Social Protection and Disability

Social Protection is a collection of measures to improve or protect human capital, ranging from labor market interventions, publicly mandated unemployment, disability, or old-age insurance to targeted income support. Social Protection interventions assist individuals, households, and communities to better manage the income risks that leave people vulnerable.

Publications and Reports

World Bank

Disability Pensions:

• Measuring Welfare for Small but Vulnerable Groups Poverty and Disability in Uganda
  [PDF 105KB]
  By Johannes G. Hoogeveen, World Bank
  September 2004
• Disability Pensions and Social Security Reform: Analysis of the Latin American Experience
  [PDF 157KB]
  By Carlos O. Grushka and Gustavo Demarco, World Bank Social Protection Unit
  December 2003
• Disability and Work in Poland
  [PDF 548KB]
  By Tom Hoopengardner
  January 2001
  Related Topic: Employment and Training
• Disability Insurance in a Multi-pillar Framework
  [PDF 76KB]
  By Leo Aarts, Aarts & De Jong BV and Leiden University and Philip de Jong, Aarts & De Jong BV and University of Amsterdam
  Second Version 1999
• Disability Insurance - Programs & Practice
  [PDF 126KB]
  By Emily S. Andrews, World Bank
  April 1998

Safety Nets:

• Disability and Social Safety Nets in Developing Countries
  [PDF 195KB]
  By Sophie Mitra, World Bank
  May 2005

Social Funds:

• Including the most vulnerable: Social Funds and People with Disabilities
  [PDF 361KB]
  By Pamela Dudzik, World Bank Disability and Development Team and Dinah McLeod, World Bank Social Protection Unit
  2000

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Projects and Initiatives

• Social Sector Technical Assistance Credit Project in Bosnia-Herzegovina
  [Project ID: P070650 - Project Status: Closed]
  One of the project's three components includes technical assistance for reviewing the technical quality of current disability programs. Read more
• Welfare Reform Project in Latvia
  [Project ID: P035807 - Project Status: Closed]
  This project supports the development of a more efficient and effective social welfare system through: Improved financial health of the social insurance system, implementation of a client-oriented social insurance administration, supervision of private pension plans and development of a more effective and efficient delivery of social assistance. Read more
• Social Protection Implementation Loan Project in Russia
  [Project ID: P046496 - Project Status: Closed]
  Among other components, this project is financing a review governmental and non-governmental programs aimed at child protection, people with disabilities, and the homeless. Read more

Related Links

• World Bank: Social Protection and Labor
• World Bank: Pensions
• World Bank: Safety Nets and Transfers
• World Bank: Social Risk Management

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