Ep. 27 | Resilience Building through Adaptive Social Protection

Adaptive Social Protection is an area of social protection that aims to build resilience of poor and vulnerable households by developing their capacity to prepare for, cope with, and adapt to shocks. In this episode, we are looking at adaptive and shock-responsive social protection in action in some of the most disaster-affected parts of the world.

We talk about how ASP can help build the resilience of households and enable people to take anticipatory actions before the onset of a shock. We draw from experiences in the Philippines and the Caribbean to learn how programmes can contribute to this type of approach, what is the importance of building appropriate registries and information systems, and what kind of financial instruments are put in place to funding ASP responses.

 

Meet our Guests:

• Riyad Katkhoda, Social Protection & Cash-Based Lead at the Caribbean Multi-country Office for the United Nations World Food Program
• Rosela Agcaoili, Social Policy Specialist at UNICEF Philippines

For our ‘’Quick Wins’’ segment, James Jumba, Independent Consultant, who previously worked as a Social security prosecutor at the National Social Security Fund in Kenya and is a former socialprotection.org Ambassador, shares with us the highlights of the Kenya Social Protection Conference and how Kenya could benefit for more resilience building approaches to climate risks.

Episode Links:

• E-learning | Micro-course series on Adaptive Social Protection
• Publication | Joint reviews for Adaptive Social Protection Systems - A working paper
• Publication | Adaptive Social Protection: Building Resilience to Shocks
• Publication | Strengthening Resilience through Social Protection Programs: Guidance Note
• Publication | Disaster Risk Finance for Adaptive Social Protection
• Publication | Adaptive Social Protection – The delivery chain and shock response
• Publication | Building on government systems for shock preparedness and response: The role of social assistance data and information systems

Quick Wins Links

• Event | The Kenya Social Protection Conference 2023
• Publication | Building resilience to climate risks through social protection: from individualised models to systemic transformation

Additionally, do not forget to take your time through our 5-minute annual satisfaction survey and register for the upcoming Global Forum on Adaptive Social Protection.