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Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation and Decision Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters

Legal depository - Year: 1998

The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters was adopted on 25 June 1998 in the Danish city of Aarhus (Århus) at the Fourth Ministerial Conference as part of the “Environment for Europe” process. It...

The Need for Transparency: Designing Rights-Based and Accountable Social Protection Systems

Expert commentaries - Date: 12 April 2018 / Author: Rasmus Jensen Schjødt

A human rights-based approach to social protection requires transparency, accountability and accessibility to be an integral part of the design of policies and programmes. However, policy makers often do not consider whether social protection programmes enable or hinder human rights; focusing instead on issues such as cost effectiveness, distributional...

Behavioural Insights in Poverty Reduction Policies

Resources - Author: Antonio Claret Campos Filho, Luis Henrique Paiva / Year: 2017

This Policy Research Brief presents some elements that should be carefully considered in the design of policies and programmes to overcome poverty, based on evidence from the field of behavioural economics. A growing number of international experiences point to the fact that, in many situations, government policies and programmes...

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in India

Legal depository - Country: India / Body: Supreme Court of India / Year: 2016

Summary: In January 2012, up to 53 women underwent a sterilization procedure in Bihar, India, at a sterilization camp managed by an NGO which had been granted accreditation by the District Health Society, apparently without following any formal, transparent process. The women had not been given any counseling regarding...

Your social security rights in Austria

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This document explains the social security entitlements for all persons in...

Social Security Governance: A Practical Guide for Board Members of Social Security Institutions in Central and Eastern Europe

Resources - Year: 2005

This guide aims to promote social dialogue on social security reform and to encourage reforms that are well matched to national conditions while consistent with the standards for minimum adequacy, inclusiveness, and democratic governance embodied in the ILO social security conventions. Link to this...

Good Governance Guidelines for Social Security Institutions

Resources - Author: ISSA / Year: 2013

The good governance guidelines seek to provide ISSA member organizations with guiding principles and practical guidelines on good governance. The guidelines begin by defining, for the first time, what ISSA means by “good governance”. The governance framework that underpins the guidelines aims to give the user an overview of...

Access to information and transparency

Transparency, accountability and reliability have become universally recognized key operational principles for the good governance of public administration in general, and social protection systems in particular. Transparency refers to the requirement that public bodies disclose information and records of their operations, accountability means that processes should be in place...

Protecting the Right of Access to Social Security Benefits

Expert commentaries - Date: 15 April 2014 / Author: Stephen Kidd

States must ensure the right to social security for all without discrimination of any kind. Article 2(1) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and Article 26 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child oblige States Parties to take effective measures, within their...

The Role that Civil Society can Play in Ensuring Accountability in Social Protection Programmes

Expert commentaries - Date: 14 April 2014 / Author: Felipe J. Hevia

Civil society and accountability in social protection programmes The experience of the last 20 years suggests there are four obstacles to ensuring accountability in social protection programmes. The first obstacle has to do with social protection’s contested status: is it a right or only a service or a favour?...

A 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...

Pro-Poor and pro-Development Transparency Laws and Policies

Expert commentaries - Date: 15 Apr 2014 / Author: Issa Luna Pla

You many also be interested in the rejoinder to this commentary by Charles Lwanga-Ntale from Development Initiatives. Access to information laws are not being effectively utilized by the poor—the most technologically marginalized population—to exercise their rights to social protection. Across countries we learn that sectors using these laws are...

Access to information about beneficiaries to ensure social accountability of state decisions

Legal depository - Country: Argentina / Body: Argentina - Supreme Court (Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación), Supreme Courts / Year: 2014

Summary: CIPPEC (Centro de Implementación de Políticas Públicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento ) has been denied access to information concerning the beneficiaries of subsidies and social cash transfer programs in 2006 and 2007. The Supreme Court considered that accessing such data has a clear public interest, since it enables...

The role of civil society in keeping vigil over the human rights implications of states’ social protection policies, programmes and activities

Expert commentaries - Date: 14 April 2014 / Author: Letlhokwa George Mpedi

Keeping vigil over the human rights implications of states’ social protection activities One of the fundamental roles that civil society organizations play is to ensure that states, particularly in emerging economies where social insecurity is rife, respect and promote the fundamental right to social protection (Samad 2009) and provide...

Ensure Transparency and Access to Information

Transparency, accountability and reliability have become universally recognized key operational principles for the good governance of public administration. In effect, transparency and access to information are essential components of a rights-based social protection system. To effectively guarantee transparency, information should be available, accessible and disseminated among the population. In...