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Financing in Fragile and Conflict Contexts: Evidence, Opportunities, and Barriers

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This paper provides a summary of the main trends and issues regarding both regular and risk financing in FCAS.

Shock-Responsive Social Protection: What is Known About What Works in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations?

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

By exploring experiences in a range of countries, the paper explores what is known about the use of SRSP in FCAS, and identifies further areas of potential research for the BASIC Research programme.

Financing Social Assistance in Crisis Situations

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Protracted crises are increasing and becoming compounded, but financing solutions for humanitarian and social assistance in fragile and conflict-affected settings (FCAS) are not keeping up.

Social Assistance Systems in Crisis Situations: Resilient, Responsive and Sensitive?

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Evidence on what enables social assistance systems to deliver routinely, effectively and efficiently is limited in crisis situations.

Integrating Humanitarian Response with Social Protection Systems: Limits and Opportunities

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

The separation between provision of short-term humanitarian assistance and long-term development programmes – such as social protection – often creates inefficiencies, wastes resources and means support fails to reach those who urgently need it.

Malawi Shock-Responsive Social Protection (SRSP) Case Study

Shock-responsive social protection (SRSP) is increasingly being explored by a range of actors to link humanitarian assistance and longer-term development interventions and build the capacity of governments to manage the full spectrum of shocks that people face through integrated and aligned systems and programmes. To date, however, evidence of what has been tested and learned is limited.

The Role of Cash Transfers in Social Protection, Humanitarian Response and Shock-Responsive Social Protection

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Cash transfers have expanded rapidly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) around the world in the past decade. The contexts in which they are implemented have also diversified; while cash transfers were mostly adopted initially as central elements of social protection systems, they have become increasingly popular as a core component of humanitarian response.