Financial Support for Single Parents in Caring for their Children: Private child support and social assistance
Resources - Author: Debbie Budlender / Year: 2015
Public assistance in the Caribbean generally does not include special provisions for sole parents. Instead, such families—if they are fortunate—receive support through the limited general public assistance schemes. The amount of benefits in Caribbean countries is likely to be lower than in developed countries in both absolute and relative...
Read MoreGender and Labour in Saint Lucia: Brief
Resources - Author: Debbie Budlender / Year: 2016
St Lucia’s Quarterly Labour Force Surveys of 2012 suggest that the educational achievements of women aged 15 years and above are noticeably higher than those of men in the same age group. Thus 12 percent of women record having a diploma, certificate or degree with a further 31 per...
Read MoreGender And Labour In St Lucia: Evidence from household surveys research report
Resources - Author: Debbie Budlender / Year: 2016
UN Women’s work in this area focuses on measures that enhance and secure the financial independence of women; promote their equal participation; and, provide socio-economic protections that would contribute to reduction in poverty and inequality, would enhance the quality of life of women and their families. This paper draws...
Read MoreCase Study On The St. Lucia National Eligibility Test
Resources - Author: Debbie Budlender / Year: 2014
Establishing gender and child responsive social protection schemes that ensure universal access to health care including maternity care, and basic income security, will protect women and their families from the effects of economic shocks and crises that may result in job and wage losses. UN Women and UNICEF through...
Read MoreConditional Cash Transfers: Learning from the literature
Resources - Author: Debbie Budlender / Year: 2014
Eastern Caribbean countries are currently developing and implementing substantial social safety net reforms. Governments of six Eastern Caribbean countries conducted social safety net assessments in 2009 – 2010, with the support of UN Women and UNICEF in partnership with the World Bank. These reforms, which have been ongoing for...
Read MoreConditional Cash Transfer: A policy brief
Resources - Author: Debbie Budlender / Year: 2014
Eastern Caribbean countries are currently developing and implementing substantial social safety net reforms. In 2009 – 2010, UNICEF and UN Women in partnership with the World Bank supported the governments of six countries in the OECS sub-region to conduct national social safety net assessments. A striking feature of the...
Read MoreConsiderations in Using Proxy Means Tests in Eastern Caribbean States: A Policy Brief
Resources - Author: Debbie Budlender / Year: 2016
The social safety net assessments conducted in Eastern Caribbean states in and around 2009 recommended that countries should develop a proxy means test (PMT) to replace the diverse approaches they were using to target poverty-related benefits. Proxy mean tests were argued to be an objective and transparent alternative mechanism,...
Read MoreConsiderations in Using Proxy Means Tests in Eastern Caribbean States
Resources - Author: Debbie Budlender / Year: 2014
The social safety net assessments conducted in Eastern Caribbean states in and around 2009 recommended that countries should develop a proxy means test (PMT) to replace the diverse approaches they were using to target poverty-related benefits. Proxy mean tests were argued to be an objective and transparent alternative mechanism,...
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