Human Development Report 2014 – Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience
The 2014 Human Development Report – Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience provides a fresh perspective on vulnerability and proposes ways to strengthen resilience. According to income-based measures of poverty, 1.2 billion people live with $1.25 or less a day. However, according to the UNDP Multidimensional Poverty Index,...
Read MoreJoint statement on advancing child-sensitive social protection
The joint statement aims to build greater consensus on the importance of child-sensitive social protection. It lays out the particular vulnerabilities that children and families face, the ways that social protection can impact children even when not focused on them, and outlines principles and approaches for undertaking child-sensitive social...
Read MoreFighting inequality from the basics: The social protection floor and gender equality
The focus of this report is the indispensability of the human right to social security in contributing to integration and conquering inequalities, which must be tackled across the board from a platform of national protection. The report offers a framework and a set of methodological tools for analyzing the...
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