Social Protection for Employment - Community​ (SPEC) is pleased to share this resource matrix to facilitate easy access to publications… Read more on social protection and employment. It has now 200 entries, with the details, including file name, author(s)/ presenter(s), category, focus of the materials, description, publication year, and links of the publications provided. We hope this matrix will be helpful not only for the SPEC members but also for everyone interested in the topics of social protection and employment worldwide. Read less ...

This publication shares the experiences of five disability-inclusive employment promotion projects commissioned by the BMZ. They use different strategic approaches… Read more and measures, depending on the national context, culture, environment, societal characteristics etc. Therefore, they are no blueprints and replication without adaptation to the respective context is not recommended. Instead, these examples provide GIZ programmes and development practitioners orientation for disability-inclusive project design and implementation. They highlight aspects that require consideration when conceptualising disability inclusive projects in the economy and employment sector. Read less ...

Developing a digital and integrated information system is a crucial step in building a national social protection system. It enables… Read more the flow and management of information within the social protection sector and between social protection and other sectors such as education, health, agriculture, humanitarian and disaster risk management (DRM). A digital and integrated social protection information system is expected to better serve the needs of the people, by focusing on the following outcomes: Inclusion, efficiency and effectiveness, accuracy and integrity, accountability and citizen empowerment. This Concept Paper presents potential outcomes, key challenges, key risks and the building blocks of an digital and integrated information system including critical design and implementation choices. Read less ...

The Philippine government is a global leader in the discussion of anti-child labor policies through the Philippine Department of Labor… Read more and Employment’s (DOLE) Kabuhayan Para sa Magulang ng Batang Manggagawa (KASAMA) Program. This program provides in-kind transfers of equipment, tools, and/or raw materials and trainings to parents of child laborers in an effort to promote sustainable, alternative forms of income that replace the family’s use of child labor. This study was conducted in five regions of the Philippine island of Luzon. Two of these regions, Bicol and Central Luzon, account for more than 1 in 5 of all child laborers in the Philippines.2 Among the families in the study, 73 percent of children living in treated households were child laborers, and these families lived on less than $1.30 per person per day on average. Read less ...

Productive asset grants have become an important tool in efforts to push the very poor out of poverty, but they… Read more require labor to convert the asset into income. Using a clustered randomized trial, we work with the Government of the Philippines to evaluate a key component of their child labor elimination program, a $518 productive asset grant directed at families with child laborers. Treatment increases household based economic activity. Household well-being improves, mainly through increases in food security and child welfare. Households achieve these improvements in well-being by drawing upon the labor of household members. Adolescent labor is the most available labor, and we observe increases in employment among adolescents not engaged in child labor at baseline. Households with a family firm or business prior to treatment especially lack available adult labor to work with the asset leading to increases in child labor, including hazardous work, amongst children who were not in child labor at baseline. Read less ...

Fonkoze’s ‘Graduation’ programme, Chemin Lavi Miyo (CLM), targets extremely poor households in rural Haiti and provides a comprehensive package of inputs… Read more designed to support their ascent out of poverty. CLM does this through a multi-pronged livelihoods protection and promotion scheme that combines livelihoods support, social protection, financial inclusion, and the guidance of regular case-manager visits over 18 months. While the CLM programme has demonstrated high rates of graduation and positive outcomes reported soon after graduation, there remains a key question of whether gains are sustained. The purpose of this mixed methods study is to understand the longer-term drivers of progress and decline for CLM participants who entered the program in 2011 to 2013. The study aims to deepen Fonkoze’s understanding of how to support participants to sustain a path out of poverty. The research explores whether participants continue to sustain and improve their situation after graduation, or in the face of on-going challenges and shocks, gradually slip back into poverty, and what the practical measures are that CLM can take to support these. Read less ...

This report documents cross-country findings from analysis conducted by World Bank staff working on Jobs Diagnostics. It identifies some key… Read more insights for policy makers to take into account when designing policies and programs for inclusive growth. The findings are drawn from three different sources. The macroeconomic section analyzes data for over 16,000 overlapping episodes of economic growth in 125 countries. The labor supply section analyzes labor data from the latest household surveys in 150 countries around the world. The firm-level analysis draws on business data from countries for which—at the time of writing—the World Bank had conducted a Jobs Diagnostic. The report identifies jobs-related transitions as the pathways people follow to better jobs —workers increase their hours worked, become more productive in their work, move between locations, change sectors and occupations, and shift from self- to waged employment and from less to more successful firms. Read less ...

The World Development Report (WDR) 2019: The Changing Nature of Work studies how the nature of work is changing as… Read more a result of advances in technology today. Fears that robots will take away jobs from people have dominated the discussion over the future of work, but the World Development Report 2019 finds that on balance this appears to be unfounded. Work is constantly reshaped by technological progress. Firms adopt new ways of production, markets expand, and societies evolve. Overall, technology brings opportunity, paving the way to create new jobs, increase productivity, and deliver effective public services. Firms can grow rapidly thanks to digital transformation, expanding their boundaries and reshaping traditional production patterns. The rise of the digital platform firm means that technological effects reach more people faster than ever before. Technology is changing the skills that employers seek. Workers need to be better at complex problem-solving, teamwork and adaptability. Digital technology is also changing how people work and the terms on which they work. Even in advanced economies, short-term work, often found through online platforms, is posing similar challenges to those faced by the world’s informal workers. The Report analyzes these changes and considers how governments can best respond. Investing in human capital must be a priority for governments in order for workers to build the skills in demand in the labor market. In addition, governments need to enhance social protection and extend it to all people in society, irrespective of the terms on which they work. To fund these investments in human capital and social protection, the Report offers some suggestions as to how governments can mobilize additional revenues by increasing the tax base. Read less ...

The Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement and Market Expansion (PRIME) project, funded under the United States Government’s Feed the Future initiative,… Read more was launched in October 2012 in one of the most shock-prone areas of the world, the drylands of Ethiopia. A key objective of the project is to enhance the resilience of households to shocks. In particular, it aims to enable households to withstand and recover from the recurrent climate-related shocks—mainly drought—to which they are subjected. The analysis presented in this report is being undertaken as part of an impact evaluation (IE) whose goal is to determine whether the PRIME project has a positive impact on households’ resilience to shocks and, thus, on wellbeing outcomes including poverty, food security, and children’s nutritional status. Read less ...

This paper sets out to synthesize key lessons from studies using alternative methodologies to impact assessment. Drawing on Sen’s capability… Read more approach as a conceptual framework, it analyses two pairs of impact assessments which were carried out in West Bengal and Sindh around the same time and within close proximity to each other. Each pair consisted of a randomized control trial and a qualitative assessment of attempts to pilot BRAC’s approach to transferring assets to women in extreme poverty. The paper reports on the findings of these studies, their strategies for establishing their claims about causality and the information base they drew on to establish these claims. It finds that not only did the RCTs fail to meet their own criteria for establishing causality, but they also provided very limited explanation for the patterns of outcomes observed. Such information formed the substance of the qualitative studies. The paper concludes that greater use of mixed methods could help to offset some of limitations of RCTs and to place their findings on much firmer ground. Read less ...