August 2017: Social Protection and Education

Welcome to the new edition of socialprotection.org’s newsletter!

In this issue, we explore the links between social protection and education: check out a report exploring social protection policies catering to unemployed and uneducated Senegalese youth, and a video on Mongolia’s programme to educate and raise awareness among young people on their social protection rights.
We hope you enjoy reading!

Publications
This month we share the following publications:

	Social Protection: what about young people not in Employment, nor in Education, nor in Training Published by the French research organisation IRD, this paper assesses the phenomenon of Senegalese young people who are neither in education, nor in employment, nor in training (NEET) and addresses questions such as the type of policy that can be implemented to tackle it, among others.

	Video: Mongolia - Social protection education This video, produced by the International Labour Organization (ILO), presents Mongolia's programme aimed at providing young people with information on the importance of the social and health insurance.

New blog post
This month we present a new Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) blog post series on Health and Social Protection. The authors, Nadin Medellín, Marco Stampini, and Pablo Ibarrarán, from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), explain how Conditional Cash Transfers programmes are being used to improve access to both health services and the overall health condition of families living in poverty in the Latin America and the Caribbean. Available in English and Spanish.

Virtual Campus
We invite you to register for our upcoming webinar, organised by the Brazil Learning Initiative for a World Without Poverty (WWP):

Thursday
24 August
11AM (GMT-3)
Spanish

Investing in the early years: the experience of Chile and Peru

News
Russia Funds National School Meal Programme in Mozambique, published by AllAFrica.com, on 1 August, 2017.

Ghana: Gender Ministry rolls out comprehensive action plan to address ‘Streetism’, published by GhanaWeb, on 7 August, 2017.

Events
Check out the highlighted event of the month!

23-25 October
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

More details here

Putting children first: Identifying solutions and taking action to tackle poverty and inequality in Africa

UNICEF, Save the Children, the Partnership for Economic Policy, the African Child Policy Forum, the Institute for Development Studies, and the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, have joined together to organise a three-day international conference aimed at identifying solutions for fighting child poverty and inequality in Africa, and inspiring action towards change.

Discussion Forum
New job opportunities are a click away!

The IDB is looking for a Social Protection and Health Specialist/Senior Specialist to join its team in Colombia. UNICEF has a position open for a Programme and Planning Specialist in New York, and the UNHCR is hiring a Child Protection Expert to work in Africa. Check out these and other opportunities on socialprotection.org's Job Opportunities and Calls for Papers page.

As always, we invite you to share job opportunities and call for papers in the field of social protection with the platform's specialised community.

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