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Social protection, as defined by the United Nations Research Institute For Social Development, is concerned with preventing, managing, and overcoming situations that adversely affect people’s well being. Social protection consists of policies and programs designed to reduce poverty and vulnerability by promoting efficient labour markets, diminishing people's exposure to risks, and enhancing their capacity to manage economic and social risks, such as unemployment, exclusion, sickness, disability and old age.
Most common types of social protection:
Social Protection
Social protection is key to reducing inequality and poverty
Introduction to social protection - Part 1
Cambodia - Why is social protection important to me?
Social protection in Africa
A Social Protection Floor for All
UNICEF: Child-sensitive social protection
Social protection and cash transfer programmes in sub-Saharan Africa
Linking agriculture with Social Protection in Bangladesh
Why is social protection important to me?
http://www.fao.org/social-protection/en/ Social protection has helped lift millions of people out of extreme poverty. However, seventy percent of the world population, particularly in rural areas, still lack social protection coverage. Benjamin Davis, Strategic Programme Leader ad interim of the FAO Strategic Programme on Rural Poverty Reduction together with Natalia Winder Rossi, Social Protection Team Leader of the FAO Social Policies and Rural Institutions Division explain how enhancing social protection systems in rural areas can contribute to reducing poverty and ending hunger. They describe the FAO policy work, including key policy messages. This video forms part of a series of policy and governance videos being produced by FAO in 2016. Subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscript...
Since 2010 many countries' governments have reduced investment in social protection measures just when they are needed most, says Isabel Ortiz, Director of the Social Protection department at the ILO. A new ILO report: "World Social Protection Report 2014/15: Building economic recovery, inclusive development and social justice", shows that social protection floors are affordable, however, and can have a significant impact on reducing inequalities and poverty. Find out more about the report: http://www.ilo.org/global/research/global-reports/world-social-security-report/2014/lang--en/index.htm ** La protección social es primordial para reducir la desigualdad y la pobreza ** Desde 2010, numerosos gobiernos han disminuido sus inversiones en medidas de protección social justo cuando son má...
At the "Social Protection: Assessment, Costing and Beyond" workshop at Bangkok in Oct 2012, Valerie Schmitt and Celine Peyron Bista from ILO Bangkok delivered a presentation on social protection concepts, international labour standards and extension of social security.
http://www.fao.org/economic/social-protection/en/ The video highlights the key impacts of social cash transfers on households, children and local economy in sub-Saharan Africa. Evidence from across the region shows that social protection has helped reduce poverty, boosted local economies, increased family income, production and food security. Social protection, through cash transfers, can and does work in Africa. Research and impact evaluations of government-run programmes have been carried out by the UNICEF (http://www.unicef.org/esaro/), FAO’s From Protection to Production (PtoP) (http://www.fao.org/economic/ptop) and the Transfer Project (http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/transfer). © FAO: http://www.fao.org
Social protection floor" (SPF) gives everyone access to basic social rights, services and facilities. and is even more urgent during times of economic crisis. The United Nations, led by the ILO and the WHO, has launched a global initiative to promote social protection for all. Individual countries are already taking the steps to make it happen, and are proving it can work, even in tough economic times. ** Un socle de protection sociale pour tous ** Le socle de protection sociale (FPS) donne à chacun accès aux services basiques des droits sociaux, des services et des installations. Ce dernier est d'autant plus urgent en période de crise économique. Les Nations Unies, dirigées par l'OIT et l'OMS, ont lancé une initiative globale visant à promouvoir la protection sociale pour tous. Différen...
For children living in poverty in the developing world, life is already fragile. Their situation is precarious, and includes the risk of poor health, malnutrition and a lack of education. Their first and last refuge of these children is family. But some events can push even families to the brink. At times like these, HIV and AIDS can make children in impoverished families even more vulnerable. But an approach to aid known as child-sensitive social protection creates a buffer against shocks such as chronic disease and can lift children out of poverty. This short video illustrates the ways social protection safeguards children and their families at every level from communities to entire countries and beyond. Link: http://www.uniteforchildren.org/index.html
http://www.fao.org/economic/ptop/en/ Benjamin Davis, team leader of FAO-led From Protection to Production (PtoP) project, explains Social Protection in relation to FAO's work and mandate. In particular he focuses on impacts of social cash transfers on rural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa and how these programmes can contribute to broader economic and agriculture development objectives. © FAO: http://www.fao.org
This video prepared focusing on ‘Social Protection and Agriculture: breaking the cycle of rural poverty’ – the theme of World Food Day 2015. Preparation of this video is an attempt to demonstrate social protection linked to agriculture—how it can help tackle the vulnerabilities faced by rural households, and play a fundamental role in improving food and nutrition security and reducing rural poverty. The video illustrates an example on how do social protection programmes work in Bangladesh. Usually they involve transfers to the poorest of cash or food. Sometimes these transfers are offered in return for work, especially where other employment opportunities are unavailable. The work component may involve activities such as land conservation, water resource management or afforestation/refo...
