WWDA Human Rights Toolkit for Women and Girls with Disability
Resources - Year: 2016
Over two million women and girls with disability live in Australia – that’s approximately 20 percent of all women and girls. Like everyone else, we all have different lives and experiences. We also have different personal experiences of disability. As a group, however, women and girls with disability experience...
Read More“Without my pension I would be dead for a long time”: social protection for older persons affected by HIV/AIDS
Expert commentaries - Date: 1 December 2016 / Author: Stefan Hofmann
In the past 15 years, evidence has emerged on the role of social protection in mitigating older people’s vulnerability to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, evidence on older people as carers of orphaned grandchildren revealed their extraordinary commitment for their families, as well as their severe...
Read MoreMaternity Cash Benefits for Workers in the Informal Economy
Resources - Author: Christina Behrendt, Laura Addati, Marieke Wagenhäuser / Year: 2016
This Social Protection for All Issue Brief examines how to extend maternity cash benefits to women in the informal...
Read MoreWorld Report on Disability
Resources - Year: 2011
This report focuses on measures to improve accessibility and equality of opportunity; promoting participation and inclusion; and increasing respect for the autonomy and dignity of persons with disabilities. Chapter 1 defines terms such as disability, discusses prevention and its ethical considerations, introduces the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and...
Read MoreSocial Protection for Sustainable Development: Dialogues between Africa and Brazil
Resources - Author: Alessandra Casazza, Almudena Fernandez, Armando Barrientos, Awa Wade Sow, Bianca Suyama, Ibrahima Dia, Iván Guillermo González de Alba, Jorge Abrahão de Castro, Laura Hildebrandt, Laura Jungman, Layla Saad, Leisa Perch, Luciana Jaccoud, Luis Rodriguez, Maria Luiza Amaral Rizzotti, Mariana Santarelli, Mariana Stirbu, Renata Nowak-Garmer, Rômulo Paes-Sousa, Safiétou Ba Diop / Year: 2016
Making sustainable development a reality by 2030 will require a substantial transformation to be made to development practices. The significant increase in the number and quality of social protection systems throughout the Global South brings renewed hope and enthusiasm. In Africa, 48 countries have established flagship programmes, with more...
Read MoreMapping the Global Goals for Sustainable Development and the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Resources - Year: 2016
Introduction Aim. This interactive document aims to encourage an in-depth and broad-based exploration of the links and synergies between the Global Goals for Sustainable Development and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Background. It complements the 2-page document produced by UNICEF in January 2016 which presents preliminary...
Read MoreGet on the Fast-Track: The life-cycle approach to HIV
Resources - Year: 2016
In this report, UNAIDS is announcing that 18.2 million people now have access to HIV treatment. The Fast-Track response is working. Increasing treatment coverage is reducing AIDS-related deaths among adults and children. But the life-cycle approach has to include more than just treatment. Tuberculosis (TB) remains among the commonest...
Read MorePoor Access to WASH: a barrier for women in the workplace
Expert commentaries - Date: 16 November 2016 / Author: Rockaya Aidara
On 19 November, we mark World Toilet Day and highlight the staggering fact that 2.4 billion people – one third of the world’s population – still live without access to proper sanitation. What does this mean for women in the workplace? Poor access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)...
Read MorePromoting Youth Employment: policies and programmes
Resources - Author: Dharam Ghai / Year: 1988
This paper deals primarily with programmes for expansion of youth employment opportunities, paying special attention to generation of self-employment through youth enterprise. Since these programmes cannot be considered in isolation of the nature of youth unemployment and the overall policies for employment creation, the initial sections of the paper...
Read MoreThe Right to Equal Education in South Africa
Legal depository - Country: South Africa / Body: Supreme Court of Appeal (South Africa), Supreme Courts / Year: 2015
Nature of the Case Delayed textbook delivery has plagued public schools in Limpopo, South Africa’s northernmost province for several years. The Department of Basic Education and Limpopo Department of Education appealed a high court decision holding that their failure to ensure timely delivery of textbooks to learners in Limpopo...
