Media
Report
Presentation
Team
Natalia Mezsaros
Martin Mercado
John Lindsay
Alejandra Davidziuk
Tanya Chen
Organization
United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF)
About
This pilot project is the first step towards the creation of a comprehensive database that can survey national-level social protection programmes for women, children, and families worldwide. The initial step of this project gathered existing definitions of social protection; and constructs a novel definition. Working from those definitions an institutional map is developed in order to categorize the existing social protection programmes for children. Also included is a detailed bibliography surveying the existing social protection literature from developed and developing nations.
This extensive background information is included in order to understand the many differing policies and the current state of the theory of social protection. The bibliography also includes a section of country-specific research. The methodology section shows the steps taken in order to gather the information required to generate this document. Finally our country-specific research recorded existing social protection programmes for women, children, and families in five nations: Bangladesh, Brazil, Indonesia, Jamaica, and Kenya. Using the conceptual framework and initial country specific research this pilot project can be expanded into a full fledged project that will research the existing social protection schemes for children in all nations. This possible comprehensive database can be a foundation for a UNICEF pilot policy initiative ‘International Child and Family Support’ which would support social security programmes for children worldwide, especially in developing nations.
