Social protection and Inclusive Care and support systems strengthening

The webinar discussed inclusive care and support systems as an essential element for developing human capabilities, achieving equal socio-economic participation, and ensuring functioning societies. The inclusion of this webinar in the disability inclusive social protection series reflects the importance of care and support systems for survival and socio-economic participation of persons with disabilities across the life cycle, including for children with disabilities and older persons acquiring functional limitations, but also the imperative to simultaneously address the need to reduce and redistribute unpaid care and related gender inequalities. This session provided an overview of the components and requirements of gender-responsive, age-sensitive and disability-inclusive care and support systems. It will focus on how social protection can contribute to the development of such systems in different contexts in a sustainable and context relevant way that both upholds the rights and meet the needs of those requiring and those providing care and support.

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Panellists
Lauren Whitehead – UNICEF
Alexandra Barrantes – STAAR
Armenuhi Hovakimyan – UNICEF Armenia
Vincent Gahamanyi – UNICEF Rwanda
Afrah Alawi Al-Ahmadi – World Bank
Lieuw-Kie-Song – ILO
Florencia Krall – National Integrated System of Care Uruguay

Moderators
Rachel Mason – FCDO
Alexandre Cote – UNICEF

This was the second webinar of the series “Towards inclusive social protection systems: participation and inclusion of persons with disabilities”. Following the adoption of the joint statement “Towards inclusive social protection systems supporting the full and effective participation of persons with disabilities” in 2019, a broad coalition of development partners, experts OPDs took part in a process facilitated by UNICEF, ILO and IDA with the support of the UNPRPD, the government of Norway and the European Commission to develop technical resources. The series is implemented jointly with these partners and will discuss some of the core modules of the guidance note.

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