Shocks come in a wide range of forms: exogenous macroeconomic shocks such as severe food and commodity price fluctuations; sudden shocks ranging from homicides to landslides, to conflict and epidemics; and slower onset shocks such as climate change. Governments need to be resilient to them all, especially as countries which are experiencing one are more vulnerable to the impacts of other types. This track is focused on how governments can address sudden onset shocks while also dealing with macroeconomic fluctuations. The aim is to explore how new data sources and analytical approaches can help reduce community and individual exposure, and enhance people’s ability to adapt.
Disruptors to development
- Progress in the face of multiple shocks
- Conflict, food insecurity and migration
The first session in the track focuses on economic crises and violence as disruptors, and on their wide-reaching effects on physical safety, food security, population movement, and human development broadly. In a high-level panel discussion, experts will discuss these issues, alongside a ‘data dive’ that enables participants to engage directly with data on the experiences of those fleeing armed conflicts, and a policy simulation game.
Disruptors to development
- Utilizing the latest technology to transform safety nets and social protection
- Data and technology in humanitarian crises
The second session of the track focuses on the potential and pitfalls of new technologies to rewire the responses of governments, donors and civil society organisations, including new generations of early warning systems and safety nets. In this track, through diverse approaches – a plenary discussion, policy simulation and data dive – participants will analyse the requirements, risks and rewards of leveraging new data sources and technologies to provide more timely and targeted assistance and support.
