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New Directions in Social Policy: Towards a Post-2015 Agenda

by Ippei Tsuruga Views: 264
photo credit: UNRISD
photo credit: UNRISD

United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) held an interesting panel discussion at the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) Library in April 2014. The discussion attempts to answer the following critical questions.

  • What are the changing contexts for social policy in emerging and low-income economies?
  • What policies are being pursued and why?
  • Are we seeing the emergence of new welfare systems that will be more resilient to the challenges of the 21st century?
  • And what will this mean for a post-2015 development agenda?

Opening Remarks
Per Ronnås, Senior Specialist, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

Speakers
Jimi Adesina, Professor, University of South Africa
Michael Cichon, Former Director, the ILO’s Social Security Department
Rana Jawad, Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Bath
Andras Uthoff, Professor, Universidad de Chile

Moderator
Sarah Cook, Director, UNRISD

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Author: Ippei TsurugaIppei Tsuruga is Social Protection Programme Manager for Indonesia at International Labour Organization. He has been managing programmes and providing technical contributions to social security reforms at the country level in Indonesia, Viet Nam and Myanmar, and also contributing to research and knowledge management at the ASEAN regional and global levels. He has been involved in various policy discussions and research activities on unemployment benefit, old-age, invalidity and survivors’ benefits, maternity benefit, sickness benefit, and the extension of social protection to workers in the informal economy. He has worked at the ILO Country Office for Indonesia and Timor-Leste, the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and the Social Protection Department; and JICA Washington D.C. Office, Research Department, Country Office for Kenya, and Africa Department for Kenya, Nigeria and Somalia.

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