Child poverty remains staggeringly high. One in five children live on less than $1.90 a day and children are more than twice as likely to be living in extreme income poverty compared with adults. Despite clear evidence of the effectiveness of well-designed social protection in tackling child...

This paper provides a critical overview of social protection indicators in the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) context to support the European Commission's (EC's) decision-making on social protection indicators and to support decisions on how the EC can contribute to the global indicator...

This paper provides a critical overview of social protection indicators in the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) context to support the European Commission's (EC's) decision-making on social protection indicators and to support decisions on how the EC can contribute to the global indicator...

The role of gender in social protection is complex, shaping the types of risks tackled, how they are tackled, public buy-in and programme implementation practices. However, the extent to which gender has been integrated into social protection approaches has been uneven at best. This paper...

Social protection measures are policy instruments that are widely used across a broad range of developing countries in pursuit of many different development objectives. In many cases social protection measures such as food or cash transfers were first introduced to ensure minimum levels of food...