Publication: Adaptive Social Protection for Effective Crisis Response: Independent Evaluation Group Evaluation of the World Bank’s Contribution (Approach Paper)
Date
2023-08-24
ISSN
Published
2023-08-24
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
Interconnected and often devastating
covariate shocks are a threat to human development.
Covariate shocks are shocks that affect large numbers of
people or communities at once and can be natural, economic,
or political. Occurrence and the human devastation from
natural disasters has increased over the last 50 years, and
the negative impacts of climate change are expected to
exacerbate this trend. Poor households are particularly
vulnerable to covariate shocks because they lack adequate
capacity to prepare for, cope with, and adapt to shocks.
Covariate shocks can also impoverish vulnerable households
when their capacity to prepare, cope, and adapt is
overwhelmed. Covariate shocks vary in magnitude, speed of
onset, predictability, and duration, and thus these aspects
should be considered when designing the most appropriate
social protection response. Moreover, the needs and
challenges that vulnerable and directly affected populations
face will have implications for social protection systems.
Adaptive social protection (ASP) builds resilience by
helping poor and vulnerable households prepare for, cope
with, and adapt to covariate shocks. The purpose of this
evaluation is twofold: (i) assess whether the World Bank
support for social protection has incorporated adaptive
elements over time, and (ii) assess how effective the World
Bank has been at helping client countries make their social
protection systems more adaptive.
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“World Bank. 2023. Adaptive Social Protection for Effective Crisis Response: Independent Evaluation Group Evaluation of the World Bank’s Contribution (Approach Paper). © Washington, DC: World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/40267 License: CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO.”