Welcome to the fourth course of the e-learning series on Adaptive Social Protection. This course explores the Building Block 'Institutional Arrangements and Partnerships' of the Adaptive Social Protection Framework developed by the World Bank in the paper 'Adaptive Social Protection: Building Resilience to Shocks'.
A strong and well-financed social protection system can enable governments to protect households and livelihoods from the worst impacts of shocks and disasters. ‘Pre-arranged finance’ acts as the ‘glue’ that holds credible plans together and makes them strong enough to withstand the complex political economy of disasters.
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The General Assembly, recognizing the need to strengthen and further invigorate South-South cooperation, decided by resolution 71/244 of 2 February 2017, to convene a high-level United Nations conference on South-South cooperation on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the adoption of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action for Promoting and Implementing Technical Cooperation among developing countries (TCDC).
Social accountability initiatives in two local areas in Ethiopia contributed to improvements in the service delivery of a social protection programme and state-society relations. But the social accountability mechanisms benefited the most marginalised citizens less. A new report by Development Pathways for the UK's Department for International Development, Social Accountability in the Delivery of Social Protection, throws light on what mechanisms were successful in addressing recipients’ issues, and what were their limitations.
