Social Exclusion and Access to Social Protection schemes
Exclusion from social protection remains a significant challenge. This study, based on interviews with researchers and programme implementers in Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda, and a literature review and experience across many countries, explores factors behind this.
Tackling Mental Health: a FundaMental starting point
Everyone’s talking about mental health – particularly its effect on the world’s poorest countries. But what do we do about it? Where do we start? Jessica Mackenzie suggests four crucial steps.
Social Assistance in Vietnam: Review and Proposals for Reform
In recent decades, Vietnam’s social protection system has grown, but remains imbalanced, with most benefits continuing to reach the better-off, rather than the majority of the population. Social Assistance in...
The Social Protection Flaw – or how not to win fiscal space for entitlements
The many disadvantages to poverty-targeted social protection include the fact that they never become entitlements that attract popular demand and the financial backing of governments, writes Nicholas Freeland, independent consultant. Freeland highlights...
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...
How to Implement Inclusive Social Protection Schemes
The practical guidance How to Implement Inclusive Social Protection Schemes outlines the need for effective operational delivery to ensure the right amount of money is paid to the right person at...
How to Design Inclusive Social Protection Systems
The policy guide sets out a step-by-step process of extending coverage in order to realise the right to social security for all, citing a number of examples including Nepal, a low-income nation that introduced an old age pension for everyone aged 75 years and over and a scheme for widows aged 60 years.
Why We Need Social Protection
This e-learning guide, developed by UNESCAP with Development Pathways, raises awareness of the role social protection systems can play in tackling poverty.
Inclusive growth still not in reach as development gaps persist — study
Inclusive economic growth is the exception rather than the norm, findings from a new global study suggest. Those on the lowest incomes in countries around the world have seen less...
Social protection “critical” to Indonesia SDGs success for children, an analysis uncovers
The Government of Indonesia and UNICEF have released the first findings of an analysis of the nation’s likelihood of achieving the sustainable development goals for children. These identify that investment...