Solutions Session: Policy Pathways to Inclusion: Advancing Human Rights through Social Protection and Decent Work

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Background 

At the 2025 World Summit for Social Development (WSSD), this high-level solutions event will spotlight how countries, notably Uzbekistan, Somalia, Guatemala and Malawi are leading the way in advancing a human rights economy through integrated UN joint programmes tailored to their national priorities of productive employment, decent work, social integration and poverty eradication. 

This session will explore how these country-led innovations are addressing structural inequalities, embedding human rights in economic policy, and delivering tangible outcomes for vulnerable populations. 

Agenda 

1. Opening Remarks

• UN Deputy Secretary-General or High-Level UN Representative
• Donor Member State Representative 

2. Framing the Human Rights Economy as a key element of the Global Accelerator for Jobs and Social Protection

• ILO’s ASG, Laura Thompson, explains the transformative and multiplying effect of extending social protection and creating decent employment.
• UN Food Systems Coordination Hub Director, on how national food systems transformations in progress are delivering across the 3 WSS pillars. 

3. Country Spotlights Panel

• Moderated Dialogue by representative of GIZ featuring UN Resident Coordinators and Government representatives from selected joint programmes presented above. 

4. Dialogue with Development Partners 

• Reflections from the Technical Support Facility on how joint programmes are advancing inclusive systems and LNOB through the WB-UN collaboration through the UN joint programming for decent jobs and universal social protection. 

5. Audience Q&A 

6. Closing Reflections