Addressing inflation-related food insecurity is a global priority, but how are social protection systems responding to the crisis? Our updated tracker (v.2) includes data on 376 social protection responses across 121 economies ! Subsidies claim 61% of...
What do we know about welfare regimes in Latin America? What do we know about the role of (f)actors shaping social protection development and inclusion? What do we know about recent debates regarding social protection and welfare in Latin America? This...
Food systems are under strain . One-tenth of the world’s population is undernourished and food needs are expected to nearly double by 2050 (Bendjebbar et al. 2019; WHO 2021) . Africa and South Asia could experience a decrease in mean grain yields by up...
Publisher: Food Systems Summit Coalition and USP2030 Working Group on Social Protection and Food Systems Transformation
It is well accepted that “effectiveness is the holy grail of a social protection system” (Kidd and Athias 2019). Therefore, finding ways to improve the effectiveness is a permanent agenda. From another point of view, regarding the role of public policy...
What’s the latest on social protection for displaced Ukrainian populations? Our newly released global tracker (v.4) records 730 measures in 41 countries , representing a 41% increase relative to April. About 28% of measures include social assistance (...
The ‘Inequality Reduction Through Social Protection - Webinar in preparation of the UN Commission for Social Development’ webinar took place on 29 January 2019. The webinar aimed to introduce and discuss the UN Secretary General’s reports to the ECOSOC...
Written by Gala Dahlet, Marco Knowles and Garima Bhalla, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) The climate has changed and is continuing to change. Small-scale farmers in developing countries are among those that least contribute to climate change, yet...
Through its Question of the Week , the INCLUDE Knowledge Platform on Inclusive Development Policies, gathers viewpoints from its broad network of academics, policymakers, civil society organisations and other policy stakeholders on current policy...
Amidst the health, social and economic crisis caused by COVID-19, the need for adequate and comprehensive social protection has become more evident than ever. The pandemic has been a wake-up call for national governments to the urgency of accelerating...
Social protection is enshrined in the United Nations 2030 Agenda, enshrined in Sustainable Development Goal 1 , ‘to end poverty in all its forms everywhere’, via the implementation of universal, national social protection floors, to ensure no one is left...
