'Hot Topics' in Social Protection
Abstract
Social protection has become an inherent element of the development response and
is one of the success stories of development policy in the early twenty-first century.
It is widely considered to expand and remain an important part of the development
agenda in the years ahead. This is reflected in the Agenda 2030 and recently adopted
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), highlighting social protection’s role in the
eradication of poverty, improvement of gender equality and reduction of within and
between country inequalities.