Resilience Building through Social Protection
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.
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]