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Social Protection

Social protection has recently risen rapidly up the policy agenda of many governments, donors and NGOs. In poor countries with weak administrative capacity, various social protection interventions that provide some degree of social assistance or social insurance are being adopted in contexts where social security systems are not yet fully developed. However, there are many challenges to the extension of social protection to all:

Social protection is weakly theorised and lacks agreed conceptual frameworks and terminology. The challenge is to strengthen the linkages between social protection policy and multidimensional approaches to the analysis of poverty, risk and vulnerability.
There is much innovative work on design, delivery and evaluation of social protection interventions, but creating open, independent and critical networks to share experiences across regions and countries remains a key challenge.
There is a need to link research and advisory work with capacity building and advocacy, to support campaigns for the right to social protection, and to ensure that activists have the information and analytical tools to do so effectively and credibly.

The Centre for Social Protection aims to advance thinking and practice in all these areas, by:

Undertaking theoretical and applied research
Providing advice to decision-makers on the design and implementation of social protection policies and programmes
Evaluating social protection interventions
Delivering training courses on social protection
Sharing lessons and ideas by participating in conferences, workshops and seminars.

To find out more about the centre, please e-mail socialprotection@ids.ac.uk

Current Social Protecion projects

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A Study of Effective Referral Mechanisms to Strengthen Child and Social Protection in ESAR - (Ongoing)
Accelerating Progress in Reducing Hunger and Undernutrition - This programme will focus on how agriculture can deliver better nutrition outcomes by developing evidence-based policy options and tools for businesses, governments, NGOs and donors. (Ongoing)
Adaptive Social Protection - The ASP programme uses evidence to link climate change adaptation (CCA), disaster risk reduction (DRR) and social protection (SP). (Ongoing)
Child Vulnerability Assessment, UNICEF Myanmar - IDS has been commissioned to analyse the most recent Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) data and write a report on child vulnerability, which can be utilized for evidence based programming and advocacy to improve children's status in Myanmar. (Ongoing)
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) in Nigeria - Analytical study to assist with the design of a functional health and education conditioned cash transfer for the poor in Nigeria. (2005 - 2006)