Invitation: Join the side event on Social Protection at the 2024UNCSC

WHY UNIVERSAL SOCIAL PROTECTION IS ESSENTIAL FOR INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT, PEACE AND SECURITY IN THE PRESENT AND FUTURE

Date: Thursday, 9 May 2024
Time: 13:00 – 14:30 hs EAT (GMT+3). Confirm your local time here.
Location: Tribe Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya

This is a hybrid event, to join the online discussion, please register here.

MODERATOR: Ingo Ritz, Director, Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP)

SPEAKERS

• Jane Anyango, Founder, Polycom Development Project, Nairobi
• David Lambert Tumwesigye, Global Policy & Advocacy Lead, Child Poverty, Save the Children International
• Umberto Cattaneo, Public Finance Economist, Universal Social Protection Department (SOCPRO), International Labour Organization (ILO)
• Cyrilla Heyi, Program Manager, Child Rights Governance, Africa Platform for Social Protection (APSP)

CONTEXT

The 2030 Agenda (SDG 1.3) outlines a clear commitment to “implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and vulnerable”. But with only six years to 2030, less than half the global population have access to social protection.  Fewer than 1 in 10 children in low-income countries have access to child benefits, a figure which is 10 times lower than for those living in high-income countries.

We are failing.

Please join us for the 2024 UN Civil Society Conference side event Why universal social protection is essential for inclusive development, peace and security in the present and future. Participants will discuss how the Pact for the Future can focus more on expanding social protection coverage and its financing; and develop concrete proposals for the 2024 UN Civil Society Conference, the Summit of the Future in September 2024 at the UN Headquarters in New York and the Second World Summit For Social Development 2025.

CO-ORGANISERS

Save the Children International, Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors (GCSPF), Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP), UNANIMA International, Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM), International Presentation Association (IPA) and Building Blocks for Peace Foundation.

RELATED INFORMATION

• Global Fund for Social Protection.
• Global Child Benefits Tracker.
• Contributions of the Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors (GCSPF) to the Summit of the Future (inputs and contribution) and to the Global Digital Compact.
• Promoting the Ratification of the AU Protocol on Social Protection and Social Security, APSP.
• A trade union guide on the African Union Protocol on Social Protection, ITUC.
• Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights to Social Protection and Social Security.
• High-Level Seminar: Towards the Second World Summit for Social Development (Video)
• UN Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions.
• Financing gap for universal social protection: Global, regional and national estimates and strategies for creating fiscal space, ILO Working paper 113 (April 2024).

For more information please contact:
Ana Zeballos, Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors (GCSPF) at anaclau@item.org.uy
David Lambert Tumwesigye, Save the Children International at david.tumwesigye@savethechildren.org