Shock-Responsive Social Protection: What is Known About What Works in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations?

Longhurst, Daniel; Slater, Rachel

doi:10.19088/basic.2022.005

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“…At the heart of the Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research agenda is an attempt to plug a knowledge gap about existing social protection programmes. Our inception phase scoping work demonstrated that, in the midst of massive interest in shock-responsive social protection (Longhurst and Slater 2022), little attention is paid to what happens to existing social protection in situations of protracted crisis (Slater, Haruna and Baur 2022;Slater 2022). By placing substantial emphasis on how to flex and expand programmes vertically and horizontally, the shock-responsive social protection agenda has tended to take attention away from if and how existing programmes are able to sustain delivery to existing beneficiaries in situations of climate and/or conflict crisis.…”

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Researching Capacities to Sustain Social Protection in Protracted Crises. Part 1: The Capacity Cube

Slater

2024

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This research briefing introduces the Capacity Cube framework – a new tool for thinking about how capacity to deliver national social protection programmes and systems might be sustained in times of crisis. Its three-dimensional approach is specifically designed to analyse the particular capacities needed to deliver resilient programmes in protracted crises and to identify strategies to address any deficits. This briefing explains the Cube framework and its development and application. An accompanying briefing (Slater 2024) presents early findings using the Cube in Nigeria, Iraq, and Syria.

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Researching Capacities to Sustain Social Protection in Protracted Crises. Part 1: The Capacity Cube

Slater

2024

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Researching Capacities to Sustain Social Protection in Protracted Crises. Part 2: Early Findings

Slater

2024

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Despite significant attention and interest in shock-responsive social protection, a knowledge gap exists when it comes to our understanding of how to sustain capacity to deliver existing social programmes and systems in situations of climate and/or conflict crisis. BASIC Research is using a new tool that we have developed – the Capacity Cube – to explore this question and identify ways in which external actors might support the resilience of those systems and programmes. An explanation of the Capacity Cube framework is provided in an accompanying briefing (Slater 2024). The current briefing focuses on early findings emerging from research using the tool in Nigeria, Iraq, and Syria.

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“…This theme draws on the working papers produced during the inception phase for BASIC Research (Longhurst 2022;Slater 2022a;Slater, Haruna and Baur 2022;Wylde 2022).…”

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Strengthening Responses at the Nexus of Social Protection, Humanitarian Aid and Climate Shocks in Protracted Crises: BASIC Research Framing Paper

Sabates‐Wheeler¹,

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Harvey³

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The Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research programme seeks to better understand how to strengthen routine social assistance in the most difficult protracted crises – places where compounding shocks such as climate change, conflict and displacement complicate the delivery, sustainability and outcomes of programming. This paper reviews the contours of global and national debates, and the concepts that are key to informing research on social assistance in contexts of protracted crises. It focuses on three fields: social protection, humanitarian assistance, and climate adaptation and responsiveness. It then introduces the specific policy and programming areas and countries that BASIC Research will focus on, based on the identification of knowledge gaps in the inception phase of the research. The paper then develops a research framework for BASIC Research, identifying priority research questions and thematic areas. In line with the aspiration of global donors that any social assistance – including that delivered by humanitarian actors – should build longer-term policies and systems that are increasingly embedded in state-led and state-funded provision, BASIC Research will: examine the complementarities, tensions and linkages between social assistance various actors provide to tackle the multiple and intersecting challenges of climate shocks, conflict and displacement; assess existing capacities, systems and approaches for delivering social assistance; and explore how social assistance is intertwined with politics and economies.

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Shock-Responsive Social Protection: What is Known About What Works in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations?

Cited by 4 publications

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Researching Capacities to Sustain Social Protection in Protracted Crises. Part 1: The Capacity Cube

Researching Capacities to Sustain Social Protection in Protracted Crises. Part 1: The Capacity Cube

Researching Capacities to Sustain Social Protection in Protracted Crises. Part 2: Early Findings

Strengthening Responses at the Nexus of Social Protection, Humanitarian Aid and Climate Shocks in Protracted Crises: BASIC Research Framing Paper

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