Programme

Monday 22 November 2021 - Day 1

09:00—11.00: OPENING CEREMONY
(Chair: Professor Thenjiwe Meyiwa—Vice Principal, Research, Postgraduate Studies, Innovation and Commercialisation, University of South Africa.)

Welcome Addresses

• Prof Jimi Adesina: SARChI Chair in Social Policy, University of South Africa.
• Dr Godwin Murunga: Executive Secretary, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA).
• Dr Katja Hujo: UNRISD Director (Rep)
• Prof Puleng LenkaBula: Vice Chancellor, University of South Africa

Opening Keynote Address
Prof Jayati Ghosh (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India): Making Social Policy Effective in an Ever More Unequal World.

Discussion.

Link: https://zoom.us/j/91390491896?pwd=RjF3MnpyR1pENUJQKzVxQ1hpOU5oQT09

11:00—11:15: Coffee Break

11:15—13:00: 1ST PLENARY SESSION: Rethinking the Developmental State with Thandika
Mkandawire
Chair: Dzodzi Tsikata (University of Ghana, Legon)

• Fiona Tregenna (University of Johannesburg, South Africa). Transformative Industrialisation, Social Policy and Development in Africa.
• Vusi Gumede (University of Mpumalanga, South Africa). Thandika Mkandawire and the South African Developmental State.
• Andrew Fischer (International Institute of Social Studies—Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands). Turning Points versus Bifurcations in the Inequality Dynamics of Peripheral Development: Reflections on Universalising Social Policy via Lewis and Furtado.

Link: https://zoom.us/j/91390491896?pwd=RjF3MnpyR1pENUJQKzVxQ1hpOU5oQT09 

13:00 —13:45: Lunch

2021 Social Policy in Africa Conference: Programme

13:45—15:15: 1ST BREAK-AWAY SESSION
BAS-1A: Fintech and Cash Transfers
Chair: Wanga Zembe (Medical Research Council, South Africa)

• Helen W. Mukiri-Smith (Tilburg University, The Netherlands): Exploring the role of fintech: The solution to poverty and inequality or instruments of exploitation?
• Ali Muez & Laura Mann (London School of Economics, UK): The curious appeal of cash transfers across three diverging political contexts in Sudan.
• Bernard Dubbeld (Stellenbosch University, South Africa): Granting the Future: The temporality of cash transfers in the countryside.
• Gbenga Shadare (Centre for Social Protection and Policy Studies, Nigeria): The governance of Nigeria’s social protection: The burdens of developmental welfarism.

Link: https://zoom.us/j/97163101360?pwd=MW1ONXlXbTdSQTVnWkdYZEwxT2NWdz09 

BAS-1B: Education Policy
Chair: Nimi Hoffmann (University of Sussex, UK)

• Gabriel Asante (Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary): Configuration of Fee-free Policies at the Higher School Level: A cross-national qualitative comparative analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Sophie Ekume Etomes et al. (University of Buea, Cameroon): Social Policy and Provision of Education: Implications for Quality of Higher Education in Cameroon.
• Lynsey Robinson (Institute of Education, University College London): Education Policy in Nigeria: Exploring education inequalities and the role of the private sector.

Link: https://zoom.us/j/92345596480?pwd=S1RGMzN2bXUzSG4zRU5XdzhWSGsxdz09 

BAS-1C: Poverty, Inequality, and Social Justice
Chair: Ndangwa Noyoo (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

• Marianne Ulriksen (University of Southern Denmark) & Sophie Plagerson (University of Johannesburg, South Africa): Bringing Theory to Life in Social Justice Research.
• Daud Black (University of Malawi, Malawi): Poverty and Inequality.
• Erick Patrick Feubi Pamen & Mathias Kuepie (University of Douala, Cameroon): An Application of the Alkire-Foster’s Multidimensional Poverty Index to Data from Madagascar: Taking Into Account the Dimensions of Employment and Gender Inequality.
• Tapiwanashe Hadzizi (University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe): Housing inequalities and the struggle to become house owners in urban set ups: Can housing co-operatives makes the dream come true? A case of Harare, Zimbabwe.

Link: https://zoom.us/j/91544100173?pwd=MnBQRGUxbU5jcUU2aUNhUERTK1o4Zz09 

BAS-1D: The Precarious Non-Poor in Africa (1)
Chair: Jimi Adesina (University of South Africa, South Africa)

• Sara Zouiri (Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco): Morocco Country Report.
• Abebe Ejigu Alemu (Mekelle University, Ethiopia): Ethiopia Country Report.
• Madina Guloba (Economic Policy Research Centre, Uganda): Uganda Country Report.
• Kehinde Omotoso (University of South Africa, South Africa): South Africa Country Report.

