The humanitarian situation in the Eastern Africa region is characterized by shocks, fragility, and conflict in many countries, which continued to highlight the importance of social protection as a way of meeting essential needs, responding to crisis, and building resilience to shocks. Â鶹ÊÓƵ enhanced partnerships with governments, donors, and international financial institutions (IFIs) to mitigate the impacts of this situation through supporting the scale-up of shock responses, refugee inclusion, systems strengthening and enhancement of policy and institutional frameworks.
Building on analysis and lessons learned these reports provide recommendations to strengthen and institutionalize linkages between disaster risk finance and social protection to make systems more shock-responsive.
This case study provides a technical overview of the collaborative process through which the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Fijian Government set up innovative structures to provide cash assistance ahead of anticipated cyclones.
The 2023 Annual Report highlights the work of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Centre of Excellence against Hunger Brazil in achieving SDGs 1,2 and 17 through South-South Cooperation.
This research programme explores the investments being made to make social protection a viable vehicle for disaster response in three countries that face regular large-scale climate shocks, and aims to identify the value derived, and the benefits and challenges arising.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ can provide first-time access to financial accounts and help governments do the same. This series explores how Country Offices have enabled digital financial inclusion and women¡¯s empowerment through cash transfers.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ can provide first-time access to financial accounts and help governments do the same. This series explores how Country Offices have enabled digital financial inclusion and women¡¯s empowerment through cash transfers.
The objective of these studies is to generate evidence and inform practice for improved emergency preparedness and response in the Caribbean region linked to more flexible national social protection systems. The main research question for these studies is: ¡®What factors enable social protection systems to be more responsive to shocks¡¯?
Policy and programme progress depends on reliable and timely evidence. Â鶹ÊÓƵ has been actively promoting the development and utilization of evidence products, emanating from research, assessments, and analytics in social protection.
The Kyrgyz Republic is a landlocked Central Asian country with 90 percent of the territory covered by high mountains and 67 percent of the population living in rural areas.?
Despite the country¡¯s great achievement in advancing sustainable development goals, high dependence on food imports and remittances, compounded by geopolitical instabilities and climate-induced disasters, continues to threaten the economic growth and nutrition of the most vulnerable population in the country.
Check out Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s response to reaching food- and nutrition-insecure people in the Kyrgyz Republic.
For over a decade, Â鶹ÊÓƵ has been supporting climate risk insurance as an important piece of the strategy for building women¡¯s economic empowerment. Â鶹ÊÓƵ presents its experience from the field spotlighting women who have harnessed Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s climate risk insurance and related interventions to strengthen their resilience and ensure food security for their households.
The partnership between Â鶹ÊÓƵ and Sahel University Network (REUNIR) promotes resilience research in the field. This book synthesizes some of the work done by students in the five Sahelian countries.
This joint IDB-Â鶹ÊÓƵ publication presents the state of school feeding programmes in LAC as of 2022. The publication highlights the critical role of school feeding programmes for the region
This brief explores the relationship between social protection and resilience, aiming to clarify conceptual linkages and contribute to Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s effective positioning and contribution within this space.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ can provide first-time access to financial accounts and help governments do the same. This series explores how Country Offices have enabled digital financial inclusion and women¡¯s empowerment through cash transfers.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ can provide first-time access to financial accounts and help governments do the same. This series explores how Country Offices have enabled digital financial inclusion and women¡¯s empowerment through cash transfers.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ, UNICEF, and ILO jointly commissioned an evaluation of their Joint Programme, ¡°Towards a Universal and Holistic Social Protection Floor for Persons with Disabilities and Older Persons in the State of Palestine from 2020 to 2022¡±. It was carried out in 2022.?
These reports examine digital financial inclusion in the Caribbean, analysing barriers and opportunities to improve financial inclusion and social protection delivery in Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Jamaica and Saint Lucia.
This publication aims to document recent trends ¨C and strategic implications ¨C with regards to the development of social registries and supporting digital information systems in the West and Central Africa region.
