Securing child-sensitive social protection in Fiji
Fiji is one of the largest and most developed Pacific island countries. Yet, despite its status as a middle-income country, a high proportion of children live in poor and income-insecure...
SIDA’s event highlights lessons for progressive realisation of universal social protection to decrease inequality
In an event titled “Expanding social protection to decrease inequality,” Carin Jämtin, Director General of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), emphasised that “COVID-19 presents an opportunity for universal...
How can social protection safeguard children from climate change?
Our guest blogger, David Stewart, is Chief of Child Poverty and Social Protection at UNICEF Headquarters in New York. In his role, he leads UNICEF’s global advocacy on child poverty and social protection, including chairing the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty. While it’s hard to be precise, the world...
Towards A Universal and Inclusive Social Protection for the Children of Madagascar
Madagascar has seen sustained economic growth in recent years, hovering between 4 and 5 per cent since 2013. However, this growth has been far from inclusive. Madagascar ranks 161th out...
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,...
A Family Stimulus – Supporting Children, Families and the Economy through the Pandemic
“The UK has in place one of the least generous social security systems in the developed world” warns report titled: A Family Stimulus: Supporting children, families and the economy through the pandemic recently released by Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) in collaboration with Trades Union Congress (TUC).
The situation of children and young people in the Lebanese Crisis
This report on the progress and inequities in the realisation of rights of children and young people in Lebanon presents a gender-sensitive and equity-focused evidence base on the predicament of...
Implementing a Master Plan for Social Assistance Reform and Development
We were engaged to help Vietnam's plans to expand cash assistance to new groups of young children and older persons a reality.
Children on the frontline of the COVID and climate crisis: The urgent need to protect children from poverty with universal child benefits
By Yolande Wright We have many long-acknowledged duties to our children – to provide them with the best possible start in life and the hope for a bright future. In 2019, the World Bank estimated that nearly 60 per cent of children born today will be, at best, only half...
How has COVID-19 impacted Sri Lanka, and how could emergency universal lifecycle transfers help?
Development Pathways has been supporting UNICEF Sri Lanka to assess the coverage and effectiveness of existing social protection measures. This analysis serves as a basis for an ex-ante assessment of new policy proposals.