Tailoring Adaptive Social Safety Nets to Latin America and the Caribbean

doi:10.1596/34136

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Tailoring Adaptive Social Safety Nets to Latin America and the Caribbean

dc.contributor.author	Williams, Asha
dc.contributor.author	Martinez, Ursula
dc.date.accessioned	2020-07-16T21:10:52Z
dc.date.available	2020-07-16T21:10:52Z
dc.date.issued	2020-01
dc.description.abstract	Social safety nets (SSNs) are increasingly relevant to helping households prepare, cope, and adapt to shocks in a climate of increased frequency and severity of disasters. Disasters can impact the income, consumption, and human capital of households. While disasters caused by natural hazards can impact anyone, the poor often bear the brunt of shock impacts, while vulnerable and other disadvantaged populations fall into poverty. When poor people are affected, the share of their wealth lost is two to three times that of the non-poor, largely because of the nature and vulnerability of their assets and livelihoods. The poor also often employ negative coping strategies following disasters, with long-lasting effects on human capital accumulation and income. Where SSNs have good coverage, adequacy, and incidence, they help ensure that the households most likely to be severely impacted by these events are able to smooth their consumption, build human capital, improve their assets and diversify livelihoods - all of which are increasingly critical to better preparedness for shocks and improved ability to cope with, and recover from, their impacts. An increasing number of countries have used their SSNs, primarily cash transfers and in-kind transfers, to respond to household needs following different shocks including disasters caused by weather and geological events, economic crisis and most recently, the economic crisis due to the COVID-19 health pandemic. Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) exhibits larger coverage and expenditures on SSNs compared to most regions, particularly for cash transfer programs. SSNs in LAC also demonstrate comparatively well-established SSN delivery systems. Given this, there is unlocked potential in LAC to effectively respond to disasters by systematically using SSNs when appropriate. This note presents key lessons and design considerations for LAC countries to better usetheir SSNs to help individuals and households prepare, cope and adapt to the shocks they face. While this note focuses on disasters caused by natural hazards, the framework and lessons presented here are applicable to other types of emergencies and shocks.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/427911593594428268/Guidance-Note
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/34136
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/34136
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	SOCIAL SAFETY NET
dc.subject	CASH TRANSFERS
dc.subject	SOCIAL PROTECTION
dc.subject	ADAPTIVE SOCIAL PROTECTION
dc.title	Tailoring Adaptive Social Safety Nets to Latin America and the Caribbean	en
dc.type	Report	en
dc.type	Rapport	fr
dc.type	Informe	es
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okr.crossref.title	Tailoring Adaptive Social Safety Nets to Latin America and the Caribbean
okr.date.disclosure	2020-07-01
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work::Other Social Protection Study
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/427911593594428268/Guidance-Note
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okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/34136
okr.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1596/34136
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okr.identifier.report	150388
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okr.pdfurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/427911593594428268/pdf/Guidance-Note.pdf	en
okr.region.administrative	Latin America and Caribbean
okr.region.geographical	Caribbean
okr.region.geographical	Latin America
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Access of Poor to Social Services
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Services & Transfers to Poor
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Disability
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Safety Nets and Transfers
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Social Protections & Assistance
okr.unit	GFDRR