Adaptive Social Protection: Building Resilience to Shocks

Bowen, Thomas; Ninno, Carlo del; Andrews, Colin; Coll-Black, Sarah; Gentilini, Ugo; Johnson, Kelly; Kawasoe, Yasuhiro; Kryeziu, Adea; Maher, Barry Patrick; Williams, Asha

doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-1575-1

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“…While robust and extensive data are preferred to get an understanding of the impact of shocks on households and its heterogeneity, 'quick and dirty' methods using basic existing data can be valuable and provide critical indicators to design timely and appropriate shock responses. As highlighted in Bowen, et. al.…”

Section: Discussion and Policy Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 90%

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COVID-19, Poverty, and Social Safety Net Response in Zambia

Paul¹,

Finn²,

Chaudhary³

et al. 2021

Policy Research Working Papers

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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Section: Discussion and Policy Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 90%

“…The flagship Social Cash Transfer (SCT) program that began in 2003 as a small pilot in Kalomo district today has a caseload of 616,000 households, representing 30 percent of the national poor. 5 As highlighted in Bowen, et. al.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 96%

COVID-19, Poverty, and Social Safety Net Response in Zambia

Paul¹,

Finn²,

Chaudhary³

et al. 2021

Policy Research Working Papers

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“…(SPACE, 2020: 9) While HAI's concept reflects a stationary notion of social protection, SPACE's concept implies a dynamic notion. Bowen T et al (2020), a World Bank document written shortly before the pandemic, conceive of 'Adaptive Social Protection' in individualised terms, designed to make households more resilient to shocks.…”

Section: Preparationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social protection responses by states and international organisations to the COVID-19 crisis in the global South: Stopgap or new departure?

Leisering

2021

Global Social Policy

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Macro events like the Great Depression in the 1930s and the Second World War have triggered new departures in social policy. What about the COVID-19 pandemic and the attendant socio-economic crisis? This article analyses the social protection measures taken by governments in the global South in response to the crisis, the social protection concepts developed by international organisations, and the overall strategies of the organisations in view of future shocks. The finding is that while the measures taken by governments expectedly have just been stopgap measures of a transitory nature, international organisations are aspiring to future-oriented policies and present a range of concepts for the time after the crisis. However, these are old concepts from pre-COVID-19 times, and the main strategy is to expand rather than reform the old models, even though the international organisations themselves identify new forms of poverty and structural inequalities. Moreover, the organisations do not provide conclusive evidence of their strategy’s viability; the strategy rather reflects a belief in social progress. All in all, the crisis has hardly been used as a window of opportunity for generating new ideas of social protection. Rather, the crisis has revealed the flimsy nature of widespread thinking about building social protection in the global South. Conceptually, the article draws on world society theory, conceiving of the pandemic as a global macro event.

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“…This approach has influenced similar investments in other countries in the region (Bowen et al, 2020).…”

Section: Safety Nets In Nigermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The issue has become salient given widespread concerns about climate change and the growing frequency of shocks globally. The focus on improving resilience is also at the center of efforts to better coordinate the nexus between emergency humanitarian interventions and more permanent development programs (Clarke and Dercon, 2016;Bowen et al, 2020). However, there is little evidence on effective policy options to improve poor households' resilience.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%