National Social Protection Strategy for Sierra Leone 2022-2026
The National Social Protection Strategy outlines the Sierra Leone’s strategic priority areas for 2022-2026, to meet the policy objectives laid out in the National Social Protection Policy (NSPP). First, it...
Three reasons community-based targeting is a threat to social stability
Guest blogger Kia Howson shares why using community-based targeting to define who receives social security can come at a price for many. The number of conflict-affected countries has more than doubled over the last decade.[1] Many low- and middle- income countries are unable to respond to the multitude of challenges they...
An affordable and feasible pathway to universal social security
This paper explains why using universality – social security for everyone within a population category – is more successful than other approaches in implementing social security schemes. The study demonstrates...
Sierra Leone adopts a lifecycle approach to social protection in its new strategy
Sierra Leone’s government has launched its new multi-year National Social Protection Strategy.
The hidden costs of opaque targeting – rethinking aid allocation in Lebanon and beyond
Chloé de Soye and Cynthia Saghir Drawing on field insights and research, this blog examines how the opaque Proxy Means Test (PMT) in Lebanon’s Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) system fuels misinformation, mistrust, and social tensions across both Lebanese and Syrian communities. It argues that targeting is not just a...
Inclusive benefits for Kenya’s deaf community
In part 2 of the blog series on social protection for persons with disabilities in Kenya, Dennis zeroes in on the importance of access to healthcare and social services to strengthen the deaf community in Kenya, while also advocating for an inclusive social protection programme with strong disability benefits that span the lifecycle.
New article features in German journal
Development Pathways Social Policy Specialist, Daisy Sibun, has written an article now featuring in the German journal, Welternaerhung.
Child benefits in the US — For children here, there, and everywhere
By Dominic Richardson, David Harris, Shea McClanahan and Ian Orton Imagining a post-post Washington Consensus – child benefits in the US offer hope for bolder action for children around the world As part of recent COVID-19-related legislation, the US Government has committed to provide a quasi-universal child benefit (an affluence-tested...
Could the Who’s Who Agree on What’s What? Reflections on the Universal Child Grants (*aka* UCB ) Conference
Shea McClanahan Conference organisers can be congratulated for bringing together some of the most influential and up-and-coming thinkers and practitioners in social protection for last week’s International Conference on Universal Child Grants in Geneva. Top minds from international organisations and entities exchanged ideas with key national policymakers, practitioners, consultants and...