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All resources on social protection and development including materials on inclusive development; social health protection; gender equality; digital inclusion; cash transfers; child labour; and modern slavery.
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Linking Social Protection and Water Security to Empower Women and Girls
Assignment
September 25, 2020

Water insecurity is a significant, heavily gendered, and growing driver of poverty, vulnerability and risk. This paper explores the linkages between the social protection, water and gender sectors. It examines the ways in which water insecurity restricts female participation in social protection (and related education and employment opportunities) and undermines social protection efforts to promote… Read more

Climate Change, Social Protection, Urbanisation, water security
Gender
Social Protection
Social Protection and the Future of Work: A Gender Analysis
Assignment
September 25, 2020

There is growing pressure on social protection systems to adjust to a changing world of work and to harness the opportunities presented looking forward. The time is ripe to build on learning to date to deliver social protection that adequately addresses gender-related contingencies over the course of the life cycle and, in conjunction with wider… Read more

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Social Protection
Child Labour in South Asia: Assessing the Effectiveness of Interventions
Assignment
September 24, 2020

The Asia Pacific region has the highest numbers of both slavery and child labour victims in the world. Although there is a growing body of research and evaluations on specific sub-sectors and interest in the worst forms of labour exploitation, there has not yet been a systematic scoping or synthesis of studies that would help… Read more

Child labour, Modern Slavery
Social Protection
Human Trafficking in South Asia: Assessing Effectiveness of Interventions
Assignment
September 24, 2020

The Asia Pacific region has the highest numbers of both slavery and child labour victims in the world. Although there is a growing body of research and evaluations on specific sub-sectors and interest in the worst forms of labour exploitation, there has not yet been a systematic scoping or synthesis of studies that would help… Read more

Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery, trafficking
Gender
Social Protection
Gender-Sensitivity Analysis of the Sahel Adaptive Social Protection Programme
Assignment
August 17, 2020

The Sahel Adaptive Social Protection Programme (SASPp) was launched in 2014 to support the design and implementation of adaptive social protection programmes and systems in six Sahel countries: Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal. The SASPp aims to increase access to adaptive social protection systems for poor and vulnerable populations to help them… Read more

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The Secondary Impacts of COVID-19 on Women and Girls in Sub-Saharan Africa
Document Library
July 17, 2020

This rapid review focuses on identifying evidence on the secondary impacts of COVID-19 on women and girls in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It aims to enable a greater understanding of the unique circumstances of women and girls in the region, which could assist with the provision of effective support throughout the COVID-19 crisis and its aftermath…. Read more

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COVID-19 in the Context of Forced Displacement: Perspectives from the Middle East and East Africa
Document Library
July 6, 2020

This background paper presents considerations on how the COVID-19 pandemic is accentuating existing vulnerabilities of populations forcibly displaced by war (refugees, asylum-seekers, internally-displaced and stateless persons), in settings across East Africa and the Middle East. In addition to the devastating health threat the pandemic poses, lockdown measures imposed by governments to reduce transmission are having… Read more

Coronavirus, COVID-19, displacement
Gender
Social Protection
Online learning about social protection, for everyone everywhere
Blog
July 1, 2020

This blog was written by Keetie Roelen and originally appeared on the IDS website. Never has the need for social protection been greater. In response to the economic and social fallout of Covid-19, almost every country in the world has introduced or expanded programmes that support those who are most vulnerable. Informal and farm workers,… Read more

Health
Social Protection
Key Considerations for COVID-19 Management in Marginalised Populations in Southeast Asia
Document Library
May 22, 2020

Transnational Migrants, Informal Workers, and People Living in Informal Settlements This brief presents considerations for COVID-19 management among structurally vulnerable populations in Southeast Asia, including transnational migrants, people working in the informal economy, and people living in informal urban and peri-urban settlements. These vulnerable groups are generally poorly understood, ignored, or left out of formal… Read more

COVID-19
Gender
Social Protection
Transforming social protection: taking a gender lens to Nepal’s social security allowance
Blog
May 4, 2020

This was originally posted on DAI’s website.  Nepal is in the midst of a demographic shift. Over the past three decades, its fertility rate has declined and population growth has stalled. The country has quickly moved from a high-mortality, high-fertility society to a low-mortality, low-fertility society. Although this shift is an encouraging indicator of development,… Read more

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Gender
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COVID-19 and what the digital divide means for people’s livelihoods in Kenya
Blog
April 23, 2020

This blog originally appeared on the Open University website and is reposted with their permission Measures to control the current pandemic impact more heavily on everyone whose access to internet and digital technologies is limited. But in some countries, the impact can be particularly devastating, says Anna Colom. The COVID-19 pandemic has shed light on the inequalities in access to the… Read more

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