The Social Protection Chapter of the Public Expenditure Review Toolkit contains three elements: A checklist of issues that might be included in analysis; Notes with elaboration or references to standards, methodological guidance or international comparators; and Examples of the treatment of each specific issue drawn from a large body of analytic work done within the World Bank.
Labor Markets  Core Labor Standards Toolkit for Staff Preparing Country Assistance Strategies
This toolkit is designed to assist staff in analyzing core labor standards (CLS) in Country Assistance Strategies (CAS), according to the recommendations of donors. It provides background information on four principles from international conventions known as "core labor standards." The toolkit also includes links to resources for finding information on a country's compliance with each of the standards and suggestions for integrating an analysis of the standards into the CAS.
Employment Policy Primer
The World Bank Employment Policy Primer aims to provide a comprehensive, up-to-date resource on labor market policy issues. This resource is based on the lessons from research and operational experience in designing and implementing labor market policies and interventions. The primer series includes two types of products: Papers that present, in some detail, new research results or up-to-date assessments of the literature and experience and Notes that summarize "best practice" on policy-relevant topics in a very concise and accessible manner.
Together, these products are intended to provide a practical toolkit for people who make or are concerned about employment policy. A flexible format with products published both on the labor markets website and in published form ensures that the latest developments are reflected.
Pensions
Pension Reform Primer
The World Bank Pension Reform Primer aims to provide a comprehensive toolkit for policy-makers on designing and implementing pension reform. It is based on continuously updated information from countries that have introduced reforms emphasizing the role of privately-managed individual retirement accounts. Their experience offers a number of useful lessons for policy-makers elsewhere. Modeling Pension Reform: The World Bank’s Pension Reform Options Simulation Toolkit (240kb pdf), 02/00. Also available in French (260kb pdf) and Spanish (262kb pdf)
Safety Nets
Safety Nets Primer
The World Bank Safety Nets Primer is intended to provide a practical resource for those engaged in the design and implementation of safety net programs around the world. Readers will find information on good practices for a variety of types of interventions, country contexts, themes and target groups, as well as current thinking of specialists and practitioners on the role of social safety nets in the broader development agenda. The Primer is designed to reflect a high standard of quality as well as a degree of consensus among the World Bank safety nets team and general practitioners on good practice and policy. Institutional Analysis Toolkit for Safety Net Interventions (215KB PDF)
Social Protection Discussion Paper No. 0418; Publication Date: 08/04
by Inke Mathauer
The toolkit provides key questions on issues of institutional and organizational capacity in order to (i) better understand the causes of poor performance of a program from an institutional point of view, and (ii) propose the optimal institutional arrangements for existing or planned programs. In fact, one may glean further insights to outcome problems through a detailed institutional analysis that goes down to the local level, and propose solutions. More so, an institutional analysis may reveal that a safety net strategy is inadequate in the given context. Thus, the toolkit sheds light on key performance issues, such as staffing and skills, staff incentives, service delivery procedures, accountability mechanisms and incentives, supervision structures, and interorganizational relations, social protection system, and their long-term effectiveness in preventing the inter-generational transmission of poverty.
Social Funds
Reaching the Poor and Vulnerable: Targeting Strategies for Social Funds and other Community-Driven Programs (1.7mb pdf)
Social Protection Discussion Paper No. 0711; Publication Date: 05/07
by Julie Van Domelen Social fund/CDD programs have gained increasing attention for their capacity to support poor communities, especially in the context of scaling up efforts to end extreme poverty. The main objective of this toolkit is to enhance program design to better serve the poor. The toolkit approach is designed to provide technical staff in the Bank and client Governments with the concepts, empirical evidence, noteworthy case studies of different approaches and the operational elements necessary to develop more comprehensive poverty and vulnerability targeting mechanisms. Evaluating Social Fund Impact: A Toolkit for Task Teams and Social Fund Managers (362KB PDF)
Social Protection Discussion Paper No. 0611; Publication Date: 10/06
by Sarah Adam In response to the growing demand for evidence of how social fund (and other CDD) projects achieve significant and measurable improvement in peoples lives, this toolkit aims to increase the number, expand the topical coverage and improve the quality of social fund/CDD impact evaluations. Designed for task teams and managers of social fund and other CDD projects, as distinct from evaluation practitioners, the toolkit first defines impact evaluation and introduces related concepts and methodologies and then guides this audience through the process of planning, designing and implementing an impact evaluation.
Social Risk Managment
Methods for Microeconometric Risk and Vulnerability Assessments (337KB PDF)
Social Protection Discussion Paper No. 0324; Publication Date: 12/03
by John Hoddinott and Agnes Quisumbing
This "toolkit" provides quantitative tools to practitioners who want to undertake risk and vulnerability assessments using household data. While one could use price, exchange rate, and balance of payments data to examine macroeconomic shocks, and rainfall data to assess the severity of droughts and floods, we are ultimately interested in their impacts on households - thus the emphasis on household data. Data Sources for Microeconometric Risk and Vulnerability Assessments (252KB PDF)
Social Protection Discussion Paper No. 0323; Publication Date: 12/03
by John Hoddinott and Agnes Quisumbing
This "toolkit" is designed to assist practitioners undertaking vulnerability assessments by identifying data sources, assessing their suitability for risk and vulnerability measurement, and proposing suggestions for data collection to supplement existing sources. It complements "Methods for Microeconometric Risk and Vulnerability Assessments: A Review with Empirical Examples" (Hoddinott and Quisumbing 2003), which discusses techniques for assessing vulnerability and issues relating to their application. The emphasis in both toolkits is on quantitative, survey-based methods for vulnerability assessment, although this document will also discuss contextual methods similar to those used in livelihoods-based approaches. This paper draws heavily on papers and discussions at an International Food Policy Research Institute/World Bank (IFPRI/WB) Workshop on Risk and Vulnerability: Estimation and Policy Implications held at the International Food Policy Research Institute in September 2002. 
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