Application of Social Protection in Adapting Against Vulnerability

INTRODUCTION

Social protection is commonly understood as all public and private initiatives that provide income or consumption transfers to a defined group of people including the poor, the vulnerable or marginalised against livelihood risks and enhance the social status and rights with the overall objective of reducing their economic and social vulnerability. The varied objectives of social protection include reducing poverty and vulnerability, building human capital, empowering women and girls, improving livelihoods, and responding to economic and other shocks among other objectives. This 5 days course aim to equip participants with skills necessary in designing, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of social protection intervention.

DURATION

5 days

TOPICS TO BE COVERED

Module 1: Building a knowledge base on social protection

• Introduction to social protection
• Models of social protection
• Social protection instruments
• Institutional and regional approaches to social protection
• The role of social protection in reducing poverty, vulnerability and social exclusion

Module 2: Designing and implementing social protection programmes

• Targeting social protection
• Delivering social protection
• Social protection systems
• The design of social protection and cash transfer programmes
• Implementation issues, including registration, targeting, payment and information systems

Module 3: Evidence of what works in social protection

• Current evidence on social protection
• Evaluation and policy analysis

Module 4: Monitoring Social Protection

• Monitoring and evaluation approaches for social protection systems
• Analyzing case studies of successful programmes around the world

Module 5: Best Practices

• Source of social risks
• Prevention strategies
• Mitigation strategies
• Coping strategies