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Effective Social Protection in Conflict: Findings from Sudan
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.
Shock-Responsive Social Protection in the Sahel: Niger, Mauritania, and Senegal
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.
Conflict-Sensitive Social Protection: Somalia Country Report
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.
Conflict-Sensitive Social Protection: Kenya Country Report
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.
Ensuring an Effective Social Protection Response in Conflict-Affected Settings: Findings from the Horn of Africa
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.
Conflict-Sensitive Social Protection: Sudan Country Report
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This country case study summarises the principal elements of social protection in Sudan, with a particular focus on social safety nets and humanitarian social assistance, and discusses these from a conflict-sensitivity perspective.
Social Assistance and Covid-19: Reaching the Furthest Behind First?
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This briefing reviews experiences of social assistance measures in response to Covid-19 across low- and middle-income countries, and the extent to which these measures were inclusive of the most marginalised individuals or reached the furthest behind first.
Social Assistance in Response to Covid-19: Reaching the Furthest Behind First?
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Social assistance has proven a vital component of the response to the unprecedented global crisis of Covid-19. Almost all countries across the world implemented some form of social assistance to provide a buffer against the pandemic’s socioeconomic consequences.