This seminar introduces BASIC (Better Assistance in Crises) Research, an FCDO-funded programme examining how to strengthen assistance in protracted crises through improved ways of linking social protection and humanitarian aid. This launch seminar will outline the big questions and debates for BASIC in the years ahead.
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There are growing calls from global humanitarian and social protection stakeholders to support transitions to social protection systems that strengthen national systems to deliver routine assistance to chronically poor populations in protracted crises, and that bring in longer-term, development, climate and domestic sources of financing.
Led by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) together with the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex, and the Centre for International Development and Training (CIDT) at the University of Wolverhampton, BASIC Research is working with an assortment of partners across 11 countries affected by protracted crisis to generate new evidence and perspectives on these calls. The programme examines why, how, and when to use social protection approaches in different crisis contexts, to deliver more effective social assistance so that vulnerable people cope better with crises and meet their basic needs.
To coincide with the launch of the implementation phase of BASIC Research in February 2022, the BASIC Research team will provide an overview of the big policy debates and research questions that inform the programme over the next three years.
Speakers
- Paul Harvey, Partner, Humanitarian Outcomes
- Jeremy Lind, Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
- Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
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