 Social Protection & Labor at the World Bank, 2000-2008
After seven years of implementation, the 2001 Social Protection Strategy was reviewed and the results presented to the World Bank Committee on Development Effectiveness in late 2007. The review included a stocktaking of the analytical work and lending operations in each of the six core Social Protection competence areas. The result of this review and the six stocktaking papers are presented in this publication. They reveal the progress that the World Bank has made in understanding the importance of social risk management for poverty reduction and the critical contribution it makes to equitable and sustainable growth. Social Protection Sector Strategy Paper: From Safety Net to Springboard
January 2001 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. 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
Achieving Effective Social Protection for All in Latin America and the Caribbean: From Right to Reality (1.5mb pdf)
January 2010 Middle East & North Africa
Reducing Vulnerability and Increasing Opportunity: Social Protection in the Middle East and North Africa
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