OUR LIBRARY

Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors

• Policy Brief “Social Protection for Climate Justice: Why and how?” (PDF version available here), Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors (GCSPF), May 2024.
  
• Strengthening Civil Society Advocacy Networks for Universal Social Protection.
  Experiences from Cambodia, Nepal, Senegal and Uganda. September 2023.
  This report highlights the valuable lessons and insights garnered with regards to the network building strategies used by the GCSPF to effectively influence decision makers.
  With a focus on inclusiveness, effectiveness, and sustainability, these network-building strategies hold significance in the pursuit of lasting impact on the path to social protection floors and universal social protection. The GCSPF seeks to empower these networks to exert influence and maintain their strength beyond the programme's conclusion.
  The Report was part of the Improving Synergies Between Social Protection and Public Finance Management Programme (SP&PFM).
  
• Labour and Social Justice. A GLOBAL FUND FOR SOCIAL PROTECTION Views from Selected Low-income Countries.; by Charles Lwanga-Ntale, FES Geneva in cooperation with the Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors (GCSPF) and Brot für die Welt, April 2022.
  
• “Universal access to essential health care: propositions from public international law to implement essential health care in conjunction with universal social protection”; by Odile Frank.
  Background paper prepared on behalf of Global Social Justice for the Working Group on the Role of Universal Health Coverage, now the Working Group on Health. March 2022.
  
• Labour and Social Justice. Governance principles for a Global Fund for Social Protection; by Markus Kaltenborn and Laura Kreft, FES Geneva in cooperation with the Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors (GCSPF) and Brot für die Welt, March 2022.
  
• Policy Brief “A Global Fund for Social Protection to promote policy and fiscal space to make the right to social protection a reality for all” PDF version available here
  Prepared by the Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors’ working group on a global financing mechanism for social protection, whose members represent Act Church of Sweden; Action Against Hunger – France; the Africa Platform for Social Protection; Bread for the World – Germany; Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Geneva Office; HelpAge International; the International Trade Union Confederation; Oxfam International; Save the Children; Social Justice in Global Development; We Social Movements; Markus Kaltenborn, Professor of Public Law and director of the Institute of Development Research and Development Politics at Ruhr University Bochum and Michael Cichon, former director of the ILO’s Social Security Department and honorary professor of social protection at the Graduate School of Governance of Maastricht University/United Nations University in the Netherlands, September 2021.
  
• IDA20 and social protection: Comments on proposed policy commitments. The ad hoc group on IDA20 of the GCSPF has prepared a position paper on the draft policy commitments in the IDA20 replenishment document. The document is available here (pdf format) and here (Word format).
  The World Bank launched an early twentieth replenishment process of the International Development Association (IDA), its fund for the world’s poorest countries, aiming to support countries in their recovery from the COVID-19 crisis and transition to green, resilient, and inclusive development. The IDA20 replenishment will conclude in December 2021 with a policy and financial package to support 74 countries between July 2022 and June 2025.
  
• The Civil Society Training Manual on Public Financial Management for Social Protection by Barry Herman and Gemma Adaba published on May 2021.
  This manual on PFM is part of the programme Improving Synergies Between Social Protection and Public Finance Management (SP&PFM) which provides medium-term support to multiple countries aiming to strengthen their social protection systems at a national level and ensure sustainable financing. Funded by the European Union (EU), the initiative is implemented jointly by the International Labour Organization (ILO), Unicef, and the Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors (GCSPF), in collaboration with national partners and EU Delegations in each country.
  
• “We are only as safe as the most vulnerable among us” - Strengthening public health and social protection systems in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, by Mira Bierbaum, Thomas Gebauer and Nicola Wiebe, Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors, Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2020, Shifting policies for systemic change Lessons from the global COVID-19 crisis.
  

• A Global Financing Mechanism for Social Protection. A proposal for the decade of action on the Sustainable Development Goals 2020-2030. April 24 2020.

• “SDG 1 – Applying human rights standards for the governance of social protection will unleash its transformative potential, by Sylvia Beales and Nicola Wiebe, Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors; Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2019: Reshaping governance for sustainability”. Global Civil Society Report on the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs. The report is also available in Spanish, read the article “ODS 1. La Aplicación de las normas de derechos humanos a la gobernanza de la protección social permitirá aprovechar su potencial transformador”.
  
• Policy Brief “Social Protection: an essential building block to reduce inequality” was published in the framework of the HLPF on July 2019.
  
• Article “Hardly anyone is too poor to share” by Michael Cichon was published on the December 2018 edition of the IMF quarterly Finance & Development, which was dedicated to the theme “Rethinking the Social Contract”.
  
• Article “Reporting on SPF implementation to UN Organizations: Opportunities for national platforms” by Wouter van Ginneken on October 2018.
  
• Discussion paper “Sustainably Financing Social Protection Floors” Toward a Permanent Role in National Development Planning and Taxation by Barry Herman, the Global Coalition and Brot für die Welt, April 2018.
  
• SDG 1: Mobilize the financial means for social protection systems for all. By the Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors
  Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2018
  Exploring new policy pathways. How to overcome obstacles and contradictions in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda
  Report by the Civil Society Reflection Group on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
  The report is also available in Spanish, read the article ODS 1. Financiar los sistemas de protección social para todos and in Arabic.

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES)

• Expanding Global Social Protection. Labour and Social Justice. Options for the Design of an International Financing Mechanism. Markus Kaltenborn. February 2023.
• Global Solidarity Funding for Social Protection. A brief for the case of Nepal and Uganda. Zina Nimeh, Giulio Bordon, Mitja Del Bono, Guido Heins. Joint Policy Brief between FES and UNU-MERIT. September 2022.
• Labour and Social Justice. Governance principles for a Global Fund for Social Protection; by Markus Kaltenborn and Laura Kreft, FES Geneva in cooperation with the Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors (GCSPF) and Brot für die Welt, March 2022.
• “Creating fiscal and policy space: A pragmatic two-pronged global implementation strategy for universal social protection”, Labour and Social Justice; by Michael Cichon and Hajo Lanz, FES Geneva, February 2022.
• Social Protection Floor Index 2020.
• Video Social Protection Floor, Video with interviews Social Protection Floor.
• From international ivory towers to national realities: The challenge of creating national social dialogues for social protection floors. (2019). The book is available in English.
• Social Protection Floor Index. Update and Country Studies (2017). The SPF Index is available in English.
• Social Protection Floor Index: Monitoring National Social Protection Policy Implementation (2016). The SPF Index is available in English and Spanish.
• Civil Society Guide for National Social Protection Floors (SPFs) (2015). The guide is available in English, Spanish and French.

International Labour Organization (ILO)

• World Social Protection Report 2024-26: Universal social protection for climate action and a just transition (2024)
• World Social Protection Report 2020-22: Social protection at the crossroads – in pursuit of a better future (2021)
• World Social Protection Report 2017-19: Universal social protection to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (2017)
• Building Social Protection Systems – International Standards and Human Rights Instruments (2017)
• Fiscal Space for Social Protection -  Options to Expand Social Investments in 187 Countries, Isabel Ortiz, Matthew Cummins, Kalaivani Karunanethy, ESS Working Paper no. 48 (2015)
• World Social Protection Report 2014/2015
• Social Protection Floors Recommendation, (No. 202) (2012)
• Report IV(1): Social protection floors for social justice and a fair globalization (2012)
• Report IV(2A): Social protection floors for social justice and a fair globalization (2012)
• Report IV(2B): Social protection floors for social justice and a fair globalization (2012)
• Bachelet Report on Social Protection Floor (2011)