Where Next for Social Protection?

Integrating social protection and climate change adaptation: A review

“…There has been a wide range of perspectives over the last two decades on how social protection (in the context of poverty alleviation) is best approached, “ranging from macroeconomic stabilizer to humanitarian responses, from risk management to promoting social justice” (Gentilini & Omamo, , p. 329). Devereux et al () group these into two broad categories: those characterized by a growth‐oriented approach and those following a rights‐based approach.…”

“…Social protection has traditionally focused on strengthening economic, human and social capital for stimulating economic growth, yet advocates of a “rights‐based” agenda have stressed that it should also address issues of social justice and marginalization (Devereux et al, ; Gentilini & Omamo, ). They argue that social protection has the transformative potential to help re‐dress structural inequalities, which are embedded in sociopolitical contexts that lie at the root of poverty (Devereux et al, ; Merrien, ). Similarly, a growing body of research underlines the importance of adopting transformative pathways for adaptation that challenge the political, institutional and socioeconomic conditions through which vulnerability to climate change is produced (Eriksen, Nightingale, & Eakin, ; K. O'Brien, Eriksen, Nygaard, & Schjolden, ; Pelling, O'Brien, & Matyas, ).…”

Foreword

“…The main purpose of LCA is to identify an organising principle for a complex array of variables. This model uses "categorical observed variables, representing characteristics, behaviors, symptoms, or the like as the basis for organizing people into two or more meaningful homogeneous subgroups" (Collins and Lanza, 2010 [21]). Formally, LCA enables characterisation of a categorical latent (unobserved) variable, starting from an analysis of the relationships among several observed variables (indicators) using a maximum likelihood estimation method.…”

Health Insecurity and Social Protection: Pathways, Gaps, and Their Implications on Health Outcomes and Poverty

“…Furthermore, the analysis in this paper has highlighted that the current SPH financial arrangements do not fully support, and may not guarantee the continuity of social protection mechanisms in the absence of development partners who contribute to the national health sector budget. 46,47 Achieving continuity entails that domestic financial resources are able to fund recurrent operational costs beyond development partner's support. However, this implies that government should find alternative sources of funding to ensure the continuity of SPH mechanisms.…”