Single Registries and Social Registries: Clarifying the Terminological Confusion
Development Pathways is pleased to share our latest Pathways’ Perspective, Single Registries and Social Registries: Clarifying the Terminological Confusion, by Richard Chirchir and Shez Farooq. Richard Chirchir and Shez Farooq seek...
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...
Tackling exclusion, pensions progress, citizen action: a year in review
2017 has been a busy year for Development Pathways. We have redoubled our efforts to share the experience and knowledge we have gained working on building the strategies and systems needed to ensure evidence-led, inclusive programmes that realise human rights. Our most-read resources reflect the evidence we have provided on the...
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.
Integrating social assistance systems in China
It’s a challenging task to deliver social assistance in an inclusive way. Countries need accurate and reliable information to make sure that they reach the people who need support. But how...
Social registry…or regular sophistry
By Nicholas Freeland Stephen Kidd’s recent paper sets out very clearly the problems associated with the use to which social registries are commonly put: poverty targeting of social assistance, primarily through proxy means testing. I agree with many of his misgivings. But I have an even more fundamental concern about the concept of a “social registry”: what is it intended to...
Join our events this autumn
As the autumn leaves start to fall and summer winds down in the UK, our team are doing anything but winding down! Over the coming weeks, we are busy speaking...
Dialogues on universal social security
In this blog, Gunnel Axelsson Nycander reflects on the ongoing debate between universal and poverty-targeted social security systems. She highlights recent efforts to promote universal benefits, particularly through discussions with global institutions and policymakers, and emphasises the viability of such systems even in low- and middle-income countries. Maybe things are...