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19 December 2025
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
As an early adopter of cash transfers, Zambia has led the way in the region in the development and funding of the social protection...
13 September 2024
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Este relatório apresenta uma visão geral das principais preocupações relacionadas a sensibilidade aos conflitos para os programas de protecção social e as suas modalidades de implementação em Moçambique, a nível regional, local e de programação.
13 September 2024
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This report contains an overview of the main conflict-sensitive concerns for social protection programmes and implementation modalities in Mozambique at the regional, local, and programme levels. The report includes a set of recommendations for generating inclusive policy debate on the importance of conflict-sensitive social protection at national scale.
18 March 2024
22 February 2024
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper explores the conflict sensitivity of social protection in Sudan in its various forms since the present war started in April 2023, from locally led mutual aid to the social assistance programming of international agencies.
26 July 2023
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
In the face of shocks that are recurrent, predictable, interrelated, and multi-annual, governments and the international community are increasingly looking to the potential of shock-responsive and adaptive social protection to address multidimensional risk in a sustainable and integrated manner. This is the case in the West African Sahel, where social protection systems are being strengthened and an array of new delivery approaches are underway to coordinate efforts and address shocks related primarily to food security arising out of climate and conflict-related shocks and displacement.
23 May 2023
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
In a context of weak central political authority and persistent conflict, Somalia’s fledgling social protection sector continues to lean heavily on humanitarian actors for its delivery. It is also largely externally driven and financed, with consequences for the calibre of sector coherence.
23 May 2023
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Kenya’s social protection system has matured significantly over the last decade, although its resilience in violent conflict has not been tested given the country’s relative stability. Even so, Kenya has significant vulnerabilities, particularly its high spatial and social inequalities, and while devolution may have diffused political tensions from the centre, it has fed into local-level conflicts.
10 May 2023
9 May 2023
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The interaction between social protection and conflict is an emerging area of study with particular relevance to the Horn of Africa, where conflict and political instability are habitual risks and where social protection is now a well-established field of intervention, including in response to climate-related shocks.