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Social Protection Podcast is brought to you by socialprotection.org. We’re a knowledge sharing and capacity building platform, open to social protection practitioners, policy-makers, and experts, as well as academics and students. Social protection is a large and growing field, that has also achieved increased profile and salience since 2020 due to COVID-19. From building delivery systems and protecting People with Disabilities, to social protection financing and school feeding – there is no shortage of topics for Social Protection Podcast to tackle. Each month we will aim to bring you rich, interesting and different content. Through interviews, discussions and debates with experts and practitioners, Social Protection Podcast will illuminate new research and bring a range of perspectives to debates and controversies as well as areas of growing consensus.
Episodes
Friday Feb 02, 2024
Friday Feb 02, 2024
Among the decisions made at the last Conference of Parties (COP28), was the establishment of the new Loss and Damage Fund, designed to assist countries most vulnerable to climate change. We talked to our guests about the structure of this new fund and the possibilities for countries to draw on such climate financing mechanisms to build and enhance their social protection systems.
In this episode, we delved into the role of social protection in supporting major transitions in energy, industry and food systems necessary to reduce carbon emissions and meet global targets, and how social protection systems can support a just transition for all.
Meet our guests:
- Gala Dahlet, Social Protection Officer, FAO.
- Jana Bischler, Technical Officer for Social Protection and Climate Change, ILO.
- Ann Vaughan, Senior Advisor for Climate Change in the Bureau for Resilience and Food Security, USAID.
For our Quick Wins segment, we are joined by Hazel Calderon, the leader of fisheries and aquaculture social protection for FAO, who shared insights and highlights from the latest FAO event on social Protection for fisheries.
Resources
- Publication | The Relevance of Social Protection Systems for the Loss and Damage Fund and Funding Arrangements
- Livestream | Events at the just transition pavilion at COP28
Quick Wins
Thursday Dec 14, 2023
Thursday Dec 14, 2023
Join us for our special End-of-Year episode, where we unravel the tapestry of 2023, exploring the critical discussions and ground-breaking studies that shaped the landscape of social protection.
From adaptive social protection initiatives to food security policies, we delve into the hot topics that ignited debates across the globe. Discover the key takeaways from eye-opening studies that explored climate adaptation, social protection impact, and migration. As we bid farewell to 2023, we invite you to reflect on the wins, challenges, and transformative moments that defined the year in social protection.
In the Quick Wins segment, our guest Roberta Brito will highlight the latest content from socialprotection.org's Digest. She will offer a sneak peek into an upcoming piece, providing a glimpse into emerging trends.
Meet our guests:
- Rodolfo Beazley, Independent Consultant
- Roberta Brito, Researcher, socialprotection.org
Resources:
- Publication | Social Protection in the Developing World
- Compilation | Social Protection Digest #1
Friday Nov 24, 2023
Friday Nov 24, 2023
In this episode, we’re talking about the G20 – an annual gathering of the world’s largest economies and a major global forum for discussing a wide range of economic issues. In recent years, that has included social protection, a set of policies used by many countries to stabilise economies in the face of successive crises.
Brazil takes over the G20 presidency from India on 1 December 2023. At this crucial moment of handover, we have invited researchers from both countries to talk about how G20 agendas are shaped, how social protection has featured, and their shared goal of expanding the voice of the Global South in this premier international forum.
Meet our guests:
- Jhanvi Tripathi, Associate Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, and Coordinator, Think20 India Secretariat.
- Fábio Veras Soares, Director of International Studies, Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea)
For our Quick Wins segment, we are joined by Carla Mejia, Regional Nutrition Advisor for WFP in Latin America and the Caribbean. We discuss the evidence and impact of social protection interventions on nutrition and food security in light of a recent joint study by WFP, IDS and IFPRI, which proposes an analytical and operational framework linking social protection and better nutrition outcomes.
Resources
- Publication | G20 Policy for Health Systems: Promoting Holistic Outcomes and Addressing Vulnerabilities in Healthcare
- Publication | Leveraging Knowledge Sharing for Social Protection
- Publication | Towards a Robust Social Protection System in the Post Pandemic Era
- Speech | President Lula during Session 2 - One Family of the G20 Summit
Quick Wins
Thursday Oct 26, 2023
Thursday Oct 26, 2023
In 2022, an estimated 100 million people were displaced, and more than 40 million of those were children. Many of these children were displaced for at least five years, often much longer, and most are hosted in low- and middle-income countries, where social protection systems often face many restrictions.
In this episode, we discuss how some countries are taking steps towards extending social protection to displaced children and their families, while slowly building systems for host populations. We examine the consequences of displacement for host countries and host communities, the factors leading to children’s exclusion in these countries, and some examples of programmes taking an integrated approach.
At the end of this episode, in lieu of our usual Quick Wins segment, we're featuring a special update on how cash and voucher assistance is being implemented in the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Meet our guests:
- Christina Lowe, Research Associate at ODI
- Nupur Kukreti, Policy Specialist, and lead on social protection in humanitarian and fragile contexts, UNICEF
- Rana Nassar, Regional Representative in the CALP network in the Middle East and North Africa.
