UNHCR’s assistance around the world has been performing the same role as social protection for many years. However, with most refugees in protracted situations and a small percentage of those ...

CLIMATE change poses an existential threat to human societies, particularly in low- and middle-income countries that are disproportionately affected yet often lack the resources to mount effective ...

27 February 2024 - Over 4 billion people worldwide lack access to basic social protection, leaving them vulnerable to economic shocks, health crises, and social exclusion. Urgent and concerted efforts ...

“While women’s disadvantage in older age is mainly a result of discrimination throughout the life-course, the design of gender-sensitive pension systems is essential.” Gender equality and women’s ...

BEIRUT/LONDON – Since their inception in late-nineteenth-century Europe, social protection programs have been financed primarily through payroll contributions by workers and employers. These schemes ...

Rania Antonopoulos is Director of the Gender Equality and the Economy Program at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, New York. Periods of economic upheaval are always destabilizing and, as ...

A new self-paced course, Social Protection: Conflict, Fragility and Displacement, has launched to coincide with an IDS-hosted conference organised by the BASIC (Better Assistance in Crises) Research ...

This event shares new research findings and brings together key voices to discuss current challenges, funding gaps, and what needs to change ahead of the upcoming Financing for Development conference.