Read MoreCan Social Protection Improve Sustainable Development Goals for Adolescent Health?
Resources - Author: Alexa R. Yakubovich, F. Mark Orkin, Franziska Meinck, Lorraine Sherr, Lucie D. Cluver, Mark E. Boyes / Year: 2016
The first policy action outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is the implementation of national social protection systems. This study assesses whether social protection provision can impact 17 indicators of five key health-related SDG goals amongst adolescents in South Africa. Link to...
Read MoreUrbanization and Development: Emerging Futures — World Cities Report 2015
Resources - Author: Anne Klen-Amin, Ben Arimah, Brian Roberts, Bruce Stiftel, Edgar Pieterse, Eduardo Moreno, Graham Tipple, Marco Kamiya, Michael Cohen, Patricia McCarney, Raymond Otieno Otieno, Richard Stren, Sai Balakrishnan, Sarah McCord Smith, Trevor Kanaley, Udo Mbeche-Smith, Vanesa Castán-Broto / Year: 2016
The analysis of urban development of the past twenty years presented in this maiden edition of the World Cities Report shows, with compelling evidence, that there are new forms of collaboration and cooperation, planning, governance, finance and learning that can sustain positive change. The Report unequivocally demonstrates that the...
Read MoreUNFPA strategy on Adolescents and Youth: Towards realizing the full potential of adolescents and youth
Resources - Year: 2013
Today’s adolescents and youth are 1.8 billion strong and form a quarter of the world’s population. They are shaping social and economic development, challenging social norms and values, and building the foundation of the world’s future. While notable progress has been made, many young people – especially adolescent girls – are denied...
Read MoreThe Role of Social Protection Programmes in Supporting Education in Conflict-Affected Situations
Resources - Author: Rebecca Holmes / Year: 2010
This background paper examines the role of social protection programmes in supporting education in conflict-affected contexts. Drawing on existing literature, the paper looks at the impact, design and implementation issues of social protection programme experience in conflict, protracted crisis and post-conflict contexts, including in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of...
Read MoreSocial Protection, Inequality and Social Justice
Resources - Author: Keetie Roelen, Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, Stephen Devereux / Year: 2016
Social protection refers to a range of policies that explicitly aim to reduce poverty and vulnerability, and which have the potential to be redistributive. This contribution argues that social protection can significantly contribute to reducing inequality and social injustice, particularly when it is designed and delivered in conjunction with...
Read MoreChallenging Inequalities: Pathways to a just world (World Social Science Report 2016)
Resources - Year: 2016
This report looks at seven dimensions of inequality and how they interact to shape people’s lives by creating a vicious cycle of inequality. Inequalities should not just be understood and tackled in terms of income and wealth. Inequalities can be economic, political, social, cultural, environmental, spatial and knowledge-based. The...
Read MoreTrade unions in the informal sector: Finding their bearings
Resources - Year: 1999
These nine national studies cover four regions of the world and reveal the stakes and problems which the multifaceted informal sector poses for the trade union movement, irrespective of the level of development in the countries under consideration. The studies are based on the information available and represent testimonies...
Read MoreMultidimensional progress: well-being beyond income
Resources - Author: George Gray Molina / Year: 2016
The report focuses on the increasingly pressing challenges facing the region. In times of global economic fragility, eradicating poverty and reducing inequalities in all their dimensions require a twofold strategy: protecting the achievements of the last decade to prevent millions from falling back into poverty while promoting comprehensive policies...
Read MoreAging, Social Protection and Human Rights: Preventing financial abuse of older people
Expert commentaries - Date: 20 October 2016 / Author: Peter Lloyd-Sherlock
Over the past 30 years, the number of older people in low and middle income countries (LMICs) receiving a pension has grown rapidly. New national schemes have been established or extended and numerous pilot programmes set up, often with international support. The value of these pensions is not always...
