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Rapid Review of Global Social Protection Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Overview
The main purpose of this rapid assessment is to improve the evidence base supporting both national (and sub-national) governments as well as UNICEF and other development partners to employ social protection systems to more effectively respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. While a wealth of global evidence illuminates public health strategies and an increasing knowledge base underpins supporting economic measures, the policy focus on social protection has mostly concentrated on the immediate requirements to reinforce livelihoods devastated by the health shock and the immediate consequences of the required policy responses and the associated economic disruptions. This rapid assessment will consider these short-term measures but concentrate on medium- and long-term factors that affect families and households, with a particular emphasis on outcomes for children and women. The assessment will examine what kinds of social protection measures work—where, when, why, for whom and how. The work will illuminate how UNICEF can work with governments to improve the effectiveness, impact, and sustainability of national social protection programming. The rapid assessment’s long-term strategic analysis aims to strengthen UNICEF’s global position supporting countries to more effectively leverage social protection systems to respond to crises, and also to reinforce UNICEF’s capacity to design, deliver and coordinate more developmental country responses.
3.2. Objectives
In achieving the purpose stated above, this rapid assessment works to achieve the following specific objectives:
1. To assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on families and households, with a particular emphasis on children and women;
2. To assess the social protection response to the pandemic by governments and their development partners, particularly UNICEF;
3. To assess the gap between the needs driven by the pandemic and the responses delivered by governments, particularly focusing on the medium- and long-term cons
Report Details
| Year Published | |
| Type | |
| Joint | No |
| Partner/s | N/A |
| Consultant name | |
| Agency Focal Point | David Stewart |
| Focal Point Email | dstewart@unicef.org |
| Managed by Independent Evaluation Office | No |
| Geographic Scope | Country |
| Country/ies |
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