Social Protection in Asia and the Pacific: Inventory of non-contributory programmes
Resources - Year: 2019
Social protection programmes are now widely recognised as key policy instruments for developing countries to combat poverty. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has explicitly recognised the importance of implementing “nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors” as an explicit target under Sustainable Development Goal...
Read MoreRegional Roadmap for Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific
Resources - Year: 2017
At the global level in 2015 countries set in motion the most far reaching and ambitious development agenda of our time, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In Asia and the Pacific, countries have already begun translating this ambitious agenda into action and many have already set up the...
Read MoreInequality in Asia and the Pacific in the era of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Resources - Author: Alberto Isgut, Ermina Sokou, Mia Mikic, Patrik Andersson, Stefanos Fotiou, Sudip Ranjan Basu, Tiziana Bonapace / Year: 2018
Inequality in Asia and the Pacific is on the rise. Many countries, including those held up as models of dynamism and prosperity, have experienced a widening of existing gaps, accompanied by environmental degradation. Market-led growth alone is not sufficient to deliver a prosperous, sustainable future for all. This report...
Read MoreHow Technology Affects Jobs
Resources - Year: 2018
Developing Asia is forecast to expand by 6 percent in 2018, and by 5.9 percent in 2019. Excluding Asia’s high-income newly industrialized economies, growth should reach 6.5 percent in 2018 and 6.4 percent in 2019. With oil prices edging up and robust consumer demand continuing, inflation is poised to pick up...
Read MoreReproductive Health Policy
Legal depository - Country: Fiji /
The purpose of this Policy & Strategy document is to outline policy statements of the Ministry of Health in support of Reproductive Health including maternal and neonatal health, demonstrating its contribution to the achievement of improved health and wellbeing in Fiji. It maps out a framework of key strategic...
Read MorePre-migration and post-migration factors associated with mental health in humanitarian migrants in Australia and the moderation eff ect of post-migration stressors: findings from the first wave data of the BNLA cohort study
Resources - Author: Andre Renzaho, Brian J. Hall, Li Ling, Wen Chen / Year: 2017
Background The process of becoming a humanitarian migrant is potentially damaging to mental health. We examined the association between pre-migration and post-migration potentially traumatic events and stressors and mental health, and assessed the moderating eff ect of post-migration stressors in humanitarian migrants in Australia. Methods In this study, we...
Read MoreAn International Labour Organization Instrument on Violence against Women and Men at Work: the Australian influence
Resources - Author: Jane Aeberhard-Hodges, Ludo McFerran / Year: 2017
Violence in and out of work, both domestic violence and sexual harassment, are violations of human rights and impact heavily in the workplace. All forms of violence result in a high cost for workers, employers and society in general, in lost time, injuries, complaints, staff turnover, loss of skills,...
Read MoreUndertaking a Human Rights-Based Approach: Lessons for policy, planning and programming
Resources - Author: UNESCO / Year: 2008
Summary: This report is based on lessons learned from documenting experiences and programmes that incorporated elements of the human right-based approach (HRBA) in several Asia-Pacific countries from 2004-2008. The initial observations of such experiences and programmes resulted in the documentation and publication of fourteen case studies in countries as diverse as...
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