The GCSPF, together with many partners, is co-organizing an event during the World Bank-IMF yearly meeting in Bangkok, on October 14, 2026. Join us onsite or online!
Welcome to our newsletter! This edition focuses on the ongoing process towards a UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation and its importance for financing social protection and sustainable development.
The GCSPF strongly supports the establishment of an International Panel on Inequality (IPI). It was the priority recommendation of the 2025 G20 Extraordinary Committee of Independent Experts on Global Inequality, chaired by Joseph E. Stiglitz and commissioned by the South African G20 Presidency. We call on all governments to endorse the vision statement and support the Panel's establishment.
The GCSPF welcomes the attention given to the human right to social protection in the outcome document of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development and the Doha Political Declaration of the WSSD2. However, for these commitments to be more than mere rhetoric, they must be backed by sustainable and equitable financing. Read the GCSPF’s Statement.
Civil society organizations and trade unions call governments and international financial institutions to make a commitment to create social security systems that enable everyone to realize their rights. Governments and financial institutions should end policies that have been failing millions of people.
The programme Improving Synergies Between Social Protection and Public Finance Management provided medium-term support to multiple countries aiming to strengthen their social protection systems at a national level and ensure sustainable financing. The programme aimed to support countries in their efforts towards achieving universal social protection coverage.
This initiative was implemented jointly by the ILO, Unicef, and the GCSPF.
