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Weekly Social Protection Links: 16 October 2020

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Submitted by Ugo Gentilini
on Mon, 19/10/2020 - 11:16
Jointly produced with the socialprotection.org team (Mariana Balboni, Patricia Velloso, Fabio Veras, Fabiana Pullen Sousa, and Marina Carvalho), Valentina Barca, and Martina Bergthaller. Happy birthday socialprotection.org ! To celebrate its 5th anniversary, the platform hosted a massive virtual learning event, “ Turning the COVID-19 crisis into an opportunity: What’s next for social protection?” (October 5-8, 2020). This included 2,150 participants attending 72 sessions structured around 5 formats, namely expert panels, round tables, clinics, side events, and booth talks. So what happened? The conference opened with welcome messages and an overview of the impressive milestones of socialprotection.org over the past 5 years (featuring Balboni, Rutkowski, Razavi, Argueta...Read more

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GBV & Social Protection in COVID-19 and beyond – evidence & emerging practice

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Submitted by Ruth Graham-Goulder
on Fri, 16/10/2020 - 14:54
This blog summarises the findings, insights and recommendations shared by our expert panel in the webinar “ GBV & Social Protection in COVID-19 and beyond – evidence & emerging practice ”, which was held on September 10, 2020 and co-organised by UNICEF, the World Bank, the FCDO and UN Women and hosted bysocialprotection.org, resulting from the SPIAC-B Gender Working Group collaboration. The speakers were Lori Heise , Professor of Social Epidemiology; Melissa Alvarado, Ending Violence Against Women Programme Manager, UN Women; Lorena Fuentes, Co-founder and Principal, Ladysmith, and Natalia Winder-Rossi, Associate Director of Social Policy, UNICEF. The discussion was chaired by Caren Grown , World Bank Global Director, Gender.* *Due to...Read more

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Profile of pre-COVID-19 social protection system of India and Pakistan and a snapshot of their COVID-19 responses

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Submitted by Beatriz Burattini
on Thu, 15/10/2020 - 20:49
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...Read more

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Cutting through complexity to shape the COVID-19 cash response

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Submitted by Valentina Barca
on Wed, 14/10/2020 - 18:18
Valentina Barca, team leader on the FCDO- and GDC-funded SPACE initiative, shares three practical lessons on responding to the growing and evolving shape of needs emerging from the pandemic and its economic fall-out In March 2020, when most policy-makers working on social protection responses to COVID-19 – and their humanitarian counterparts – started banging their heads to think of creative ways to expand to new caseloads and support increasing needs, my team had the privilege to be able to take a step back and develop two matrices. Why would we ever do that? People tend to hate matrices! Because many of us had been working on operationalising the idea of Shock Responsive (Adaptive, Shock-sensitive..) Social Protection (TRANSFORM,...Read more

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Weekly Social Protection Links: 09 October 2020

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Submitted by Ugo Gentilini
on Mon, 12/10/2020 - 17:29
Let me start this week with a somewhat cautionary tale about providing transfers at very low levels. Prifti et al study the effects of the Social Cash Transfer program in Tigray, Ethiopia, on children’s labor and school attendance . What did they find? In rural areas, the transfer led to a small effect on child labor (half an hour reduction), a result primarily driven by reductions in farm work by younger boys (5–14 years old) living in male‐headed households; but school attendance didn’t increase, partially because of the low transfer amounting to 10% of monthly consumption expenditure (which also wasn’t adjusted to inflation). In the urban areas, similar (no) effects are observed on schooling, while the program rose the total number of hours worked by children (it is...Read more

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