Link: https://zoom.us/j/97112905203?pwd=YnpFZXNMZGEzdFM2Yi9YSXNGUXpvQT09 

15:10-15:30: COFFEE BREAK

15:30—17:00: 2ND BREAK-AWAY SESSION

BAS-2A: Social Policy Responses to Covid-19
Chair: Gabriel Tati (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)

• Olayinka Akanle et al. (University of Ibadan, Nigeria): The Coronavirus Pandemic in Ibadan, Nigeria: Democratic State Responses and Glocal Existentialities.
• Isaac Kabelenga (University of Zambia, Zambia): Emergency Social Protection interventions actioned by the Government of Zambia (GRZ) in response to Covid-19 pandemic.
• Samar Khamlichi (Mohamed V University, Morocco): The Moroccan model of social policy responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic.
• Kambo M. Atse et al. (Felix Houphouet-Boigny University, Côte d’Ivoire): "Gendered and Transformative Social Policy in in post-COVID-19 Africa" Multicountry research proposal in selected countries in West Africa: Benin, Burkina-Faso and Côte d'Ivoire.

Link: https://zoom.us/j/97163101360?pwd=MW1ONXlXbTdSQTVnWkdYZEwxT2NWdz09 

BAS-2B: Gender and Social Policy
Chair: Marianne Ulriksen (University of Southern Denmark)

• Rejoice Chipuriro (University of Johannesburg, South Africa): Aging and Women Empowerment Agenda: Perspectives from Zimbabwe.
• Peter Gutwa Oino & George Aberi (Kisii University, Kenya): Opportunities and Challenges in Promoting Gendered Policies and Practices on Child Protection in East Africa.
• Roosa Lambin & Milla Nyysölä (UNU-Wider, UK): Exploring two decades of social policy trajectories in mainland Tanzania from the perspective of workingage women – driving for inclusive development?
• Rasel Madaha (Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania): Coping Strategies of Feminine Peasant Networks and social protection in Tanzania: The case of Village Community Networks (VCONEs) in Tanzania.

Link: https://zoom.us/j/92345596480?pwd=S1RGMzN2bXUzSG4zRU5XdzhWSGsxdz09 

BAS-2C: Social Policy and Development
Chair: Anna Wolkenhauer (University of Bremen, Germany)

• Mohammed Ali (Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia): Curbing the Collective Voices of Workers in Ethiopia's State-led Industrialization.
• Shepherd Gudyani (Great Zimbabwe University, Zimbabwe): Co-creating Social Policy for Inclusive and Democratic Development through investing in selfdetermined and sustained rural communities in Africa, the case of Zimbabwe.
• Bongekile Mthembu (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa): Social Policy for Integrated African Development.
• Carol Chi Ngang et al. (National University of Lesotho, Lesotho): Right to Development Governance: A Policy Proposition for the Kingdom of Lesotho.

Link: https://zoom.us/j/91544100173?pwd=MnBQRGUxbU5jcUU2aUNhUERTK1o4Zz09 

BAS-2D: Social Protection, Food Security and Non-Fossil Future
Chair: Julia Ngozi Chukuma (SOAS, London)

• Marzena Breza (SOCIEUX+, Belgium): Challenges for social protection policy developments and reforms – experience of EU technical cooperation in African countries.
• Sara McHattie & Michael Samson (UNWFP, South Africa): The Role of Food Security & Nutrition-Sensitive Social Protection in Bridging the Humanitarian-Development Divide in the Southern African Region.
• James Mawanda (Development Intelligence Consultancy Ltd, Uganda): ‘No investment in new fossil fuel supply projects’: (Re) imagining Africa’s Poverty struggles amidst new Global Energy Policies.

Link: https://zoom.us/j/97112905203?pwd=YnpFZXNMZGEzdFM2Yi9YSXNGUXpvQT09 

Tuesday 23 November 2021 - Day 2

09:00—10.30: Thandika Mkandawire Memorial Lecture

Chair: Katja Hujo (UNRISD, Geneva)

• Jimi Adesina (University of South Africa, South Africa): Statement about the Memorial Lecture.
• Kaarina Klint / André Mkandawire: Statement from the Family.
• The Inaugural Thandika Mkandawire Memorial Lecture Professor Fantu Cheru (Emeritus Professor of International Political Economy, American University, Washington DC): “On resuscitating the aborted national project: A retrospective and prospective view” (Notes from my last conversation with Thandika Mkandawire).

