UK Department for International Development, DFID

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The Department for International Development (DFID) leads the UK’s work to end extreme poverty. We are tackling the global challenges of our time including poverty and disease, mass migration, insecurity and conflict. Our work is building a safer, healthier, more prosperous world for people in developing countries and in the UK too.

The UK's Department for International Development has been an important sponsor of many activities carried out in the socialprotection.org platform through the "Brazil & Africa: fighting poverty and empowering women via South-South Cooperation" project. Please check the project page for more information.

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What is Social Protection for us?

"(...) DFID takes a narrower definition of social protection that focuses on a sub-set of public actions that help address risk, vulnerability and chronic poverty. These comprise three sets of instruments:

• Social insurance refers to the pooling of contributions by individuals in state or private organisations so that, if they suffer a shock or change in circumstances, they receive financial support;

• Social assistance comprises non-contributory transfers that are given to those deemed vulnerable by society on the basis of their vulnerability or poverty; and,

• The setting and enforcing of minimum standards to protect citizens within the workplace."

Source: DFID. 2006. "Social protection in poor countries". Social Protection Briefing Note Series, No. 1. n.p.: UK Department for International Development. <https://socialprotection.org/discover/publications/social-protection-poor-countries>. Accessed 18 June 2020.

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