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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.
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Friday Mar 26, 2021
Friday Mar 26, 2021
This month, March, marks a year since COVID-19 swept over the globe, and triggered the first waves of closures and lockdowns in many countries. It has been a big year for social protection, as governments, international organisations and communities raced to extend safety nets to the many millions of people who lost work or became more vulnerable due to the pandemic.
In our first episode of the Social Protection Podcast, we look at the challenges and lessons of COVID-19 from a practitioner perspective. You’ll hear from four women leaders in the social protection community, who have spent the last year responding to economic, employment and health crises wrought by the pandemic. Featuring:
- Cecilia Mbaka, Secretary for Social Development for the Government of Kenya.
- Carmen Roca, WIEGO coordinator in Lima City, Peru.
- Sri Kusumastuti Rahayu, leader of the Social Protection Policy Team at the Secretariat for the National Team for Accelerating Poverty Reduction in Indonesia.
- Dr Hania Sholkamy, Associate Research Professor in the Center for Social Research at the American University in Cairo.
Plus! Our monthly round up of ‘Quick Wins’, highlighting news, achievements and research that have sparked our interest.
Quick Wins from Charlotte Bilo, from the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth:
“Don’t Let Another Crisis Go to Waste: The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Imperative for a Paradigm Shift”, by James Heintz, Silke Saab and Laura Turquet
“COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker” from UNDP and UNWomen.
Poverty Unpacked podcast, hosted by Keetie Roelen at the Institute of Development Studies.
- Episode #9: Social protection response to Covid-19
- Episode #4: Shifting the blame and shame of poverty
Monday Mar 15, 2021
Monday Mar 15, 2021
This is a teaser for our first episode which will launch on March 26. Subscribe now so you don't miss it!
If you have discovered this podcast, you probably already know that the last year has been big for social protection. Worldwide, governments, international organisations and communities raced to extend safety nets to the many millions of people who lost work or became more vulnerable due to COVID-19. Many of you have been actively involved in that effort, and of course the pandemic has affected us all in different ways.
So, in this first episode, we bring you a retrospective on our collective year of COVID-19 - and some ideas for the future.
You will hear from four women leaders in the social protection community, who like you have spent the last year responding to economic, employment and health crises wrought by COVID-19.