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{"title":"Universal social protection schemes in forced displacement settings: Evidence from Colombia","authors":"Carlos Santiago Guzmán Gutiérrez","doi":"10.1111/issr.70030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/issr.70030","url":null,"abstract":"<p>With forcibly displaced persons reaching 123.2 million people globally in 2024, host low- and middle-income countries face a dual social protection coverage challenge: including new populations while their own systems cover less than a third of their citizens. Focusing on the case of Colombia, this article uses a mixed-methods approach, combining tax-benefit microsimulation and expert interviews, to assess the poverty impacts of universal-like cash transfers for Colombians as well as for migrants and refugees from Venezuela resident in Colombia. While large UBI-like transfers can dramatically reduce poverty (by up to 15 percentage points (pp) for Colombians and 27 pp for Venezuelans), budget-neutral scenarios are detrimental to the poorest households. The qualitative evidence points to a <i>gradual targeted</i> universalism approach prioritizing specific life-cycle risks as the most viable strategy in fiscally constrained, high-informality contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":44996,"journal":{"name":"International Social Security Review","volume":"79 2","pages":"43-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/issr.70030","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148274780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beyond charity: Under what conditions can zakat complement social protection floors?","authors":"Nourjelha Elhag","doi":"10.1111/issr.70031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/issr.70031","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Zakat is an obligatory Islamic practice that promotes redistribution of wealth in Muslim-majority countries. It functions by channelling resources from those who have enough to those considered deprived. This redistributive mandate places it in close proximity to non-contributory social assistance. Yet, in practice, zakat programmes vary widely in their legal status, governance arrangements, benefit design, and coordination with state-led social protection systems. This article asks: under what conditions can zakat contribute to the realization of social protection floors (SPFs) in national social protection systems? Drawing on a qualitative comparative case study of Jordan and Pakistan and using the International Labour Organization’s SPF framework as the main analytical lens, the analysis is structured around four SPF-related dimensions: institutional governance, coverage and targeting, adequacy of benefits, and integration with national social protection frameworks. The findings suggest that zakat can complement national floors by extending support to poor and vulnerable groups, but its contribution remains conditional. Importantly, zakat cannot substitute for state-guaranteed social protection as a legal entitlement. Its relevance lies in complementing rights-based systems in financing and/or delivery, provided that governance, transparency and targeting safeguards are maintained. In both Jordan and Pakistan, limited coverage and adequacy, fragmented coordination, and reliance on discretionary beneficiary selection constrain SPF-alignment. Moreover, weak trust and governance challenges undermine compliance and predictability, particularly where zakat revenues depend on voluntary contributions or are vulnerable to evasion. The article concludes that zakat’s SPF potential is most likely to be realized when governance and transparency mechanisms strengthen public trust, targeting rules are clear and monitored, benefits are predictable and closer to basic needs, and coordination is institutionalized through shared systems such as interoperable registries and consistent eligibility verification.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;La zakat est une obligation de l’islam qui favorise la redistribution de la richesse dans les pays à majorité musulmane en réorientant les ressources depuis les personnes qui en ont suffisamment vers celles qui en sont dépourvues. Cette obligation redistributive en fait un mécanisme proche des dispositifs d’aide sociale non contributifs. Pourtant, dans la pratique, les systèmes de zakat sont très variables du point de vue de leur statut juridique, de leurs modalités de gouvernance, des caractéristiques des prestations et de leur articulation avec les systèmes publics de protection sociale. Cet article pose la question des conditions qui doivent être réunies pour que la zakat contribue à la concrétisation de socles de protection sociale dans les systèmes nationaux de protection sociale. Il s’appuie sur une étude de cas qualitative comparative de la","PeriodicalId":44996,"journal":{"name":"International Social Security Review","volume":"79 2","pages":"69-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148274781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gender responsiveness: Framing, programming, and the limits of transformative social protection in Ethiopia","authors":"Talea Grootenhuis","doi":"10.1111/issr.70032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/issr.70032","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Gender responsiveness has emerged as a prominent concept in social protection policy, increasingly shaping donor agendas and national strategies. Yet despite widespread usage, we lack well-defined analytical frameworks that allow for gender-responsiveness