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Gender-sensitive social protection: A critical component of the COVID-19 response in low- and middle-income countries
Author: Hidrobo, Melissa
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As social protection programs and systems adapt to mitigate against the COVID-19 crisis, gender considerations are likely to be overlooked in an urgent effort to save lives and provide critical economic support. Yet, past research and learning indicates that small adaptations to make program design and implementation more gender-sensitive may result in overall and equality-related gains. We summarize some of these considerations for LMICs across five areas: 1) Adapting existing schemes and social protection modality choice, 2) targeting, 3) benefit level and frequency, 4) delivery mechanisms and operational features, and 5) complementary programming. It is our hope that COVID-19 will be an opportunity to address, and not exacerbate, pre-existing gender inequalities and lay the groundwork for more gender-sensitive social protection programming in LMICs beyond the crisis, building toward the wellbeing of societies as a whole.
Women’s Rights to Social Security and Social Protection
Author: Beth Goldblatt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-10-23
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1849469776
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 different approaches to expansion of social protection in developing countries (China, Chile and Bolivia). It also discusses conditionality in cash transfer programmes, a central debate in social policy and development, through a gender lens. Contributors consider the position of poor women, particularly single mothers, in developed countries (Australia, Canada, the United States, Ireland and Spain) facing the damaging consequences of welfare cuts. The collection engages with shifts in global discourse on the role of social policy and the way in which ideas of crisis and austerity have been used to undermine rights with harsh impacts on women.
Social Security
Author: International Labour Office
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9789221126249
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This report offers an in-depth overview of the important, and sometimes controversial, issues surrounding social security in a global context: its relationship to employment and development, its extension in terms of personal coverage, and its contribution to gender equality, as well as its financing. Consisting of resolutions and conclusions drawn from the International Labour Conference, 89th Session, 2001, this book contains the report to the conference - prepared for the general discussion on social security and sets out the key topics and priorities for providing and managing social security systems. Global trends in social security expenditure are covered, as the report addresses such pivotal questions as: Is social security facing an ageing crisis? Is it facing a globalization crisis? Has it reached its limits in terms of affordability? The concept of social dialogue, and its part in strengthening and expanding social security, is also discussed and the report considers how family and local solidarity networks, institutions, enterprises, governments and the international community can help enhance the effectiveness of social security. (ILO Website)
Mainstreaming Gender in Social Protection for the Informal Economy
Author: Naila Kabeer
Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780850928402
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the gendered dimensions of risk, vulnerability and insecurity and hence the need for a gender perspective in the design of social protection measures. This book provides an understanding of the constraints and barriers that confine women to more poorly remunerated, more casual and more insecure forms of waged and self-employment.
Key Policies for Addressing the Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequities
Author: Centers of Disease Control
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2017-09-27
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9289052651
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Evidence indicates that actions within four main themes (early child development fair employment and decent work social protection and the living environment) are likely to have the greatest impact on the social determinants of health and health inequities. A systematic search and analysis of recommendations and policy guidelines from intergovernmental organizations and international bodies identified practical policy options for action on social determinants within these four themes. Policy options focused on early childhood education and care; child poverty; investment strategies for an inclusive economy; active labour market programmes; working conditions; social cash transfers; affordable housing; and planning and regulatory mechanisms to improve air quality and mitigate climate change. Applying combinations of these policy options alongside effective governance for health equity should enable WHO European Region Member States to reduce health inequities and synergize efforts to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
World Social Protection Report 2017-19
Migration and Social Protection
Author: Rachel Sabates-Wheeler
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-03-01
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0230306551
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The growing scale of international migration has reshaped the debate on the social rights and social protection available to people outside their countries of origin. This book uses conceptual frameworks, policy analysis and empirical studies of migrants to explore international migrants' needs for and access to social protection across the world.
Women, gender and the informal economy : an assessment of ILO research and suggested ways forward
Author: Sylvia Chant
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9789221206088
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reviews ILO research on women, gender and the informal economy. It compares and contrasts analytical and methodological frameworks used in various studies, identifies research gaps and directions for future research, and indicates key findings that may assist concerned ILO units in taking action and formulating policy directions.
Toward Gender Equality in East Asia and the Pacific
Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0821396269
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Toward Gender Equality in East Asia and the Pacific examines the relationship between gender equality and development and outlines an agenda for public action to promote more effective and inclusive development in East Asian and Pacific countries.
