Presented by:Kumar Ankit

Development Management Institute, Patna

Introduction: Social Protection

Definition by United Nations Research Institute For Social Development: it is concerned with

preventing, managing, and overcoming situations that adversely affect people’s well being

Social protection blends of policies, programs and interventions designed to reduce poverty and

vulnerability

It promote efficient labor markets, diminishing people's exposure to risks, and enhancing their

capacity to manage economic and social risks, such as unemployment, exclusion, sickness, disability

and old age

Key factors According to ILO in 2014 , About 73 percent of the world population have no access to social protection

measures, most of which in rural areas.

Less than 2% of the global GDP would be necessary to provide a basic set of social security benefits to

all of the world’s poor (ILO, 2006).

Women have less access to social protection than men because they generally work in the informal

sector.

Need Tackle vulnerability

Improving food and nutrition security

Reducing rural poverty

Enable households to better manage risks

To benefits women and promote their economic and social

empowerment.

Social Protection Programme: ClassificationSocial assistance programme distribute cash or vouchers or in-kind contributions to vulnerable families

School feeding

prevent households from selling their assets

Social insurance programmes

financed by contributions from employees, employers and from the state

people protect themselves against risks (sickness, accidents, etc.) by pooling resources with a larger number of

similarly exposed individuals or households.

Insurance programmes address life cycle, employment and health contingencies.

Labor market programmes provide unemployment benefits,

build skills, and

enhance workers’ productivity and employability.

Social Protection PoliciesTo reduce socio-economic risks, vulnerability, extreme poverty and deprivation,

Agricultural PoliciesTo improve productivity in crops, fisheries, forestry livestock and access to markets.

Poverty Reduction Strategy

Issue

on the type of instrument used,

household member receiving the transfer, socio-economic status, livelihood activities and contextual factors

• land tenure arrangements, • institutional capacities, • access to markets, • culture and agro-climate

Cash transfers and public works schemes

increasing investments in agricultural assets,

input use and farm output,

shifting household labor from agricultural wage labor to

on-farm labor

increasing the quantity and quality of food produced

on the type of instrument used,

evaluations of cash transfers and public works schemes provision of school meals education fee waivers.

Cash transfers and public works schemes

by preventing risk-coping strategies that deplete

household agricultural assets like selling ploughs or

fishing equipment to buy food

school feeding and education fee waivers

by increasing investments in human capital

Direct Indirect Impact of Social Protection on Agriculture

Successful programmeEthiopian Productive Safety Net Programme

Largest safety net programme in Sub-Saharan Africa

provides wage employment and uses this labor to build community assets and infrastructure

assists about 7.5 million people

rehabilitated over 167,000 hectares of land and 275,000 km of stone and soil embankment

Components Participating households invested in livestock, with the impact stronger among households that participated for

longer periods of time.

households were targeted by agricultural support programmes providing credit, tools, seeds, support to irrigation.

Result: programme lowered national poverty by about two percent

helped reduce the length of beneficiaries’ hungry

Programa de Educación, Salud y Alimentación provides cash transfers to mothers in households living in extreme poverty in rural areas

Cash transfers are conditional on regular school attendance of their children and visits to health care centres.

programme reaches about 32.9 million individuals

Reducing deficiencies in:

• height-for-age,

• stunting and overweight,

• and in improving physical, cognitive and language development

enriched with new components to ensure that families living in poverty continue to invest in their children’s

human capital development

Linkages between Social Protection and Agriculture

smallholder agricultural interventions reduce household vulnerability and risks as measured by

indicators of livelihood security

Many agricultural interventions increase:

• Household income and income generation capabilities,

• interventions that improve access to microcredit, infrastructure, irrigation, extension

• input technology can lead to improvements in:

household consumption,

food security,

risk taking

the accumulation of durable assets.

Knowledge and Capacity Gaps

To understand better the role of social protection in agriculture, more study is needed on its impacts on:

• risk management,

• input use, and crop,

• fishery,

• forestry and livestock production;

the uptake of agricultural technologies to adapt to climate change;

Natural resources management

To developing capacities at national level among stakeholders is needed to ensure greater coordination

among social protection, agriculture policies and programmes

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