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- Summary:
- This paper presents the various rationales and possibilities that exist for integrating social protection (SP), disaster risk reduction (DRR), and climate change adaptation (CCA) approaches. It discusses current thinking, key issues, and practices involved in this process. While initiatives taken to link DRR and CCA over the past decade or so have gained greater recognition internationally, the authors believe that the profile of SP within these efforts is rather negligible. They present theoretical grounds for linking these three approaches. Their contention is that all three share a central focus on reducing vulnerability by anticipating risks and developing strategies to avoid or mitigate negative shocks, while building resilience through the empowerment of individuals and communities. The difference between them is the type of shock they emphasize, whether related to poverty, disaster, or climate change. While each privileges proactive long-term strategy over one-off reactive intervention, advocates of SP believe that its incorporation improves the transition between humanitarian intervention and longer-term sustainable development. SP involves assisting the poor through income or asset transfers, protecting them against risks to their livelihoods, enhancing income generating capabilities, and fighting for their social status and rights. These strategies have a direct impact on the ability of communities to avoid or mitigate the effects of disaster and climate change because they address the main cause of vulnerability, poverty. Some of the challenges to linking these approaches in practice are that they are often housed in separate institutions, connected to distinctive sectors, and tied to different international bodies and agreements. Also, similarities in underlying objectives coupled with a lack of coordination often lead to the duplication of efforts, administrative inefficiencies, and competition between them for limited resources. The authors seek to establish an enabling environment for the interaction of the various entities implementing SP, DRR, and CCA through increased dialogue. Analysis of existing SP projects in areas like the Horn of Africa and South Asia that improve the poor’s resilience to drought and floods should produce best practices that could be transmitted across communities of practitioners. Focus should also be placed on improving the ability of DRR and CCA initiatives to target services to different vulnerable populations with varied needs by utilizing the practical experiences of SP practitioners. ( English )
- Subject:
- Disaster Risk Reduction and Social Protection ( English )
- Scope and Content:
- 1. Introduction and rationale p. 3; 2. Review of the literature on the links between SP, DRR, and CCA p. 4; The rationale for linking climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and social protection p. 4; What if DRR, CCA and SP do not converge? p. 5; Challenges to linking climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and social protection in practice p. 6; Concrete examples of integration between SP, DRR and CCA p. 9; Overview of some of the current issues p. 13; 3. Workshop themes p. 14; 1. Creating an enabling environment for cross-sectoral implementation p. 15; 2. Improving decision-making and facilitating knowledge exchange and learning p. 15; 3. Planning, implementing and evaluating in the context of uncertainty p. 15; 4. Improving targeting and delivery p. 16; 4. Conclusion p. 16; References p. 18 ( English )
- Citation/Reference:
- Newsham, A., Davies, M., Béné, C. (2011). Making social protection work for pro-poor disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Institute of Development Studies, the World Bank, and UKaid.
- General Note:
- Background paper for international workshop. March 14 -17 2011, United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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- Florida International University
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- The World Bank: The World Bank authorizes the use of this material subject to the terms and conditions on its website, http://www.worldbank.org/terms
- Resource Identifier:
- FI13010987
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