Social Protection and Climate Resilience

This learning resource identifies lessons from a range of DFID programmes on how social protection builds climate resilience.

From:
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Published
1 January 2016
Document Type:
Lessons Learned
Theme:
Climate and Environment and Social Change
First published:
1 January 2016
Authors:
Buckle, F. and Wallis, C.

Abstract

This learning resource identifies lessons from a range of DFID programmes on how social protection builds climate resilience. It also contains a detailed list of current best reads. It was compiled as a result of consultations with DFID staff and draws on relevant DFID case studies to provide insights into:

  • The working conceptual framework for defining climate resilience
  • Climate responsiveness of social protection programming
  • Key issues to consider when designing climate resilient social protection programmes - targeting, scalable and flexible shock responsive mechanisms, fragile states, long term and holistic resilience approaches, monitoring and learning

This resource is part of a series of . It can be read in conjunction with the introductory resource , and the more detailed resources on and . The and will also assist readers in understanding the terminology used throughout this resource and the other resources in the Resilience series.

Citation

Wallis, C.; Buckle, F.; DFID. Social Protection and Climate Resilience. Evidence on Demand, UK (2016) 35 pp. [DOI: 10.12774/eod_tg.may2016.wallisandbuckle]

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