This session navigates emerging trends of how the climate crisis can multiply threats to children and their protection by drawing insights from the following three studies.

This panel event focuses on strengthening anti-discriminatory safeguarding and care planning for children from minoritised and racialised communities.

Across Ukraine, families are living with daily uncertainty. Freezing temperatures, power cuts, and ongoing bombardment place a huge strain on parents and caregivers, as well as on frontline responders. People in Ukraine experienced only four days last year without drone or missile attacks.

This session, during Dasra Philanthrophy Week, brings together thought leaders, policymakers, funders, and civil society actors to reflect on where children are being missed, why risks go unidentified, and how systems can be strengthened. Drawing from policy, practice, and lived realities, the conversation will explore how early identification and cross-sector coordination can enable stronger and more timely child protection responses.

For at least the last decade, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has increasingly been seen as a possible answer to how to make public services more efficient.

For at least the last decade, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has increasingly been seen as a possible answer to both how to make public services more efficient and a way to improve decision-making to lead to better outcomes for people needing support.

Whether we always know it or not, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a now an element of many of the digital and electronic tools many of us use every day in our professional and personal lives.

The rapid scale-up of immigration enforcement operations in the United States throughout 2025 has resulted in the termination of legal status, detention, and deportation for hundreds of thousands of immigrants.

Date: Tuesday, 16 December 2025

Start time: 0800 New York / 1300 London / 1400 Geneva / 2100 Manila (90 mins) 

Date: Thursday, December 4, 2025