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Improving targeting and delivery. Group 4: Making Social Protection Work for Pro-Poor Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation. Conceptual Framework. SP + DRR + CCA : All aim to tackle vulnerability not necessarily poverty Each has an specific constituency, language, tools
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Improving targeting and delivery Group 4: Making Social Protection Work for Pro-Poor Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
Conceptual Framework • SP + DRR + CCA: • All aim to tackle vulnerability not necessarily poverty • Each has an specific constituency, language, tools • Each operates at several levels • Targeting: identifying ‘right people in the right areas’ depending on the objective(s) • Delivery: reaching ‘right people in the right areas at the right time with the right instruments’ depending on the objective(s)
Bigger Picture • The paradigm has not shifted: aim is still economic growth, with the poor being asked to adapt instead of the rich • A question of social justice and equity
Overarching Challenges • Potential contradiction between aims of SP, DRR + CCA: • ‘Targeting trap’ • Target individuals, households, or communities • Reduce vulnerabilities or scale-up SP • How to judge success of intervention • Integrated approaches: • Higher demands on knowledge, capacity • (Dis)incentives for coordination & integration • Conflict between objectives and local knowledge
Targeting Challenges • How to make targeting adaptive or flexible in response to change? • How to deal with resource constraints to respond to emerging, unpredictable needs? • How to address politicization of targeting? • Defining who is ‘deserving’ given different SP, DRR, CCA objectives • Political cycle vs. timeframe for objectives of program • How to synthesize data sources capturing different vulnerabilities?
Delivery Challenges • How to deliver regular, predictable assistance in response to unpredictable and changing needs? • How to create scaleable delivery systems, particularly in low capacity contexts? • How to promote delivery mechanisms tailored to diverse livelihoods? • How to ensure continuity in the face of competing demands, new trends?
Lessons • To inform SP, DRR, CCA objectives, we need a new way of doing vulnerability analysis • To address objectives of SP, DRR, CCA a combination of interventions are required • To address longer-term CCA objectives, there is a need to design SP interventions that are ‘climate smart’ • There is a need to create flexible targeting and delivery systems
Lessons (2) • Build on existing SP programs, policies and institutional frameworks to address multiple objectives of SP, DRR and CCA • Integrating SP, DRR and CCA creates new needs for capacity building: knowledge, skills, multi-sectoral ways of working • Recognize incentives and disincentives around targeting and delivery mechanisms for integrating SP, DRR, CCA
Experience • Responding to ‘targeting trap’: • South Africa Child Grant: Enhanced employment seeking by women ($ used for childcare & transport) • Self-Help Group Program in India: • Eastern Kenya Food Security – response to drought, but created alternative livelihoods • Pakistan: ID cards for female beneficiaries • Ethiopia: Environmental transformation through PSNP public works; PSNP Risk Financing as part of DRR policy • Rwanda: SP in the short-term + alternative/diversified livelihoods in the long-term • Cash transfers + household assets/credit + community assets • India: support to migrant labourers (IDs, bargaining skills)
Extra Notes • SP: reducing vulnerabilities throughout peoples lives; responding to shocks; addressing chronic poverty; guaranteed access; enhancing social status • DRR: reducing vulnerabilities to disaster; reducing exposure to risks; improving resilience • CCA: changing livelihood strategies; present and future climate variability • SP + DRR for poor; CCA for rich • SP can trap people in livelihoods that does not allow them to adapt • Politicization of targeting • Identifying most appropriate instrument to delivery the identified objective • National eligibility vs. locally-specific targeting criteria: • Link to DRR?
Challenges, Experiences and Lessons: • What instruments • Who to target • How to identify • How to reach