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Social Protection for Child Development in Crisis: A Review of Evidence and Knowledge Gaps

dc.contributor.authorAurino, Elisabetta
dc.contributor.authorGiunti, Sara
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-27T19:39:17Z
dc.date.available2023-07-27T19:39:17Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-18
dc.description.abstractGlobally, humanitarian needs have reached an historically unprecedented scale, undermining the ability of affected children to survive, grow, and thrive. Social protection holds the promise of addressing acute needs and risks faced by children in crisis contexts, while allowing for human capital investments. We review evidence of the impact of emergency cash, food, and other in-kind transfers implemented by governments or humanitarian actors on child development in different contexts. Compared with development settings, rigorous evidence for crises is limited. Most existing studies focus on either schooling or acute malnutrition, highlighting that transfers can mitigate the detrimental effects of crises on these outcomes. Evidence on linear growth, micronutrient deficiencies, health, labor, learning, psychosocial outcomes, and child protection is limited. Also, most studies are set in contexts characterized by high institutional fragility in which emergency social protection is undertaken by international organizations, while evidence from settings where institutional capacity for shock-responsive social protection exists is scarce. Further gaps relate to the cost-effectiveness of alternative program designs and delivery modalities; heterogeneity by child and household backgrounds; and longer-term effects of interventions. Filling these gaps is critical to support child-sensitive approaches to social protection in crises to effectively pursue Sustainable Development Goal 1.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/40102
dc.identifier.issn0257-3032 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1564-6971 (online)
dc.identifier.urihttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/40102
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherPublished by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Bank Research Observer
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectSOCIAL PROTECTION
dc.subjectCHILD DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectCRISIS
dc.subjectHUMANITARIAN EMERGENCIES
dc.subjectCASH AND IN-KIND TRANSFERS
dc.titleSocial Protection for Child Development in Crisisen
dc.title.subtitleA Review of Evidence and Knowledge Gapsen
dc.typeJournal Article
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.associatedcontenthttps://academic.oup.com/wbro/article/37/2/229/6305018 Journal website (version of record)
okr.crossref.titleSocial Protection for Child Development in Crisis: A Review of Evidence and Knowledge Gaps
okr.date.disclosure2023-07-27
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Journal Article
okr.identifier.doi10.1093/wbro/lkab007
okr.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1596/40102
okr.language.supporteden
okr.pagenumber229–263
okr.region.geographicalWorld
okr.topicSocial Development::Children and Youth
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Social Protections & Assistance
okr.volume37 (2)
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