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?
Social registries: a short history of abject failure
This paper, which was written in partnership with Act Church of Sweden, examines the utility of the so-called "social registry" - a database that determines people's eligibility for welfare programs - within social protection.
Gates-for-all by the year 2025? Let us kick-start a Global Fund for Social Protection by crowdfunding
Our guest blogger, Michael Cichon, is the former Director of the ILO’s Social Security Department and led the creation of the Social Protection Floor. He is still actively engaged in providing advice on social security globally. At the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century, we still have...
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...
Training on the political economy of targeting social security programmes
The politics of social protection do not enjoy as much of the focus of donors and UN agencies as the economics. But an understanding of the distribution of power between...
Is the World Bank’s report on Universal Basic Income taking universality seriously?
The World Bank recently published a report on Universal Basic Income. In her comments, Gunnel Axelsson Nycander appreciates several aspects of the report, but also points at issues that are missing. The World Bank is not known for promoting universal social protection. Rather, it is seen as one of the...
Training to underpin the preparation of Uganda’s National Development Plans
There is a very strong rationale for Uganda to progressively increase its investment in social protection up to 2030 and beyond and that social protection should figure prominently in the...
New podcast: “Development from the Black Diaspora”
This week, the Pathways’ Perspective podcast team launched their latest episode “Development from the Black Diaspora”. The episode explores what it means to be a Black professional working in international development.
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...
Uganda’s Social Protection Sector Review launched at National Event
On 25 November 2020, the Government of Uganda launched the 2019 Social Protection Sector Review during a National Dialogue on Social Protection organised by the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Protection...