assessments of entire national social protection systems. This article addresses that gap by constructing and applying an analytical framework that integrates gender-responsive programming features with a framing analysis of the normative assumptions and discursive constructs underpinning social protection design. It applies this two-dimensional framework to the Ethiopian social protection system, combining document analysis and key informant interviews conducted in early 2022. The article thereby offers a time-bound structural assessment of the system at a specific point in time. The findings reveal that while Ethiopia exhibits a meaningful range of gender-responsive programming features, the underlying framing in both policy documents and practitioners’ discourse continues to institutionalize traditional gender roles. Women are cast primarily as mothers and caretakers rather than as autonomous rights-holders. Economic empowerment goals are systematically reinterpreted as instruments of child and household welfare. This framing limits the system’s transformative potential and may also render gender provisions fiscally precarious. This baseline structural mapping can inform future comparative and longitudinal work on gender and social protection systems in sub-Saharan Africa.</p>","PeriodicalId":44996,"journal":{"name":"International Social Security Review","volume":"79 2","pages":"99-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/issr.70032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148274775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In memoriam","authors":"Roddy McKinnon","doi":"10.1111/issr.70034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/issr.70034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44996,"journal":{"name":"International Social Security Review","volume":"79 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148274777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Education and research for policy impact","authors":"Zina Nimeh,&nbsp;Krzysztof Hagemejer","doi":"10.1111/issr.70027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/issr.70027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44996,"journal":{"name":"International Social Security Review","volume":"79 2","pages":"3-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148274773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social protection in fragile and conflict affected settings: The case of Sudan","authors":"Dáire Brady,&nbsp;Zina Nimeh","doi":"10.1111/issr.70029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/issr.70029","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines Sudan’s state-led social protection system by conducting a mapping of the country’s main social protection schemes, drawing on legislative documents and secondary reports as well as the 2022 Sudan Labor Market Panel Survey. Focusing on three main programmes: Zakat, the National Health Insurance Fund and the National Pension and Social Insurance Fund, the article captures programme objectives, eligibility rules, and operational definitions to assess coverage, targeting accuracy, and benefit adequacy. Findings reveal systematically low coverage, substantial targeting failures, and benefits well below subsistence thresholds. Vulnerable populations including internally displaced persons, camp residents, and conflict-affected regions, face severe exclusion despite greatest need. Sudan’s social protection system remains trapped in minimal absorptive functions, constrained by high informality, institutional fragmentation, and protracted conflict. These findings contribute to empirical evidence on social protection in fragile contexts and point to a set of practical reconstruction priorities.</p>","PeriodicalId":44996,"journal":{"name":"International Social Security Review","volume":"79 2","pages":"17-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/issr.70029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148274779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction: Education and research for policy impact: The next frontier in social protection – The Michael Cichon Graduate Award","authors":"Zina Nimeh","doi":"10.1111/issr.70028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/issr.70028","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;In 2004, the book &lt;i&gt;Financing social protection&lt;/i&gt; was published by the International Labour Office in collaboration with the International Social Security Association. The book showcased a pedagogical philosophy which underlined that learning and knowledge production are not sequential activities but simultaneous ones, and that young professionals are capable of contributing from the outset of their careers. This philosophy is the intellectual and institutional thread that connects the 2004 volume to the five articles selected from the finalists of &lt;i&gt;The Michael Cichon Graduate Award for Outstanding Thesis – 2025&lt;/i&gt; that appear in this themed issue. Since 2004, investment in education and research has strengthened the ability to simulate, evaluate impacts, and analyse social protection institutions comparatively. But in practice, billions of people remain without adequate coverage. Institutional reach and coverage gaps continue. Innovative new ways of thinking about issues of policy and administration, along with innovative new thinkers, are needed. Grounded in rigorous research methods and solid policy analysis, the articles in this themed issue share a commitment to bridging analysis and implementation and are committed to rights-based approaches and to human dignity. However, the approach taken here is also pragmatic. In this regard, the papers mirror the rigorous analysis and research that Michael Cichon’s life work emphasized as necessary to help argue the case for and promote the development of rights-based social protection for all.