Anticipatory social protection : claiming dignity and rights / Marilyn Waring, Anit N Mukherjee, Elizabeth Reid and Meena Shivdas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waring, Marilyn, 1952- author.

Mukherjee, Anit N., author.

Reid, Elizabeth, 1942- author.

Shivdas, Meena, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare.

Human services.

Physical Description:

ix, 91 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Commonwealth Secretariat, [2013]

Summary:

The Commonwealth Secretariat's anticipatory and transformative social protection programme promotes principles and strategies for advancing a gender-responsive, human rights-based approach to social protection. This publication presents analysis and discussion of a framework for social protection, models of good practice from across the Commonwealth, and innovative ways of providing social protection that are not based on men and women being in full-time paid work in the formal economy. It will assist policy-makers and development practitioners in making informed decisions about programme design and delivery so that beneficiaries' access to and participation in social protection mechanisms are fully realised. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Towards an Anticipatory and Transformative Social Protection Agenda 1

1.1 Background 1

1.2 Setting the social protection agenda 2

1.3 The Social Protection Floor initiative 4

1.4 Human rights framework with women at the centre 7

1.5 Transformative social protection 9

1.6 Anticipatory social protection 11

1.7 Programme design and implementation 13

2 Rights and Unpaid Work: A Critical Review of International Experience 16

2.1 Context 16

2.2 Institutional measures: experiences and lessons learned 17

2.3 Social transfer designs: Mexico, Bangladesh, South Africa 19

2.4 Implementation: financing, targeting, delivery 22

2.5 Incorporating gender, human rights, women's unpaid work, children's agency 25

3 Regional Developments 30

3.1 Africa 30

3.1.1 Targeting 31

3.1.2 Gendered anticipatory social protection 33

3.2 South Asia 35

3.2.1 Livelihood and income security 35

3.2.2 Education and health 37

3.2.3 Social protection in old age 38

3.2.4 Gender-based discrimination and violence 39

3.3 East and Southeast Asia 41

3.4 The Pacific 43

3.5 The Caribbean 47

4 Politics of Care and Isolation: Case Studies 51

4.1 Caring for children with disabilities in an advanced welfare state: Denmark 51

4.2 Caring for the aged in a developed economy: South Korea 53

4.3 Community action in support of marginalised sex workers: India 56

4.4 Community action for dignity and rights: India 58

4.5 HIV care and access to land, the GROOTS Model: Kenya 59

4.6 A revived land tradition protects HIV-affected children: Swaziland 60

4.7 Building peace through anticipatory and transformative social protection: Rwanda 62

4.8 An endowment fund protects education of HIV-affected children: Papua New Guinea 64

4.8.1 Background and structure 65

4.8.2 Bringing hope to HIV-affected children, families 67

4.8.3 Limitations 67

4.8.4 The HIV-protective effect 68

4.8.5 Anticipatory, transformative and energising 68

4.9 Social protection models: New Zealand and India 69

4.9.1 Crown Corporation accident compensation, New Zealand 69

4.9.2 Private sector distributes free milk to New Zealand's primary schools 70

4.9.3 Programme design for financial inclusion in India 71

5 The Carer's Journey 73

5.1 Elizabeth's voice, 1993 73

5.1.1 How did we make that transition from diagnosis to living? 74

5.1.2 Living with dying was not a always easy 75

5.1.3 During the dying, the role of the carer changes 75

5.2 Elizabeth's voice, 2013 76

5.2.1 Lost livelihoods, lack of benefits 76

5.2.2 Carer's voices begin to be heard 76

5.2.3 Assessing economic value 77

5.2.4 Psychological, emotional, social costs 77

5.2.5 Gender income gaps 78

5.2.6 Social and economic justice for carers 79

5.2.7 Feminisation of care, masculinisation of labour 79

6 Endnote 81.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-91).

ISBN:

9781849290951

1849290954

OCLC:

869843374