The Impact of Natural Disaster on the Social Protection System: Lessons from Wenchuan Earthquake
Researchers at the School of Social Development and Public Policy (SSDPP), at Beijing Normal University, China will seek to learn the processes by which SP organizations reboot after disaster and determine bottlenecks, cracks and blind spots created by this process; learn lessons on how to prepare resilient organizations and how to enhance SP service delivery during the reconstruction stage after a disaster.
Social protection for rural-urban migrants: comparing China and
Vietnam
The Institute for Social Development Studies, Hanoi, Vietnam and Center
for Population and Development Research, Fujian Normal University,
China will assess the current provision of social protection measures for
migrants in China and Vietnam in the contexts of increasing mobility, and
their implications for policy.
Designing Implementation Models for the Right to Work Programme
in India
The Institute for Human Development (IHD) in Delhi, India will
explore mechanisms for increasing the impact of the National
Rural Employment Guarantee (NREGA) - a universal rights-based
programme for rural households
Examining the NREGA: Women’s Participation and Impacts in
Himachal Pradesh and Kerala
The Institute of Social Studies Trust, India will examine the gender
dimensions of India’s employment guarantee
programme to assess whether the programme is enhancing women’s
well being and autonomy.
Inclusive Urbanization – Social Protection for the Slum and
Pavement Dwellers in India
CEPT University, SEWA Bank and Mahila Housing Trust, Ahmedabad,
India, will explore the linkages between shelter, vulnerability
and multidimensional forms of deprivation, in the urban slums in
India, and the role of social protection programmes in addressing
these
Residential Land as Social Protection: Local Mobilisation in
Pakistan
The Collective for Social Science Research, Pakistan, will examine
the relationship between residential land security schemes and
the mobilization of socially excluded and marginalized groups.
The project aims to broaden the scope of conventional thinking on
social protection to include entitlements to assets
Researchers at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China seek to understand
the role of local community, culture and tradition in existing
institutional arrangements for elderly care in rural China, and to
identify more effective mechanisms for meeting the needs of the
elderly
Assessing the New Social Protection Programme for Health in Rural China
The Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Beijing, China will assess the implementation of a new rural health care scheme, and provide recommendation for improving the system in delivering quality and affordable health care to the rural population
Assessing the Role of Women in the New Indonesia's Conditional Cash Transfer Programme
Led by Stella Aleida, researchers at the SMERU Research Institute, Indonesia (http://www.smeru.or.id/) will evaluate the effectiveness of two Government of Indonesia pilot Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs to understand their gender impacts through an anslysis of intra-household decision-making dynamics.
Building Pathways for the Poorest: Operationalizing the Concept of Graduation
CGAP and Ford have carefully studied BRAC, CARE, and other institutions with experience working with the poorest and have concluded that combining the comparative advantages of good safety net programs with those of microfinance can create the basis to successfully graduate the poorest out of chronic food insecurity. This "graduation" model builds on the fact that the poorest must satisfy basic survival needs that require food aid or grants from safety net programs. Researchers at BRAC (http://www.brac.net/) will be looking to develop an analytical model of "graduation, hopefully to provide answers to the following : What is graduation? What are the different stages of the ladder? What is the specific process of graduation and what are the indicators that tell us that graduation has occurred?
Social Protection and Poverty -UNRISD paper by Armando Barrientos - The paper seeks to provide an overview of social protection, and to provide an assessment of its potential contribution to addressing poverty and vulnerability in developing countries.
Social Security for China’s Migrant Workers – Providing for Old Age- Paper by Andrew Watson - The article explores how the current social security system in China, based on household registration, discriminates against migrant workers because of their mobility and the lack of mechanisms to transfer benefits between pools. Faced with this challenge, China’s government has begun to introduce policy reforms to improve social security for migrants. This article explores this development through a focus on old-age insurance. It analyses the special needs of migrants, the obstacles facing policy development and the proposed solutions.
HomeNet Thailand Policy Briefs on Social Security, Health Insurance and Legal Protections
The briefs discuss the country experiences of Thailand in extending social security cover to informal workers, increasing effectiveness of universal health coverage schemes, especially for informal workers’ health problems and also ongoing advocacy for a Homeworker Protection Act in Thailand.
Social protection for rural-urban migrants: comparing China and
Vietnam
Designing Implementation Models for the Right to Work Programme
in India
Examining the NREGA: Women’s Participation and Impacts in
Himachal Pradesh and Kerala
Inclusive Urbanization – Social Protection for the Slum and
Pavement Dwellers in India
Residential Land as Social Protection: Local Mobilisation in
Pakistan
