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Fail Forward: Building the foundations for innovation

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Submitted by Ana Carolina Romano
on Tue, 19/01/2021 - 20:16
Author: Zehra Rizvi and Cecile Cherrier “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.” (Albert Einstein). Experimentation and innovation are required to advance social protection for all, but this involves failing. Where is the space for failures and how do we embrace this? Have we failed? Yes, because we haven’t failed enough. In a rapidly changing world, innovation will be key to successfully deliver social protection for all. The COVID-19 pandemic has shed light on the need to innovate to rapidly expand social protection to often hard-to-reach populations hit by the socio-economic crisis. In complex, uncertain, resource-scare contexts, doing things differently is a MUST. This requires creativity,...Read more

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Fostering coherence between social protection, agriculture and natural resource management for an inclusive and sustainable recovery

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Submitted by Gala Dahlet
on Tue, 05/01/2021 - 17:06
This blog post was written by Gala Dahlet and Ana Ocampo The COVID-19 pandemic has developed into a health, economic and social crisis, threatening decades of progress in poverty reduction for the first time (World Bank, 2020) and significantly increasing food insecurity (IFPRI, 2020), adding to the impacts of conflicts and climate change. These complex and overlapping issues call for coherent approaches. Successes and challenges of the COVID-19 response in rural areas About 80 per cent of the extreme poor live in rural areas and experience more overlapping deprivations in accessing services and infrastructure than their urban counterparts, as well as lower access to social protection and economic opportunities (Castañeda et al, 2018; FAO, 2019). They...Read more

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Expanding Social Protection to Decrease Inequality

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Submitted by Ulrika Lång
on Tue, 29/12/2020 - 14:44
Covid-19 has been called a “game changer” for social protection, an alarm bell for expansion. We don’t yet know the full effects of this crisis, but we already know that inequalities are increasing both within countries and between countries. Tackling inequality will demand even larger efforts than before. To make this leap we need to recognize that social protection is an investment. Social protection as an investment While expansion of social protection has been placed high on the development agenda to meet the effects of COVID-19, actual investments are larger in high-income countries. During the last decade, social protection coverage has increased rapidly. Still, 80 per cent of the poorest in low-income countries lack access to social safety nets,...Read more

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What's next for Social Protection: A Global Fund for Social Protection

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Submitted by Nicola Wiebe
on Tue, 22/12/2020 - 16:45
Social p rotection g aps left individuals and societies vulnerable to health, social and economic impacts of COVID-19 . A Global Fund for Social Protection could accelerate progress in building social protection floors worldwide and strengthen crisis resilience decisively . Social Protection has been an essential tool to face the pandemic and to mitigate its health, social and economic impact on individuals and societies. So far, 209 countries adopted 1,568 social protection measures in response to COVID-19 - 54 % of these measures were new emergency programs and 46% adjustments of pre-existing contributory and non...Read more

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Shock-Responsive Social Protection: Lessons from the Joint SDG Fund for an Integrated Approach to COVID-19

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Submitted by Nenad (Ned) Rava
on Mon, 14/12/2020 - 19:37
The salience of Social Protection Systems has increased dramatically in the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic. The UN Joint SDG Fund had launched a portfolio of 35 joint programmes in 39 countries with USD 102 million just before the pandemic. This facilitated swift responses and addressing the systemic impact of the pandemic from the onset. The early lessons emerged, in particular, in those programmes which focused on the Shock-Responsive approach. Investing into Social Protection for Leaving No One Behind (LNOB) The portfolio on Social Protection for LNOB is on course to deliver transformative results at scale by January 2022. Upon its launch in November 2018, the first decision of the Fund was to invest USD 70 million, and...Read more

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This is the recording of Clinic 3B - (Digital) solutions for social protection responses to COVID-19: payments at the Global e-Conference Turning the COVID-19 crisis into an opportunity: What's next for social protection?

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This is the recording of Clinic 3A - (Digital) solutions for social protection responses to COVID-19: payments at the Global e-Conference Turning the COVID-19 crisis into an opportunity: What's next for social protection?

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This is the recording of Clinic 2B: Gender and disability-responsive social protection in times of COVID-19 and beyond at the Global e-Conference Turning the COVID-19 crisis into an opportunity: What's next for social protection?

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This is the recording of Clinic 2A: Gender and disability-responsive social protection in times of COVID-19 and beyond at the Global e-Conference Turning the COVID-19 crisis into an opportunity: What's next for social protection?

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This is the recording of Round-table 11 - Transitioning out of emergency transfers: what's next for UBI? at the Global e-Conference Turning the COVID-19 crisis into an opportunity: What's next for social protection?

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