Iloilo City’s Participatory Housing and Urban Development project demonstrates that it is possible to build resilient cities and homes while improving the quality-of-life for the urban poor.
This paper explains how best to equip social protection programmes to help communities better absorb the effects of climate risks, adapt to climate impacts and transform their capacities to address growing climate stresses.
International Institute for Environment and Development
The objective of the brief is to provide the Nepalese government, humanitarian and development agencies, and other relevant stakeholders in the country with practical options to strengthen the social protection system to be more adaptive.
This paper tries to analyse the efficiency and effectiveness of the various social protection delivery mechanisms concerning climate resilience, and how well social protection finance meets climate resilience and sustainable development outcomes.
International Institute for Environment and Development
This paper aims to promote learning emerging from the early policy response to the Covid-19 crisis on social protection crisis response effectiveness and on opportunities and risks for longer-term social protection strengthening. It centres on the
The authors studied the climate-sensitive socia protection (SP) programmes and policies that incorporate extreme temperature events from three high-income countries: the United States of America, the United Kingdom and France. Through case studies and key
This policy brief is the first of a series comprising ESCAP’s inputs to the implementation of the Strengthening Resilience of Pacific Islands through Universal Social Protection Project. The aim of this series is to inform ongoing efforts in the Pacific
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Social protection cash transfer programs are increasingly being used to respond to covariate shocks, including most recently and prominently in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In Senegal, the authorities proactively prepared an "adaptive" system to support households affected by the floods that hit more than 100,000 people in September.
