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Pension Watch: Social Protection in Older Age

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HelpAge is an international network of organisations dedicated to achieving the right to social security so that all people can enjoy a dignified and secure older age. Pension Watch supports this aim by working towards universal pension coverage in developing countries. Our team of social protection experts engage with...

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The Atlas of Social Protection Indicators of Resilience and Equity (ASPIRE)

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The Social Protection and Labor (SPL) Global Practice is committed to develop and update a comprehensive set of comparable and accessible indicators to help measure SPL system performance. This portal provides harmonized indicators to describe the country context where SPL program operate and to analyze performance of social assistance,...

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Inclusive Social Protection Toolbox (GIZ)

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Persons with disabilities have the same rights as everyone else to protection from basic social and economic risks and to access appropriate services, regardless of their disability or gender. This website helps give you the tools to design inclusive social protection...

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Overseas Development Institute Social Protection Programme

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Here is a link to the ODI’s social protection programme. You will find reports, policy briefs, information about events, and commentaries. Main themes include: Vulnerable groups, social development and social protection, Social protection and economic development, The politics of social protection, Social protection and safety nets in risks, shocks,...

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Development Pathways

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Development Pathways is a growing consultancy firm specializing in social policy in international development. The company brings together a group of international development practitioners – and an expanding network of consultants – with extensive experience of working on social protection, social development, management information systems, gender and social inclusion...

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ILO Social Protection Platform

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The Social Protection Platform is the International Labour Office’s global knowledge sharing tool to extend social protection. The platform aims to facilitate the exchange of information and ideas, capture and document experiences, identify knowledge gaps and facilitate the creation of knowledge through the promotion of innovation. To achieve this goal, the...

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Universal Human Rights Index

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The Universal Human Rights Index provides easy access to country-specific human rights information emanating from international human rights mechanisms in the United Nations system: the Treaty Bodies, the Special Procedures and the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Link to this...

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Social Assistance in Developing Countries Database

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Inventory of social protection measures in developing countries that aims to provide evidence on the availability and effectiveness of various programmes. Prepared by Armando Barrientos, Rebecca Holmes and James Scott for the Brooks World Poverty Institute, The University of Manchester and the Overseas Development Institute (August 2008). Link to...

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NORMLEX Information System on International Labour Standards

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NORMLEX is a new information system which brings together information on International Labour Standards (such as ratification information, reporting requirements, comments of the ILO’s supervisory bodies, etc.) as well as national labour and social security laws Link to this...

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ESCR-Net Case law Database

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Database established by ESCR-Net which allows you to search a useful collection of cases related to economic and social rights from around the world according to countries and themes. Link to this...

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Inter-American Social Protection Network (IASPN)

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Community of practice for national social development ministries and agencies, in collaboration with international organizations, non-governmental organizations, private sector and academia, that promotes the exchange of experiences and knowledge on social protection. Link to this...

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HelpAge International

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International network of organizations dedicated to achieving the right to social security so that all people can enjoy a dignified and secure older age. Link to...

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Centre for Social Protection (CSP)

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This Centre of the Institute of Development Studies supports a global network of partners working to mainstream social protection in development policy and encourage social protection systems and instruments that are comprehensive, long-term, sustainable and pro-poor. Link to...

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Centre for Economic and Social Rights (CESR)

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The CESR works to promote social justice through advocacy, empowerment, capacity building and accountability concerning the universal human rights of every human being to education, health, food, water, housing, work, and other economic, social and cultural rights essential to human dignity. Link to...

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Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors

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NGO Coalition that promotes the right of all people residing in a country to social security, regardless of documentation. It promotes social protection floors as key instruments to achieve the overarching social goal of the global development agenda. Link to...

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