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Country partners
Africa
Ghana
Kenya
Nigeria
South Africa
Zambia
Zimbabwe
America
Bolivia
Brazil
Ecuador
Peru
Uruguay
Asia
Bangladesh
Cambodia
India
Pakistan
Philippines
Arab Region
Jordan
Lebanon
Palestine
Ghana Trade Union Congress
Central Organisation of Trade Unions
Nigeria Labour Congress
Labour Research Service (regional coordinator)
Workers Educational Association
Labour & Economic Development Research Institute of Zimbabwe
CENAC
Observatorio Social
Serpaj
Programa Laboral de Desarollo (regional coordinator)
Instituto Cuesta Duarte
Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies
Cambodian Women’s Movement Organisation
Self Employed Women’s Association
Labour Education Foundation
Labour Education and Research Network (regional coordinator)
Change Academy for Democratic Studies and Development
Palestinian Human Rights Organisation
Democracy and Workers’ Rights Center (regional coordinator)
International Federation of Workers' Educational Associations
Palestinian Working Woman Society for Development (PWWSD)
Federation of Unions of Palestinian Universities Professors and Employees
Realising Social Protection and
Decent Work for All
For more information, contact Barbara Caracciolo, SOLIDAR: barbara@solidar.org
www.theglobalnetwork.net

About the project
Aim
Our goal is to contribute to the eradication of poverty by ensuring the provision of
social protection for all, as elaborated by the ILO's Decent Work Agenda.
Between 2009 and 2013 we will be working:
• to empower trade unions and social organisations to work in alliances and advocate
for social protection
• to benefit people and organisations representing women, workers in the informal
economy, migrants and people affected by HIV/AIDS
• to build alliances and develop joint advocacy towards public authorities (local,
regional and national governments, regional and international institutions and
donors) to ensure that social protection becomes recognised as a fundamental right.
Partners
The project covers 19 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East (see full
list on back cover).
Funding
About Social Protection
Social Protection is a right!
“Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security” (Article 22,
Universal Declaration of Human Rights).
Social protection works!
• In Brazil, the Bolsa Familia programme provides income support for families earning below
a certain level. It now covers about 11 million Brazilian families (45 million people or 3 times
the population of The Netherlands).
• In the Bangladeshi Cash for Education programme, cash transfers are dependent on
children’s school attendance. The scheme has resulted in a 20 – 30% increase in school
enrolment and these children are more likely to stay in school up to two years longer than
other children.
Social protection generates growth!
By raising the income of the poor it increases domestic demand:
• In Namibia, a social pension scheme has increased local spending. It is said that half the
shops would close if it were not for pension day.
• In Malawi, for every US$1 that was transferred to people in an emergency cash transfer pilot,
an extra US$2.1 of additional local economic activity was created.
Social Protection is affordable!
Less than 2% of the Global Gross Domestic Product would be necessary to provide a
basic set of social security benefits to all of the world’s poor.
Realising Social Protection and Decent Work for All is a 4 years project funded by
DFID under the Civil Society Challenge Fund and managed by SOLIDAR and UNISON.
The official start date of the project is 1 October 2009 and its end date is 30 September 2013.