Health for All, All for Health: Lessons from the universalization of health care in emerging economies
Resources - Year: 2017
India stands out among countries with comparable levels of economic development for its rights-based social policies. But rights on paper do not always translate into rights in reality. This case study investigates the genesis of India’s rights-based social policy legislation, its ramifications in the areas of primary education, public...
Read MoreCareer Advice and Placement Services in Sierra Leone (One Pager 356)
Resources - Author: Molla Mekonnen Alemu / Year: 2017
Approximately 70 percent of Sierra Leone’s youth population are either underemployed or unemployed, and 50 percent are classified as either illiterate and/or unskilled. There is visible unemployment, particularly among young men. Although there have been improvements in the youth situation compared to before the civil war, many of the...
Read MoreFrom Policy Commitments to the Effective Implementation of Gender-Sensitive Social Protection Programmes (One Pager 355)
Resources - Author: Charlotte Bilo, Maja Gavrilovic, Raquel Tebaldi / Year: 2017
This brief looks at the factors that need to be considered while designing and implementing gender-sensitive social protection...
Read MoreEvaluation of the Uganda Social Assistance Grants for Empowerment Programme (One Pager 354)
A Case for Institutional Demand as Effective Social Protection: supporting smallholders through procurement and food assistance programmes
Resources - Author: Ana Carla Miranda, Andrew Howe, Ryan Nehring / Year: 2017
This paper focuses on the rationale for state-based market interventions to support smallholder production along with some case studies that follow the evolution and impact of what we call “institutional demand” policies. Institutional demand is an intervention that aims to improve regional markets by establishing coordinated purchases for regional...
Read MoreCash Transfer Programmes, Poverty Reduction and Women’s Economic Empowerment: Experience from Mexico
Resources - Author: Mónica E. Orozco Corona, Sarah Gammage / Year: 2017
This working paper on cash transfer in Mexico reviews over 150 publications on cash transfer programmes in the country since the end of the 1990s and presents the impact of these on health, education, income, poverty, labour force participation, time use and bargaining power of women at the household...
Read MoreWHO QualityRights Guidance and Training Tools
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As part of the QualityRights Initiative, WHO has developed a comprehensive package of training and guidance modules. The modules can be used to build capacity among mental health practitioners, people with psychosocial, intellectual and cognitive disabilities, people using mental health services, families, care partners and other supporters, NGOs, DPOs...
Read MoreUniversal Old Age and Disability Pensions
Resources - Author: André F. Bongestabs / Year: 2016
Despite being one of the youngest and poorest countries of the region, Timor-Leste has offered a universal social pension to its senior citizens and persons with disabilities since 2008. Almost all persons above 60 years and about one in five persons with disabilities participate in the scheme. The pensions...
Read MoreMaking Public Works Inclusive
Resources - Year: 2017
The video provides insight into the pilot project “Making Public Works Inclusive” implemented in 2016 in Dedza District in Malawi´s Central Region. The video explains the approach the pilot has taken on including persons with disabilities in Malawi´s national Public Works Programme. Central and district level stakeholders as well...
Read MoreTowards Universal Health Care in Emerging Economies: Opportunities and Challenges
Resources - Author: Ana Luiza d’Ávila Viana, Ankita Gandhi, Armando de Negri Filho, Asep Suryahadi, Athia Yumna, Ben Fine, Elizabeth Koechlein, Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Hudson Pacífico da Silva, Ilcheong Yi, Julia Buxton, Kinglun Ngok, Linda J. Cook, Marcus André Melo, Mingqiang Li, Neha Kumra, Piya Hanvoravongchai, Prapaporn Tivayanond Mongkhonvanit, Rebecca Surender, Santosh Mehrotra, Shufang Zhang, Stein Ringen, Susanne MacGregor, Vita Febriany, William Hsiao / Year: 2017
This book explores how political, social, economic and institutional factors in eight emerging economies have combined to generate diverse outcomes in their move towards universal health care. Structured in three parts, the book begins by framing social policy as an integral system in its own right. The following two...
Read MoreLessons for the Universalization of Health Care in Emerging Economies
Resources - Year: 2017
This webinar explores the opportunities and challenges facing developing countries as they seek to expand and universalize their health care systems. Universal health care was once a central pillar of the welfare state, but the rise of neoliberalism in international policy discourse and practice eroded the support for universal...
Read MoreState of the World’s Fathers 2017: time for action
Resources - Author: Alexa Hassink, Brian Heilman, Gary Barker, Nikki van der Gaag, Ruti Levtov, Wessel van den Berg / Year: 2017
Caregiving and unpaid care work are at the heart of any discussion of the state of the world’s fathers, and at the heart of gender inequality. For all the attention paid to unpaid care work, however, in no country in the world do men’s contributions to unpaid care work...
