ICRAC-No Poverty
International conference for Reseach on African Challenges-No Poverty 2019
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About ICRAC-No Poverty
Guided by the UN's vision for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the AUC, a leading global university in Africa, brings together researchers across disciplines, to engage in knowledge-sharing, exploration and discussion of the first of seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - "No Poverty." The conference is a platform for Academics, Policy makers and NGOs to meet, network, and examine practical solutions to commonly identified problems.
Topics
Poverty in the digital world, Different policies' effects on poverty alleviation, Combating poverty through education, Poverty, social policy and governance, Economies of poverty, Science contribution to alleviating poverty, Architecture for the poorCall for Papers
Given the complexity and multi-dimensionality of poverty, this conference invites participants from disciplines across the various areas of academia to share knowledge and engage in constructive problem-solving. The conference is also the starting point for further interdisciplinary research to effectively examine features, causes, methods, solutions, policies, and evaluations of this key challenge in the area.
Tracks of the Conference are :
Track B: Different Policies' Effects on Poverty Alleviation- B1: Trade, structural transformation and poverty reduction
- B2: Labor market policies to reduce poverty
- B3: Responsible business and poverty reduction
- B4: Different policies' effects on poverty alleviation
- P1: Wealth creation and economic inequality in Africa
- P2: Evolution and changes in social protection policies in the continent
- P3: Migration, poverty, social policy
- P4: : The role of media in addressing issues of poverty and inequality
- P5: Governance challenges and their impact on poverty and social policies
- G1: Girls' education and gender equity
- G2: Quality education and technologically-enhanced learning
- G3: Social mobility
- G4: Higher education
- H1: Gendering agency and economies in the Global South.
- H2: Resource sustainability in Africa
- H3: Economies of poverty and migration
- H4: The new politics of redistribution in Africa
- S1: Water-Energy-Food nexus and community empowerment for nutritional security
- S2: Poverty, health and the environment: Sanitation and air pollution and solutions
- S3: Disease bio-markers: Enabling technologies for disease and risk identification in poor Communities
- S4: Traditional medicine alternatives and new therapeutics
- S5: Holistic reorientation of research and education from curative to preventive
- S6: Architecture for the poor
- S7: Poverty in the digital world
For more information details please visit www1.aucegypt.edu/conferences/icrac/ Contact Info: Director,Research and Entrepreneurship initiatives Contact Email: shams.alBatrawy@aucegypt.edu URL: http://www1.aucegypt.edu/conferences/icrac/
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