May 2022: Crisis recovery: employment policies and social protection
May 2022: Crisis recovery: employment policies and social protection
Welcome to our May newsletter!
In the month in which World Labour Day is celebrated, our newsletter explores the links between social protection and employability. This issue also brings our latest content, including webinars, publications, academic and job opportunities! Enrol in a new micro-course on adaptive social protection, exploring data and information. Listen to a new podcast episode on the conflict in Ukraine, and discover resources on work and social protection! Enjoy your reading!
Enrol in a new free micro-course on Data and Information socialprotection.org, IPC-IG, GIZ — The second micro-course of the e-Learning series on Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) addresses Data and information systems for shock preparedness and response, and social registries for ASP. The course will be available until 9 June.
Episode #13 | Social Protection in Ukraine — As the conflict in Ukraine continues, the challenge of supporting both the population staying and fleeing the country deepens. In this episode, we talk to specialists who are making the most out of social protection systems to support those in need.
Crisis recovery: employment policies and social protection
Conflicts, climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic and economic and political instabilities are among the multiple shocks to which everyone—especially informal workers—is exposed to. Coordinating social protection and employment policies can be a way to address socio-economic challenges towards a sustainable and resilient recovery. To delve deeper into this discussion, check out a curated selection of publications, blogs, events and podcast resources!
This event will explore the trajectories and extremes of youth unemployment in the Middle East and North African countries, including gender differences, particularly in the context of the Global Financial Crisis and the responses of the UN and international organisations.
Episode #9 | UBI and the World of Work — Fears around automation and the changing nature of work has fuelled interest in the Universal Basic Income (UBI) proposal. However, the prevailing narrative that welfare makes people less inclined to work could be an obstacle to achieve UBI.
Jobs Measurement and Employment Impact Assessment ILO — This paid course aims to improve the design and implementation of policies that promote job creation. It should build up the capacity to identify, measure and assess the employment effects of economic, sectoral, trade-related or labour market policies. The course starts on 7 September.
This report focuses on the real-time review of country measures in terms of social protection and job responses to COVID-19. As of January 2022, 223 economies have planned or implemented a total of 3,856 social protection and labour measures.
This programme started in 2020 aiming to improve employment and generate new productive proposals through the development of socio-productive, socio-community, socio-labour projects and educational completion.
