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The job that remains: an overview of USAID child welfare reform efforts in Europe and Eurasia
Social Transitions, USAID, 2009While important steps have been made to shift child protection from institutional care to community-based services, the reforms in Eurasia region are fragile and the sustainability of investment to date is questionable. This report examines the child welfare progress of eight countries in Eurasia where the American agency USAID has funded reforming activities in this area.DocumentAssuring income security in old age: views of the Mongolian elderly
Global Action on Aging, 2010The proportion of older persons in Mongolia (those aged 60 years and over) is currently estimated at less than 7 per, but this is expected to increase to nearly 25 per cent by 2050. This trend is due to declining levels of fertility and improvements in life expectancy and survival rates to older ages.DocumentRethinking poverty: report on the world social situation 2010
Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2010This report on the world social situation seeks to contribute to a rethinking poverty and its eradication. The paper affirms the urgent need for a strategic shift away from the market fundamentalist thinking towards more sustainable development- and equity-oriented policies appropriate to national circumstances.DocumentCurrent status of the social situation, wellbeing, participation in development and rights of older persons worldwide, draft report
Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2010This draft report provides a overview of ageing-related issues at the national and regional levels, building upon the report of the Secretary-General submitted to the 65th session of the General Assembly. It discusses the social and economic wellbeing of older persons and specifically looks at:DocumentAdaptive social protection: mapping the evidence and policy context in the agriculture sector in South Asia
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010The concept of Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) refers to a series of measures which aims to build resilience of the poorest and most vulnerable people to climate change by combining elements of social protection (SP), disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in programmes and projects. While these approaches have much in common, because they have developed separatelDocumentEconomic security arrangements in the context of population ageing in India
Harvard Initiative for Global Health, 2010Life expectancy in India is rising steadily. However, a combination of migration out of rural areas and the continued concentration of the working population in the informal sector, means there is a pressing need for better economic security arrangements for the elderly. Women in particular face specific disadvantages in ensuring their economic security.DocumentSocial transfers: a critical strategy to meet the MDGs
HelpAge International, 2010Non-contributory pensions enable poor older people to provide for their future and the future of their families. Alongside other social transfer schemes, pensions are now being seen to help reduce old age and intergenerational poverty, and have improved income security, access to education, health status and gender equality across other age groups.DocumentClimate change and social protection in Cambodia: linkages and synergies
United Nations Children's Fund, 2010Because of its low adaptive capacity, Cambodia is highly vulnerable to climate change events, particularly as the social protection system in Cambodia is still under development.DocumentResponding to a changing climate: exploring how disaster risk reduction, social protection and livelihoods approaches promote features of adaptive capacity
Overseas Development Institute, 2010How can humanitarian and development approaches help enhance communities’ capacity to adapt to a changing climate? This paper explores how interventions associated with disaster risk reduction (DRR), social protection (SP) and livelihoods (LH) approaches can play an important role in terms of climate adaptive capacity.DocumentThe impact of a minimum pension on old age poverty and its budgetary cost. Evidence from Latin America.
Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, 2010Alleviating old age poverty requires a different approach from other age groups. This paper examines the impact on old age poverty and the fiscal cost of universal minimum old age pensions in Latin America using recent household survey data for 18 countries. The authors:Pages