Climate and Disaster Governance

This project is mapping work that links social protection, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in the agricultural sector in South Asia and East Africa

Project particulars

Co-ordinator: Katy Oswald, IDS

Researchers: Katy Oswald, Christina Corola, Rachel Cipryk, IDS

Duration: Jan-June 2009

Funders: UK Department for Internaitonal Development

Countries: Nepal, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia

 

Project overview

Adaptive social protection, a concept developed by researchers at the Institute of Development Studies, involves examining the role of social protection in strengthening adaptation and conversely, ensuring social protection programmes are resilient to the impacts of climate change.

Adaptive social protection is based on the following hypotheses:

• Comprehensive social protection that aims to prevent impoverishment and protect, promote and transform livelihoods and social relations, provides significant opportunities to help people adapt to climate change.
• Social protection policies and programmes need to consider climate change in order to effectively address the multiple risk and vulnerabilities faced by the poor and excluded.

Developing social protection approaches for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction requires a rigorous evidence base and an improved understanding of social impacts and policy and implementation processes.

This mapping exercise is a first step in securing longer-term programmatic approaches to address adaptive social protection that will consider:

• Institutions and policy processes
• Rights and exclusion
• Growth and livelihoods