GCSPF e-Newsletter #110 | December 2024 Edition

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e-GCSPF #110 - December 2024

Written Statement of the GCSPF at the CSocD63

The GCSPF delivered a written statement at the 63rd Session of the Commission for Social Development 2025. The Statement, in light of 2025’s 2nd World Summit for Social Development, calls to strengthen solidarity, social inclusion and social cohesion by making clear commitments to finance universal social protection and by fostering public spaces to raise the voices of grassroots communities, along civil society organisations, trade unions and practitioners, who know best the consequences of the slowdown of global poverty reduction. Read more

Meetings of the GCSPF

The Core Team Strategy and the Regional meetings took place in Johannesburg, South Africa in November 2024.
The aim of the Core Team Strategy Meeting was to bring together the members of the Core Team in order to define our future strategy and plan of work.
The regional meeting was meant to strengthen involvement of non-CT members in the work of the coalition and its working groups, as well as to listen to current regional news and advocacy priorities.

Road to IDA21

Act Church of Sweden and ARDD (Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development) submitted comments to the IDA21 draft Replenishment Report published by the World Bank. Read more

Surging Need and Crashing Support for Social Security During Lebanon’s Economic Crisis

“The Country is Dissolving and No One Cares”
This report by Amnesty International examines the impact of the financial and economic crisis on people’s right to social security. Rather than shoring up this crucial right when people desperately needed support, the government let the little support that did exist collapse. The government should work to establish a universal social protection system that becomes capable of supporting people through the different contingencies and risks they will face in the normal course of a lifetime, as well as through the crises that continue to disrupt and devastate their lives. Read more

Podcast: Governance, Social Protection And Law

In this podcast by WIEGO feautres a discussion of legal frameworks and social protection. How can legal provisions of participation, access to information, transparency and equality be leveraged to include those workers into social protection systems? What are the main legal frameworks? How does administrative justice work for this end and how it can be used a tool for informal workers in their advocacy efforts? To help us understand these questions WIEGO invited Pamhidzai Bamu. Listen to this podcast

The B-Ready index: the World Bank’s bluewashing of labour rights

By Rouguiatou Diallo, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
This fall, the World Bank unveiled its new Business-Ready (B-Ready) index. Promising a more comprehensive assessment of countries’ business environments, the new index goes beyond considering only the regulatory environment and includes measures of the quality of public services and enterprise survey data. Still, the B-Ready index maintains the approach that made the DBR a ‘darling’ of investors and a closely monitored product for policymakers: a simple ranking that reduces complex processes in the business lifecycle to mere numerical scores. While this reductionist approach might work for operational business tasks, such as measuring electricity access, its application to labour relations has fundamental flaws. Read more

Global Wage Report 2024-25

Is wage inequality decreasing globally?
This ILO Flagship Report provides a detailed look at wage trends around the world and in different regions, highlighting changes in wage inequality and real wage growth. It explores key challenges workers face globally and sheds light on patterns of income differences between and within countries. Read more
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Civil Society Call for a Global Fund for Social Protection

Civil society organizations and trade unions unite to call for a Global Fund for Social Protection to protect the most vulnerable.

Social Security for All

Civil society organizations and trade unions call governments and international financial institutions to make a commitment to create social security systems that enable everyone to realize their rights. Governments and financial institutions should end policies that have been failing millions of people.

SP&PFM Programme

The programme Improving Synergies Between Social Protection and Public Finance Management provided medium-term support to multiple countries aiming to strengthen their social protection systems at a national level and ensure sustainable financing. The programme aimed to support countries in their efforts towards achieving universal social protection coverage.
This initiative was implemented jointly by the ILO, Unicef, and the GCSPF.

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