Social protection and resilience

The paper discusses the role social protection can play in saving livelihoods while also enhancing the capacity of households to respond, cope and withstand threats and crises. It focuses on social protection’s role in protracted crises and fragile and humanitarian contexts, as well as discusses the importance of shock-response systems, even in stable contexts.

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Main Author: Natalia Winder Rossi, Federico Spano, (FAO), Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, Sarah Kohnstamm, Paul Harvey (IDS)
Format: Book (stand-alone) biblioteca
Language:English
Published: 2017
Online Access:https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/I7606EN
http://www.fao.org/3/a-i7606e.pdf
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Summary:The paper discusses the role social protection can play in saving livelihoods while also enhancing the capacity of households to respond, cope and withstand threats and crises. It focuses on social protection’s role in protracted crises and fragile and humanitarian contexts, as well as discusses the importance of shock-response systems, even in stable contexts.