Social Protection for Sustainable Development: Dialogues between Africa and Brazil
Resources - Author: Alessandra Casazza, Almudena Fernandez, Armando Barrientos, Awa Wade Sow, Bianca Suyama, Ibrahima Dia, Iván Guillermo González de Alba, Jorge Abrahão de Castro, Laura Hildebrandt, Laura Jungman, Layla Saad, Leisa Perch, Luciana Jaccoud, Luis Rodriguez, Maria Luiza Amaral Rizzotti, Mariana Santarelli, Mariana Stirbu, Renata Nowak-Garmer, Rômulo Paes-Sousa, Safiétou Ba Diop / Year: 2016
Making sustainable development a reality by 2030 will require a substantial transformation to be made to development practices. The significant increase in the number and quality of social protection systems throughout the Global South brings renewed hope and enthusiasm. In Africa, 48 countries have established flagship programmes, with more...
Read MoreMapping the Global Goals for Sustainable Development and the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Resources - Year: 2016
Introduction Aim. This interactive document aims to encourage an in-depth and broad-based exploration of the links and synergies between the Global Goals for Sustainable Development and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Background. It complements the 2-page document produced by UNICEF in January 2016 which presents preliminary...
Read MorePolicy Innovations for Transformative Change: Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Resources - Author: Dunja Krause, Ilcheong Yi, Katja Hujo, Pascal van Griethuysen, Peter Utting, Valeria Esquivel / Year: 2016
World leaders have committed to transform our world and to leave no one behind in the quest for sustainable development. What needs to happen now to enable the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to deliver on its transformative promise? Which policies and practices will lead to social, economic and...
Read MoreAfrica Regional Report on the Sustainable Development Goals
Resources - Year: 2015
This report presents Africa’s sustainable development priorities and goals, prepared under the framework of the Africa post-2015 consultations, and the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (“Rio+20”) follow-up processes. It is based on information gathered through consultations undertaken in the five subregions of Africa and from an extensive literature...
Read MoreBeyond Addis: Financing social protection in the 2030 Agenda
Expert commentaries - Date: 19 September 2016 / Author: Markus Kaltenborn
In 2015, both the Third International Conference on Financing for Development and the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit resulted in a renewed global commitment to development and poverty eradication. Following the Summit, the UN General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda) and the Sustainable Development...
Read MoreWorld Economic and Social Survey 2014/2015: Learning from national policies supporting MDG implementation
Resources - Year: 2016
The launching of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) at the dawn of this century ushered in one of the most important initiatives undertaken by the United Nations. The implementation of this initiative formally expired in 2015 and the world is now set to embrace the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable...
Read MoreGlobal Social Protection: New impetus from the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Resources - Author: Markus Kaltenborn / Year: 2015
The issue of social protection has undergone something of a renaissance in the development policy debate in recent years and has lately become a particular focus of interest for several international organizations, first and foremost the International Labour Organization with its Social Protection Floor Initiative. What’s more, promoting social...
Read MoreThe Sustainable Development Agenda: From Inspiration to Action
Resources - Author: Gabriele Köhler, Katja Hujo / Year: 2015
The SDGs stand a chance of hitting the ground running. Even before they are put before the UN General Assembly, politicians, policy makers, civil society, business and the media have been reacting positively to the new sustainable development agenda. The agenda is indeed to be welcomed. It responds to...
Read MoreSocial Inclusion, Poverty Eradication and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Resources - Author: Esuna Dugarova / Year: 2015
The concept of social inclusion, also referred to as social integration or social cohesion, represents a vision for “a society for all”, in which every individual, each with rights and responsibilities, has an active role to play (Report of the World Summit for Social Development, 1995). While various definitions...
Read MorePoverty, Inequality and Social Protection in Southeast Asia
Resources - Author: Jonathan Pincus, Sarah Cook / Year: 2014
Social protection is now widely accepted as encompassing a set of programmes designed to assist individuals and households in maintaining basic consumption and living standards when confronted by a range of contingencies across the life course (including ill-health, unemployment and old age). While often considered a luxury available only...
