UBI Piloters Network
Newsletter 1 - August '23
The Catalan UBI pilot project: towards universality and sufficiency
Aida Martínez Tinaut from the Catalan’s UBI pilot project has shared the design of the Catalan pilot, an ambitious pilot which assesses two less commonly explored concepts of UBI, using innovative methodologies.
Campaigners publish plan for first basic income pilots in England.
Cleo Goodman, from Autonomy, has shared a detailed plan for the first ever Universal Basic Income (UBI) pilots in England.
WorkFREE conducts a roundtable titled ‘Basic Income in Reality’ to share midline findings from the project.
The WorkFREE pilot in India brings together scholars, activists and civil society institutions from India and the UK to pilot ‘UBI+’ in four informal settlements in inner-city Hyderabad, India. UBI+ combines universal basic income (UBI) and needs-focused, participatory community organising in order to support people to increase their power to meet their needs. Vibhor Mathur from WorkFREE shares news on the data collection, which has culminated in a series of upcoming press features, as well as the brochure below. Plans are currently underway for a national level conference, as well as targeted meetings with more political parties and bureaucrats from Telangana and beyond.
Impact of Guaranteed Income on Health, Finances, and Agency: Findings from the Stockton Randomized Controlled Trial
Amy Castro shares ‘Impact of Guaranteed Income on Health, Finances, and Agency: Findings from the Stockton Randomized Controlled Trial’.
Recurring cash transfers to enhance the mental wellbeing of Americans
Amy Castro shares ‘Recurring cash transfers to enhance the mental wellbeing of Americans.’
A Basic Income experiment for one year: €800 per month to be raffled off
Initiator of UBI4ALL, Helwig Fenner, shares insight into how their project which raffles off 800 Euros a month “adds real life experiences to the endless theoretical debates about Basic Income and so makes it touchable.”
Transforming Lives: Ontario’s Basic Income Journey.
Tom Cooper, director of the Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction in Canada, sheds light on the vast potential that the Ontario Basic Income Pilot could have harnessed, if it hadn’t been abruptly terminated.
Implementing the Pledge: Compton Report
Nika Soon-Shiong, executive director of Fund for Guaranteed Income shares new report which describes the process of administering their two-year long flagship program- Compton Pledge.
Making People-Powered UBI a reality: Circles Coop
Circles Coop unveil the astounding strides they have taken since their groundbreaking Berlin Open Pilot, including creating an online marketplace.
The CLARISSA Social Protection (SP) intervention
Keetie Roelen describes the new CLARISSA Social Protection (SP) intervention, a pilot based in principles of basic income with the aim to trial and evidence an innovative social policy intervention for tackling poverty, improving wellbeing, and addressing worst forms of child labour (WFCL). Implemented over a two-year period from 2021 to 2023 in a slum area in urban Dhaka, Bangladesh, it is a universal and unconditional cash plus programme. It combines a monthly cash transfer with intensive community support and case work, and includes more than 1,500 households. The programme is implemented by Terre des hommes (TDH) in Bangladesh as part of the Child Labour Action Research in South and South East Asia consortium, led by the Institute of Development Studies.
Poverty Unpacked podcast episode
Keetie Roelen shares an episode of the "Poverty Unpacked" podcast, focusing on answering the question: Can basic income rewrite the narrative about poverty? The episode includes Sarath Davala's insights on the Hyderabad pilot and Melody Valdes' valuable experiences from the pilot conducted in Boston, US.Listen to the podcast here.
Update from Just Income Gainesville
Our pilot year of disbursements finished in February, but our research is ongoing. Some preliminary info can be found on our Impact page. We are currently in the fundraising and design phases for our next iteration to launch next year. We have also developed an e-learning platform that highlights the role a guaranteed income can play in the lives of formerly incarcerated people. We are featured in a documentary about several guaranteed income programs that will be premiering in June.
The ReCivitas Institute- Quatinga Velho and NEPAS.
Bruna Augusto from ReCivitas Institute highlights how the creation of NEPAS (Nucleus for Studies and Research in Social Action) has marked a pivotal step in ReCivitas' ongoing work on Basic Income in Quatinga Velho, Brazil.
