Social protection training course in Uganda receives positive feedback from participants
This month, Development Pathways provided a training course to support the implementation of the National Social Protection Policy in Uganda, receiving excellent feedback from participants. The training was implemented within...
Development Pathways social protection training course a great success
Development Pathways launched a brand-new training course, ‘Inclusive Social Protection: Making the Case’, in Naivasha, Kenya. This exciting and comprehensive course was entirely organised and facilitated by Development Pathways, with modules led by our very own social protection specialists and other global experts.
Focus on inequality beyond income and averages: global launch of the 2019 Human Development Report
On December 9th Alexandra Barrantes attended the UNDP launch of the 2019 Human Development Report (HDR), titled Beyond income, beyond averages, beyond today: Inequalities in human development in the 21st century in Bogota, Colombia.
Why are human rights considerations fundamental to inclusive and lifecycle social protection systems?
Senior Social Protection Specialist Alexandra Barrantes delves into the importance of a human rights-based approach to Social Protection, framing social protection debates and policy decisions around entitlements rather than charity or handouts.
Launch of the new Pathways’ Perspective: The Podcast
This week, Development Pathways launched an exciting, new series, Pathways’ Perspectives: The Podcast. Each episode is an expert on expert conversation – a discussion between practitioners on a variety of...
Special Rapporteur cites universal social protection as essential in eradicating poverty
A new report has been submitted by Philip Alston, the former United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. Alston warns that states and global organisations are “completely off track” to meet the Sustainable Development Goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030.
Can you picture the right to social security?
By Alexandra Barrantes (Development Pathways), and Anna Bulman and Ria Singh Sawhney (Picture Human Rights) Development Pathways and Picture Human Rights have collaborated on a new mini-series on the human right to social security that seeks to demonstrate, through illustration, the importance of framing social protection debates and policy...
Welfare States, Rights and Basic Income in Latin America
The publication, co-edited and co-authored by Development Pathways’ Senior Social Policy Specialist Alexandra Barrantes, seeks to introduce some of the key debates around the expansion and impact of conditional cash transfers (CCTs) and social justice, in the context of Latin America’s structurally unequal countries.
Standing in the Sun: Human Rights Abuses in the Name of Financial Inclusion
This blog was originally written for Financial Inclusion Week and was published by the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion. To read the original blog, click here. By Sarina Kidd & Sarah Langhan. Human rights abuses by payment service providers need to come to an end in order for financial inclusion...
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...