Drawing on the background paper on interlinkages between social protection, services and infrastructure (Chopra 2018), this paper provides insights into the interlinkages that might be found, or sought, in contexts that are in the midst of or recovering from violent conflict or that have fragile governance systems that undermine capacity to deliver social protection, services and infrastructure effectively, particularly in support of gender equality, equity and empowerment.
This report documents the progress that Pakistanhas made so far in improving its systems for delivering social protection to its people. The government has increasingly relied on data and technology to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the program. BISP UCT (Kafaalat), the country’s largest social assistance program interms of both budget allocation and number of beneficiaries, has been responsible for the most innovative developments in the delivery of benefits.
The 3rd policy paper on Gender Mainstreaming provides an overview of existing social protection mechanisms in Pakistan, their implementation challenges and models, and lessons learned from global best practices to benefit women in Pakistan.
Social protection programs (SPPs) are designed to help individuals and households cope with chronic poverty, destitution, and vulnerability.1 In the context of food systems, SPPs can help tackle the challenge of affordability of healthy diets.