Launched today: Social protection Toolbox

The social protection team at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has launched the new Social Protection Toolbox @ www.socialprotection-toolbox.org It is packed full of content to support policy makers and other stakeholders in Asia and the Pacific to build inclusive social protection schemes, with:

• More than 100 good practices from around the world that show what others are doing to build inclusive legal frameworks, schemes for those in poverty, for persons with disabilities and universal schemes for all.
• E-learning guides that have been developed together with Development Pathways and show how investing in inclusive social protection can accelerate progress towards the SDGs, why universal schemes are better at reaching the poor than targeted schemes, and what policy options to consider when designing inclusive schemes. 
• An interactive assessment tool that will help you identify coverage gaps in your country and find out how to close them based on the steps other countries are taking to fill similar gaps.
• An animation that illustrates what social protection is and why it is important for Asia and the Pacific in about 2 minutes.
• A quiz that tests your knowledge and reveals thought-provoking facts about social protection in Asia and the Pacific.
• Our latest publications, covering a variety of topics related to social protection, poverty and inequality.

And there’s more to come! Over the coming months, the social protection team at ESCAP will be adding new e-learning guides on how to administrate and finance social protection, how to advance social protection for persons with disabilities and a series of new publications that will explore inequality through a multidimensional lens. Hopefully this will help to move toward universal social protection that leaves no one behind in Asia and the Pacific.