As part of UNICEF Innocenti's workshop on social protection in humanitarian settings, Federico Spano and Silvio Daidone from FAO presented their views on "Generation of evidence on social protection in humanitarian settings". For more on this workshop and to access the seven papers released at the event, visit: https://www.unicef-irc.org/article/1829-evidence-on-social-protection-in-contexts-of-fragility-and-forced-displacement.html

1. Generation of evidence on social protection in humanitarian settings
Federico Spano and Silvio Daidone
Social Protection team
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

2. FAO’s country presence: Social Protection
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Somalia
Mali
Mauritania
Chad
Bangladesh
Afghanistan
Lebanon
Turkey
Uganda
South Sudan
Ethiopia
Lesotho
Philippines
Myanmar

3. Most recent and current research in fragile settings
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Quantitative
• Impact evaluations of CBIs (i.e. Mauritania, Mali, Somalia, Ethiopia)
• Micro simulation approach for CBIs adjustments to combat price
volatility due to El Niño (Lesotho, Zambia)
• Resilience Index Measurement and Analysis – RIMA (South Sudan,
Uganda, Somalia)
Qualitative
• Operational policy research for SRSP (ASEAN, Bangladesh,
Afghanistan, Somalia)
• Develop research guidelines to assess SP interventions in fragile and
humanitarian settings (global product in partnership with Innocenti)
• Operational research on SP contribution to CRM in AG sector
(including guidance and training material)
Bangladesh
Gov. Commitment
Philippines
Coordination
Somalia
Integration

4. Generation of evidence - priority areas
Social Protection: From Protection to Production
Information
Systems
Delivery
mechanisms
Layered
Financing
Institutions and governance

5. Generation of evidence - priority areas
Social Protection: From Protection to Production
Information
Systems
Delivery
mechanisms
Layered
Financing
Institutions and governance

6. Social Protection: From Protection to Production
Institutions and governance
Generate evidence on how to operationally link risk
information to social and sectorial (farmers, fishermen, forest
dependent communities) registries
-> in order to inform the scale-up of social assistance
programmes
• Priority: Link corporate production data with SP delivery to
rural population (IPC, Agricultural D&L forecast, RIMA)
• In practice: look at how PMT, HEA, CBT, GeoT performs and
how the info can be crossed with real time info on risk to
inform interventions focused on SHFs
Generation of evidence - priority areas
Information
Systems

7. Social Protection: From Protection to Production
Institutions and governance
Generate evidence on how to combine different delivery
systems to reach vulnerable populations in fragile settings in
the most cost effective and efficient manner (CT, CFW, CASH+,
input TF, AG Vouchers).
-> in order to support in the design of scalable systems able to
scale-up and scale-down in case of covariate and
idiosyncratic shocks experienced by rural households (focus
on food chain crisis)
• Priority: Define cash+ packages to address sectorial needs (in
rural settings)
Generation of evidence - priority areas
Delivery
systems

8. Social Protection: From Protection to Production
Institutions and governance
Institutions and governance
Layered Financing
Revision of assessment tools to
strengthen coherence between
agriculture and social protection to
address poverty and food insecurity
to
- Adapt to extreme fragile settings;
- generate evidence on the
interoperability of humanitarian
CB interventions and nascent SP
systems.

9. Social Protection: From Protection to Production
New corporate Social Protection initiative
to enhance resilience of rural livelihoods
Launch in October 2018

10. Examples of research questions
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• Delivery of cash in fragile settings: what dosage? Which frequency/seasonality?
• Cash +: what is the best package? How cash interacts with other sector-specific
interventions?
• Cost-effectiveness of interventions (including in-kind support): What is the most
effective way to deliver aid?
• Long-term effects and transition to development of typically short-term programs
• Social protection and agriculture in conflict-prone areas
• Spillover effects: what are unintended positive and adverse effects of these programs
(focus on AG markets)?
• Job creation: what works for both refugees and host communities?
• Identification (targeting) of possible beneficiaries (those who have quickly fallen into
vulnerability because of conflict/protracted crises)
• What are guiding principles to develop coordinated interventions for refugees (SHFs)
and host communities (landless rural workers)?

11. Social Protection: From Protection to Production
Thank you!
Federico.Spano@fao.org
Silvio.Daidone@fao.org
http://www.fao.org/social-protection/en/
http://www.fao.org/emergencies/how-
we-work/resilience/en/