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The International Development Association (IDA)—the World Bank’s arm that works in low- and lower-middle-income countries—is one of the largest sources of development assistance for the world’s poorest countries. It is also a crucial tool for resource-constrained governments to borrow on affordable terms compared to other creditors.
The GCSPF and the Social Security Campaign provided comments and inputs to the regional forums to ensure that IDA21 is ambitious to tackle inequality and support recipient countries’ efforts to invest in universal, rights-aligned public systems of education and health care that ensure the availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality of these services.
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The GCSPF and the Social Security Campaign provided comments and inputs (download pdf file) to the IDA21 Regional Forum for Europe and Central Asia. The event took place on July 24, 2024.
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On behalf of civil society organizations from all over the world Mr. Om Thapaliya and Mr. Tilottam Paudel (President of SPCSN) delivered the statement (English version, French Version) on the IDA21 Forum to Mr. Martin Raiser (World Bank Regional Vice President for South Asia), Mr. Ed Mountfield (World Bank Vice President, Operations Policy and Country Services - OPCS), Mr. Akihoto Nisho (World Bank Vice President of Development Finance - DFi) and Mr.Seku Sambandheen Sesay (Independent Chair Person, IDA). The event took place on June 17th, 2024 in Nepal. Read more
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The recording of the event “Is the debt crisis killing the SDGs?” is now online. The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP), member of the GCSPF, organized this online event in cooperation with Latindadd, NGO Federation of Nepal, Asia Dalit Rights Forum (ADRF), The Inclusivity Project (TIP), Pakistan Development Alliance (PDA), Wada Na Todo Abhiyan, India, Noakhali Rural Development Society, Bangladesh, Coordination Committee of Cambodia (CCC), Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM), Polycom Girls/GCAP Kenya, GCAP Ghana, Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors (GCSPF), LDC Watch and South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE). The event took place during the HLPF on July 16, 2024. Watch the recording
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The recording of the public event “Social Justice and International Financial Architecture” is now online. The public event that was coorganized by Social Watch, Latindadd and the GCPSF, took place in Chile, on June 25, 2024, during the IV Regional Seminar on Social Development, organized by the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Watch the recording (in Spanish)
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The event held at the HLPF focused on exploring the interconnected challenges for human rights facing civilians and the general public in UNECE’s member states, against the backdrop of preparing for the Pact of the Future. Wath the recording (password: B1#cw&6W)
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Ahmad Awad, Phenix Center for Economic Studies
Jordan’s social protection system has recently taken significant hits due to government policies affecting old age, disability, and death insurance for young workers in the private sector, increased fees for private sector medical doctors, and encouraging early retirement for thousands of workers in the Greater Amman Municipality. These policies negatively impact the components of social protection outlined in the National Social Protection Strategy for 2019-2025, which is currently under review to update it in response to humanitarian crises. Read more
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By Barry Herman, Social Justice in Global Development
In April 2024 the IMF released its Operational Guidance to help IMF staff decide when and how to engage with member countries on issues related to social spending. The Operational Guidance Note was issued to the IMF Executive Board “for information,” meaning that no comment on it was required. But it does signal how the staff is meant to take up social spending issues in the papers that are presented to the Board for decision. The IMF paper provides an opening for additional social advocacy by civil society, if not a solution to the political constraints on social policy per se. Read more
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This report, jointly published by FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP, and WHO, presents the latest updates on the food security and nutrition situation around the world, including updated estimates on the cost and affordability of healthy diets.
In line with this year’s theme, “Financing to end hunger, food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition”, the report explores current levels and gaps in financing for food security and nutrition. It provides guidance on innovative financing options to address the major drivers of food insecurity and malnutrition. Moreover, it outlines the agrifood systems transformation needed to free the world from hunger and food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. Read more
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