Public Service Announcement on the Social Protection Floor for all in Thailand.
Read your free e-book: http://copydl.space/mebk/50/en/B00872FK80/book Everyone agrees that firms should obey the law. But beyond what the law requires-beyond bare compliance with regulations-do firms have additional social responsibilities to commit resources voluntarily to environmental protection? How should we think about firms sacrificing profits in the social interest? Are they permitted to do so, given their fiduciary responsibilities to their shareholders? Even if permissible, is the practice sustainable, or will the competitive marketplace render such efforts and their impacts transient at best? Furthermore, is the practice, however well intended, an efficient use of social and economic resources? And, as an empirical matter, to what extent do firms already behave this way? Until n...
Read your free e-book: http://hotaudiobook.com/mebk/50/en/B00IC8N3BA/book Providing universal access to social protection and health systems for all members of society, including the poor and vulnerable, is increasingly considered crucial to international development debates. This is the first book to explore from an interdisciplinary and global perspective the reforms of social protection systems introduced in recent years by many governments of low and middle-income countries. Although a growing body of literature has been concerned with the design and impact of social protection, less attention has been directed towards analyzing and explaining these reform processes themselves. Through case studies of African, Asian, and Latin American countries, this book examines the global phenomeno...
Read your free e-book: http://copydl.space/mebk/50/en/B01JI7IXVI/book This book reviews broad social changes affecting youth development and the inconsistency of the legal system in updating its approach to adolescents rights. Legal experts examine current adolescent protections and offer research-based proposals for revising laws that underserve or criminalize youth under the rubric of protection. Focusing on the key areas of technology and media, education, and personal relationships, chapters discuss legal responses to a range of challenges impacting young people, including sexual exploitation, the right to privacy, military family issues, and the school-to-prison pipeline. The books nuanced concept of legal protection credits youth with greater competence than currently afforded, in ho...
Read your free e-book: http://copydl.space/mebk/50/en/B00L1GM39I/book Protecting children from abuse and neglect is a serious and complex area of social work practice and understanding the critical skills of communicating with and listening to children's voices, and those of their advocates and survivors, is essential. In this new edition of a highly-regarded book, the authors offer a strengthened children's rights perspective and explore four main categories of child abuse emotional abuse, sexual abuse, neglect and physical abuse. The book also considers legal safeguards and protective processes to increase the creativity and confidence of those undertaking such work. Locating knowledge and skills within a series of case examples from real life practice and serious case reviews, this book...
Read your free e-book: http://hotaudiobook.com/mebk/50/en/B00GY3MPSW/book Alexandra Hennessy examines an area of Europeanization that has been largely ignored by political analysts: the development of an internal market for workplace pensions. This book offers an analysis of what is at stake in workplace pension reforms, tracing how different states approached them and how national political economy models have shaped actors' bargaining strategy at the Eu level. Employing statistical analysis, formal modelling, and in-depth case study research, Hennessy highlights the role of informal signalling and communication processes in designing a common pension market. This book offers a theoretical framework that accounts for historical institutionalism, informal signalling processes and discourse...
Read your free e-book: http://hotaudiobook.com/mebk/50/en/B017WDAKC0/book This collection examines the human rights to social security and social protection from a women's rights perspective. The contributors stress the need to address women's poverty and exclusion within a human rights framework that takes account of gender. The chapters unpack the rights to social security and protection and their relationship to human rights principles such as gender equality, participation and dignity. Alongside conceptual insights across the field of women's social security rights, the collection analyses recent developments in international law and in a range of national settings. It considers the Ilo's Social Protection Floors Recommendation and the work of Un treaty bodies. It explores the differen...
At the beginning of the 21st century, rising inequalities led to the proposal of a social protection floor for the global economy, now fully endorsed by the United Nations and member countries. A social protection floor is necessary in any society because the benefits of growth do not automatically reach all; further, the need for adequate social protection systems has increased given the impacts of the global crisis. This presentation offered a review of selected policy issues, such as the importance of expanding social protection coverage, the debates on unconditional/conditional cash transfers and universal/targeted policies, and discuss affordability of a social protection floor as well as the high costs of keeping people excluded.
