Social protection is a set of public and private policies and programs aimed at preventing, reducing and eliminating economic and social vulnerabilities to poverty and deprivation.

1. Addressing children’s vulnerabilities
Social protection is a set of public and private policies and
programs aimed at preventing, reducing and eliminating
economic and social vulnerabilities to poverty and
deprivation. Social protection takes into account the
multiple and interlinking causes of vulnerability, risk and
resilience – addressing them by a wide range of activities
across the sectors for the benefit of different groups of
population, including children. UNICEF identifies four key
areas in social protection particularly relevant for the
rights of the children: social transfers, access to adequate
and affordable social services, social support and care
services and legislation and policy reform. UNICEF
Moldova is supporting the Government in integrating the
children into the social protection scheme through “child
sensitive approach” on policy and budgeting. We actively
support the Government in collecting, analyzing and
using data for policy making, with particular attention to
vulnerable groups, urban-rural and gender
disaggregation.