Conference and roadmap launch: Eradicating poverty beyond growth

Date: 22 April

Time: 9:00-18:30 CEST

Event type: Online and in-person at the International Labour Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland

IDEAs is a supporting partner of Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth: A Global Roadmap for a New Economy, a major international convening initiated by the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter.

Rethinking poverty eradication beyond economic growth

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?

A global dialogue for a new approach

As a contribution to the Global Coalition for Social Justice, the conference will convene leading experts 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.

Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa Regional Director for Research and Policy at IDEAs, is speaking for a session on Post-Growth as a Decolonial Project.

Launch of the Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth

The event will also mark the launch of the Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth, a collaborative effort by UN agencies, civil society, unions, and academic experts who have been working since 2024 to identify proposals that can achieve social progress and wellbeing without relying on perpetual economic growth.

Register to join in person or online, and be part of the conversation shaping how we eradicate poverty in the 21st century. Click here.