TRANSFORM, an innovative training initiative that strengthens individual and institutional capacity for the management of national social protection systems in Africa, has launched a new website, redesigned and updated with the most up-to-date resources. Commissioned by the African Union, and implemented or supported by UNU-MERIT with a dozen international and national agencies including the International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the United Na...
A new report out from the International Labour Organization features contributions from five researchers at UNU-MERIT. Along with the ILO’s youth employment specialist Drew Gardiner, Micheline Goedhuys collaborated with Alison Cathles, Chen Gong, Michelle González Amador and Eleonora Nillesen. The report begins with two main questions: How can young people around the world – even the most marginalised – navigate the fast-moving currents of modern labour markets? How can UN agencies, nation...
Our institute has received the sad news of the passing away of Wolfgang Scholz in early June 2020. Wolfgang was a key member of the ILO team that collaborated with the Economics Department at Maastricht University to start a mid-career Master’s programme in Social Protection for social security professionals in Maastricht in 2001. This Master’s programme grew in scope and outreach to become what is now known as the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance. A rich source of information on the sta...
A Q&A with PhD Fellow Mira Bierbaum and Prof. Michael Cichon, co-authors of the report. What did we do? The right to social security is a human right. It is recognised in Article 22 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Social Protection Floors Recommendation No. 202 (R.202), unanimously adopted by 184 members of the International Labour Conference (ILC) in 2012, provided concrete content to this abstract right. A recent discussion paper by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung written by...