RNE Resilience Workshop, 8 -10 Feb, 2015 Egypt

1. 9 February 2015
RNE Resilience Workshop
Christina Dankmeyer (ESP)
FAO Social Protection Division
for RESILIENCE

2. What is Social Protection?
Social Protection can build RESILIENCE over the life cycle and promote
systems for pro-poor and inclusive growth and sustainable graduation from poverty.
Prevents
Protects
Promotes
Transforms
Social insurance
e.g. crop, livestock, weather- index, savings, health
Social assistance
e.g. cash transfers, public works, food subsidies
Livelihood support
e.g. diversification of crops, human capital formation
Social inclusion measures
for rights, e.g. gender equality, child labour eradication

3. How does SP build Resilience?
Childhood Illness/drought Unemployment Retirement
Child grant Cash/Food Benefit Pension
Education Diversify livelihood Training/skills
Crop Insurance Public Works

4. Why Social Protection?
Entry Points
• SP For Whom? 75% of the world’s poor and food insecure live in rural areas,
including the majority of people who have no access to adequate social protection.
Functions
• Prevention – Social Insurance measures
• Protection – Social Assistance measures
• Promotion – Livelihood Support
• Transformation – Social Inclusion measures
Interventions
• Twin-Track Approach:
• Emergency Assistance – Address chronic needs in times of shocks and stresses
• Livelihoods Development – Address vulnerabilities as part of long-term development
FAO’s Goal 1: Eradication of Hunger, Food Insecurity and Malnutrition
FAO’s Goal 2: Elimination of Poverty
FAO’s Goal 3: Sustainable Natural Resources Management

5. Social Protection
for FSN and Rural Development
 Advise on policy-making and programming processes
 Generate knowledge and evidence on SP in support of FS(N)/AG/RD
 Build institutional capacities at all levels to design and maintain
SP systems that effectively protect and promote livelihoods
 Advocate for the realization of the rights to food and social protection
How does FAO promote SP?
Social Protection
Rural
Services
FSN and
Natural Resources
Management
Resilient and
Sustainable
Rural
Livelihoods