Read MoreThe post-2015 sustainable development agenda
Resources - Author: ILO / Year: 2013
This paper is intended to provide background information and suggest issues for discussion between the Governing Body and the panel members, which can inform and deepen the ILO’s strategy for the adoption of full and productive employment and decent work as an explicit goal of the global development agenda...
Read MoreA new global partnership: eradicate poverty and transform economies through sustainable development
Resources - Author: High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda / Year: 2013
As a continuity to the MDGs, this report presents a vision and a framework for the post-2015 Development Agenda. It first settles the priority transformations with five transformative shifts (leave no one behind, put sustainable development at the core, transform economies for jobs and inclusive growth, build peace and effective,...
Read MoreBuilding Decent Societies: Rethinking the Role of Social Security in Development
Resources - Author: Peter Townsend /
This book, edited by Peter Townsend, makes the case for a comprehensive social security system to be developed in all countries, including the poorest ones, in order to eliminate desperate conditions of poverty, to reverse growing inequality and to sustain economic growth. The establishment of universal social security systems...
Read MoreVideo: Why social protection in the post-2015 UN agenda?
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Video recording of an expert panel with Isabel Ortiz, Director Social Protection of the ILO, Keetie Roelen, Co-Director Centre for Social Protection at the Institute of Development Studies, Rudi Delarue, Deputy Head of Unit at DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission and Magdalena Sepúlveda, Senior...
Read MoreSocial Protection Floors in the Post-2015 Agenda. Targets and Indicators.
World Social Protection Report 2014/15: Building economic recovery, inclusive development and social justice
Resources - Author: ILO / Year: 2014
Social protection policies play a critical role in realizing the human right to social security for all, reducing poverty and inequality, and promoting inclusive growth – by boosting human capital and productivity, and by supporting domestic demand and structural transformation of national economies. This ILO flagship report provides a...
Read MoreFiscal Space for Social Protection: Options to Expand Social Investments in 187 Countries
Resources - Author: Isabel Ortiz, Kalaivani Karunanethy, Matthew Cummins / Year: 2015
It is often argued that social protection is not affordable or that government expenditure cuts are inevitable during adjustment periods. But there are alternatives, even in the poorest countries. This working paper offers an array of options that can be explored to expand fiscal space and generate resources for...
Read MoreReport on the importance of gender sensitive social protection systems in achieving the MDGs (A/65/259) submitted by the independent expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty
Resources - Author: Magdalena Sepúlveda / Year: 2010
Summary The present report highlights the importance of social protection measures in the Millennium Development Goals agenda. It also stresses that social protection measures designed, implemented and evaluated within the framework of a rights-based approach are more likely to ensure the achievement of the Goals and to result in...
Read MoreBrussels Conference on Social Protection after 2015
Isabel Ortiz, Director Social Protection of the ILO and UNRISD Senior Research Fellow Magdalena Sepúlveda participated in Post-2015: Social Protection for All, a conference hosted by the Belgium’s Federal Public Service in Brussels on 27 April. The meeting identified ways to ensure that a rights-based approach to social protection is an...
Read MoreSustainable Development Goals and the Case for a Developmental Welfare State
Expert commentaries - Date: 17 September 2014 / Author: Gabriele Köhler
Debates around a new development agenda that is to build on, but broaden, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are shifting into higher gear. The Open Working Group (OWG)—a group of more than 30 countries convened by the Rio Conference on Sustainable Development—recently presented its outcome document on sustainable development...
Read MoreA Rejoinder to ‘Pro-Poor and Pro-Development Transparency’
Expert commentaries - Date: 15 Apr 2014 / Author: Charles Lwanga-Ntale
Charles Lwanga-Ntale is the Regional Director and Special Adviser for East & Central Africa at Development Initiatives. A Rejoinder to ‘Pro-Poor and Pro-Development Transparency’ Issa Luna Pla’s article Pro-Poor and Pro-Development Transparency Laws and Policies makes well-founded points about the limited use of access to information laws by poor...
Read More2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and development assistance
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is expected to advocate for more inclusive and sustainable development objectives. In view of the key role for social protection for social and economic development, extending adequate social protection to all the population, is reflected in the post-2015 agenda. Social protection systems can...
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