Equity in financing and use of health care in Ghana, South Africa, and Tanzania: implications for paths to universal coverage
Resources - Author: Anne Mills, Bertha Garshong, Bronwyn Harris, Filip Meheus, Gemini Mtei, James Akazili, Jane Macha, Jo Borghi, John E Ataguba, Prof Di McIntyre, Suzan Makawia / Year: 2012
Universal coverage of health care is now receiving substantial worldwide and national attention, but debate continues on the best mix of financing mechanisms, especially to protect people outside the formal employment sector. Crucial issues are the equity implications of different financing mechanisms, and patterns of service use. This report provides...
Read MoreGood practices on Single Window Services: Research on existing Single Window Services around the world (India, Chile, Brazil, South Africa, Pakistan) and key lessons to be learned for Cambodia
Resources - Author: Diane Taieb, Valérie Schmitt / Year: 2012
The aim of this research is to identify good and bad practices of Single Window Services around the world, by looking at the experiences of countries where these services are already in place. Link to Word...
Read MoreElectronic payment for cash transfer programmes: Cutting costs and corruption or an idea ahead of its time?
Resources - Author: HelpAge International / Year: 2012
There is growing interest in the use of electronic payment (e-payment) systems in cash transfer programmes. When cash is transferred to beneficiaries through e-payment technologies such as mobile phone accounts or smartcards, there is potential to cut costs and reduce corruption compared with physical payment methods. E-payment systems can...
Read MoreInformation and Communication Technology: Facilitating innovative social security
Resources - Author: ISSA / Year: 2012
The objective of this issue is to highlight four sustainable and positive contributions that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is making to social security; to summarize the challenges of putting in place and managing effective ICT and to identify key elements to the successful implementation of ICT solutions. Link...
Read MoreCambodia: Social Protection Expenditure and Performance Review
Resources - Author: Jean-Claude Hennicot, Wolfgang Scholz / Year: 2012
This report is part of a series of technical cooperation reports produced by the Social Security Department and the Employment Policy Department of the International Labour Office within the framework of the ILO/EU project “Improving Social Protection and Promoting Employment”. The project was funded by the European Commission and...
Read MoreTowards a Mozambican Social Protection Floor
Resources - Author: Johannes Mueller, Luca Pellerano, Nuno Cunha, Patrick Gitton, Victor Lledo, Yuan Xiao / Year: 2012
This report has the objective of documenting the key elements of the ongoing social protection policy reform in Mozambique and exploring the technical and financial arguments underlying the Government’s policy options for the implementation of a national social protection floor in the country. The report is organised in 5...
Read MoreHandbook on the extension of social security coverage to the self-employed
Resources - Author: ISSA / Year: 2012
In many countries, a large proportion of the working-age population can be considered as self-employed – in both the formal and informal sectors. Given the challenges in covering the self-employed, this development means that a relatively small proportion of the total population may be covered for social security benefits. Targeted measures...
Read MoreEvidence on gender inequities in social health protection. The case of women living in rural areas
Resources - Author: Catharina Kuhl, Xenia Scheil-Adlung / Year: 2012
While in many developing countries, urban women have achieved some progress towards equality due to better chances in growing formal economies, rural women are often stuck in harsh living and working conditions in informal economies, e.g. as landless labourers or domestic workers. The objective of this paper is to...
Read MoreSocial Security for All: Building social protection floors and comprehensive social security systems. The strategy of the International Labour Organization
Resources - Author: Social Security Department / Year: 2012
This document lays out the social security strategy of the International Labour Organization on the extension of social security. The ILO’s two-dimensional strategy provides clear guidance on the future development of social security in countries at all levels of development. Its horizontal dimension aims at establishing and maintaining social...
Read MoreReport of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (articles 19, 22 and 35 of the Constitution), Report III (Part 1A)
Social 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 MoreFighting inequality from the basics: The social protection floor and gender equality
Resources - Author: UN Women, UNDP / Year: 2012
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...
Read MoreThe Human Rights Approach to Social Protection
Resources - Author: Carly Nyst / Year: 2012
Summary: This publication constitutes a summary of the analyses and arguments presented by the Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Magdalena Sepúlveda, in her reports to the Human Rights Council and General Assembly in regard to the human rights approach to social protection. It is intended to be...
Read MoreConditional Cash Transfer Programmes: The recent experience in Latin America and the Caribbean
Resources - Author: Aldo Madariaga, Simone Cecchini / Year: 2012
This document summarizes experience with conditional cash transfer or “co-responsibility” (CCT) programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean, over a period lasting more than 15 years. This document, which it is hoped will serve as a basis and input for discussion and progress in building social-protection systems premised on...
Read MoreInclusive Social Protection in Latin America: A Comprehensive, Rights-based Approach
Resources - Author: Rodrigo Martínez, Simone Cecchini / Year: 2012
The purpose of this book is to encourage dialogue on social protection in Latin America. It highlights the need for innovation in designing policies and instruments, as well as in management, in order to build comprehensive systems that provide inclusive social protection. Social protection has become one of the...
Read MoreSocial protection for food security
Resources - Author: The High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition / Year: 2012
Summary: Food insecurity refers to both the inability to secure an adequate diet today and the risk of being unable to do so in the future. Social protection is a menu of policy instruments that addresses poverty and vulnerability, through social assistance, social insurance and efforts at social inclusion....
Read MoreReport of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on her Mission to Paraguay (A /HRC/20/25/Add. 2)
Resources - Author: Magdalena Sepúlveda / Year: 2012
The report focuses on a number of flagship programmes, including the Tekoporã conditional cash transfer programme, the Abrazo (“hug”) Programme and the Family Health Units Programme. The report recognizes that major strides have been made in the area of rights-based public policy planning. It also reviews the achievements of the social protection...
Read MoreUnderwriting the Poor: A Global Fund for Social Protection (Briefing Note 7)
Resources - Author: Magdalena Sepúlveda, Olivier De Schutter / Year: 2012
Seventy-five to eighty per cent of the world’s poor do not have comprehensive social protection, yet the total costs of introducing social protection would amount to only 2-6 per cent of global GDP. Poorer States often have not adopted social protection systems because a) the development models supported by...
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