The rights-based approach to social protection in Latin America: From rhetoric to practice
Resources - Year: 2014
Summary This paper aims to contribute to developing the normative framework for rights-based social protection systems and discusses lessons learned in some emblematic programmes implemented in Latin America which have sought to advance a rights approach. The paper emphasizes the added value of the rights-based approach and describes the...
Read MoreReproductive and care functions: from caring to sharing
Resources - Author: Sharon Offenberger / Year: 2014
Summary: Women’s productive and reproductive roles are often described as being ‘in conflict’, as women’s increasing labour force participation has not automatically resulted in fundamental change in their childcare and domestic responsibilities. Gender stereotypes regarding women’s roles both at work and at home constrain their work opportunities and perpetuate...
Read MoreSocial protection global policy trends 2010-2015. From fiscal consolidation to expanding social protection: Key to crisis recovery, inclusive development and social justice
Resources - Author: ILO / Year: 2014
This policy paper: (i) examines IMF government spending projections for 181 countries, identifying two main phases: fiscal expansion (2008-2009) and fiscal consolidation (2010 onwards); (ii) presents the main adjustment measures considered since 2010 and their adverse socio-economic impacts in both high income and developing countries; (iii) analyses divergent trends...
Read MoreSocial Protection Floors in the Post-2015 Agenda. Targets and Indicators.
World Social Protection Report 2014/15: Building economic recovery, inclusive development and social justice
Resources - Author: ILO / Year: 2014
Social protection policies play a critical role in realizing the human right to social security for all, reducing poverty and inequality, and promoting inclusive growth – by boosting human capital and productivity, and by supporting domestic demand and structural transformation of national economies. This ILO flagship report provides a...
Read MoreRapid extension of health protection (Social Protection for All Policy Brief)
Resources - Year: 2014
This Policy Brief summarizes the limited coverage of health protection today and suggests three steps to rapidly extend health protection and achieve universal health coverage that is sustainable and allows for returns in terms of socio-economic development and inclusive growth. Link to this...
Read MoreUniversal Health Protection: Progress to date and the way forward
Resources - Year: 2014
This paper proposes policy options based on ILO research and experiences that aim at universal coverage and equitable access to health care. The policy options discussed focus on ensuring the human rights to social security and health and on the rights-based approaches underpinning the need for equity and poverty...
Read MoreReport of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on Social Protection Floors (A/69/297)
Resources - Author: Philip Alston / Year: 2014
The present report focuses on the implementation of the right to social protection through the adoption by all States of social protection floors. The very widely endorsed Social Protection Floor Initiative aims to guarantee basic income security and access to essential social services for all. In the report, the...
Read MoreTransforming Social Protection: Human Wellbeing and Social Justice
Resources - Author: J. Allister McGregor, Stephen Devereux / Year: 2014
This article calls for a moment of pause to consider the current direction of social protection thinking and practice. It introduces a special issue in which a range of authors explore the relationship between social protection and social justice. The article argues that the currently technocratic approach to social...
Read MoreAddressing the Global Health Crisis: Universal Health Protection Policies
Resources - Author: ILO / Year: 2014
This policy paper: (i) examines the dimensions of the global health crisis based on severe deficits in health protection and limited access to health care; (ii) presents the extent of the health crisis at global, regional and national level as well as rural/urban divergences within countries and their root causes; (iii)...
Read MoreSocial protection for older persons: Key policy trends and statistics
Resources - Author: ILO / Year: 2014
This ILO policy paper (i) provides a global overview of the organization of pensions systems, their coverage and benefits, and public expenditures on social security in 178 countries; (ii) analyses trends and recent policies, e.g. extension of coverage in a large number of low- and middle-income countries; (iii) presents...
Read MoreAccess 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...
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