Resilience Building through Social Protection: Designing Shock-responsive and Adaptive Social Protection Systems (with lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic)

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.

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)