Social Policy in the Middle East and North Africa

Contents:

1. Introduction
Rana Jawad, Nicola Jones and Mahmood Messkoub

2. Theoretical and Policy Contexts of Social Policy in MENA
Rana Jawad, Nicola Jones and Mahmood Messkoub

3. Social protection schemes in the Middle East and North Africa: not fair, not efficient, not effective?
Markus Loewe

4. Social Policy and Social Change in MENA: A North African Perspective
Hicham Ait Mansour and Rana Jawad

5. The Coverage Gap in the Egyptian Social Protection System: Challenges and Opportunities
Irene Selwaness and Mahmood Messkoub

6. Cash Transfers in Iran
Mahmood Messkoub

7. A pathway to social justice? Social protection and disability in the State of Palestine
Bassam Abu-Hamad, Nicola Jones, Elizabeth Presler-Marshall, Paola Pereznieto and Mohammed Shaheen

8. Child Refugees from Syria: Challenges for Social Protection
Jose Azoh Barry and Rana Jawad

9. Interrogating the potential of a cash plus approach to tackle multi-dimensional vulnerability in humanitarian contexts: the case of Syrian refugees in Jordan
Bassam Abu Hamad, Nicola Jones, Elizabeth Presler-Marshall, Fiona Samuels and Ingrid Gercama

10. Social Protection, Political Mobilisation and Islamic NGOs in Iraq post-2003
Janan Aljabiri and Rana Jawad

11. Social accountability, citizenship, and social protection in the MENA region: Exploring the linkages
Sylvia I. Bergh

12. Conclusion: Synthesis and policy recommendations
Rana Jawad, Nicola Jones and Mahmood Messkoub

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• As questões sociais e processos
• Assistência social e serviços sociais

Social policy; Middle East and North Africa; cash transfers; social protection; targeting; social welfare; universalism; inequality; poverty