A Proposed Global Funding Mechanism for Social Protection

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Dr Zina Nimeh is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at UNU-MERIT/Maastricht University, with a focus on Social Protection. She has over two decades of professional and academic experience in the areas of public policy, social policy, public sector reform and governance. Dr Nimeh obtained her PhD in Public Policy and Policy Analysis in 2012 from Maastricht University through a Marie Currie research grant. Her content area of expertise is on public policy, social protection policy and financing, social cohesion and governance. Regionally she has extensive expertise in the MENA region, as well as in the emerging markets contexts. Visit UNU-MERIT/Maastricht University here.
 
The MENASP Network Webinar Series is a monthly virtual webinar that acts as a platform for speakers from within the network and external leading thinkers to present their research.
The MENASP Network Webinar Series aims to enable Network members and wider audiences to access new and ground-breaking research on social policy and conflict prevention. The focus of the research should be on the Middle East and North Africa region or lessons from other countries and regions that could help inform social policy and conflict prevention research and policy development in MENA.
We will post information about upcoming webinars here also.
 
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Social Policy Network is housed under the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath. It brings together policy makers and academics to advance social policy in the MENA region and it was founded to advance, exchange and disseminate knowledge and policy expertise about social policy in the MENA region. This includes providing:
  • Up-to-date policy analysis on the key social challenges facing the region;
  • Information on social welfare issues for use by the wider public;
  • Resources for policy-makers, practitioners and academics.

The network was founded in 2013 by Dr. Rana Jawad as a way of supporting quality research on crucial social policy issues and bridging the gap between policy-makers, researchers and the wider public. Dr Jawad’s research interests include development policy in the MENA region, social protection and social policy in the MENA region, religion and social welfare action, and social movements. Alongside Dr. Rana Jawad the network consists of a core group of globally based academic experts: Hicham Aitmansour, Ghada Barsoum, Anis Ben Brik, Walid Merouani, Nassar Yassin, Ibrahim Hawarin, Elie Mekhael and Markus Loewe. Together, their research addresses such themes as pension reform in the Middle East, youth unemployment in Egypt, child poverty in North Africa and humanitarianism in Lebanon and social assistance in Jordan, among many other issues.

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