Thailand is taking steps to give people access to basic social protection, including providing universal health care and pension systems.
During this seminar, Keetie Roelen and Disa Sjöblom will discuss work on child-sensitive social protection in South Asia, including a study on the child-sensitivity of government-implemented social protection programmes in Nepal and experiences with Save the Children's Child-Sensitive Social Protection (CSSP) programming in Bangladesh, India and Nepal.
Stephen Devereux, IDS, presents the evidence on whether social and productive safety net programmes and policies are successfully reducing food and nutrition insecurity during UNRISD Seminar Series event: Food Security and Social Protection: Two Sides of the Same Coin? How to ensure that everybody has enough to eat in order to survive is one of the oldest development dilemmas. Food security was a dominant topic in the development discourse in the 1980s and 1990s, but it fell out of favour in the 2000s when social protection rose rapidly to prominence. Superficially, the two agendas seem to complement each other: food insecurity describes an inability to secure subsistence needs, and the mandate of social protection is to ensure that subsistence needs are met by public means whenever priva...
http://www.fao.org/resilience/home/en/ This webinar is the 4th of the monthly series of webinars on resilience organized jointly with the EU’s Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (DEVCO) and the FAO strategic programme on resilience within the framework of the EU-funded FAO INFORMED programme. In the context of the increased complexity of crises, protracted displacement, overstretched capacity and the lack of resources for meeting growing humanitarian needs, development and humanitarian actors are joining forces to find innovative approaches to effectively address these needs. Within this framework, FAO and its partners recognize that scaling-up cash-based programming as well as risk-informed and shock-responsive social protection systems are a strategic pri...
Sangheon Lee, ILO, talks about the global implications of income inequality growth during UNRISD Seminar Series event: Wages, Inequality and Development: Time to Turn the Wheel? Dr. Lee challenges conventional wisdom that holds that economic growth will reduce poverty and inequality. He does this by examining recent changes in labour income and their impact, both social and economic. He argues that economic growth cannot, by itself, reduce inequality, and calls for better integration of labour market and social protection policies. This is important because growing inequality is not just a social issue, it also harms the economy. For more information on the seminar, go to http://www.unrisd.org/seminars/lee. To download UNRISD's report on Combating Poverty and Inequality, go to http://w...
More on this lecture: http://goo.gl/MhFea More about Development Studies at SOAS: http://www.soas.ac.uk/development/ This Inaugural Lecture by Professor Guy Standing entitled "Precariat And Peasant: Reframing Social Protection For The 21st Century" was given on 19 June 2013 at SOAS University of London. Globalisation has produced a global class structure in which the precariat in countries as dissimilar as Britain and China is being expanded by austerity. Reforms intensify insecurities and inequalities. Anger is rising. A new vision is needed that reflects the precariat's aspirations and needs, makes universal basic security a priority and defines work as occupation rather than "jobs". A progressive and more ecological social protection system could then be constructed around principles o...
Only 20 per cent of the world’s population has adequate social security coverage and more than half lack any coverage at all. The extension of social protection to all would play a pivotal role in relieving people of poverty and deprivation. What does it take to get there? The ILO's Martin Murphy discusses with Isabel Ortiz, Director of the ILO Social Protection Department.
http://www.weforum.org/ 06.06.2012 How can sustainable and inclusive social protection models be designed and implemented in a challenging economic and demographic context? Speakers · Mohamed Najib Boulif, Minister of General Affairs and Governance of Morocco · Mazen S. Darwazeh, Chairman, MENA, Hikma Pharmaceuticals; Senator, Jordan · Juergen Griesbeck, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, streetfootballworld, Germany; Social Entrepreneur · Geoff Riddell, Member of the Group Executive Committee and Regional Chairman, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa, Zurich Insurance Group, Hong Kong SAR; Global Agenda Council on Insurance · Vincent Van Quickenborne, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Pensions of Belgium; Young Global Leader Moderated by · Eeva• -Maria Mikkonen-Jeanneret, East...
The Gender and Social Protection: Current Issues and Policy Trends webinar was organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the IPC-IG, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth. It commenced the Gender-Sensitive Social Protection Webinar Series. Date: May 3, 2016 Time: 9am – 10:30am (Washington DC) It addressed the following topics: • Gender equality and women's empowerment in terms of poverty reduction strategies, particularly in rural areas. • The impact on gender relations within the household and in the community. • Social protection interventions and services that matter the most for women, particularly rural women. • Complementary services that can make a difference in enabling gender equality and women's economic and social empow...