www.fao.org/ social-protection Components of shock-responsive social protection system: > Risk informed > Flexible > Time and cost effective > Promoting sustainable agriculture > Links with climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies > Comprehensive targeting mechanisms (economic, social, environment, conflict) NATURAL DISASTERS FORCE 26M PEOPLE INTO POVERTY AND COST $520BN IN LOSSES EVERY YEAR. MORE THAN 80% OF THE DAMAGE AND LOSSES CAUSED BY DROUGHT IS TO AGRICULTURE. 93% OF PEOPLE LIVING IN EXTREME POVERTY ARE IN FRAGILE AND HUMANITARIAN CRISES CONTEXTS. THERE IS AN URGENT NEED FOR INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS THAT BRIDGE HUMANITARIAN AND DEVELOPMENT DIVIDE. Shock responsive social protection systems Policy support and capacity building > Minimizing negative coping strategies and vulnerabilities > Boosting families’ productive and economic potential > Extending economic impacts to whole communities and local economy, not only to the direct programmes beneficiaries > Serving as key component of social cohesion > Helping host communities access services and economic opportunities while also benefiting refugees WHAT CAN SOCIAL PROTECTION DO? Social protection enhances the capacity of rural families to prevent, manage and cope with threats and crises by: RISK PREPAREDNESS Ex ante preventive measures RISK RESPONSE Protective measures for recovery RISK REDUCTION AND MITIGATION Promotive, transformative and adaptive measures DISASTER SOCIAL PROTECTION HUMANITARIAN AID SOCIAL PROTECTION IN HUMANITARIAN AND FRAGILE CONTEXTS TO MAXIMIZE THESE IMPACTS FAO IS WORKING ON Knowledge generation CASH+ programmes combine transfers of cash, productive assets and/or technical training for poor and vulnerable families. It illustrates FAO added value in providing a flexible combination of cash transfers and agricultural productive interventions. Cash plus (+) interventions © FAO/Luca Sola © FreeImages.com/Satendra Mhatre © FAO, 2017 I7524EN

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www.fao.org/social-protection

Components of shock-responsive social protection system:

> Risk informed > Flexible > Time and cost effective > Promoting sustainable agriculture > Links with climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies

> Comprehensive targeting mechanisms (economic, social, environment, conflict)

NATURAL DISASTERS FORCE 26M PEOPLE

INTO POVERTY AND COST $520BN

IN LOSSES EVERY YEAR.

MORE THAN 80%

OF THE DAMAGE AND LOSSES

CAUSED BY DROUGHT IS TO AGRICULTURE.

93% OF PEOPLE LIVING

IN EXTREME POVERTY ARE

IN FRAGILE AND HUMANITARIAN

CRISES CONTEXTS.

THERE IS AN URGENT NEED FOR INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS

THAT BRIDGE HUMANITARIAN AND

DEVELOPMENT DIVIDE.

Shock responsive social protection systems

Policy support and capacity building

> Minimizing negative coping strategies and vulnerabilities

> Boosting families’ productive and economic potential > Extending economic impacts to whole communities and local economy, not only to the direct programmes beneficiaries

> Serving as key component of social cohesion > Helping host communities access services and economic opportunities while also benefiting refugees

WHAT CAN SOCIAL PROTECTION DO?

Social protection enhances the capacity of rural families to prevent, manage and cope with threats and crises by:

RISK PREPAREDNESSEx ante preventive measures

RISK RESPONSEProtective measures for recovery

RISK REDUCTION AND MITIGATIONPromotive, transformative and adaptive measuresD

ISA

STER

S O C I A L P R O T E C T I O N

H U M A N I T A R I A N A I D

SOCIAL PROTECTION IN HUMANITARIAN AND FRAGILE CONTEXTS

TO MAXIMIZE THESE IMPACTS FAO IS WORKING ON

Knowledge generation

CASH+ programmes combine transfers of cash, productive assets and/or technical training for poor and vulnerable families. It illustrates FAO added value in providing a flexible combination of cash transfers and agricultural productive interventions.

Cash plus (+) interventions

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