Social Protection

Creation of jobs and decent work together with extending coverage of social protection, vocational training provision and skills development in both formal sector and informal economy are essential for inclusive growth. Here we want to raise awareness and knowledge on the important role of employment, VET and social protection as key elements in the EU's development policy.

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Defining social protection programmes - Social mitigation of HIV/AIDS - Social Protection policies - Social services aid & social transfers - Welfare services policies

NEW - ILO World Employment and Social Outlook - Trends 2015

Masala Boly posted Information | 4 February 2015

The ILO World Employment and Social Outlook - Trends 2015 (former Global Employment Trends) does not present a very optimistic scenario. This report finds that the global employment outlook will deteriorate in the coming five years. Global unemployment is expected to increase by 3 million in 2015...

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Transformative Change through Social Protection?

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 5 December 2014

A study of five social protection projects in South Asia has found they struggled to create transformative change, and were unable to tackle the persistent discrimination driving poverty and social exclusion.

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Amouzou Bedi commented on a document | 25 November 2014

Promises to Keep - Crafting Better Development Goals

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are applied to all people (rich and poor) worldwide. We have ALL witnessed or been party to the failure of some Millennium Development Goals to achieve their assigned objectives. The struggles and upheavals around the world have highlighted the lack of sufficient...

Group: Capacity Development & Technical Cooperation
Promises to Keep - Crafting Better Development Goals

Amouzou Bedi uploaded a new Document | 25 November 2014

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"The United Nations has always had lots of targets, goals, and declarations. You probably didn’t know, for example, that 2014 is the International Year of Family Farming and the International Year of Crystallography—or that you are currently living through the Decade of Action for Road Safety. Such...

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Transformative Change through Social Protection?

Capacity4dev Team posted Information | 19 November 2014

A study of five social protection projects in South Asia has found they struggled to create transformative change, and were unable to tackle the persistent discrimination driving poverty and social exclusion. Nicholas Taylor, Head of Sector for Employment, Social Inclusion and Social Protection at...

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Transformative Change through Social Protection?

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 19 November 2014

A study of five social protection projects in South Asia has found they struggled to create transformative change, and were unable to tackle the persistent discrimination driving poverty and social exclusion.

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Human Resources for Health: A Capacity Development project implemented in India

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 7 November 2014

On a recent trip to India, Renée Zandvliet, working with EuropeAid’s 'Civil Society and Local Authorities' unit, saw that civil society organisations (CSOs) often play a supportive role in improving the functioning and outreach of public health systems, as well as helping strengthen Human...

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Workshop on Linking Social Assitance and Prodcutive Inclusion, 12-13 November, Lima

Helge Arends uploaded a new Document | 22 October 2014

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Regional Workshop among Latin American and Asian policy makers on strategies to link conditional cash transfer programmes with initiatives to promote productive inclusion and labor activation, 12-13 November in Lima.

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Group: Public Group on Employment, VET and Social Protection
Call for Papers - International Workshop on Measuring the social, economic and political effects of social protection

Helge Arends uploaded a new Document | 22 October 2014

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Call for papers for an international workshop on: Measuring the social, economic and political effects of social protection: How to overcome the challenges? Bonn, German Development Institute (Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, DIE) 15-17 April 2015

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Group: Public Group on Employment, VET and Social Protection
Lunch Time InfoPoint Conference : Can social protection and labour programmes contribute to social inclusion?

Masala Boly updated the event | 15 October 2014

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From 17 October 2014

At the occasion of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty we are pleased to invite you to the lunch conference at our InfoPoint on 17 October at 12.30 to present the results of the research we have funded to ODI: *Can social protection and labour programmes contribute to social...

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