Accessing Rights through UBI: The Haitian Experience
Channel: UNRISD
Date: 06/06/2016

Didier Georges from the Permanent Mission of Haiti to the UN (Geneva) walks us through the country’s involvement with UBI, which began when they were conducting research for the Universal Periodic Review, and found that UBI was a way to help people access basic needs without having to wade through cumbersome administrative red tape.

Haiti implemented a large-scale social assistance programme, which included unconditional cash transfers to single mothers and the elderly, in 2012. Hear him argue why UBI is an effective way to ensure that people are able to claim their rights.