Upgrading a social assistance MIS and linking social protection programmes with a Single Registry
Uganda’s social protection sector is characterised by a large number of fragmented and uncoordinated interventions with a wide variety of different management information systems (MISs). There was a need to...
How effective are pension systems in ensuring a minimum income in old age? An index to measure global progress
Our Social Policy Specialist, Anh Tran, has gathered data from a range of sources to provide a snapshot of the world’s pension systems in terms of their ability to guarantee the old age population a minimum pension.
Expanding Social Protection in Uganda by implementing a pilot and making the case
We were contracted to carry out a long-term project to build a comprehensive national social protection system, playing an integral role in building political support for a more cohesive system.
Securing smooth operations across social protection programmes
Our assignment was to ensure that existing databases and systems for a number of cash transfers was consolidated into one integrated system for efficient and effective programme operations.
Looking into the impacts of the Inua Jamii Senior Citizens’ Programme in Kenya
With the aim of contributing to the existing body of evidence on the impacts of social pension schemes, a research team from Development Pathways comprising Anh Tran, Sarina Kidd and Madeleine Cretney are conducting a multi-year qualitative research study in the community of Lolkeringet, in Nandi County, Kenya.
Africa’s rapidly ageing population is in need of social protection, yet it continues to be largely overlooked
Our blogger, Madeleine Cretney, is a Social Policy Officer at Development Pathways. Africa may currently be the youngest continent in the world, but the growth of its older population this century will outstrip that of any other region. According to a 2019 UN report on population ageing, the continent will see a three-fold increase in the number...
Why we need to prioritise universal pensions for women
On International Women’s Day 2021, let’s think about pensions. Why? Women around the world still face highly unequal access to a minimum income in old age.
New report highlights the urgency, viability and positive impacts of social pensions in a rapidly ageing world
By Cherian Mathews, CEO of HelpAge International Around the world, populations are ageing at a pace and nowhere more so than in Asia-Pacific, where, by 2050, one in four people will be over the age of 60. Longer lives undoubtedly are a triumph of development, but these seismic changes also...