Social and Economic Policy
Social and economic policy updates
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Latest news
- UNICEF Working Brief: Social Protection: Accelerating the MDGs with Equity
- UNICEF Report: Recovery for All: A Call for Collaborative Action
- UNICEF Working Paper: Migration, Development and Children Left Behind: A Multidimensional Approach
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Social and Economic Policy updates
Child-sensitive Social Protection
This month, the spotlight is on UNICEF's work in social protection. Learn more about:
- Country and regional highlights;
- Documents and publications;
- Joint Statement on Child Sensitive Social Protection
- Meetings and events, and;
- Useful links to partner organizations.
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Documents and publications
UNICEF and our partner organizations produce reports, working papers and working briefs that address crucial issues facing the world's children. Recent publications include:
- Social Protection: Accelerating the MDGs with Equity, Isabel Ortiz, Gaspar Fajth, Jennifer Yablonski and Amjad Rabi, UNICEF
- Conditional Cash Transfers: A Global Perspective by Gaspar Fajth and Claudia Vinay, MDG Insights
- Social Protection Floor Initiative, WHO and ILO
- Inclusive Crises, Exclusive Recoveries and Policies to Prevent a Double Whammy for the Poor, Ronald Mendoza, UNICEF
- Joint Statement on Child Sensitive Social Protection now available in French
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Meetings and events
8-10 September. Manchester University, UK. The Chronic Poverty Research Centre celebrated ten years of poverty research with an international conference hosted by the Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester. This event brought together leading poverty researchers and actors for poverty reduction to:
- Review state of the art in poverty reduction;
- Showcase CPRC's key research findings on chronic poverty;
- Set the research and policy agenda on poverty research for the next ten years (2010-2020).
13-15 April 2011. The Centre for Social Protection will convene a three day conference on social protection for social justice. The conference aims to explore future directions for social protection that go beyond social safety nets and risk management, to address broader concerns wtih redistrubutive equity and social injustice.
Learn more about the upcoming conference.
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Country spotlight: Case studies from India, Nepal, Sierra Leone and Zambia
Field Notes is a UNICEF publication that highlights lessons learned and good practices in programming, policy and operations. This field note examines Community Approaches to Total Sanitation (CATS) based on case studies from India, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Zambia. Learn more.
Regional spotlight: West and Central Africa
UNICEF's Innocenti Reseach Centre recently released the new working paper Simulating the Impact of the Global Ecnomic Crisis and Policy Responses on Children in West and Central. The study aimed to assess the potential effects of the global economic crisis on children in Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Ghana and the proposal of concrete policy responses to the policy makers.
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Key resources
Human Rights, Children and Migration Database
The Human Rights, Children and Migration Database, developed jointly by UNICEF and the Human Rights Center of the National University of Lanus, is a compilation of excerpts from the concluding observations of UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies related to migration and children's rights from 2000-2009. The database is organized by key issues and is searchable by subject, year, country and committee.
MigrantInfo Database
MigrantInfo is an online database adapted from DevInfo containing data on indicators related to global migration. Developed by UNICEF in partnership with UN/DESA and the University of Houston, the database allows users to generate tables, graphs and maps using the latest available estimates of the international migrant stock, disaggregated by age and gender.
Documents and publications
Country and regional highlights
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