The webinar “ Profile of pre-COVID-19 social protection system of India and Pakistan and a snapshot of their COVID-19 responses ” took place on 24 September 2020 and was the fifth in the Social Protection in South Asia webinar series . Jointly organised by the IPC-IG and UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA), this webinar was moderated by Pedro Arruda (IPC-IG) and included Fabianna Ferreira, Yannick Markhof (both from the IPC-IG), Soumen Bagchi and Antara Lahiri (both from UNICEF) as speakers. The main takeaways from five pre-COVID-19 comparative studies on social protection in South Asia and findings on the social protection responses to the pandemic (all joint publications by the IPC-IG and UNICEF) were discussed in more detail for the Pakistani and Indian national contexts...
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