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;En 2004, l’ouvrage intitulé &lt;i&gt;Financing social protection&lt;/i&gt; (Financer la protection sociale) a été publié par le Bureau international du Travail en collaboration avec l’Association internationale de la sécurité sociale. Il présentait une philosophie pédagogique reposant sur l’idée que l’apprentissage et la production de connaissances sont des activités simultanées et non séquentielles, et que les jeunes professionnels sont parfaitement capables d’apporter une contribution à la recherche dès le début de leur carrière. Cette philosophie constitue le fil intellectuel et institutionnel qui relie l’ouvrage de 2004 aux cinq articles publiés dans ce numéro thématique, qui ont été sélectionnés parmi les finalistes de l’édition 2025 du prix &lt;i&gt;Michael Cichon Graduate Award for Outstanding Thesis&lt;/i&gt; (Prix Michael Cichon récompensant un mémoire exceptionnel). Depuis 2004, l’investissement dans l’enseignement et la recherche a renforcé les capacités de simulation, d’évaluation d’impact et d’analyse comparative des systèmes de protection sociale. Pourtant, en pratique, des milliards d’individus sont encore privés de couverture adéquate et il subsiste des lacunes dans la couverture et la portée des institutions. Nous avons besoin de nouvelles façons d’envisager les enjeux politiques et administratifs, de même que de nouveaux penseurs innovants. Les auteurs des articles composant ce numéro thématique, qui s’","PeriodicalId":44996,"journal":{"name":"International Social Security Review","volume":"79 2","pages":"7-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148274774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beyond mortality: Reconceptualizing health outcomes in evaluating the impacts of foreign aid","authors":"Oluwatosin O. Olowookere","doi":"10.1111/issr.70033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/issr.70033","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;This article evaluates the impact of foreign aid on multidimensional health outcomes in developing countries. Using 26 indicators from the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 2 and SDG 3), the study constructs six composite health dimensions and analyse panel data on 131 countries (2000–2021) with fixed-effects cross-lagged panel models. The results show significant positive effects of official development assistance (ODA) on reproductive fatalities, burden of disease, and environmental mortality, but a negative effect on health system capacity. The study concludes that ODA alleviates specific health burdens but lacks transformative power to achieve long-term resilience and sustainable development. The study recommends prioritizing health infrastructure and system building as a fundamental component of global development efforts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cet article évalue l’impact de l’aide étrangère sur diverses dimensions des résultats sanitaires dans les pays en développement. À partir de 26 indicateurs de certains objectifs de développement durable (ODD) des Nations Unies (ODD 2 et ODD 3), l’auteur construit six indicateurs sanitaires composites et analyse des données de panel se rapportant à 131 pays au cours de la période 2000-2021 au moyen de modèles à effets croisés décalés et à effets fixes. Les résultats mettent en évidence des effets positifs significatifs de l’aide publique au développement (APD) sur la mortalité infantile et maternelle, la charge de morbidité et la santé environnementale, mais un effet négatif sur les capacités du système de santé. L’étude conclut que l’APD atténue certains coûts sanitaires mais qu’elle n’est pas suffisamment transformatrice pour assurer une résilience à long terme et un développement durable. Elle recommande de faire porter l’action mondiale pour le développement en priorité sur le renforcement de l’infrastructure et des systèmes de santé.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Este artículo evalúa los efectos de la ayuda exterior en los resultados de salud multidimensionales en los países en desarrollo. Mediante el uso de 26 indicadores de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible de las Naciones Unidas (ODS 2 y ODS 3), el estudio construye seis indicadores de salud compuestos y analiza datos de panel correspondientes a 131 países (2000-2021) con modelos de panel de retardo cruzado con efectos fijos. Los resultados muestran importantes efectos positivos de la asistencia oficial para el desarrollo (&lt;i&gt;official development assistance&lt;/i&gt; – ODA) en la mortalidad materna, la carga de morbilidad y la mortalidad ambiental, pero revelan efectos negativos en la capacidad del sistema de salud. El estudio concluye que la ODA alivia la carga específica para la salud, pero carece de capacidad transformadora para lograr la resiliencia y el desarrollo sostenible a largo plazo. En el estudio se recomienda dar prioridad a la construcción de una infraestructura y de un sistema de salud como componente fundamental de las iniciativas mundiales en favor ","PeriodicalId":44996,"journal":{"name":"International Social Security Review","volume":"79 2","pages":"123-141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148274776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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