Read MorePolicy Innovations for Transformative Change: Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Resources - Author: Dunja Krause, Ilcheong Yi, Katja Hujo, Pascal van Griethuysen, Peter Utting, Valeria Esquivel / Year: 2016
World leaders have committed to transform our world and to leave no one behind in the quest for sustainable development. What needs to happen now to enable the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to deliver on its transformative promise? Which policies and practices will lead to social, economic and...
Read MoreFrom Evidence to Action: The story of cash transfers and impact evaluation in sub-Saharan Africa
Resources - Author: Afua Twun-Danso, Andrew Kardan, Angela Baschieri, Anna McCord, Benjamin Davis, Benjamin Schwab, Bettina Ramirez, Beyene Birru, Carlos Alviar, Carolyn J. Heinrich, Charlotte Harland, Clare Barrington, Daniel Musembi, David Seidenfeld, Denis Wood, Djanabou Mahonde, Douglas Webb, Ed Taylor, Elayn Sammon, Esmie Kainja, Evelyne Nyokangi, Fredu Nega Tegebu, Gelson Tembo, George Laryea-Adjei, Gustavo Angeles, Guush Berhane, Hannah Reeves, Harry Mwamlima, Heshe Lemma, Ibrahim Sessay, Ingrid van Niekerk, J. Edward Taylor, J. Hoel, J. Kagin, Jennifer Yablonski, Joanne Bosworth, John Hoddinott, Karen Thome, Keetie Roelen, Kelley Toole, Lawrence Ofori-Addo, Leon Muwoni, Lovemore Dumba, Luca Pellerano, Lucie Cluver, Luigi Peter Ragno, Luis Corral, Malefetsane Masasa, Mariam Homayoun, Mateusz Filipski, Maureen Mogotsi, Mawutor Ablo, Maxton Tsoka, Michael Samson, Mohammad Farooq, Naquibullah Safi, Natalia Winder Rossi, Natasha Ledlie, Nicola Hypher, Ousmane Niang, Pamela Pozarny Pamela Pozarny, Patrick Ward, Paul Quarles van Ufford, Paul Winters, Peter Mvula, Peter Salama, Ramla Attah, Remy Pigois, Roger Pearson, Samuel Ochieng, Sara Abdoulayi, Sarah Hague, Selwyn Jehoma, Silvio Daidone, Solomon Afaw, Stanfield Michelo, Stephen Devereux, Sudhanshu Handa, Tayllor Spadafora, Ted Chaiban, Thabani Buthelezi, Thilde Stevens, Will Wiseman Winnie Mwasiaji, Yalem Tsegay / Year: 2016
Impact evaluations must be embedded in the ongoing process of policy and programme design in order to be effective in influencing country policy. This is the primary lesson found in this book, which is based on the rigorous impact evaluations and country-case study analysis of government-run cash transfer programmes...
Read MoreLand Rights for People of Indigenous and African Descent in Colombia
Legal depository - Country: Colombia / Body: Colombian Constitutional Court / Year: 2016
Nature of the Case Among other issues, the Constitutional Court revoked licenses for all 347 private mining companies that had previously been granted approval for mining in the páramo (moorland), an ecologically endangered region of the Colombian Andes. Summary Members of the leftist opposition party, the Democratic Pole and...
Read MoreAfrica Regional Report on the Sustainable Development Goals
Resources - Year: 2015
This report presents Africa’s sustainable development priorities and goals, prepared under the framework of the Africa post-2015 consultations, and the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (“Rio+20”) follow-up processes. It is based on information gathered through consultations undertaken in the five subregions of Africa and from an extensive literature...
Read MoreBeyond Addis: Financing social protection in the 2030 Agenda
Expert commentaries - Date: 19 September 2016 / Author: Markus Kaltenborn
In 2015, both the Third International Conference on Financing for Development and the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit resulted in a renewed global commitment to development and poverty eradication. Following the Summit, the UN General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda) and the Sustainable Development...
Read MoreSocial Exclusion and Access to Social Protection Schemes
Resources - Author: Naomi Hossain, Stephen Kidd / Year: 2014
This study examines the causes of exclusion from social protection systems and is based on a review of relevant literature, interviews with researchers and practitioners in Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, South Africa and...
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