Sample of Design Features for Climate- and Disaster-Responsive Social Protection The policy platform should facilitate Design feature 1: Coordinating institutional capacity. coordination by relevant disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, and social protection agencies and actors, tapping the expertise and institutional capacity of each. Programs should be flexible enough to be Design feature 2: Ensuring scalability and flexibility. rapidly scaled up during a disaster and scaled back once the crisis is over. They should be capable of increasing support to existing beneficiaries in the event of major shocks. Achieving scalability requires targeting, registry, and payment systems that can identify, enroll, and make transfers to additional eligible participants. It also requires funding arrangements that can mobilize adequate resources on short notice. Design feature 3: Targeting households that are most vulnerable to natural disasters and climate Disaster- and climate-aware targeting uses area- and household-level data on change-related climate exposure to inform targeting and distinguish the temporarily from the chronically poor. Such targeting requires incorporating disaster- and climate-related vulnerabilities into beneficiary selection criteria. The increase in disaster risk and the Design feature 4: Ensuring good governance and accountability. likelihood and severity of climate change–related events puts pressures on social protection systems, widening the potential for leakage, fraud, and malpractice. More attention should be paid to governance and accountability mechanisms, including through extensive communication with, outreach to, and training of beneficiaries and implementers. Communities’ Design feature 5: Increasing adaptive capacity at the household and community social, physical, and natural assets need to be strengthened in ways that increase resilience to shocks and support viable livelihoods to ensure long-term sustainability. Source: World Bank, May, Building Resilience to Disaster and Climate Change through Social Protection, 2013. See also Anne T. Kuriakose, Rasmus Heltberg, William Wiseman, Climate-Responsive Social Protection, Cecilia Costella, Rachel Cipryk and Sabine Cornelius, Development Policy Review, 2013, 31 (S2): o19-o34 ()
Sample of Design Features for Climate- and Disaster-Responsive Social Protection Design feature 1: Coordinating institutional capacity. The policy platform should facilitate coordination by relevant disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, and social protection agencies and actors, tapping the expertise and institutional capacity of each. Design feature 2: Ensuring scalability and flexibility. Programs should be flexible enough to be rapidly scaled up during a disaster and scaled back once the crisis is over. They should be capable of increasing support to existing beneficiaries in the event of major shocks. Achieving scalability requires targeting, registry, and payment systems that can identify, enroll, and make transfers to additional eligible participants. It also requires funding arrangements that can mobilize adequate resources on short notice. Design feature 3: Targeting households that are most vulnerable to natural disasters and climate change-related Disaster- and climate-aware targeting uses area- and household-level data on climate exposure to inform targeting and distinguish the temporarily from the chronically poor. Such targeting requires incorporating disaster- and climate-related vulnerabilities into beneficiary selection criteria. Design feature 4: Ensuring good governance and accountability. The increase in disaster risk and the likelihood and severity of climate change–related events puts pressures on social protection systems, widening the potential for leakage, fraud, and malpractice. More attention should be paid to governance and accountability mechanisms, including through extensive communication with, outreach to, and training of beneficiaries and implementers. Design feature 5: Increasing adaptive capacity at the household and community Communities’ social, physical, and natural assets need to be strengthened in ways that increase resilience to shocks and support viable livelihoods to ensure long-term sustainability. Source: Building Resilience to Disaster and Climate Change through Social Protection, World Bank, May, 2013. See also Climate-Responsive Social Protection, Anne T. Kuriakose, Rasmus Heltberg, William Wiseman, Cecilia Costella, Rachel Cipryk and Sabine Cornelius, Development Policy Review, 2013, 31 (S2): o19-o34 ()