session : An opportunity to engage with presenters and discuss emerging insights.
Tool for Self-Assessment and Improving Responsiveness in Social Services :
A hands-on look at a new tool designed to help organizations self(evaluate and strengthen their responsiveness.
Examples from Responsive Teams : Illustrations from two or three teams showing how the tool can be applied in diverse contexts.
Q&A Session : Final discussion and reflections.

🎙 Why Attend?

Learn from the latest European research on responsiveness in social services.
Discover practical tools to enhance your organization.
Gain inspiration from country examples and peer experiences.
Participate in open discussions with researchers and practitioners from six European countries.

📩 Registration
Participation is free but requires registration.
👉 https://responsive-europe.eu/webinar-announcement-mapping-barriers-facilitators-and-organizational-responsiveness-to-citizen-input-in-social-services-23-october-2025-1800-1930/

Beyond Symbolism and Rhetoric: Ensuring meaningful and deliberative participation and partnerships with the people furthest behind
2025-11-05 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Paris)
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.
This webinar takes place on November 5, 3-4:30 pm Paris time.
Sign up here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Q2wGqdxtSKiObgttbWUcGA
During the event the following speakers will take the floor:

Asha Athumani Mohamed ATD Fourth World Activist, Co-researcher in the hidden dimensions of poverty research
Beatriz Monje Barón IDEEP Program Coordinator at ATD Fourth World
Olivier De Schutter UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
Gabriele Koehler Senior Research Associate at United Nations Research Institute for Social Development

The event will be moderated by: Roberto Bissio Coordinator of Social Watch.
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

Accelerating birth registration for the hardest to reach populations, those living in poverty
2025-12-10 13:00 - 14:30 (Europe/Paris)
Stepping Up Action in Other Regions and at the International Level

Following our first two sessions dedicated to the challenges within the African region, this third and final webinar will expand the scope to a global perspective. We will analyze the high success rates in Latin America and the Caribbean (95%) and Eastern/South-Eastern Asia (94%) to understand what is working and how these lessons can be applied globally. Join us as we discuss the acceleration of action at national, regional, and international levels to ensure no child is left behind.

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Joyful Revolution Webinar
2026-02-17 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
You are invited to a webinar conversation launching the new book, Joyful Revolution: Poverty, Social Justice, and the Story of Mary Rabagliati. This book focuses on Rabagliati’s approach to human rights and social inclusion, including people of vastly different backgrounds without demonizing anyone. On Tuesday February 17th, at 6 pm EST, please join us for this conversation among:
– Christopher Winship, Harvard professor of sociology
– Stacy White, an activist with lived experience of poverty
– Diana Skelton, author of Joyful Revolution.
The event will last one hour (with optional time afterwards to continue the conversation among those who wish).
ATD Fourth World USA envisions a society free from the stigma, subjugation, and injustice which prolong poverty; and a future where everyone thrives in dignity.

Wider World Conversations
2026-03-26 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Paris)
ATD Fourth World’s virtual ‘Wider World Conversations’ began in 2023, serving as an opportunity for individuals to develop a sense of connection to ATD Fourth World’s actions across the world, as well as to discover and explore topics more broadly related to the wider context of social justice and anti-poverty action.
Participants take turns facilitating conversations, creating safe spaces to delve into broad interests. From questions of how to communicate ethically and authentically, to gaining an understanding of missing and murdered Indigenous women in New Mexico, to connecting to musicians from Playing for Change, Wider World Conversations spark thoughtful and inspiring conversations, allow participants to share ideas, and build a global community.
We are delighted to announce that, after a brief pause in late 2025, these conversations have resumed!
These conversations are open to ATD Fourth World members, and those interested in our work — wherever in the world they’re based. We would love to welcome you into our WWCs, so if you are interested in joining in, please reach out to skeltond(at)atd-uk(dot)org for more information.
Event first published at https://atd-uk.org/2026/02/16/wider-world-conversations/
Image by Caitlin Sibthorpe

Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth: A Global Roadmap for a New Economy
2026-04-22 09:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Paris) | ILO Headquarters, 4 route des Morillons, Geneva, 1211, Switzerland
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Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth: A Global Roadmap for a New Economy is a high-level, international policy conference organised under the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, as a contribution to the International Labour Organization-led Global Coalition for Social Justice.
Held at ILO Headquarters in Geneva, this public event will bring together leading scholars, diplomats, UN officials, policymakers, trade unions, employers’ organisations, civil society organisations, and social movements from around the world to discuss strategies to confront the intertwined crises of poverty, inequalities and ecological breakdown, beyond the limited imagination of economic growth orthodoxy.
22 April 2026 – ILO, 4 route des Morillons, CH-1211 Geneva
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As environmental collapse accelerates, inequalities widen within and between countries, and economic precarity becomes pervasive, the long-standing assumption that economic growth alone can reduce inequalities and end poverty is falling apart. What remains is an urgent challenge: how can societies secure social justice, economic security and human dignity without relying on a development model that deepens extraction, exclusion and ecological harm?
Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth: A Global Roadmap for a New Economy offers an important forum in which to discuss how moving beyond growth is not about bringing economic activity to a halt. Rather, it requires confronting the failures of growth as it has been pursued in practice. Leading experts will take to the floor in Geneva to articulate alternative development pathways that decentre GDP as the primary measure of progress and demonstrate how social well-being and ecological integrity can be advanced through models less reliant on continuous economic expansion.
The event will also provide a key opportunity to engage with the Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth, co-constructed by a large number of UN agencies, NGOs, unions and academic experts, who have been collaborating since 2024 to agree on proposals intended to achieve social progress and improve well-being without relying on perpetual economic growth.
Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth: A Global Roadmap for a New Economy marks a pivotal step for the Roadmap ahead of its formal presentation to the Human Rights Council in summer 2026. As international deliberations advance on shaping the post-2030 development framework, the event also signals a historic shift in the international community away from the false inevitabilities of growthism, and toward economic systems grounded in the effective realisation of human rights, well-being and ecological responsibility.

WEBINAR 23rd April 5pm- Citizens, partners for Democracy in Social Services - learning from the EU Horizon #RESPONSIVE project
2026-04-23 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris)
Facilitation in English – Interpretation: FR – DE – PT – POL
23rd of April 2026 from 5pm to 6.30pm (CET)
The Webinar will give the floor to people with lived experience of using services, reflecting on their experience and inputs in the #Responsive project. It will also present the main messages from the research to citizens using services and their organisations. Debates with participants will be facilitated after each presentation.
Organised by ATD Fourth World Belgium with partners from the EU Horizon RESPONSIVE project.
To attend, please complete this form by 13:00 CET on 23rd April.
You will receive an email with the Zoom link to join the webinar on 23 APril 2026 in the afternoon.
