Seminar On Social Protection And Safety Nets

  • Overview

INTRODUCTION

A subset of governmental initiatives known as social protection helps to alleviate risk, vulnerability, and persistent poverty. Social services and transfers represent a long-term investment. They offer enduring advantages and substantial personal and societal gains. Social protection seeks to ensure that groups and individuals have fulfilling lives while taking into account the state's role in making this possible and the vulnerabilities of certain groups or individuals. Social protection as a collection of policies entails interventions that deal with areas of vulnerability and elements that prevent a group or individual from leading a fulfilled life.

The training on social protection and safety nets will introduce some of the best literature on the concepts and types of social protection, the design and implementation issues to be taken into consideration, the possibility of mainstreaming other development concerns into social protection programming, and the main debates both in the donor and academic arenas.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

The participant should be able to by the end of the course;

  • Understand the fundamentals of social protection
  • The many types of social protection
  • The design and implementation of social protection systems,
  • Donor approaches to social protection.
  • Social Security Example: Kenya

DURATION

5 Days

COURSE CONTENT

Module 1: Understanding social protection 

  • Conceptualizing social protection
  • Current global issues
  • The politics of social protection
  • The global financial crisis
  • Climate Change
  • Fragile states
  • Regional perspectives on social protection
  • Social protection and poverty
  • Social protection and economic growth
  • Additional information

Module 2: Types of social protection 

  • Social assistance
  • Cash transfers
  • Programme examples and lessons learned
  • Cash transfers in emergencies
  • Social Pensions
  • Public works programmes
  • In-kind transfers
  • Food
  • Utility subsidies
  • Health fee waivers
  • Social insurance
  • Labour market interventions
  • Labour market interventions for informal workers
  • Community-based social protection

Module 3: Design and implementation of social protection Programmes

  • Practical guidance
  • Lessons learned
  • Financing and affordability
  • Managing fiduciary risk
  • Targeting
  • Delivery
  • Donor coordination
  • Mainstreaming social protection
  • A response to social exclusion
  • Gender
  • Children
  • Agriculture
  • Evaluating social protection programmes

Module 4: Donor approaches to social protection 

  • Where is a good place to start?
  • Donor approaches to social protection
  • Asian Development Bank (ADB)
  • Department for International Development (DFID)
  • International Labour Organisation (ILO)
  • Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
  • Oxfam
  • World Bank

Module 5: Social Protection Case Study: Kenya

  • Social Protection in Kenya
  • The Kenya National Social Protection Policy
  • The context of social protection in Kenya
    • Social Insurance
    • Social Security
    • Health Insurance
  • National Safety Net Programmes in Kenya
    • The Cash Transfer for Persons with Severe Disabilities (PWSD-CT)
    • The Cash Transfer for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (CT-OVC)
    • The Hunger Safety Net Programme (HSNP)
    • The Older Persons Cash Transfer (OPCT)
    • The Urban Food Subsidy Programme (UFSP

GENERAL NOTES

  • Our seasoned instructors, who have years of experience as seasoned professionals in their respective fields of work, will be teaching this course. A combination of practical exercises, theory, group projects, and case studies are used to teach the course.
  • The participants receive training manuals and supplementary reading materials.
  • Participants who complete this course successfully will receive a certificate.
  • We can also create a course specifically for your organization to match your needs. To learn more, get in touch with us at training@dealsontrainers.org.
  • The training will take place at DEALSON TRAINERS IN NAIROBI, KENYA in Nairobi, Kenya.
  • The training fee includes lunch, course materials, and lodging for the training session. Upon request, we may arrange for our participants' lodging and transportation to the airport.
  • Payment must be made to our bank account before the training begins, and documentation of payment should be emailed to training@dealsontrainers.org

Course Schedule:
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