Resilience Building through Social Protection
| Site: | EPRI Online Courses |
| Course: | SidaITP322: Social Protection for Sustainable Development |
| Book: | Resilience Building through Social Protection |
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| Date: | Thursday, 17 April 2025, 9:03 PM |
Description
Given the current and continuing context of COVID-19, this module introduces you to types of shocks and their impacts and provides insights on how to design and implement a social protection system responsive to such shocks. Completing this module will help you develop a more shock-resilient change programme and social protection policies and programmes in the future.
Table of contents
- 1. Shock-Responsive and Adaptive Social Protection: What COVID-19 Has Taught Us
- 2. Designing Shock-responsive and Adaptive Social Protection Systems (with lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic)
- 3. How can social protection systems respond to the COVID-19 crisis?
- 4. Shock Responsive Social Protection: Building Resilience for Vulnerable Groups
1. Shock-Responsive and Adaptive Social Protection: What COVID-19 Has Taught Us
This webinar defines shock-responsive and adaptive social protection and outlines the global impact of COVID-19 and the questions it poses for the current social protection approaches. Finally, the webinar offers guidance on how social protection systems, if made fundamentally adaptive, can respond to such shocks in the future.
Webinar Speakers: Dr Michael Samson (Course Convenor), Mauricio Boehl Guiterrez (Global Co-coordinator), Nard Huijbregts and Preksha Golchha (Lead Social Policy Advisors at the Economic Policy Research) Institute)
Webinar Video Recording (starts at 0h18m00s and ends at 1h38m00s)
Supporting resource: This abstract by Dr Michael Samson gives a brief overview of the opportunities posed by the COVID-19 crisis for building a more shock responsive and comprehensive social protection system globally. [Click here]
2. Designing Shock-responsive and Adaptive Social Protection Systems (with lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic)
This webinar covers the four major design issues related to making a social protection programme shock-responsive and adaptive: its organisation within government, benefit design and adaptation, and targeting and instrument modality. This webinar offers critical lessons on making social protection systems shock-responsive and adaptive.Webinar Speaker(s): Dr Michael Samson, Course Convenor
Webinar Presentation
Webinar Video Recording (starts at 00h11m50s and ends at 00h0125m30s)
3. How can social protection systems respond to the COVID-19 crisis?
This webinar organised by social protection.org explores the potential of different social protection instruments in responding to COVID-19 related shocks and mitigate its long term developmental impacts on vulnerable populations.
Webinar Speaker(s): Valentina Barca (Independent Consultant), Dr Michael Samson (Course Convenor)
Supporting Resource: In this video presentation, Dr. Claudia & Dr. Dirk Haarmann (Social Policy Advisors at the Economic Policy Research Institute) talks about why comprehensive social protection is important especially during this period of COVID-19. It also looks at the system failure and draw lessons from the failure before the Basic Income Grant in Otjivero, Namibia. [Click here]
4. Shock Responsive Social Protection: Building Resilience for Vulnerable Groups
This webinar explores the impacts of COVID-19 on the poor, especially informal workers and the global governmental responses towards protecting vulnerable populations.
Webinar Speaker(s): Stephen Devereux (Development Economist), Dr Michael Samson (Course Convenor)
Webinar Video Recording (starts at 00h06m15s)
Supporting Resource 1: In this webinar titled 'Protecting the Poor from COVID-19 Shock' organised by J-Pal South Asia and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the speakers talk about the implementation and design features the policymakers should consider in developing their cash transfer and other social protection programs to ensure ease of access for vulnerable populations. [Click here]
Supporting resource 2: The core focus of this webinar organised by socialprotection.org is on the integration of economic inclusion interventions like BRAC’s Graduation approach into the pandemic response and how they can be best utilised with social assistance to respond to current and emerging needs brought on by the crisis. [Click here]
Webinar Presentation for Supporting Resource 2