Social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: Honduras

Incluye bibliografía

Social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: Brazil

Incluye bibliografía

Social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: Jamaica

Includes bibliography

Social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: Haiti

Includes bibliography

Social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: Colombia

Includes bibliography

Social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: Plurinational State of Bolivia

Includes bibliography

Comprehensive national child protection systems: legal basis and current practice in Latin America and the Caribbean

Includes bibliography.

Social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: Panama

Includes bibliography.

Social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: Dominican Republic

Includes bibliography.

Social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: Ecuador

Includes bibliography.

Public policies for equality: Towards universal social protection systems

Incluye bibliografía.

Social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: a comparative view

This report pursues three complementary aims. Firstly, it presents the first generation of country case studies on social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean, published in the ECLAC Project Documents collection; and it provides justifications for developing such systems. Secondly, it sets out a classificatory approach to social protection system in the region, which aims to provide a comparative basis for interpreting national cases. Lastly, using standardized data and case studies, it identifies major trends in the changes the region is undergoing in terms of social protection.

Load Measurement on Foundations of Rockfall Protection Systems

Rockfall protection barriers are connected to the ground using steel cables fixed with anchors and foundations for the steel posts. It is common practice to measure the forces in the cables, while to date measurements of forces in the foundations have been inadequately resolved. An overview is presented of existing methods to measure the loads on the post foundations of rockfall protection barriers. Addressing some of the inadequacies of existing approaches, a novel sensor unit is presented that is able to capture the forces acting on post foundations in all six degrees of freedom. The sensor unit consists of four triaxial force sensors placed between two steel plates. To correctly convert the measurements into the directional forces acting on the foundation a special in-situ calibration procedure is proposed that delivers a corresponding conversion matrix.