Anti-Social Registries: how a database excludes many from social protection
A craze sweeping the social protection world for Social Registries is systematically depriving some of the world’s poorest not only of social protection but also of access to vital services. So argues our...
Are you designing social protection schemes from a charity or a citizenship paradigm?
Social protection is not always beneficial and popular. A way of predicting whether a programme will have positive impacts and be supported by voters is to identify whether it falls...
New evidence on disability benefits will support UN push to include persons with disabilities
New evidence on the extent to which social protection schemes worldwide are disability-inclusive will support a UN push for disability benefits, according to the ILO. Stefan Trömel, a Senior Disability...
Social Accountability in the Delivery of Social Protection – Technical Guidance Note
This note offers guidance to social protection practitioners on how to strengthen social accountability in the delivery of social protection.
Looking afresh at social protection programmes, with a human rights lens
Using a human rights lens to look at how cash transfer programmes are designed and implemented brings a number of considerations into view that would otherwise go unseen. A crucial one is that human rights principles should form an integral part of the key processes of cash transfer programmes and...
Government of Uganda outlines information and communication technology role in development plans
The Government of Uganda is outlining a vision for how information and communications technology (ICT) can underpin the nation’s development at a conference in Kampala. The Ministry of ICT & National Guidance...
Extent of World Bank’s poverty-targeting demands laid bare in civil society analysis
The World Bank pushes for more poverty-targeting in most of its loan conditions on social protection even whilst acknowledging the downsides to this means of selecting beneficiaries, a new analysis...
The two lives of social protection: the tale of cash transfers and social security
Here’s a curious tale about two very different forms of social protection: one is much loved by researchers, the media and donors, but its charms are debatable; the other is too often shunned by academia, commentators and funders despite holding greater promise and staying-power. We could call them ‘cash transfers’...
Routes to social protection for informal economy workers mapped out, as Pathways offers a way
Social protection coverage of the world’s 2bn informal economy workers must be improved by ensuring that social insurance systems are adapted to their needs, according to a new report from the OECD and the...
The IMF admits “narrow focus on poverty targeting,” but workers see “no clear change in policy”
The IMF has acknowledged it has had an “overly narrow focus on means-tested targeting” in social protection and that life-cycle benefits have some advantages. The details of the new IMF social...