Link: https://zoom.us/j/91390491896?pwd=RjF3MnpyR1pENUJQKzVxQ1hpOU5oQT09 

10:30—10.45: Break

10:40—12:15: 3RD BREAK-AWAY SESSION

BAS-3A: Social Policy and the Developmental Context
Chair: Ilcheong Yi (UNRISD, Geneva).

• Manchuna Shanmuganathan (The University of Dundee, Scotland, UK): Social Policy for Inclusive and Democratic Development in Africa.
• Biruk Shewadeg (Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Ethiopia): Rethinking Democratic Developmental State in Ethiopia.
• Madalitso Phiri (University of Johannesburg, South Africa): The Contested Idea of Social Policy in Africa: Recasting the Pan-African Nationalist Vision.
• Kenneth Simala (Masinde Muiro University of Science and Technology, Kenya): Language, Social Policy and Sustainable Development Discourse: Looking Back to the Future of Africa.

Link: https://zoom.us/j/97163101360?pwd=MW1ONXlXbTdSQTVnWkdYZEwxT2NWdz09 

BAS-3B: Social Policy in Francophone Africa
Chair: Ramola Ramtohul (University of Mauritius, Mauritius)

• Marie Fall et al. (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada): Analyse critique des idéologies au coeur des politiques sociales liées à l’éducation et à l’emploi au Mali, en Mauritanie et au Sénégal.
• Adama Sadio, et al. (Gorée Institut, Sénégal): Réflexion sur les politiques sociales du Sénégal au prisme de la démocratie et du développement.
• Ndeye Faty Sarr et al. (Universitè de Chicoutimi, France): Lecture critique des politiques sociales en Mauritanie, au Mali et au Sénégal. 2021 Social Policy in Africa Conference: Programme 6
• Almamy Sylla & Adama Sadio (Université des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines de Bamako, Mali): Examen des politiques sociales éducatives et de l’emploi au Mali.

Link: https://zoom.us/j/92345596480?pwd=S1RGMzN2bXUzSG4zRU5XdzhWSGsxdz09 

BAS-3C: Health, Water and Care Economy
Chair: Nana Akua Anyidoho (University of Ghana, Legon).

• Julia Ngozi Chukwuma (SOAS, UK): Implementing health policy in Nigeria: The Basic Health Care Provision Fund as a catalyst for attaining Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria?
• Newman Tekwa & B Dube (University of South Africa, South Africa): ‘Global Policies versus ‘Local Realities.’ Water Policy Reforms in Zimbabwe and South Africa.
• Salimah Valiani (Independent Researcher, South Africa): The Africa Care Economy Index.

Link: https://zoom.us/j/91544100173?pwd=MnBQRGUxbU5jcUU2aUNhUERTK1o4Zz09

BAS-3D: Social Policy Responses to Covid-19 (2)
Chair: Clement Chipenda (University of South Africa, South Africa).

• Marion Mugisha et al. (Kyambogo University, Uganda): Agency and Compliance with Anti-Covid-19 Public Health Policies in Slums of the Global South.
• Marion Ouma (University of South Africa, South Africa): Kenya’s Social Policy response to COVID-19: Continuity in times of crisis.
• Malalaniaina Miora Rakotoarivelo & James Ravalison (University of Antananarivo, Madagascar): Managing the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in a context of underdevelopment, a study case from Madagascar.
• Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur (University of Mauritius, Mauritius): Vulnerability, Resilience and Social Policy Responses of African Economies in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Link: https://zoom.us/j/97112905203?pwd=YnpFZXNMZGEzdFM2Yi9YSXNGUXpvQT09

12:15—13:00: LUNCH

13:00—14:30: 4TH BREAK-AWAY SESSIONS

BAS-4A: Migration, Covid-19 and Welfare
Chair: Madalitso Phiri (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)

• Olayinka Akanle (University of Ibadan, Nigeria): Migration for Poverty and Inequality Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa: Migration Partnerships as Antithesis. 2021 Social Policy in Africa Conference: Programme 7
• Belmondo Tanankem Voufo (Ministry of Economy, Planning and Regional Development of Cameroon): Linking Migration and Household Welfare in Cameroon: Zooming into the Effect of Return Migration on Self-employment.
• Gabriel Tati (University of the Western Cape, South Africa): Living on the fringes of public assistance in time of COVID-19 pandemic crisis: The plight of African forced migrants in the city of Cape Town (South Africa).
• Kennedy Alatinga (SD Dombo University, Ghana): Migrant female head porters’ experiences and national social policy response in times of COVID-19: policy implications for universal social protection in Ghana.

