| Welcome to our September newsletter! | | | Join us in celebrating the eighth anniversary of socialprotection.org! In this special issue, we highlight the far-reaching impacts of social protection on individuals and countries worldwide. Discover our latest achievements through an infographic, join us for two upcoming webinars and listen to the latest episode of the Social Protection Podcast! Read the first edition of the Social Protection Digest and register for the Asia-Pacific Social Protection Week 2023. Enjoy! | | | | Episode 30 | Impacts of Social Protection—This episode marks the eighth anniversary of socialprotection.org by discussing social protection and its impacts. Discover the lasting power of social protection and its effects on policies, practices, the lives of beneficiaries, and the global discourse, shaping the sector as we know today. Listen now! | | | | Social Protection Digest #1—To celebrate our anniversary, we are launching a quarterly digest featuring practitioner guides, evidence-based studies, and policy and conceptual discussions. It showcases a selection of curated publications on various topics, offering practitioners, policymakers and researchers guidance and evidence on social protection. | | | | What are the main opportunities and innovations to be explored in the field of social protection in the Asia-Pacific region? How have systems and programmes evolved since the COVID-19 pandemic? These questions will be addressed during this three-day conference, as well as topics such as social protection policy, systems strengthening, financing, data and evidence, and climate change. Register for online participation. | | | Discover additional recent publications curated by the socialprotection.org team | | | | | | Impacts of Social Protection
| | | There are various ways in which social protection can impact individuals and societies, including poverty reduction and improving education, healthcare, and basic services. On a broader scale, social protection can also foster economic stability by breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty, promoting the development and stability of entire nations. Join us in celebrating eight years of socialprotection.org by exploring the multifaceted impacts of social protection. | | | | In the past year, in collaboration with nine organisations, this section featured numerous exclusive blog posts on food security, rural poverty, climate change, and more. Explore the diverse and complex impacts that social protection can bring about on thought-provoking posts, written between September 2022 and August 2023, and watch the teasers recorded by the authors, such as here, here and here. | | | Browse additional publications on the impacts of social protection,
curated by the socialprotection.org team. | | Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) | Ghana—Established in 2008, the LEAP programme aims to reduce short-term poverty and develop long-term human capital in Ghana. It includes a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) unit, responsible for monitoring implementation as well as evaluating outputs, outcomes, and impacts. The unit assesses and reports impacts annually. In addition, programme impacts are also often evaluated by external parties, such as international organisations and universities. By 2022, the programme covered over 344,000 households in the country, providing conditional cash transfers and health benefits to children, elderly persons, persons with disabilities, poor households, mothers, and pregnant and lactating women. | | Europe and Central Asia—Social Protection Expenditure and Evaluation Database (SPEED) | World Bank—This database provides easy-to-access indicators, across countries and over time, for the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region. It includes the three main groups of social protection programmes: social insurance, labour market policies and social assistance. The expenditure database includes social care services and general subsidies, while the performance database provides information on private transfers. | | | |
