Governments around the world are over increasingly recognising the value of risk-informed and responsive social protection systems as a strategic priority in mitigating the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest global crisis to test the responsiveness of the world’s social protection systems, but it is not the last or worst shock that national capabilities should anticipate. The challenges facing health, education, and social protection systems are amplifying the crisis with immediate and long-term social and economic consequences for poor and vulnerable groups. Strengthening responsive social protection systems offers the potential to mitigate the short-term impacts while contributing to building the resilience of people to future threats and crisis.
Through an integrated collaboration of EPRI faculty, social protection experts, professionals and peers, you will strengthen your social protection knowledge and skills, and explore new ways to adapt social protection policies and programmes to achieve more effective and developmental impact better. The programme is suited to a broad audience of policymakers, practitioners, researchers and project managers who are already working or will be working in the area of social protection.
- Teacher: Michael Samson