Daisy Sibun

Social Protection Specialist

Daisy is a Social Protection Specialist with experience in supporting governments and other stakeholders to advocate for, design and implement inclusive social protection systems globally. She is currently based in Suva within the Government of Fiji’s Ministry of Women, Children and Social Protection, to support the government with an ambitious social protection reform agenda – including digitising social protection and developing a new beneficiary management system – to make it easier for government to deliver and beneficiaries to access social protection. In her spare time, she enjoys travelling and learning about other countries, yoga and spending time in the ocean!

Daisy Sibun's Work

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New article features in German journal

Development Pathways Social Policy Specialist, Daisy Sibun, has written an article now featuring in the German journal, Welternaerhung.

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Social Security: a pillar of inclusive growth for Kenya? – Executive summary

This study rigorously investigates the relationship between social security and growth, and models returns to GDP from an investment in expanded coverage of universal social security in Kenya.

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Legislative and Policy Coherence on the Extension of Social Security Coverage in Jordan

The overall objective of this report is to identify options to strengthen legislative and policy coherence on the extension of social security in Jordan through an in-depth analysis of the national legal and policy frameworks.

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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...

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Can a leopard change its spots? Executive summary

Daisy Sibun is the author of ‘Can a leopard change its spots? A critical analysis of the World Bank’s ‘progressive universalism’ approach to social protection’. This is an executive summary...

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Can a leopard change its spots? A critical analysis of the World Bank’s ‘progressive universalism’ approach to social protection

Daisy Sibun is the author of ‘Can a leopard change its spots? A critical analysis of the World Bank’s ‘progressive universalism’ approach to social protection’. The paper critically analyses the...

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Inclusive social security and the social contract

'Inclusive social security and the social contract: overcoming instability and building trust in the MENA region' is a working paper produced as part of the Ford Foundation funded Inclusive Social Security Policy Forum.

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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”.

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Tackling the COVID-19 social and economic crisis in Bangladesh: Providing universal, lifecycle social security transfers to protect lives and bolster economic recovery

This paper is the summary report of a study commissioned by UNICEF Bangladesh to assess the economic fall-out of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh, evaluate the Government’s social protection response to the crisis and propose an alternative social protection package to protect citizens and promote economic recovery.

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Social Protection and Disability in India

This paper is one of seven country case studies produced as part of the former DFID-financed study Leaving no-one behind: How social protection can help people with disabilities move out of extreme poverty.

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What has the Covid-19 crisis taught us about social protection?

In our latest Pathways Perspective, Stephen Kidd and Daisy Sibun reflect on some of the key lessons we have learnt about social protection in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis.

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Webinar from the IAFFE reflects on COVID-19 from a feminist economist perspective

Daisy Sibun reflects on observations and opinions made by speakers during a webinar hosted by the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE)  titled “Feminist Economics Perspectives on COVID-19″. The COVID-19...

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