Cultural and creative industries in the face of COVID-19: An economic impact outlook
Resources - Author: Jonathan Todd, Marta Moretto, Richard Naylor, Rossella Traverso / Year: 2021
The UNESCO report identifies which cultural and creative industries have been disrupted the most by the pandemic and attempts to measure the economic impact of COVID-19 on the cultural and creative sector. Looking ahead, the report explores some of the newer ways in which digital technologies are being used...
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 MoreSocial Protection Policy and Research in the Arab States: from Shared Challenges to Coordinated Efforts
Resources - Author: Carlos Alviar, Chris Béné, Fabio Veras Soares, Hania Sholkamy, Kristina Hallez, Madani Safar Zitoun, Nandita Gupta, Rabeya Yasmin, Yuri Kazepov /
UNESCO strives through its intergovernmental programme on Management of Social Transformations (MOST) to make a stronger linkage between social science research and public policy making. Social science policy research fed by dialogues among policy makers, practitioners from civil society, beneficiaries and participants of specific policy and programme interventions and...
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