Moving beyond charity in the SWANA region – the time is now for a new social contract
Is it time for a new social contract based on universal social protection in the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region?
Turning the COVID-19 crisis into an opportunity: what is next for social protection?
This week, Socialprotection.org launched a virtual conference titled: Turning the COVID-19 crisis into an opportunity: what is next for social protection?
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Shelter from the Storm: The global need for social protection in times of COVID-19
Today marks the release of Oxfam International’s report “Shelter from the Storm: The global need for social protection in times of COVID-19”.
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...
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...