Stability and prosperity are the watchwords of the United Nations Charter. They are prerequisites for sound and cordial relations between nations, based on respect for the principle of equal rights that ensures and provides equality self-determination of...
Founded in 1866, the American University of Beirut bases its educational philosophy, standards, and practices on the American liberal arts model of higher education. A teaching-centered research university, AUB has around 800 instructional...
The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) was inaugurated in 2006 to harness the policy-related research of AUB's internationally respected faculty and other scholars, in order...
CEP was launched in 2006 to support issues related to the right to work of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. It is unique in its composition as it brings together key actors in the Palestinian refugee employment environment with representatives from: The...
The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a humanitarian, non-governmental, non-profit organisation founded in 1956 that works in more than 30 countries throughout the world. DRC fulfils its mandate by providing direct assistance to conflict-affected...
SPRI stands for research, research-based advisory- and capacity building- services.The core areas in SPRI’s global research agenda encompass: poverty analyses with an emphasis on multidimensional non-monetary poverty, SDG monitoring, social protection-...
The conference happened on 28th and 29th September 2017 in Brussels. The programme was organised around two themes, namely: Effective social protection in fragile contexts; The needs of forcibly displaced populations and host communities, and the role of...
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This paper examines the economic, social and political dimensions of pension policy and pension reform in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA). It begins by analysing the main deficits of the existing public pension schemes and their...
Institutions et organismes impliqués: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, UNRISD
The generous social health protection systems that Arab governments have built up during the 1960s and 1970s continue to exist but they lack the funds needed to function in the way they did twenty years ago. Even more serious however is the fact that...