Financing adaptive social protection in Burkina Faso
The report focuses on the intersection between DRF and social protection in Burkina Faso, and provides an overview of: 1. The main disaster events resulting in significant impacts over the past 20 years. 2. Existing legislation, institutional arrangements and government programmes to deliver and finance disaster preparedness, disaster response and social protection. 3. Relevant DRF sources and instruments for adaptive social protection (ASP).
The analysis presented in this report demonstrates that the existing national social safety net in Burkina Faso needs to be strengthened to respond rapidly and dynamically to climate-related disasters and other shocks. Recommendations for improving public sector capabilities to plan for, finance and deliver funding to climate-related disasters and compounding shocks in Burkina Faso include:
- Strengthen government capabilities to estimate the macro-fiscal implications of disaster risk, and introduce more explicit linkages to multi-annual budget programming.
- Scale up levels of disaster risk financing coverage (such as ARC and ARC Replica) to reduce the protection gap
- Develop and pilot dedicated protection and DRF instruments for pastoralists.
- Introduce tools to better estimate the financing needs of scaling up social protection in response to shocks.
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