Slide presentation of the webinar held on 18 August 2022.

This webinar explored vital lessons, challenges, and opportunities from a range of country contexts, and how such inter-country and inter-region learning could be harnessed in the design and implementation of effective social protection and child benefit programmes.

Objectives of the UNICEF and IPC-IG Webinar on Social Protection and Child Benefits:

• To obtain a high level and global picture of social protection challenges, opportunities, and deficits in UNICEF countries in the South in the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• To share experiences from countries represented at the webinar that have successfully implemented comprehensive social protection programmes that benefit children and their families.
• Promote country-to-country learning on actions, experiences, lessons learnt and good practices on social protection and child benefits schemes in the context of COVID-19.
• To understand how to harness the complementary power of social sector programmes that enhance the overall value and effectiveness of social assistance for children.
• Discuss how such learning, sharing and stock-taking could be institutionalised in an annual UNICEF webinar series supportive of the goals of the SSTC.