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Barriers to access social assistance for disabled children in Kazakhstan

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on Mon, 22/06/2020 - 14:34
Families who have a child with disabilities face barriers which concern the availability and quality of services, limited awareness and information, difficulties with application procedures, social stigma and negative attitudes. A research conducted by UNICEF in three regions in Kazakhstan concluded that only 10-15% of parents of a child with a disability have applied for social assistance or special social services for their children (UNICEF 2017a). This blog will highlight the main barriers to social assistance and special services for disabled children in the country. The economic and social conditions of Kazakhstan’s population have improved significantly in the last two decades. Nevertheless, Kazakhstan’s expenditure on social protection is lower than that of other countries in the...Read more

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The Role of Social Protection in Emergency Response in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Submitted by Jana Šulcová
on Mon, 18/05/2020 - 00:00
Haiti Hit by Hurricane Matthew
As most social protection programmes have been conceived as instruments for reducing chronic poverty and/or providing support across the life cycle, risk management is one of the main functions of social protection systems. While all social protection programmes are geared towards addressing shocks, shock-responsive social protection focuses on those shocks that affect a considerable proportion of population simultaneously (e.g. hurricanes, floods). Social protection has the potential to foster recovery and increase households’ resilience to shocks when provided on a regular and predictable basis. Another merit of social protection in emergency response is that it can help to ensure that poor and vulnerable households impacted by shocks are not pushed further into chronic poverty (World...Read more

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Improving the access to social protection for workers and the self-employed in the EU

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on Mon, 20/04/2020 - 16:51
As the labour market changes, there is a need to adapt the social protection systems and avoid that larger parts of the workforce are left without enough access to social protection. This blog will discuss a recent recommendation of the Council of the EU which addresses these issues. The social protection systems in the EU are very diverse and differ in many aspects, such as the degree of coverage of risks in the population and the size and allocation of the budget. By international standards, the EU member states have very high levels of social protection (European Commission, 2018b). Nevertheless, only a few of them have undertaken reforms to adapt their social protection systems in accordance with the changing needs of the workforce and the improvements have been uneven across...Read more

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