This document presents a proposal for a harmonised inter-sectoral approach to cash+ (cash and other forms of support) in anticipation of rapid onset hazard events as well as the response phase. The formulations are based on the HCTT pre-crisis survey...
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While the Albanian population is ageing rapidly, Albania is facing an imminent challenge to ensure the access to affordable and quality long-term care services for all the elderly in need. Within the framework of the Joint UN Programme “Strategic policy...
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The paper, “Building Iraq’s Social Protection Floor – Framework and recommendations,” looks at some of the gaps and challenges in Iraq’s social protection system and identifies operational, country specific, costed interventions that “should be considered to...
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More people are currently displaced within their own countries than ever recorded before due to conflict, violence, disasters and the impact of climate change. The number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) has doubled over the last ten years, with women,...
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The present report on progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals is submitted in response to General Assembly resolution 70/1, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. At the midpoint to 2030, this special...
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In 2020, ESCAP member States endorsed the regional Action Plan to Strengthen Regional Cooperation on Social Protection (Action Plan), which serves as a shared vision, strategy and platform for promoting partnership and peer learning and identifying needs for...
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