31 civil society groups issued a statement today on #Lebanon's escalating poverty crisis, urging the World Bank IMF European Commission وزارة الشؤون الإجتماعية to stop promoting social protection that stigmatizes and to instead invest in human rights-aligned social security systems.

🔊New report: 'Investing in social protection for good times and bad' examines #SocialProtection expenditure in 14 Pacific countries & Timor-Leste. Funded by Australian Gov't, produced by P4SP: p4sp.org/resources/inve… Charles Knox-Vydmanov Stephen Kidd Scott Santens Neil Coleman

🌟 Have you listened to our latest podcast on gender-transformative #SocialProtection? Here's a snippet on addressing gender-based violence. Listen to the full podcast: developmentpathways.co.uk/news/new-podca… Gender & Development Network Stephen Kidd Lena Simet Neil Coleman Scott Santens Gender & Development

📢NOW AVAILABLE online. This report highlights growing fragility of livelihoods for the working poor & marginalized in South Asia, exacerbated by precarity, COVID-19 impact, & climate crises. Available for download at shorturl.at/zPmnB

If you want a quick summary of this report, check out this P4SP blog: p4sp.org/resources/fina… Charles Knox-Vydmanov AusAID

Missed the P4SP webinar on social protection financing in the Pacific? Catch up now! Experts from P4SP, Tonga, Fiji, and DFAT discuss innovative funding models and future challenges. Watch here: developmentpathways.co.uk/news/new-p4sp-… Stephen Kidd Charles Knox-Vydmanov SGul socialprotection.org

1/3📚 Check out the publication ‘Towards Inclusive Social Protection Systems: Enabling Participation and Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities’. Read now: tinyurl.com/yc237tm6 🧵

Have you received our latest newsletter? If not, you can read it here: mailchi.mp/developmentpat… Sign up to get the latest reports and ideas on social protection: …velopmentpathways.us8.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=e1… Neil Coleman Ugo Gentilini Center for Global Development Social Protection socialprotection.org Scott Santens Social Policy Insights Africa

How can universal social protection help recognise women's unpaid work? Listen to our podcast with Anasuya Sengupta and Maja Gavrilovic to find out: 🔗 Soundcloud: tinyurl.com/56y4wbmp Gender & Development Network SGul Gender & Development Lena Simet Social Protection socialprotection.org

📄New P4SP brief on disability and #SocialProtection in the Pacific and Timor-Leste highlights key findings from the published literature, identifies leading voices on the topic, and offers recommendations for further research. Read here: p4sp.org/resources/disa…

👩🏽‍🤝‍👩🏾What does social protection do for women and girls in the Pacific and Timor-Leste? What can it do better? Find answers to these questions in P4SP's new topic brief: p4sp.org/resources/soci… Australian Aid Charles Knox-Vydmanov Gender & Development Network socialprotection.org WIEGO

🎙️ New Episode: Does Social Protection Encourage Informality? Join Florian Juergens-Grant (WIEGO), and Clemente Pignatti (Università Bocconi) in exploring social protection and informal work in low/middle-income countries. soundcloud.com/user-294399009…

In our latest blog, Gunnel Axelsson Nycander of Svenska kyrkan discusses how the push for #UniversalSocialSecurity is gaining traction with key global players. While challenges remain, there's hope that things are beginning to move. developmentpathways.co.uk/blog/dialogues… Social Protection Lena Simet

20 civil society orgs have signed on to commend Mauritius for extending its #UniversalChildBenefit for 2024-2025, with an increased provision of MUR2400 (US$52) per month to all children from 0-3 years old. An important step towards realising children's right to social security!

Our third and last brief from our Evidence Papers explores social protection's role in building resilience & responding to shocks in the Pacific & Timor-Leste, regions highly vulnerable to climate, economic & health shocks. Read here: p4sp.org/resources/the-… Charles Knox-Vydmanov

Pleased to welcome Baraka Njagi, a Computer Science graduate of the University of Nairobi. Baraka has joined Development Pathways, ‘Pathways into Digital Technology Graduate Internship Programme’ : developmentpathways.co.uk/news/developme…, focused on emerging technologies such as #AI.

How can we better support informal workers through social protection? Florian Juergens from WIEGO discusses this in our latest podcast. Listen here for more: soundcloud.com/user-294399009… socialprotection.org Social Protection