This brief explores the complementary and interconnected roles that social protection and resilience can play within development and the humanitarian¨Cdevelopment¨Cpeace nexus. With growing demand for integrated programming within ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳and externally, the brief focuses on clarifying the conceptual linkages between the two, and thereby demonstrate how WFP, given its extensive engagement with both social protection and resilience ¨C building on learning from WFP¡¯s own integrated resilience programming as well as from wider non-ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳experience ¨C can position and contribute better in this space, where governments and agencies are looking for innovative ideas and partners. The brief poses four key questions: defining resilience, understanding how social protection builds resilience, exploring what social protection can learn from resilience, and maximizing convergence between social protection programming and resilience outcomes.
Stephen Devereux, Ana Sol¨®rzano, Christine Wright, 2024, Maximizing impact: the intersection of social protection and resilience.
