Aimed to examine family oriented policies and strategies concerning poverty, work-family balance, social integration, and intergenerational solidarity.

This expert group meeting is titled “Confronting family poverty and social exclusion, ensuring work-family balance and advancing social integration and intergenerational solidarity in Europe”

The preparations for the anniversary focused on reviewing family-oriented policies and strategies aiming mainly at confronting family poverty; ensuring work-family balance and advancing social integration and intergenerational solidarity. The preparatory process is to accelerate progress in family policy development; demonstrate its relevance for overall development efforts, and draw attention to the role of member states and other stakeholders in achieving these goals.

The approaching anniversary offers an opportunity to share good practices in family policy-making and use successful policies and programmes as benchmarks that can be adapted to local norms and socioeconomic conditions in different countries.

Background materials

• Introduction
• Agenda
• Statement by Her Excellency Noor Al Malki
• Recommendations
• List of participants

Papers

• Leave arrangements in Europe: Major trends, challenges and policy issues by Fred Deven PhD.
• Improving intergenerational relationship focusing on parents’ relationship quality: family break-up and parental conflict by Anna Garriga
• The Case Method as a tool to help parenting, family communication and stability by Alonso Gil Casares
• Family change, child well-being and social inequality by Juho Härkönen
• Work, fertility and the transition to parenthood: Trends and their impact on work and family agenda by Dimiter Philipov
• Integration of family policies responses and shared responsibilities by Lorenza Rebuzzini
• Good practices in anti-poverty family-focused policies and programmes in developed countries by Dominic Richardson
• Prevention and development of human skills in the family by Silvana Tiani Brunelli

_{The views expressed in these papers or presentations are the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of, and should not be attributed to, the Doha International Family Institute}