Recommendations for "Social protection and food assistance programs (13 results)"
Provide debt relief to governments struggling to maintain necessary social safety nets
2020
Facilitate inclusive access to quality safety nets particularly for smallholders, including those that are family farmers, and pastoralists.
2016
Ensuring universal access to health and education
2019
Shock-responsive social protection systems can expand cash transfers (conditional or unconditional depending on the existing level of institutionality), cash for work or food for work programmes when covariate or intrinsic shocks occur
2019
Guaranteeing funding of social safety nets (Targeted social protection programmes including conditional or unconditional cash transfers and school feeding ; and public works programmes that help reduce unemployment)
2019
Shock-responsive social protection (including social safety nets such as distributing food assistance; subsidizing prices for foodstuffs; providing vouchers, coupons or school meals; and providing support through cash transfers or public works activities) risk transfers (e.g., climate risk insurance) and forecast-based financing
2018
Design food assistance programmes that offer adequate access to healthy food, not just sufficient calories
2020
Whenever possible, provide alternatives to school lunch programmes when schools are closed.
2020
Allow for adequate access to health care, including access to mental health services, in the design and implementation of social safety nets.
2020
Provide adequate emergency food aid, wherever possible with local and regional purchase of foods for food assistance
2020
Maintain robust social safety nets recognizing that household food expenditure rise and fall in relation to other expenditures (e.g., on housing, health care, education etc.,)
2020
Social protection reform. Scope for integrating social protection and agricultural programmes should be further explored. Public provision of a basic package of benefits for all, such as health, education, pensions and other forms of protection should be the ultimate goal
2016
Promotional social protection: combined with targeted capacity strengthening, may not only improve the income and use of essential services, such as education or preventive health care, but can also help households to diversify livelihood options and so manage future risks and promote longer-term resilience.
2016