February 2016
20 February 2016 marks the United Nations World Day of Social Justice, therefore this month’s newsletter introduces a variety of content on the theme.
We invite you to gain detailed insight into our latest developments in our January 2016 Progress Report.
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Highlights
Over the past 5 months, socialprotection.org has amassed almost 700 members from over 90 countries, affiliated with more than 40 institutions. The platform also features a Publications Search that directs access to over 1500 of the latest and most relevant publications related to social protection.
We are proud to announce that the Inter-American Social Protection Network (IASPN) is now a partner of socialprotection.org. The IASPN is a community of practice designed to promote the exchange and transfer of experiences and knowledge on social protection.
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Publications Search
Social justice aims at removing the social barriers that generate discrimination and vulnerability. In light of this, we invite you to discover this Overseas Development Institute (ODI) publication, Social protection pathways: shaping social justice outcomes for the most marginalised, now and post-2015, shared by socialprotection.org Ambassador, Prof M. Thanga Darwin. This Background Note investigates macro- to micro-impact pathways for transformative social protection that promotes social inclusion and accountability.
Prof. Darwin also shared the International Labour Organization’s (ILO), From fiscal consolidation to expanding social protection: Key to crisis recovery, inclusive development and social justice publication. This policy paper presents the developmental arguments to invest in social protection in pursuit of crisis recovery, inclusive development and social justice.
In the flagship report, Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016: Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights, by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), it is brought to light how all too often women’s economic and social rights are compromised. The report submits that the harmonisation of macroeconomic and social policies can achieve equality. This in turn highlights how the realisation of women’s rights cannot be separated from broader questions of economic and social justice.
Member Search
Raiden Dillard (World Bank) shared Being Fair, Faring Better: Promoting Equality of Opportunity for Marginalized Roma. This publication recognises how equality of opportunity not only promotes social justice, but also presents a smart economic choice, as demonstrated in rapidly aging European societies, where young Roma represent a growing share of new labour market entrants. Equality of opportunity is increasingly understood to be an essential component of a fair and just society.
Stakeholder Search
socialprotection.org’s Stakeholder Search holds a directory of stakeholders related to the field of social protection. We invite you to include your institution in this directory by accessing the Share tab.
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Online Communities
Four new Online Communities have been created over this past month, organised by UNICEF, DFID, WFP, the European Commission, the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the World Bank Group, SPIAC-B and the IPC-IG.
Discussion Forum
You can now download resources on the Discussion Forum to support the management and dissemination of Online Communities. This includes email templates to support discussions as well as guidelines catering ton. o Online Community members and administrators. Simply access Platform Administration and then click on the Online Community Resources: Email Templates and Guidelines discussion.
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