WBG, World bank Group (2021) Stress testing social protection: A rapid appraisal of adaptability of social protection system and their readiness to scale-up. World Bank Group.
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Social protection (SP) programs are fundamental in responding to the impact of shocks, whether covariate or idiosyncratic, by helping to mitigate their impacts as well as build resilience to future shocks. Well-designed and well-implemented programs have a transformative quality and can significantly enhance human capital and productivity, reduce inequalities, build resilience, and break inter-generational poverty. However, to ensure that the changing needs of the vulnerable populations are met efficiently and effectively, an SP system requires flexibility to adjust its response depending on the circumstances. Adaptive social protection (ASP) is a focus area within the larger social protection sector, which has emerged in response to the need to build resilience of the poor and vulnerable to covariate shocks, such as natural disasters, economic crises, pandemics, conflicts, and forced displacement. This focus area brings together the social protection, disaster risk management (DRM), and climate change adaptation sectors to leverage their respective contributions in reducing household vulnerability and building household resilience. One of the central tenets of ASP systems is ex ante planning and investment that includes identifying and defining before the crisis hits, the processes, systems, triggers, actors and responsibilities critical to scaling in times of crisis. By anticipating increased demands on the SP system in times of crisis and implementing an adaptive social protection approach, a country is able to strengthen its response not only during and after the crisis but also before the crisis as social protection programs enable vulnerable households to build resilience against shocks thereby mitigating or obviating some of the impact.
| Item Type: | Books |
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| Keywords: | Social Protection (SP), Adaptive Social Protection (ASP), Disaster Risk Management (DRM), Climate Change, Adaptation, Natural Disaster, Mitigation, World Bank Group (WBG) |
| Subjects: | Disasters and Climate Change |
| Depositing User: | Kokila ICSF Krish |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Sep 2025 10:48 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Sep 2025 10:48 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/22346 |
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