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DFID’s Approach to Social
Protection
Georgia Rowe
Social Protection Team
Policy and Research Division
DFID, London
Overview
• DFID Definition
• DFID Policy Evolution on Social Protection
• 2009 White Paper Commitments
• Social Protection in Practice:
Translating the White Paper into Action
• Social Protection: The Challenges
• Opportunities for Interagency Collaboration.
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Definition of Social Protection
A set of public actions – carried out by the
state, civil society or privately, that:
a) Enable people to deal more effectively
with risk and their vulnerability to crises
and changes in circumstances and,
a) Help tackle chronic poverty and social
exclusion
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Social Protection
Instruments
DFID recognises four components of SP:
• Social assistance, non-contributory regular and
predictable transfers
• contributory social insurance, payable following
a shock;
• setting and enforcing minimum standards to
protect citizens within the workplace; and
• access to social welfare services, including
child protection.
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DFID Policy Evolution on Social
Protection
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2006 White Paper: Recognised SP as a right and
an essential basic service. Commitments to
increase support in 10 countries;
2006-2009: SP mainstreamed across policies –
HIV/AIDS, Health, Social Exclusion, Agriculture,
Humanitarian, Disaster Risk Reduction;
2009 Social Protection in the context of the
downturn: monitoring and supporting global
responses.
2009 WP: focus on global interconnectedness.
Emphasis on the role of SP in responding to the
downturn and mainstreaming.
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2009 White Paper Commitments
• Help build SP systems to get help to 50
million poor people in over 20 countries over
the next three years;
• SP for those who cannot feed themselves;
• Help countries plan for climate change,
including better access to SP measures;
• Ensure the UN and multilaterals focus on the
poorest countries, fragile states and most
vulnerable people;
• Continue to spend half of future direct support
for developing countries on basic services.
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Social Protection in Practice:
Translating the White Paper into
Action
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New Poverty Response Team
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In the context of the financial downturn:
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Monitoring the impact of the crisis on the poorest including £1 million support to the GIVAS
£200 million support to the Rapid Social Response
Facility
Developing policy position on ensuring support to the
new poor whilst continuing to support the chronically
poor
Building Back Better – developing systems and
bridging the gap between short and long term
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Social Protection in Practice:
Translating the White Paper into
Action
• Currently supporting SP initiatives in over 30 countries,
regional policy development and dialogue (AU, ASEAN)
and S-S learning;
• Planned - £150m/yr on SP, employment and related
interventions;
• Developing the evidence base: £10 million on cost and
affordability, mechanisms, impacts;
• Supporting a global agreement on what social
protection is!;
• Exploring the ‘Social Protection Floor’
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Social Protection: The
Challenges
• Developing the evidence base:
• Generaliseable evidence
• What works in LICs?
• Fragile states
• CCTs
• Financing and affordability;
• Policy coherence: different entry points,
food security, HIV/AIDS, climate change;
• Cross-disciplinary working.
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Opportunities for Interagency
Collaboration
• Consensus on description of SP and methodology for
measuring expenditure;
• Coordinated support to south-south learning;
• Improve monitoring and response – GIVAS, RSRF;
• Developing the evidence.
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THANK YOU!
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