ilo.org (14.03.2016) New ILO study highlights huge decent work deficits for domestic workers throughout the world.

Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (04.03.2016) Enhancing social protection is an immediate priority for reaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Cambodia. One of the major goals of the SDGs is to eliminate extreme poverty by 2030. Cambodia’s historical success in pro-poor growth over the last decade sheds light into several challenges that growth, as defined from an economic perspective, has failed to sufficiently address, including chronic poverty, child poverty, inequality and malnutrition.

effective-states.org (08.03.2016) Forthcoming ESID research on the politics of social protection shows that crises have been central drivers of social protection expansion in Ethiopia, and elsewhere.

FAO (01.03.2016) This study forms part of seven country case studies carried out as part of the FAO project “Strengthening Coherence between Agriculture and Social Protection”. Ghana was selected as one of the countries because of its emerging social protection agenda and the presence of a now well-established National Social Protection Strategy, along with the growing importance at policy level attached to issues of coherence and coordination.

ilo.org (22.04.2015) African Ministers of Social Development, Labour and Employment are discussing social protection for inclusive development from 23-24 April 2015 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Key policy recommendations and strategies are to be adopted by Member States. ILO News talks with Luis Frota, Social Security Specialist in the African region, to assess the reality on the ground and share good practises.

ideas4development.org (09.02.2016) One of the most highly charged debates in social security is whether it is preferable to offer schemes to everyone or target them only at the poor. Across both developed and developing countries, we find many examples of both approaches: for example, according to the ILO (2014), 36 countries offer universal social pension schemes while 53 countries means-test them. From a technical perspective there really is no argument: universal provision is vastly superior in reaching those living in poverty and in reducing both poverty and inequality.

OsunDefenderOsunDefender (09.02.2016) Ghana’s Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur has announced that the poverty level in the country has been reduced from 51.7 per cent to 24.4 per cent as a result of a number of social protection measures and strategies introduced by the government.

El País (31.01.2016) Entre 2003 y 2014, América Latina, y sobre todo el sur de la región beneficiado por la bonanza de las materias primas, experimentó fuertes bajadas de los niveles de paro, pobreza y desigualdad. Pero la contracción económica de 2015, concentrada en Brasil y Venezuela, ha revertido la tendencia de la reducción del desempleo, llevando a numerosas personas a la pobreza.

Challenges (27.01.2016) Guillaume Cairou réagit sur la piste d'un assouplissement du portage salarial, afin de faciliter l'entrepreneuriat individuel et permettre aux travailleurs ubérisés de bénéficier d'une protection sociale.

includeplatform.net (26.01.2016) Applying a gender lens to social protection policies is necessary to reduce inequality between men and women and make development more inclusive. This is the main message from a new paper by Julie Newton for INCLUDE, ‘Making Social Protection Gender Sensitive for Inclusive Development in Sub-Saharan Africa’.