UBI Piloters Network
Newsletter 9- April '24
CLARISSA Preliminary Findings
The CLARISSA cash plus pilot, which combined universal and unconditional cash transfers plus case work and community development support across an entire Dhaka neighbourhood, has just released its preliminary findings. You can download the short summary here and get in touch with Neil Howard for more info: n.p.howard@bath.ac.uk
Launch of Indian Basic Income Coalition (iBIC)
While India is a rich site of several Basic Income Pilots held by Research and Governmental agencies, there is a recent uptrend in the number of cash-based social policies in several states, especially with evidence that shows a marked increase in several indicators of a better life. The time has come in India when the discussion on Basic Income in India is to be taken to the next level. In this context, the Indian Basic Income Coalition (iBIC) was launched in a landmark initiative to craft a resilient and inclusive social policy framework for India as a pioneering coalition formed by Indus Action, the India Network for Basic Income, Project DEEP, and WorkFREE. The launch took place at the UBI Policy Roundtable in New Delhi at Sri Aurobindo College of Arts and Communication in New Delhi on 13 March 2024.
Launch and strategic engagement of the Universal Basic Income Coalition in South Africa.
Following the launch of the Universal Basic Income Coalition (UBIC) in South Africa late last year, member organizations represented in the coalition met in Cape Town between March 5th and 7th for their strategic planning session. Comprised of civil society groups such as #PaytheGrants, Black Sash, Alternative Information Development Centre (AIDC), Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ), Youth-Lab, Women in Farms, Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), Social Policy Institute (SPI), Parliamentary Monitoring Group (PMG) and the Basic Income earth Network (BIEN) Africa Hub. Being an election year in South Africa, the topic of a basic income grant is fast becoming an issue for political engagement and a rallying point for the basic income movement.
Group photo with coalition members present during the strategic planning session in Cape Town, South Africa.
Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) conference
The Basic Income Guarantee Conference (BIG!) is the only annual conference in the U.S. focused on building and supporting the thriving basic income movement as we drive towards national policy. The BIG Conference is a BIG TENT event that includes pilot participants, policy analysts, pilot administrators, community based organizations, activists, artists, researchers and more as we share wins and best practices and find opportunities for collaboration across existing efforts and coordinate for state and national level campaigns. This year’s BIG programming is co-designed by over 200 individuals. Sessions will focus on topics prioritized by the community, including: paying for and scaling existing programs with public funds, developing post-pilot strategies across the pillars of the movement, building the base via community centered practices, intersectional justice work and the role of basic income in some of the most pressing issues of our time, including climate change and AI proliferation.
Join us on July 21-22 for this exciting, fun, two day event!
Message from Basic Income PhD Network:
We are an international group of PhD students interested in questions surrounding basic income. And we are very happy to announce a new initiative: the UBI PhD Network. Our goal is to connect young researchers working on UBI (and closely related topics) internationally. We aim to provide a platform for people to meet, have exchanges with like-minded researchers, and discuss their work.
The network is not bound to any academic institution and is run by PhD students for PhD students. However, we are supported by BIEN and plan to become a proper BIEN affiliate once our network is fully established. There will be a meeting at the next BIEN congress in Bath at the end of August for PhD students to get more information and discuss how to move this project forward. For now, we are launching an email list so we can communicate with each other. If you wish to join, you can fill out the application through this link: https://forms.gle/hg7TrKGmuEF7WSmU8. Please note, this email list is for internal purposes only and will not be shared with other organisations.
If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at ubiphdnetwork@gmail.com.
Annual BIEN Conference
The annual Basic Income Earth Network Conference is being held in Bath this year between August 29th and 31st 2024. Please see here for the call for papers.
UBI4ALL announces 6th Basic Income raffle
It is the second global raffle (the first four raffles were limited to people residing in Europe). Everyone aged 16 years minimum is eligible to participate, registration is free, of course. The winner will receive €9,600 which will be paid in monthly instalments of €800. The raffle pot is filled by crowdfunding only. A big thank you to all donors, especially the so called UBI Beaver who are monthly donors.
The UBI4ALL community is now at more than 45,000 people worldwide. The goal of the raffles is to let the people experience Unconditional Basic Income and so add real life stories to the debates.