Link: https://zoom.us/j/97163101360?pwd=MW1ONXlXbTdSQTVnWkdYZEwxT2NWdz09 

BAS-4B: Land, Agriculture and Social Policy
Chair: Newman Tekwa (University of South Africa, South Africa)

• Natalia Abril Bonilla (Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands): Enduring CSR: Social policies of banana companies in rural Colombia.
• Patience Chadambuka et al. (Midlands State University, Zimbabwe): Zimbabwe’s ex-farm labourers of foreign origin and perpetual marginalization: A need for a land policy shift.
• Clement Chipenda (University of South Africa, South Africa): ‘Social Policy by Other Means’: Critical insights on land reform as an alternative social policy instrument during the Covid-19 pandemic.
• Trevor Ngwane (University of Johannesburg, South Africa): ‘The Land Was Stolen’: Labour Tenants and the Agrarian Question in Africa Today.

Link: https://zoom.us/j/92345596480?pwd=S1RGMzN2bXUzSG4zRU5XdzhWSGsxdz09 

BAS-4C: Social Policy Responses to Covid-19 (3)
Chair: Kate Meagher (London School of Economics, UK)

• Bassey Ayek (University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria): Critical Reflections on social policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in Eastern Nigeria.
• Temi Esteri Fet’era (United Nations Office, Nigeria): COVID-19 and the Exposure of Gaps in Social Protection Coverage of the Informal Economy: A Case of Cultural and Creative Sector Workers in Nigeria.
• Lindi-K Khumalo & Nqobile Zulu (Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute, South Africa): Critical Reflections on South Africa’s Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress Grant (SDR): A case for the development of a cost of living index.
• Eyene Okpanachi (University of South Wales, UK) & Emmanuel Aiyede (University of Ibadan, Nigeria): The Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Social Protection and Vulnerability in the context of Covid-19 in Nigeria.

Link: https://zoom.us/j/91544100173?pwd=MnBQRGUxbU5jcUU2aUNhUERTK1o4Zz09 

BAS-4D: The Precarious Non-Poor in Africa (2)
Chair: Kehinde Omotoso (University of South Africa, South Africa)

• Nancy Nafula Mwenge (Kenya Institute of Public Policy Research and Analysis, Nairobi, Kenya): Kenya Country Report.
• Walid Merouani (CREAD, Algiers, Algeria): Algeria Country Report.
• Emmanuel Codjoe (University of Ghana, Legon): Ghana Country Report.
• Abiodun Adegboye (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria): Nigeria Country Report.

Link: https://zoom.us/j/97112905203?pwd=YnpFZXNMZGEzdFM2Yi9YSXNGUXpvQT09 

14:30—14:45: Coffee Break

14:45—16:15: 2nd PLENARY SESSION: Democracy, State-Building and Social Policy
Chair: Jimi Adesina (University of South Africa, South Africa)

• Anna Wolkenhauer (University of Bremen, Germany): Social Policy and State Formation: Comparative insights from the Social Cash Transfer and FISP in Zambia.
• Michael Kpessa-Whyte (University of Ghana, Legon): Democracy and Social Policy in Ghana: An Analysis of Reforms in Health, Pension and Education Policies.
• Dennis Canterbury (Eastern Connecticut State University, USA): Fresh Vistas for African Development in a New Multipolar World Order.

Link: https://zoom.us/j/91390491896?pwd=RjF3MnpyR1pENUJQKzVxQ1hpOU5oQT09 

16:15—16:30: Coffee Break

16:30—18:00: SPECIAL GETSPA PLENARY SESSION 1
Theme: Gender Equitable and Transformative Social Policy for Post-COVID-19 Africa: An Introduction.
Chair: Dzodzi Tsikata (University of Ghana, Legon)

• Charles Abugre: Economic and Social Policy Interactions.
• Newman Tekwa (University of South Africa): Gender and Social Policy.
• Nana Akua Anyidoho (University of Ghana, Legon): Social Policy of Military Regimes: Some considerations.

Link: https://zoom.us/j/91390491896?pwd=RjF3MnpyR1pENUJQKzVxQ1hpOU5oQT09

Wednesday 24 November 2021 - Day 3

09:00—11:00: 3rd PLENARY SESSION – Rethinking Social Policy
Chair: Ilcheong Yi (UNRISD, Geneva, Switzerland)

• Dzodzi Tsikata (University of Ghana, Legon): Gender, Social Reproduction and Social Policy.
• Jimi Adesina (University of South Africa, South Africa): Rethinking Social Policy with Thandika Mkandawire.
• Maureen Mackintosh (The Open University, UK): Commercialisation, Gender, and Ethics in Tanzanian Health Care: Honouring the work of Paula Tibandebage.
• Kate Meagher (London School of Economics, UK): Transforming African Informal Economies: Looking Back to Move Forward in the Wake of Covid-19.

