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Social Protection Sector Strategy
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This is the first Bank strategy for the social protection sector. The paper highlights the need to expand the definition of social protection to encompass all public interventions that help individuals, households, and communities to manage risk or that provide support to the critically poor. It also recommends that social protection programs be embedded in an integrated approach to poverty reduction based on a new framework for social risk management. The concept of social risk management asserts that individuals, households, and communities are exposed to multiple risks from different sources, both natural and manmade. A clear assessment of a risk management system for any population is possible by examining the available risk management instruments in a matrix of strategies and arrangements - a risk management framework. The World Bank's work under the social protection strategy follows the following dimensions: regional and country priorities, traditional Bank products, partnerships with other organizations and resources.
Global
 Social Protection Sector Strategy Paper: From Safety Net to Springboard, January 2001
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Dynamic Risk Management and the Poor: Developing a Social Protection Strategy for Africa, January 2001. Also available in French.
East Asia & the Pacific
Toward an East Asian Social Protection Sector Strategy (200kb pdf), September 1999
Europe & Central Asia
Balancing Protection and Opportunity: A Strategy for Social Protection in Transition Economies, September 2000
Latin America & the Caribbean
The World Bank and Social Protection in Latin America & the Caribbean, November 2003
Middle East & North Africa
Reducing Vulnerability and Increasing Opportunity: Social Protection in the Middle East and North Africa, January 2002 
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