Black Lives Matter – in social protection and international development
25/06/2020
Our blogger, Stephen Kidd, is a Senior Social Policy Specialist at Development Pathways. The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has highlighted the systemic racism that is deeply embedded within the attitudes and institutions of rich nations. While the immediate focus has been on police brutality, institutional discrimination permeates both public...
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Grasping a more equal future — understanding age and gender in social protection
Our guest blogger, Dr. Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed, is a Gender and Development Manager (Research) for the Gender-Responsive and Age-Sensitive Social Protection (GRASSP) research programme at UNICEF Office of Research—Innocenti. Zahrah works in the area of gender and women’s economic empowerment, the care economy, and social protection. As we hurtle towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals deadline, governments are accelerating investments in both social protection and gender equality. This presents an...
24/06/2020
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Are we drifting away from a human rights approach to development?
Our blogger, Abdul Alim, is Regional Social Policy Advisor for UNICEF South Asia. Abdul is committed to Human Rights, Equity and human development as an end in itself. As an expert working in international development for over two decades, I was recently rudely shocked when during a conference call I noticed...
10/06/2020
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The case for universal social protection is more self-evident than ever
Our blogger, Shahra Razavi, is the director of the Social Protection Department at the International Labour Organization (ILO). This blog was originally written for the Social Protection Department at the ILO, you can read the original blog here. The idea that societies can be secure by relying on individualised market-based provision for those who can afford...
02/06/2020
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Economic recovery begins with children (and older people, and people with disabilities): The urge for universal lifecycle cash transfers as a response to COVID-19
This blog was originally written for socialprotection.org and can be found here. Our guest blogger, Louise Moreira Daniels, is Chief of Social Policy at UNICEF Sri Lanka. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a perfect storm of crises in countries around the world: exports have fallen dramatically; some specific sectors, like the tourism industry,...
15/05/2020
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The global ravages of NOFUD-28
Our blogger, Nicholas Freeland, is an independent consultant in social protection and a Senior Associate of Development Pathways. Nicholas is a frequent contributor of blogs and papers for Development Pathways. COVID-19 is dangerous. But it is nowhere near as dangerous as having No Food to Eat (NOFUD-28). In the five months...
13/05/2020
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Now, more than ever, human rights considerations are vital for social protection responses to COVID-19
This blog was originally written for The Global Initiative For Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Read the original blog here. Our blogger, Alexandra Barrantes, is a Senior Social Policy Specialist for Development Pathways. Never has the need for a human rights-based approach to Social Protection been more urgent as in times of COVID-19. This...
01/05/2020
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7 ways technology can help the social protection response to COVID-19
Our blogger, Richard Chirchir, is a Director and Senior Management Information System Specialist for Development Pathways. As the COVID-19 pandemic rages like a wild inferno at a global scale, humanity is neck-deep in responding with every resource, instrument, policy and strategy that is at its disposal. We have all witnessed...
21/04/2020
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COVID-19: are we all in the same boat?
Our blogger, Alexandra Barrantes, is a Senior Social Policy Specialist for Development Pathways. National debates around social protection and welfare provision have long been permeated by the discourse on deservingness, dividing the scene between high and middle-income earners (the yacht owners and cruise goers) who “contribute” to society through...
16/04/2020
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COVID-19’s total burden of disease extends beyond those who get sick, and this has potentially deadly consequences for women and girls.
This guest blog was written by Julia Zulver, Tara Patricia Cookson, Lorena Fuentes, Alejandra Vera and Jackeline Alba from Ladysmith. A team of feminist researchers guided by the principle “no research about us, without us,” they help international organisations collect, analyse and take action on gender data. Governments around the...
06/04/2020
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