Link: https://zoom.us/j/91390491896?pwd=RjF3MnpyR1pENUJQKzVxQ1hpOU5oQT09 

11:00—11:15: Break

11:15—12:45: 5TH BREAK-AWAY SESSION

BAS-5A: Social Policy Responses to Covid-19 (4)
Chair: Bernard Dubbeld (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

• Cecy Balogun (Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, Nigeria): Social Policy Responses to COVID-19 In Nigeria: Gaps and Expectations.
• Miracle-Eunice Bolorunduro (Adekunle Ajasin University, Nigeria): An Appraisal of the COVID-19 Rapid Response Registration Cash Transfer Policy in Nigeria.
• Lilan Olivia Orero (ALP Advocates East Africa, Kenya): Critical Reflections on Social Policy Responses to the COVId-19 Pandemic in Kenya.
• Olusegun Oladeinde (Bells University of Technology, Nigeria): Violence, Conflicts and COVID 19 Pandemic in Nigeria - a Double-Crisis Challenge: rethinking the Humanitarian Architecture for Sustainable Development.
• Nqobile Zulu, et al. (Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute, South Africa): Critical Reflections on Social Policy Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic: Lessons from Namibia.

Link: https://zoom.us/j/97163101360?pwd=MW1ONXlXbTdSQTVnWkdYZEwxT2NWdz09

BAS-5B: Teaching and Thinking about Social Policy
Chair: Marion Ouma (University of South Africa, South Africa)

• Ndangwa Noyoo (University of Cape Town, South Africa): Teaching Social Policy for Africa’s Development: A Case Study of the Department of Social Development at the University Cape Town.
• Dominic Brown (AIDC, South Africa) & Nimi Hoffmann (University of Sussex, UK): Towards a people's budget for South Africa: remarks from a transformative social policy perspective. 2021 Social Policy in Africa Conference: Programme 10
• Oko Enworo (University of Pretoria, South Africa): The Role of Indigenous Social Protection Systems in the Management of Covariate Shocks: Insights from Southeast Nigeria.
• Nkululeko Majozi (Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute, South Africa): The Universal Basic Income Grant (BIG) in South Africa as an Instrument for Transformative Social Policy: Lessons from Global BIG Pilot Experiments.

Link: https://zoom.us/j/92345596480?pwd=S1RGMzN2bXUzSG4zRU5XdzhWSGsxdz09 

BAS-5C: Child Welfare, Human Security, Poverty, and Inequality
Chair: Salimah Valiani (Independent Researcher, South Africa)

• Musavengana Chibwana (University of Free State, South Africa): Social Protection for Children in Africa: the case of South Africa and Mauritius.
• Tawanda Masuka (Bindura University of Science Education, Zimbabwe): Developmental Social Policy and Urban Child Poverty Reduction: A Case Study
• of Bindura Town, Zimbabwe.
• Abdoul Karim Diamoutene (University of Social Science and Management, Mali): Agriculture, Inequality and Poverty in Mali.
• Kwashirai Zvokuomba & Freedom Mazwi (Ezekiel Guti University, Zimbabwe): Human Security and the State as a Security Provider in the Post Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe: Human Factor Approach Review.

Link: https://zoom.us/j/91544100173?pwd=MnBQRGUxbU5jcUU2aUNhUERTK1o4Zz09 

12:45—13:30: Lunch

13:30—15:00: GETSPA Roundtable Discussion – The Trajectories of Social Policy in Africa
Chair: Michael Kpessa-Whyte (University of Ghana, Legon)

• Ramola Ramtohul (University of Mauritius, Mauritius)
• Clementina Furtado (Universidade de Cabo Verde, Cabo Verde)
• Adama Sadio (Gorée Institut, Senegal)
• Julius Omona (Makerere University, Uganda).

Link: https://zoom.us/j/91390491896?pwd=RjF3MnpyR1pENUJQKzVxQ1hpOU5oQT09 

15:00—16:30: Endnote Address & Closing Ceremony

Chair: Dr Godwin Murunga (Executive Secretary, CODESRIA)

Closing Keynote Address: Prof Adebayo Olukoshi

Farewell Addresses

• Prof Jimi Adesina: SARChI Chair in Social Policy, University of South Africa. 2021 Social Policy in Africa Conference: Programme 11
• Dr Katja Hujo: UNRISD, Geneva.
• Prof Thenjiwe Meyiwa (Vice Principal -- RPSIC, University of South Africa).

Link: https://zoom.us/j/91390491896?pwd=RjF3MnpyR1pENUJQKzVxQ1hpOU5oQT09