Here's a great paper by Nick Freeland on the confusion caused by the Transformative Social Protection approach and the need for countries to adopt a lifecycle approach (as many are doing). developmentpathways.co.uk/publications/p… ILOSocialProtection UNICEF MENA - يونيسف الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا Lena Simet UNICEF Social Policy socialprotection.org

Article in NEJM on the #ChildTaxCredit in the US frames social protection as essential infrastructure: 'cash-transfer programs should not be viewed as charity for the poor, but be regarded, codified, and funded as essential public health and safety infrastructure” 👇👇👇

Matthew Greenslade reports on the CSPF event at the WB/IMG Spring Meetings, with a critique of the WB's continued use of poverty-targeting measures in its social protection programmes in low-income countries.
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📣World Bank & IMF have failed to promote social security for all. They insist on targeted programs that don't deliver for the most marginalized.
Act Svenska kyrkan + 95 other orgs urge them to fulfil human rights #SocialSecurityForAll ACT Alliance
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This is big! 65 heads of state and major world leaders just sent an open letter to Governor Kathy Hochul Carl E. Heastie Sen. Stewart-Cousins urging New York to pass the Sovereign Debt Stability Act! oxf.am/4aQ0qkD

EU parl approves supply chain law on the 11th anniversary of the #RanaPlaza disaster.

Holding all victims & survivors in our thoughts today as we get closer to a new chapter on corporate accountability.

Human Rights Watch #csddd #BizHumanRights

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📢 It’s time for universal social security! 96 organisations wrote to World Bank and IMF Executive Directors to ask them to move away from failed social safety net approaches and deliver on the right to social security for all. socialprotectionfloorscoalition.org/2024/04/world-…  #SocialSecurityForAll

'Pakistan paid about [7 times] more per person to service its external public debts than it did on health care in 2021'

Great new piece from Saroop Ijaz in The News shows how public debt payments have contributed to Pakistan’s healthcare crisis 👇

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The #FfD4 has started at United Nations. What’s at stake? A lot. Agenda is packed with discussions on how to address high inequality, debt, reforming the international financial architecture, tax cooperation & more. Follow 👉Civil Society Financing for Development Mechanism for updates. #Fin4Dev #GlobalGoals   #FinancingOurFuture

96 organizations have written to the World Bank & IMF Directors asking to:
✅ #EndAusterity
✅Support states to realize #RighttoSocialSecurity
✅Support public systems, instead of private
✅Replace poverty-targeting focus with universal systems

actionaid.org/publications/2…

Civil Society has landed in NY & is ready to engage in the #FfDForum 2024! #Fin4Dev #GlobalGoals The Mechanism is having its strategic preparatory meeting today to go through key regional and thematic priorities for civil society! #EconomicJustice #UnTaxConvention #CancelTheDebt

The World Bank & @IMF's approach to social protection falls short. We call on them to:

📌Cease harmful austerity
📌Support states to realize the right to social security
📌Replace focus on poverty-targeting with universal systems
📌Support public systems

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Every person has the #RighttoSocialSecurity

ActionAid has joined forces with 96 organisations to urge World Bank & IMF to support policies aligned with human rights #CSPF24

Read our joint letter: actionaid.org/publications/2…

New study by Policy in Practice shows that £23 billion (0.9% of GDP) of poverty benefits are unclaimed in the UK (ie. targeting errors). If UK can't reach 'the poor', no wonder there are massive targeting errors in poor countries: policyinpractice.co.uk/missing-out-20… Lena Simet Ugo Gentilini

We have written to the World Bank IMF
Directors to:
📌Support states to realize the #Righttosocialsecurity 📷Replace focus on poverty-targeting with universal systems #Socialsecurityforall
📌Support public systems, instead of private
📷 #EndAusterity
socialprotectionfloorscoalition.org/2024/04/world-…

Poverty targeted social protection comes with huge costs: high errors, it can be divisive & cause social unrest, miss the middle, and is less likely to gain broad political support Matthew Greenslade #CSPF24 #SocialSecurityforAll

At the World Bank #CSPF24 on #UniversalSocialProtection - Angella Nabwowe Kasule makes the case that in countries without social security and public services “we’re one bill away from poverty”

For those interested in joining online, you can do so here: 🔗worldbankgroup.zoom.us/j/94285791726?… #CSPF2024 #SocialSecurityforAll

Excited to be speaking on this panel on #UniversalSocialProtection at the ongoing World Bank IMF #SM2024 in Washington DC. We all need social protection! For Africa, the AU Protocol to the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights has a more holistic interpretation of social protection. Join us.

Every person has the #RighttoSocialSecurity . Human Rights Watch joined forces with 96 orgs to urge World Bank & IMF to support policies aligned with human rights #CSPF24 : socialprotectionfloorscoalition.org/2024/04/world-… #SocialSecurityForAll