Social Protection
Context
CaLP’s State of the World’s Cash 2020 report found:
- Working with, through and alongside social protection systems is now considered key to strengthening the humanitarian-development nexus and humanitarians are increasingly active in this space
- Practitioners find that the three biggest challenges to effective linkages are: (i) lack of coordination between the actors involved, (ii) social protection systems are not designed to respond to crises, (iii) humanitarian practitioners lack expertise in social protection.
- Critically, there is no ‘one size fits all’ solution to linking CVA and social protection. Trade-offs between efficiency, effectiveness, accountability, and sustainability must be considered to ensure the best outcomes for people living in crisis and depends on context, existing systems, and timeframe. Linking will not always be appropriate and social protection systems may not meet all needs. In many contexts, in the short to medium term at least, humanitarian programming will be required to fill gaps.
Current Priorities
CaLP has invested intensely in this thematic area over the last year. We will continue to work closely with the Grand Bargain Sub-Workstream on Social Protection and with the SocialProtection.org platform and the Online Community Social Protection in Crisis Contexts to develop evidence, produce capacity building materials and provide technical support to coordination actors.
Community of Practice
SocialProtection.org hosts a dynamic and collaborative online community of practice (CoP) bringing together individuals from diverse backgrounds interested in expanding social protection in crisis-prone areas. The CoP offers a space to exchange documents, insights, and news in order to progress and learn together. Its inclusive and member-led approach offers organisations and individual members a forum to increase learning and outreach, facilitating the exchange of experiences and expanding knowledge. A discussion group hosted by dgroups.org complements these activities by connecting users rapidly via email.
Further reading
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Linking Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) and Social Protection – Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT): Country Summary
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Linking Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) and Social Protection – Lebanon: Country Summary
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Linking Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) and Social Protection – Turkey: Country Summary
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Linking Social Protection and Humanitarian Cash and Voucher Assistance High Level Overview, CaLP, 2020
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Linking Social Protection and Humanitarian Cash
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Linking Social Protection and humanitarian cash and voucher assistance (CVA) – what do we really know and where to start? Findings from the CaLP commissioned high level briefing paper at the time of COVID-19
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Linking CVA and Social Protection in the MENA Region – Crib sheet
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Linking CVA and Social Protection in the MENA Region – Lebanon Case Study
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Linking CVA and Social Protection in the MENA Region – Iraq Case Study
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Linking CVA and Social Protection in the MENA Region – Yemen Case Study
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State of the World’s Cash 2020 – Chapter 8: Linkages between SP and CVA
Thematic lead
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