Social Protection for Agriculture and Resilience

SOCIAL PROTECTION FOR AGRICULTURE AND RESILIENCE

Events
June 9, 2020
Social Safety Nets and COVID-19: Can we protect food security and nutrition?
This virtual seminar presents evidence on how social safety nets have been used to respond to COVID-19 and how well this response has addressed food security and nutrition.
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Blog
April 30, 2020
Why gender-sensitive social protection is critical to the COVID-19 response in low- and middle-income countries
How is the current crisis affecting gender relations, and why is attention to gender in implementing expanded social protection programs critical?
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Blog
March 18, 2020
Toward gender equality in social protection. Evidence gaps and priority research questions
Our colleagues discuss five priority research gaps to advance understanding of how to leverage social protection for gender equality and the well-being of women and girls.
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Events
February 6, 2020
Integrated cash transfer programs in West Africa: How to make cash transfer programs more nutrition sensitive?
Global evidence suggests that cash transfer programs, when combined with nutrition specific modalities, have the potential to improve child nutrition. But how much of those nutrition interventions would be enough to lead to sustainable improvements is yet not well understood. This seminar will aim to address remaining knowledge gaps on program design and policy options to make CT programming in the region more nutrition sensitive.
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Publications
November 22, 2019
Research: Cash transfers significantly decrease violence against women in polygamous households in Mali
The new paper investigates the impacts of Mali's national cash transfer program (Jigisémèjiri) on intimate partner violence (IPV).
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Events
August 26, 2019
Impacts of cash transfers on preventing malnutrition in Yemen
This policy seminar on Sept 5 will review findings from an impact evaluation of Yemen’s Cash for Nutrition program and its positive impacts on child and maternal nutrition.
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Blog
May 2, 2019
Research shows that cash transfer programs can reduce conflict-driven malnutrition
Cash transfer programs that provide households support for purchasing food have effectively reduced conflict-driven acute malnutrition in Yemen, according to new research from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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Blog
April 2, 2019
Cash transfers and intimate partner violence
Cash transfers are a promising tool to reduce intimate partner violence, but can they be effective across diverse contexts and program design? In this blog, Melissa Hidrobo and Shalini Roy identify three policy-relevant knowledge gaps related to the potential of transfer programs to reduce IPV, then address them drawing on case studies from Ecuador, Bangladesh, and Mali.
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Blog
February 15, 2019
Measuring the unintended benefits of a development program
Development programs often have a bigger impact than we intend – or even measure. The Transfer Modality Research Initiative in Bangladesh not only led to improved food security and nutrition, but also had a range of unintended benefits. In this Devex oped, our social protection team colleagues explain how this happened.
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