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UN response to the crisis: The international community has committed to advocate for and support the development of a social protection floor (April 4-5, 2009 - Paris).
Social security benefits and public health services act as social, health and economic stabilizers. This is particularly important during the time of the current global economic, financial and food crisis.
In response to the need for social protection in times of crisis and thereafter, the international community has committed to advocate for and support the development of a social protection floor on April 4-5, 2009 in Paris. As the definition transcends the mandate of any individual UN agency, a coherent system-wide approach has been established.
A social protection floor could consist of two main elements:
- Services: geographical and financial access to essential public services (such as water and sanitation, health, and education); and
- Transfers: a basic set of essential social transfers, in cash and in kind, paid to the poor and vulnerable to provide a minimum income security and access to essential services, including health care.
Date of creation: 2009-07-14,
by valérie schmitt-diabate
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