What We Do

Since 2006 the coalition has been focusing on social protection, particularly the role of social transfers in poverty reduction and facilitating access to other essential services.

The Grow-Up Free From Poverty Coalition’s current objectives are:

• To campaign for the realization of the universal right of everyone, as a member of society, to the right to social security, through national effort and international co-operation.

• To promote a universal minimum package of systematic social transfers including child benefit, an old age pension and a disability allowance which provides a floor beneath which no one falls, and which is affordable now through a combination of national and international resources.
  

• To ensure that this minimum package is developed and extended within a framework of integrated empowering mechanisms (e.g. affordable credit, safety nets in times of crisis, universal free basic education and health care) combined with legal and social measures which promote equality and tackle discrimination.

• To create, broaden, enable and support dialogue at international, national and community level which creates understanding of the rights to social protection, ensuring that the voices of poor children, their carers, and those with disabilities reach those who influence and implement policy related to national social protection frameworks and to support communities in their demands for appropriate social protection measures.

• To demonstrate that social protection measures are essential to the achievement of the MDGs.

• To demonstrate that social protection measures are essential to the wider goals of poverty reduction and social inclusion and advocate this to donors.