Resources:
- Publication | Strengthening inclusive social protection systems for displaced children and their families.
- Publication | A promise of tomorrow: the effects of UNHCR and UNICEF cash assistance on Syrian refugees in Jordan.
- Publication | Improving social protection for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Egypt: an overview of international practices.
We have launched the Social Protection Digest, a quarterly compilation that brings together practitioner guides, evidence-based studies, and policy and conceptual discussions on a wide range of topics. Carefully hand-picked by our team at socialprotection.org
The digest serves as an essential resource for you to keep up with what's new in social protection.
After you have read the Social Protection Digest, let us know what you think by taking our three-minute survey.
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
In this engaging episode, we delve into the vital concept of accountability within social protection programmes and humanitarian initiatives. Our host, Jo Sharpe, joins experts Suchi Pande and Louisa Feres for a deep dive into why accountability is the lynchpin of programme effectiveness.
Our guests shed light on the fundamental elements of accountability, including communication strategies, outreach efforts, grievance redressal mechanisms, and the crucial role of audits. Louisa provides unique insights into the various ways accountability is perceived and practiced within humanitarian contexts, challenging conventional wisdom.
Join us as we unravel this intricate web that ensures the success of social protection programmes.
Meet our guests:
- Suchi Pande, Scholar in Residence, Accountability Centre, American University
- Louisa Seferis, Independent Humanitarian Practitioner and member, Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) research team
- Kamilla Adan Hassan, Independent Researcher from Baidoa, Somalia
For the Quick Wins segment:
- Valérie Schmitt, Deputy Director, Social Protection Department, ILO
Resources:
- Accountability in crises: connecting evidence from humanitarian and social protection approaches to social assistance
- Struggles for Accountability in the 2022 Cost-of-living Crisis: Lessons from the Global Protest Wave
- The Politics of Complaint: A Review of the Literature on Grievance Redress Mechanisms in the Global South
Quick Wins
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
This September marks the eighth anniversary of socialprotection.org, and we are celebrating across the platform by looking at social protection and its impacts.
This episode features a wide-ranging discussion on this theme, what we know about what social protection can do and how that evidence has influenced policy, practice and the global spread of ideas to shape the sector into what it is today.
In the Quick Wins segment, we preview our Humans of Social Protection series, in which people who benefit from social protection programmes tell their own stories of how they have impacted their lives.
Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Thursday Jul 27, 2023
It is estimated that around 418 million children benefit from school meals—around 41 per cent of children enrolled in primary school, a figure that has been increasing despite interruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a social protection mechanism, school-feeding programmes play a crucial role for children and families, especially when combined with local procurement policies for local smallholder farmers.
In this episode, we discuss how school feeding programmes impact vulnerable households and smallholder farmers, as well as how better to combine these two aspects in home-grown school feeding initiatives. We also explore the role of international cooperation in sharing experiences and advancing good practices.
Thursday Jun 29, 2023
Thursday Jun 29, 2023
The value of unpaid care and domestic work has been estimated at around 11 trillion US dollars—roughly 9 per cent of the world’s gross domestic product (GDP)—while low-paid domestic workers make up more than 20 per cent of the global care workforce. Social protection mechanisms can play a major role in achieving a balance between increasing access to high-quality care and reducing gender inequalities resulting from unpaid care work.
This episode focuses on how social protection mechanisms, particularly social care services, can help ameliorate the inequities involved in care work, including access, recognition and remuneration.
Meet our guests:
- Silke Staab, Research Specialist at UN Women
- Adriana Paz Ramírez, Latin America Regional Coordinator for the International Domestic Workers Federation
Resources:
- Child Care Services and Women’s Work
- UN Women. 2023. Innovations in Childcare to Advance Women’s Economic Empowerment
- UN Women. 2022. Increase Women’s Economic Empowerment by Transforming the Care Economy. Economic Justice and Rights Action Coalition, Economic Empowerment Section of UN Women.
For our Quick Wins segment, Ralf Radermacher, Head of the Social Protection Sector Initiative at GIZ, shared some key takeaways from the Global Forum on Adaptive Social Protection, a 3-day event that gathered policymakers, practitioners, and social protection experts to jointly examine and discuss the scope and potential of ASP to foster resilience and promote adaptation.
Quick Wins Resource
Thursday Jun 01, 2023
Thursday Jun 01, 2023
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.
Thursday Apr 27, 2023
Thursday Apr 27, 2023
In this episode, our guests focus on the role of active labour market policies (ALMPs) in guaranteeing, supporting or even creating income-generation activities. Among other topics, we discuss the possible role of ALMPs in reducing informality in developing countries, and how well-integrated they are with other social protection mechanisms such as social insurance and social security.
Guests for this episode include:
- Veronica Escudero, Senior Economist, ILO
- Denni Pusba Purbasari, Executive Director, PMO Prakerja
- Jean Claude Muhire, Rwanda Program Director, Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative (UPGI)
In the “Quick Wins” segment, Jean Claude Muhire, Rwanda Programme Director for the Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative, BRAC, explains how ‘Graduation’ approaches, famous for being implemented in Bangladesh and Southeast Asia, are now being implemented in different contexts such as in Rwanda.
Quick Wins links: