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Carolina Szyp

Research Officer

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C.Szyp1@ids.ac.uk

Carolina Szyp is a Research Officer on the Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research Programme at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS).

Prior to this she has worked as a Research Officer at IDS in the Rural Futures cluster doing qualitative research and research support. Her research interests include children’s work, education, youth employment in agriculture, decent work and social protection. Before joining IDS, Carolina worked in project management within academia and the private sector.

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Programme

Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research

The intersection of protracted conflict and displacement with recurring climate shocks, alongside the shifting nature of humanitarian responses, presents multiple challenges for how to provide social assistance more effectively in protracted crises. BASIC (Better Assistance in Crises) Research...

Project

Action on Children’s Harmful Work in African Agriculture

Action on Children’s Harmful Work in African Agriculture (ACHA) is a seven-year research programme supported by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) that started in January 2020. The aim of the programme is to build evidence on: the forms, drivers, and experiences of...

Project

Programme Partnership between Irish Aid and IDS on Social Protection and Food Security and Nutrition

The Programme Partnership between Irish Aid and the Institute of Development Studies focuses on social protection and food and nutrition. The collaboration brings together research and capacity development with policy, programmatic and influencing know-how to support action that more effectively...

Project

Challenges and Opportunities for Rural Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Mixed-Methods Study to Inform Policy and Programs

The goal of the Challenges and Opportunities for Rural Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa study is to strengthen and deepen knowledge of: the employment dynamics of rural young people, and the relationships between these dynamics and welfare; and the socially and spatially differentiated...

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Opinion

Big push or hard pushed: livelihoods support in protracted crises

There have been multiple efforts in recent years to introduce cash transfers complemented by livelihood support in protracted crisis contexts. This approach to strengthening livelihoods is known as ‘cash-plus’, graduation, or economic inclusion programming. While cash alone can assist...

Carolina Szyp & 2 others

7 April 2022

Opinion

COP26: Let’s talk about social assistance in protracted crises

If the global pandemic has taught us anything, it is that crises will hit the most vulnerable the hardest. This is no truer than in the context of climate change. As global leaders take part in the COP26 Global Climate Summit, finance, energy transitions, burden-sharing, and resilience are some...

Lars Otto Naess

Carolina Szyp

8 November 2021

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Working Paper

Key Considerations for Targeting Social Assistance in Situations of Protracted Crises

BASIC Research Working Paper 12

Drawing on a range of literature, in this paper we examine the key considerations and dilemmas for targeting social assistance in protracted crises, including shock contexts, targeting methods, exclusion and protection risks, national and international actors’ politics, and technologies.

Rachel Sabates-Wheeler

Carolina Szyp

29 March 2022

Working Paper

Beyond Rights-Based Social Protection for Forcibly Displaced People

BASIC Research Working Paper 6

Having a right that is not respected is not the same as having no right at all. At least this should not be the case. Failure to receive something to which you are entitled should lead to formal redress or failing that, protest.

Tahir Zaman & 3 others

21 February 2022

Working Paper

The Risks and Outcomes of Getting Help for Marginalised People: Navigating Access to Social Assistance in Crises

BASIC Research Working Paper 7

The added value of this paper is in examining the risks of navigating access to social assistance in crises for these marginalised people, and the positive and negative outcomes of accessing or not accessing this assistance.

Brigitte Rohwerder

Carolina Szyp

7 February 2022

Working Paper

Cash and Livelihoods in Contexts of Conflict and Fragility: Implications for Social Assistance Programming

BASIC Research Working Paper 8

This paper examines the role of cash-plus programming (including graduation) for livelihoods, income, protection, and health outcomes in contexts of different conflict intensity.

Jeremy Lind & 2 others

7 February 2022

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Featured Programme

Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research

The intersection of protracted conflict and displacement with recurring climate shocks, alongside the shifting nature of humanitarian responses, presents multiple challenges for how to provide...

Featured Project

Action on Children’s Harmful Work in African Agriculture

Action on Children’s Harmful Work in African Agriculture (ACHA) is a seven-year research programme supported by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) that started in January...

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Carolina Szyp

Research Officer

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Research

Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research

Action on Children’s Harmful Work in African Agriculture

Programme Partnership between Irish Aid and IDS on Social Protection and Food Security and Nutrition

Challenges and Opportunities for Rural Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Mixed-Methods Study to Inform Policy and Programs

Opinions

Big push or hard pushed: livelihoods support in protracted crises

COP26: Let’s talk about social assistance in protracted crises

Publications

Key Considerations for Targeting Social Assistance in Situations of Protracted Crises

Beyond Rights-Based Social Protection for Forcibly Displaced People

The Risks and Outcomes of Getting Help for Marginalised People: Navigating Access to Social Assistance in Crises

Cash and Livelihoods in Contexts of Conflict and Fragility: Implications for Social Assistance Programming

Carolina Szyp’s recent work

Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research

Action on Children’s Harmful Work in African Agriculture