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.
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]