SARChI Chair in Social Policy

SARChI Chair in Social Policy Invites you to the 2025 Thandika Mkandawire Memorial Lecture.   Join Us Via the Link Below (Microsoft Teams)   Short link – tinyurl.com/Thandika-2025

You are invited to the 2024 Thandika Mkandawire Memorial Lecture. Date: Thursday, 10 October 2024. Time: 3.00 p.m. (Central African Time) / 1.00 p.m. (UTC) The memorial lecture will be delivered by Professor Tade Akin Aina.   Microsoft Team Link: bit.ly/TM-Memorial-Le….

Asante sana - thank you 🙏🏾 to all who attended the 2024 Social Policy in Africa (#SPiA) conference. Appreciative thanks to the keynote speakers and session chairs.

#SPiA discussions on: - Social Policy in post-pandemic Mauritius: Lessons for Africa. - Analysing social policy in Kenya post COVID19: Missed opportunities at critical junctures. - Rethinking Social Policy in post COVID19 Africa: The nexus of social policy and development.

Robust conversations taking place at the Social Policy in Africa (#SPiA) conference.

Dr Ilcheong Yi, from the UN Research Institute for Social Development (@UNRISD) is our closing keynote speaker at the Social Policy in Africa (#SPiA) conference. He spoke on "New Directions in Social Policy and Alternative Economies: Lessons from and for Developing Countries."

In line with the 2024 #SPiA conference theme, researchers are discussing the following topics in break away sessions. - Informal Social Policy and the Post COVID-19 Pandemic - Education Under COVID-19 Pandemic - Post-COVID Healthcare - Gender, the Pandemic, and Beyond

• Micro-Pensions and the Calculus of Informality in Nigeria: Disrupting Precarious Financialization from Below. • Whose Money? Digital Remittances, Mon=bile Money and Fintech in Ghana. (2/2) #SPiA @sarchisp

Interesting and insightful contributions coming out of the #SPiA conference on social policy issues in Africa. @sarchisp

The first plenary session is on the Governance of Africa’s Social Policy. You can join the #SPiA session online ➡️ bit.ly/SPiA-CONFERENC… @sarchisp

Prof Dzodzi Tsikata from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, UK🇬🇧 is our keynote speaker. Her keynote address is on the "States of Unlearning: Social Contracts During and After the #COVID19 Pandemic in Africa". Join #SPiA conference➡️bit.ly/SPiA-CONFERENC…

Gone, yet always here, as your ideas still remain vividly fresh and indisoluble. Today we commemorate the 8th anniversary since the departure of Prof. Sam Moyo, a distinguished academic giant. We say continue to rest in Power, our Prof. Your legacy lives on.

Pardon the title but appreciate that for the first time in a while some media houses are beginning to report in a balanced manner…yours is to analyze and determine what you make of this? 💻📚😜😂 ⁦@unisa⁩ iol.co.za/news/education…

Join us at the 2024 Social Policy in Africa Conference. Theme: "Social Policy in Post-Covid-19 Africa". - Abstract Submission: bit.ly/46FOH5O - Panel Proposal Submission: sarchisp@unisa.ac.za. - Conference Call Document and Thematic Areas: bit.ly/3tAheeI.

REMINDER: Invitation to a SARChI Chair in Social Policy Webinar. Thursday, 01 December 2022 — 11.00 - 12.30 (CAT). Join the webinar on Microsoft Teams: bit.ly/3H7lYxt.

REMINDER: Invitation to SARChI Chair in Social Policy Webinar. Thursday, 01 December 2022 — 11.00 - 12.30 (CAT). Join the webinar on Microsoft Teams: bit.ly/3H7lYxt.

REMINDER: Invitation to a SARChI Chair in Social Policy Research Webinar. Friday, 25 November 2022 — 11.00-12.30. Join the Webinar on Microsoft Teams: bit.ly/3Gnn1bQ.

REMINDER: Invitation to the next session in the SARChI Chair in Social Policy webinar series: Thursday, 10 November 2022, at 11.00 (SAST). Join the Webinar on Microsoft Teams:bit.ly/3sL5rXu.