What Are Future Financing Options for Shock Responsive Social Protection?
How can development partners finance shock-responsive social protection? This resource provides approaches to financing, financing instruments and more.
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This guide defines financing for shock-responsive social protection, providing greater clarity on what this term constitutes, and its relation to disaster risk finance. It acknowledges the potential remit of financing for shock-responsive social protection (including the financing of routine social protection, longer-term risk reduction and resilience-building efforts), and the need for a balance of investments to reduce and transfer risks.
This resource cover topics such as:
1. International financing for social protection
2. Humanitarian financing
3. Potential financing: climate finance
The paper ends with a series of reflections and recommendations for a broad policy and program audience, designed to inform decisions on financing for shock-responsive social protection for the COVID-19 response and beyond.
