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...
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...
Mark your Calendars! The launch of DP’s Online Course on Inclusive Social Protection
We are very proud to announce that Development Pathways has launched its Online Course on Inclusive Social Protection: Making the Case which will take place from 1 March to 7 May 2021.
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...
Improving global monitoring of the achievement of the SDGs for persons with disabilities
There are considerable monitoring efforts to determine overall worldwide progress towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development goals. But there remains a significant evidence gap regarding the progress of persons...
New podcast: “Universal social security and the social contract”
The latest episode of the Pathways’ Perspective: The Podcast is out this week, with a discussion on universal social security and the social contract.
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”.