The Art of “Bureaucraft”: Why and how bureaucrats respond to citizen voice
Resources - Author: Anuradha Joshi, Rhiannon McCluskey / Year: 2018
Despite the recent increase of empirical research and conceptual development in transparency and accountability, much of this has been on the side of citizen action, looking at why and how citizens mobilize around accountability demands and at what makes their actions successful. Comparatively, there has been much less work...
Read MoreUnimpeded Access to Accountability Mechanisms for Workers in the United Kingdom
Legal depository - Country: United Kingdom / Body: Supreme Court of the United Kingdom / Year: 2017
Summary: Prior to the enactment of the Employment Tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal Fees Order 2013 (Fees Order) in the UK, a claimant could pursue and appeal employment proceedings without paying any fee. Fees were introduced under the Fees Order, with the amount varying depending on factors including...
Read MoreSocial Accountability in the Delivery of Social Protection
Resources - Author: Ghazia Aslam, Rasmus Schjoedt, Tamsyn Ayliffe / Year: 2017
This report reviews the literature on social accountability in the delivery of social protection. It is the second output of the Social Accountability in Social Protection policy research project that Development Pathways has been contracted to carry out by DFID. The purpose of this review is to bring together...
Read MoreGrievance Mechanisms for Social Protection Programmes: Stumbling blocks and best practice (One Pager 320)
Resources - Author: Valentina Barca / Year: 2016
This one-page brief examines grievance mechanisms in social protection...
Read MoreSocial Security for All. Investing in social justice and economic development
Resources - Author: ILO / Year: 2009
This paper sets out the policy vision of the ILO that underpins its activities in the context of the Global Campaign on Social Security and Coverage for All. The objective of this policy briefing is to contribute to the global debate between social security stakeholders, researchers, practitioners and decision-makers...
Read MoreAccess to justice for persons living in poverty: a human rights approach
Resources - Author: Kate Donald, Magdalena Sepúlveda /
People living in poverty face numerous daunting barriers to access to justice, denying them the chance to challenge crimes, abuses or human rights violations committed against them. This situation exacerbates their poverty and social exclusion, in a vicious circle of impunity, powerlessness and injustice. Empowering people living in poverty...
Read MoreThe Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202): Completing the standards to close the coverage gap
Resources - Author: Emmanuelle Saint-Pierre Guilbault, Ursula Kulke / Year: 2013
Summary: In June 2012, the 101st session of the International Labour Conference (ILC) adopted the Recommendation concerning national floors of social protection, 2012 (No. 202). This article explores the linkages between Recommendation No. 202 and the pre-existing International Labour Organization (ILO) social security standards and its complementarity with these....
Read MoreSocial Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202)
Legal depository - Year: 2012
Recommendation No. 202 is the first international instrument to offer guidance to countries to close social security gaps and progressively achieve universal protection through the establishment and maintenance of comprehensive social security systems. To this aim, the Recommendation calls for (1) the implementation, as a priority, of social protection...
Read MoreLegal recourses and access to justice
A rights-bases approach to social protection requires that people can effectively pursue legal recourse and access justice. Legal access to complaint and appeal procedures provides persons with the ability to appeal in case of refusal of a benefit or complain as to its quality and quantity. According to Recommendation...
Read MoreAccess to Accountability Mechanisms and Effective Remedies
A human rights-based approach to social protection requires that policy makers, programme administrators and others whose actions have an impact on a programme should be held accountable for their actions. To meet this human rights requirement, social protection programmes should have mechanisms to collect and process complaints, in particular...
Read MoreProtecting 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...
Read MoreUsing Human Rights in the Courts to Broaden Social Protection—The South African Example
Expert commentaries - Date: 19 September 2014 / Author: Beth Goldblatt
Human rights have an important role to play in supporting the objectives of social protection which include the prevention of poverty and inequality, ensuring solidarity and inclusion, and creating economically and socially fairer societies. They offer a normative basis and a legal imperative for requiring that states realize the...
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