Working Groups for 2020 - 2021

March 2020
   
   
   
 

Working Groups for 2020 - 2021

   
 

Eight working groups (WGs) were confirmed at the Core Team strategy meeting held in Geneva, Switzerland on November 2019. The report of the meeting is here.
These eight WGs will frame the work of the Global Coalition in 2020 and 2021. You are invited to join them, please contact the responsibles of the WG and/or the secretariat.

   
   
 

1. Strategy on social security standards

   
 

Responsible: Odile Frank. Read more

   
   
 

2. Human Rights Monitoring of the Implementation of the four Social Security Guarantees

   
 

Responsibles:Wouter van Ginneken and Ebenezer Durojaye. Read the workplan Read more

   
   
 

3. IMF Social Financing Strategy / IMF Country Level Monitoring Initiative

   
 

Responsibles: Barry Herman and Roberto Bissio. Read more

   
   
 

4. Future Engagement with USP 2030

   
 

Responsibles: Bart Verstraeten, Nicola Wiebe. Read more

   
   
 

5. EU DEVCO Project

   
 

Responsibles: Florian Juergens, Bart Verstraeten, Hilde Van Regenmortel. The concept note is here and the workplan is here

   
   
 

6. Joint engagement at CSocD, CSW and HLPF 2020

   
 

Responsible: Winifred Doherty. Read more

   
   
 

7. Strategy on global financing mechanism
(e.g. global fund, also including the discussion on a new UN tax body)

   
 

Responsible: Michael Cichon. Read more

   
 

8. The role of UHC as a cross cutting issue

   
 

Responsible: Odile Frank. Read more

   
 

9. The right to be cared

   
 

The concept note is available here.

   
   
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e-GCSPF # 33 - March 2020
   
   
 

Letter to IMF Director on women's rights & gender equality

   
 

Over 60 civil society organisations, including members of the Global Coalition, have written a letter to IMF Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva. The letter calls on the IMF to focus on the harmful aspects of its own policy advice on women's rights and gender equality. Read more

   
   
 

Social Protection Reform in Arab Countries

   
 

In the Arab region, social protection systems have for many years suffered from a number of severe shortcomings. Contributory social and health insurance regimes tend to be undermined by low coverage, a high degree of fragmentation and financial unsustainability. Non-contributory social protection has for a long time predominantly consisted of universal subsidies, whereas other forms of social assistance have been marginal. Overall, a lack of coherence and coordination has undermined the effectiveness and efficiency of social protection systems.
The 2019 report illustrates the considerable reforms underway in the region to overcome those problems. Throughout, it considers social protection reform from a ‘systems perspective’, addressing, for example, the prevalence of pluralistic financing arrangements which in practice often blur the traditional distinction between contributory and non-contributory mechanisms. Read more

   
   
 

The State of Social Protection

   
 

This issue of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) Informs presents a discussion on the state of social protection in the Global South and the new (and not so new) challenges to overcoming its gender gaps.
Recognizing that in the countries of the Global South, the development of social protection systems has presented features of segmentation, insufficiency, exclusion, and inequality, the articles gathered here review the situation in the various regions (Asia, Pacific, Africa, and Latin America), taking into consideration their nuances and differences.
The authors discuss central problematic nodes such as the social protection situation of migrant populations, female rural workers and those engaged in platform jobs. They also review experiences of resistance against the increase in precariousness in various workspaces. Read more

   
   
 

United Nations: Private debt both a cause and consequence of rights violations

   
 

High individual and household debt, which accounts for a significant portion of private debt in most countries, has been associated with inequality, macroeconomic instability, unsustainable sovereign debt and financial crises.
This is one of the main conclusions highlighted by Mr Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, the Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of human rights, in his report to the UN Human Rights Council, that is holding its forty-third regular session from 24 February to 20 March 2020. Read more

Event Private Debt and Human Rights. The Report will be presented to the Human Rights Council on March 2 in Geneva, Swizerland. Download the flyer here.

   
   

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The Uganda Reach the Aged Association

   
 

The Uganda Reach the Aged Association (URAA) is a national voluntary not-for-profit, non-government organization whose vision is a dignified, self-fulfilled poverty free ageing Uganda and a mission is to champion the realization and preservation of a dignified quality of life for older persons in Uganda. URAA was founded in 1991 by a group of older persons (OP) themselves and is affiliated to HelpAge International. URAA has a membership of over 480,000 older persons in the 80 district associations (230,000 Male and 250,000 Female) were it operates.
The aim of URAA is to provide a platform for fellowship, mutual support, hope and a voice to Ops. Specifically, the organization focuses on advocacy to raise awareness on Op’s issues and fight stigma to Ops through the rights-based approach aimed at promoting dignified living by advocating and promoting equitable access economic empowerment, social welfare, treatment, care and support, and wellbeing of OPs. Read more

   
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Civil Society Call for a Global Fund for Social Protection

Over 200 civil society organizations and trade unions unite to call for a Global Fund for Social Protection to protect the most vulnerable during COVID-19 and beyond.

Read the Call

SP&PFM Programme

The programme Improving Synergies Between Social Protection and Public Finance Management provides medium-term support to multiple countries aiming to strengthen their social protection systems at a national level and ensure sustainable financing. The programme aims to support countries in their efforts towards achieving universal social protection coverage.

This initiative is implemented jointly by the ILO, Unicef, and the GCSPF.

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