This webinar posits the necessity to rethink social policy in the SWANA region, and more specifically social protection, based on the principle of universalism (versus the notion of targeting). It will discuss to which extent the adequate and rights based institutionalisation of social protection can be perceived as the pillar of a social contract between the state and its citizens, and will reflect on the efficiency of a citizenship paradigm versus a charity and targeting based one.
The webinar aims at discussing social justice and social contracts in the Middle East, a region that is also witnessing one of the largest-scale displacements in history. It will reflect on aid interventions, by exploring the formulation of (new) social contracts, based on greater social inclusion of non-nationals, for the provision of social justice for all.
