Transcript Current DFID enagement on social protection (cash

DFID's Support to Social Protection in
Developing Countries, 2011-15
Paul Wafer, Poverty and Vulnerability Team Leader
‘Show & Tell event’, Bonn, May 2011
[email protected]
What’s new (Headlines):
•A new public commitment to help more than 6 million of
the world’s poorest people with cash transfers (by 2015)
•Expanded bilateral programmes – live and planned
engagements in 16 countries
•Cash Transfers Evidence Paper – published April 2011
•Continued investments in research on social protection
Bilateral Country Programming
•Continued/existing programmes:
Bangladesh, Pakistan; Yemen, Occupied Palestinian
Territories
Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia,
Zimbabwe
•New programmes:
South Sudan, Ghana, Nigeria, possibly DRC; India
Cash Transfers Evidence Paper 2011
Updating DFID’s 2005 ‘emerging policy paper’ on social
transfers – completed in-house
Very specifically about cash transfers, not the broader
field of social protection
Feedback please!
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/Documents/publications1/cashtransfers-evidence-paper.pdf
Evidence Paper Structure
•Introduction
•Evidence for impact on a range of development objectives
•Evidence on the value of alternative design and implementation
options
•Evidence on affordability, cost-effectiveness and financing
•Summary of research gaps and strategic priorities for building the
evidence base
•Recommendations for DFID actions
Research and Evidence Generation
Systematic Reviews
• 7 studies relevant to social protection; 4 complete or close to completion
Research Programme Consortia
• Effective States and Inclusive Development: Building stronger evidence on the political
dynamics of pro-poor development
• Livelihoods, social protection and basic services in fragile and conflict-affected situations
Other initiatives
• Thematic window for impact evaluation on social protection
• FAO/UNICEF: From Protection to Production: the economic impacts of cash transfers.
• Future Agricultures Consortium: Theme on growth and social protection
Poverty and Vulnerability Team
•In DFID’s newly formed Growth and Resilience Department, Policy
Division
•Covering social protection and cash transfers, inequality, economic
empowerment of women and girls, inclusive growth, post-MDGs
(..!)
Sub-team of 4 working on social protection: Paul Wafer,
Tim Conway, Matthew Greenslade, vacancy
Reflections for discussion – 4 key issues
1. Scaling up in LICs – a different agenda from MICs?
2. Building political coalitions for social protection in-country –
getting better at political economy?
http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=5128
3. The resilience agenda – links to climate change adaptation (and
new external financing?)
4. Resourcing: new revenue sources (‘oil2cash’), alternatives to
subsidies – how to encourage progressive choices?