Making Universal Social Protection a Reality

Name: Making Universal Social Protection a Reality
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English

12 h

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Self-paced
Free Access
Fee-based Certificate

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4 Sequences
Intermediate Level
Starts on December 31, 2023

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Syllabus

Introduction: Universal social protection at the crossroads

A brief introduction and rationale for the course.

Module 1: Social protection: A human right, but not a reality yet all over the world

Discusses on what the right to social security entails and why no society or economy can expect to prosper without social protection.

Chapter 1. Social protection: A human right, socio-economic necessity and cornerstone of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Chapter 2. Social protection around the world: Who is covered against what, how and where?

Module 2: Universal social protection over the life cycle

Explains the concept of universal social protection and examines the protection over the complete life cycle.

Chapter 1. Building comprehensive social protection systems with a solid social protection floor.
Chapter 2. Social health protection and access to health care without hardship for all.
Chapter 3. Social protection for families.
Chapter 4. Social protection and risks during the working life.
Chapter 5. Social protection during old age.
Chapter 6. Long-term care.

Module 3: From social protection policies to solid and inclusive social protection systems.

Focuses on the process of building and maintaining inclusive and solid universal social protection systems.

Chapter 1. A shared vision to build social protection systems.
Chapter 2. Ensuring gender-responsiveness and disability-inclusiveness.
Chapter 3. Financing social protection.
Chapter 4. Coordination within and beyond social protection systems.
Chapter 5. Good governance of social protection systems.

Module 4: Social protection in a changing world

Analyses social protection in the light of the major forces that have been reconfiguring the world.

Chapter 1. Making work decent.
Chapter 2. Social protection across countries.
Chapter 3. Social protection and climate change.
Chapter 4. Social protection at the crossroads: Shaping the future of social protection.

Prerequisite

None

Instructors

Jeffrey D. Sachs
Professor
Columbia University

Gilbert F. Houngbo
Director-General
International Labour Organization

Shahra Razavi
Director of the Social Protection Department
International Labour Organization

Catalina Devandas Aguilar
Executive Director
Disability Rights Fund

Céline Peyron Bista
Chief Technical Advisor
International Labour Organization

Christina Behrendt
Head of the Social Policy Unit of the Social Protection Department
International Labour Organization

Clara Van Panhuys
Social Protection Officer
International Labour Organization

David Stewart
Chief of the Child Poverty and Social Protection Section
UNICEF

Dominique Libault
President
French High Council for the Financing of Social Protection

Guy Ryder
Under-Secretary-General for Policy
United Nations

Helmut Schwarzer
Head of the Public Finance, Actuarial and Statistical Services Unit of the
Social Protection Department

Ian Orton
Social Protection Policy Officer
International Labour Organization

Kroum Markov
Social Protection Policy and Legal Specialist
International Labour Organization

Loveleen De
Programme Manager and Technical Advisor on Social Protection
International Labour Organization

Lou Tessier
Health Protection Specialist
International Labour Organization

Maribel Ortiz
ISSA Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific
International Social Security Association

Marie-Christina Dankmeyer
Social Protection and Climate Change Specialist
International Labour Organization

Moussa Oumarou
Former Deputy Director-General for Field Operations & Partnerships
International Labour Organization

Patience Matandiko
Social Protection Technical Officer
International Labour Organization

Raúl Ruggia Frick
Director of the Social Security Development Branch
International Social Security Association

Samia Kazi Aoul
Labour Migration Specialist
International Labour Organization

Simeon Bond
Social Protection Officer
International Labour Organization

Valérie Schmitt
Deputy Director of the Social Protection Department
International Labour Organization

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