Read MoreTargeting Farmers in Institutional Procurement Programmes: case study of the PAA Africa Programme in Senegal
Resources - Author: Abdoulaye Thiam, Israel Klug, Rosana Pereira de Miranda / Year: 2017
In general terms, this case study aims to analyse the system used by the PAA Africa programme in Senegal to target family farms producing rice in the Kédougou region. More specifically, it aims to highlight the way the targeting process influenced the results and constraints observed during the programme’s...
Read MoreFostering Food Purchase Programmes in Widespread Poverty Contexts: targeting smallholders within the PAA Africa Programme in Niger
Resources - Author: Amadou Diop, Israel Klug, Rosana Pereira de Miranda / Year: 2017
The overall objective of this case study is to present the approach adopted by the PAA Africa programme in the Nigerien context, the programmatic decisions taken to adapt the local purchases to the local context, and the associated challenges Its specific objective is to provide a detailed description of...
Read MoreSocial Protection and Climate Change: How did the Philippines combine emergency relief with lasting protection after Haiyan?
Resources - Year: 2017
In the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, the Philippines’ Integrated Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program (DILEEP) provided emergency employment opportunities to affected populations, and affiliated participants to several social insurance schemes. Nearly 80,000 programme participants received immediate relief after the typhoon struck in 2013, and were enrolled in the national...
Read MoreSocial Protection and Climate Change: How are rural workers and residents in China faring with conservation efforts?
Resources - Year: 2017
In China, there are big efforts to combat deforestation, with logging and other restrictions placed on large swaths of land. Nearly a million workers in state-owned forest enterprises lost their jobs, but got help with job training and placement services. Other rural residents received cash to perform conservation activities....
Read MoreSocial Protection and Climate Change: Can Brazil pursue twin social and environmental objectives together?
Resources - Year: 2017
Brazil’s invaluable rainforests have dwindled in recent decades, as agriculture and other development have moved in. Development opportunities are crucial for many rural populations who continue to live in poverty. Now, the Government is attempting to address poverty and threats to the environment together through a new social protection...
Read MoreWhat Makes Urban Food Policy Happen? Insights from five case studies
Resources - Author: Corinna Hawkes, Jess Halliday / Year: 2017
Cities are rising as powerful agents in the world of food, says a new report from the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food), and they are finding innovative ways to put in place policies that take on challenges in global food systems. The report shows that...
Read MoreImplementing Comprehensive HIV and STI Programmes with Transgender People: practical guidance for collaborative interventions
Resources - Year: 2016
This tool describes how services can be designed and implemented to be acceptable and accessible to transgender women. To accomplish this, respectful and ongoing engagement with them is essential. This tool gives particular attention to programmes run by transgender people themselves, in contexts where this is possible. It is...
Read MoreSeeking Accountability for Women’s Rights through the Sustainable Development Goals
Resources - Author: Magdalena Sepúlveda / Year: 2017
While the SDGs are a significant improvement over the Millennium Development Goals, including in their commitments to gender equality and women’s rights, there is no major advance when it comes to accountability: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development provides only for a weak and voluntary process of “follow-up and...
Read MoreDignity and Social Inclusion: Civil society’s role in social protection for homeless
Expert commentaries - Date: 28 July 2017 / Author: Katy Sherratt
“When you’re homeless, you feel like people really don’t care and no one really knows where you are. But Back on My Feet found us.” Valerie, Back on My Feet Member, Philadelphia Civil society organizations play an important role in providing opportunities for the most vulnerable members of...
Read MoreSocial Protection, Migration and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Resources - Author: Elisa Mosler Vidal, Georgina Sturge, Jessica Hagen-Zanker / Year: 2017
This briefing considers the extent to which international labour migrants are covered by social protection, and the implications this has for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda). More specifically, this brief shows that social protection coverage of international labour migrants varies considerably, and outlines how this has...
Read MoreGuidelines for the Primary and Gender-Affirming Care of Transgender and Gender Nonbinary People
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These guidelines aim to address these disparities by equipping primary care providers and health systems with the tools and knowledge to meet the health care needs of their transgender and gender nonconforming patients. Link to...
Read MoreThe Right to Land and Livelihoods in India
Legal depository - Country: India / Body: Supreme Court of India / Year: 2016
This case focuses on the compulsory acquisition of land by the State of West Bengal for a car manufacturing unit under the auspices of “public purpose”. The Supreme Court of India determined that the acquisition had not been for a public purpose, but for the benefit of a company,...
Read MoreHealth for All, All for Health: lessons from the universalization of health care in emerging economies
Resources - Author: Ilcheong Yi, Kelly Stetter / Year: 2017
Achieving universal health coverage is integral to the central pledge of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to “leave no one behind”. Meeting this target is about more than just having enough resources to incrementally expand health coverage to the entire population. This Brief provides policy makers with evidence-based...
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