September 2021 - It’s socialprotection.org's 6th anniversary: What has changed in social protection since COVID-19?
September 2021 - It’s socialprotection.org's 6th anniversary: What has changed in social protection since COVID-19?
Welcome to our September Newsletter!
The socialprotection.org platform has just completed six years as an essential knowledge-sharing and capacity-building hub in the field of social protection. We would like to thank our more than 9,000 members, 2,000 stakeholders, main partners, and especially you! Our achievements would not have been possible without your engagement and continuous support over the years. Check out the key results we have accomplished so far:
In this commemorative edition, you will find relevant content on social protection responses to COVID-19 promoted and / or produced by socialprotection.org during this past year. We invite you to seize the occasion to reflect on these experiences and delve into the challenges and lessons the world has had to overcome. Starting with this newsletter, in the coming weeks you can expect lots of content to inspire reflections on what has changed in the social protection field since the outbreak of the pandemic, with a focus on what needs to be done from now on. Enjoy!
African Dialogue on COVID-19 and the Future of Social Protection African Union | APSP | HelpAge International | WIEGO | Save the Children | FES | ILO Check out this three-webinar series designed to enable an engaging conversation on how to address critical social protection gaps exposed by the pandemic and progress towards inclusive and rights-based social protection.
The series includes 32 webinars developed during the first months of the global health crisis to explore the role of social protection in responding to COVID-19. These webinars show how countries around the world were reacting to the pandemic and discuss key issues related to universal social protection.
The six sessions of this series present how the pre-COVID social protection landscape is being modified by the health crisis in South Asia and what are the prospects for the ‘new normal’ of social protection set-ups going forward.
In March, one year since COVID-19 swept over the globe, the socialprotection.org started the Social Protection Podcast to discuss key topics related to social protection. Our latest release is the first of a set of upcoming episodes exploring social protection flagship programmes. This time, we discussed Brazil’s ‘Bolsa Família’, one of the world’s best known conditional cash transfers.
This online dashboard documents the social protection responses to the COVID-19 crisis in the Global South, using a shock-responsive lens. After a test version, the online dashboard was recently updated. Now a more complete and user-friendly version is available, including additional filters and data. Access it now!
The ‘Social protection responses to COVID-19’ Online Community (OC) is the result of a task force organised since the beginning of the pandemic. It is an important space to check how countries across the world are responding to the pandemic through social protection measures, share lessons learned and best practices.
This e-course aims to enable humanitarians, including local responders, to be better equipped to respond to the global COVID-19 pandemic. It contains online technical capacity-strengthening programmes to support humanitarians’ responses during the crisis.
Learn to recognise Adaptive Social Protection as a dedicated focus area within the wider field of social protection and identify the ways in which social protection systems can be adapted to build the resilience of poor and vulnerable households before, during and after shocks.
The global e-Conference ‘Turning the COVID-19 crisis into an opportunity: what's next for social protection?’, which took place in October 2020, was a milestone for the social protection community. Almost one year later, the discussions held then are still important to understand how the pandemic shook the world we live in and raised social protection measures into another level. Check out the outcomes of the event:
