Children and Gender-Sensitive Social Protection
Completion requirements
This module aims to help you develop a child and gender- sensitive perspective on social protection.org and understand the importance of such perspectives in planning and implementing social protection policies and programmes. These resources can help you critically consider cross-cutting issues while designing your country's change programme.
1. Social Protection and Early Childhood Development: How COVID-19 Changes the Landscape
This webinar makes the case for investing in child-sensitive social protection by illustrating the long-term implications of early childhood and adolescence development on human development outcomes including health, employment and education.
Webinar Speaker(s): Dr Michael Samson (Course Convenor), Presksha Golchha (Lead Social Policy Advisor at the Economic Policy Research Institute)
Webinar Presentation
Webinar Video Recording (00h38m50s to 01h15m00s)
Supporting Resource 1: This analysis by BMJ Global Health looks at conditions that support optimal brain development in childhood and highlights how social protection promotes these conditions and strengthens the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Asia and the Pacific. [Click here]
Supporting Resource 2: This blog by Pamela Pozarny on GSDRC explores the impacts of social protection programmes on children. [Click here]
Webinar Speaker(s): Dr Michael Samson (Course Convenor), Presksha Golchha (Lead Social Policy Advisor at the Economic Policy Research Institute)
Webinar Presentation
Webinar Video Recording (00h38m50s to 01h15m00s)
Supporting Resource 1: This analysis by BMJ Global Health looks at conditions that support optimal brain development in childhood and highlights how social protection promotes these conditions and strengthens the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Asia and the Pacific. [Click here]
Supporting Resource 2: This blog by Pamela Pozarny on GSDRC explores the impacts of social protection programmes on children. [Click here]