Gender And Social Protection In The Developing World
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Gender and Social Protection in the Developing World
Author | : Rebecca Holmes,Nicola Jones |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2013-03-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781780320434 |
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Millions of pounds of international development funds are invested annually in social protection programmes to tackle poverty. Poverty is perpetuated by risk and vulnerability, much of which is gendered. Despite this, little attention has been paid to gender-sensitive policy and programme design and implementation. Gender and Social Protection in the Developing World introduces a much-needed gender lens to these debates. Drawing on empirical evidence from poor households and communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America, the book provides rich insight into the effects of a range of social protection instruments. It concludes that with relatively simple changes to design and with investment in implementation capacity, social protection can contribute to transforming gender relations at the individual, intrahousehold and community levels. With a foreword by Stephen Devereux.
Gender Social Protection Strategies in the Informal Economy
Author | : Naila Kabeer |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2014-03-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781317809906 |
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The vast majority of the world’s working women, particularly those from low-income households in developing countries, are located in the informal economy in activities that are casual, poorly paid, irregular and outside the remit of formal social security and protective legislation. This book examines the constraints and barriers which continue to confine women to these forms of work and what this implies for their ability to provide for themselves and their families and to cope with insecurity. It develops a framework of analysis that integrates gender, life course and livelihoods perspectives in order to explore the interactions between gender inequality, household poverty and labour market forces that help to produce gender-differentiated experiences of risk and vulnerability for the working poor. Drawing on practical experiences from the field, It uses this framework to demonstrate the relevance of a gender-analytical approach to the design and evaluation of a range of social protection measures that are relevant to women at different stages of their life course. These include conditional and unconditional social transfers to reduce child labour and promote children’s education, child care support for working women, financial services for the poor, employment generation through public works and different measures for old age security. The book stresses the importance of an organised voice for working women if they are to ensure that employers, trade unions and governments respond to their need for socio-economic security. Finally, the book synthesises the main lessons that emerge from the discussion and the linkages between social protection strategies and the broader macro-economic framework. A book that will be of interest to a wide range of readers—those in the fields of economics, sociology and gender studies, as also activists and policy-makers.
Social Protection in Developing Countries
Author | : Katja Bender,Markus Kaltenborn,Christian Pfleiderer |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2013-09-02 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781136178504 |
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Providing universal access to social protection and health systems for all members of society, including the poor and vulnerable, is increasingly considered crucial to international development debates. This is the first book to explore from an interdisciplinary and global perspective the reforms of social protection systems introduced in recent years by many governments of low and middle-income countries. Although a growing body of literature has been concerned with the design and impact of social protection, less attention has been directed towards analyzing and explaining these reform processes themselves. Through case studies of African, Asian, and Latin American countries, this book examines the ‘global phenomenon’ of recent social protection reforms in low and middle-income areas, and how it differs across countries both in terms of scope and speed of institutional change. Exploring the major domestic and international factors affecting the political feasibility of social protection reform, the book outlines the successes and failures of recent reform initiatives. This invaluable book combines contributions from both academics and practitioner experts to give students, researchers and practitioners in the fields of social security, economics, law and political science an in-depth understanding of political reform processes in developing countries.
Gender Equality and the Extension of Social Protection
Author | : Rachel Sabates-Wheeler |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Social security |
ISBN | : MSU:31293026117048 |
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Gender sensitive social protection A critical component of the COVID 19 response in low and middle income countries
Author | : Hidrobo, Melissa,Kumar, Neha,Palermo, Tia,Peterman, Amber,Roy, Shalini |
Publsiher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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As social protection programs and systems adapt to mitigate against the COVID-19 crisis, gender considerations are likely to be overlooked in an urgent effort to save lives and provide critical economic support. Yet, past research and learning indicates that small adaptations to make program design and implementation more gender-sensitive may result in overall and equality-related gains. We summarize some of these considerations for LMICs across five areas: 1) Adapting existing schemes and social protection modality choice, 2) targeting, 3) benefit level and frequency, 4) delivery mechanisms and operational features, and 5) complementary programming. It is our hope that COVID-19 will be an opportunity to address, and not exacerbate, pre-existing gender inequalities and lay the groundwork for more gender-sensitive social protection programming in LMICs beyond the crisis, building toward the wellbeing of societies as a whole.
Learning from Experience
Author | : Francie Jane Lund,Smita Srinivas |
Publsiher | : International Labour Organization |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Informal sector (Economics) |
ISBN | : 9789221121077 |
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Provides an overview of the need for social protection of women workers in the informal sector. Sketches some innovative approaches to social protection that have been undertaken by governments, community-based organizations and other non-governmental bodies; identifies gaps and priorities for future research, development programme and policy. Appendix: Case studies (Case 7: The South African Old Age Pension (SA-OAP)).
Women s Rights to Social Security and Social Protection
Author | : Beth Goldblatt,Lucie Lamarche |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2014-10-23 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781849469777 |
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This collection examines the human rights to social security and social protection from a women's rights perspective. The contributors stress the need to address women's poverty and exclusion within a human rights framework that takes account of gender. The chapters unpack the rights to social security and protection and their relationship to human rights principles such as gender equality, participation and dignity. Alongside conceptual insights across the field of women's social security rights, the collection analyses recent developments in international law and in a range of national settings. It considers the ILO's Social Protection Floors Recommendation and the work of UN treaty bodies. It explores the different approaches to expansion of social protection in developing countries (China, Chile and Bolivia). It also discusses conditionality in cash transfer programmes, a central debate in social policy and development, through a gender lens. Contributors consider the position of poor women, particularly single mothers, in developed countries (Australia, Canada, the United States, Ireland and Spain) facing the damaging consequences of welfare cuts. The collection engages with shifts in global discourse on the role of social policy and the way in which ideas of crisis and austerity have been used to undermine rights with harsh impacts on women.
Mainstreaming Gender in Social Protection for the Informal Economy
Author | : Naila Kabeer |
Publsiher | : Commonwealth Secretariat |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0850928400 |
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Explores the gendered dimensions of risk, vulnerability and insecurity and hence the need for a gender perspective in the design of social protection measures. This book provides an understanding of the constraints and barriers that confine women to more poorly remunerated, more casual and more insecure forms of waged and self-employment.