FAO is Having a Webinar on Social Protection and Fragile Contexts

FAO is Having a Webinar on Social Protection and Fragile Contexts

On 2 August, from 15.00-16.30 (CEST/GMT +2), FAO will hold Shock-Responsive Social Protection for Resilience Building: Supporting Livelihoods in Protracted Crises, Fragile and Humanitarian Contexts, the fourth webinar in its Webinars on Resilience series.

The webinar will provide an overview of FAO’s work in protracted crises, fragile and humanitarian settings, and discuss the role of shock-responsive social protection systems, evidence-based knowledge available to date and research gaps.

Background

Increased complexity of crises, protracted displacement, overstretched capacity and lack of resources have meant that humanitarian needs are growing. As a result, development and humanitarian forces have started to work together to identify and address them.

FAO’s research has found that scaling up social protection; including cash-based programmes, risk-informed and shock responsive systems; is essential to improving food security and nutrition, protect household assets, and increase income for those living in protracted crises, fragile and humanitarian situations.

In the short-term, access to adequate social protection benefits can protect households from the impact of shocks and minimize negative coping practices, such as selling off productive assets, decreasing intake of nutritious foods, over-exploitation of resources, child labour or forced early marriages. In the long-term, social protection can help build people’s resilience to future crises and other shocks.

FAO provides support in designing social protection programmes in crises, fragile and humanitarian settings where government provision of social services is weak. Ultimately, these programmes should be a starting point for governments to build national social protection systems that are responsive to shocks and provide efficient responses to emergencies.

To learn more about FAO’s work in crises, visit FAO and Emergencies.

Speakers

Natalia Winder Rossi, Senior Social Protection Officer, Social Protection Team Leader and Delivery Manager, FAO

Julius Jackson, Protracted Crises Technical Officer, FAO (Moderator)

 

Download the concept note.

Register for the webinar here.

The Webinars on Resilience Series is part of Information for Nutrition, Food Security and Resilience for Decision Making (INFORMED), an FAO and EU Partnership project.

 

Photo credit: FAO/Marco Longari

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