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Do Targeting Techniques Tend to be Incompatible with the Human Rights Standards of Transparency and Access to Information?

Expert commentaries - Date: 3 April 2014 / Author: Nicholas Freeland

Targeting Techniques and Human Rights Standards of Transparency and Access to Information Poverty targeting presents many problems in terms of accuracy and reliability, but common methods for identifying the poor are also problematic in terms of human rights standards of transparency and access to information. Let us look from...

Finding Synergies between Political Support, Legal Frameworks and Funding for Sustainable Social Protection Programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean

Expert commentaries - Date: 3 April 2014 / Author: Simone Cecchini

Implementing social protection policies and programmes (SPPPs) in the absence of clear and specific legal and institutional frameworks entails a number of risks, not only in terms of their continuity, but also of scope, legitimacy and the protection of human rights standards (United Nations, 2009). Legal and institutional frameworks...