Making Social Protection Fit for Disaster

Risk Management & Climate Change

Adaptation
Towards Integrated Approaches
Session 14B: Social Protection, Disaster Risk Management and
Climate Change Adaptation
Asia Pacific Social Protection Week, August 4th, 2016, Manila
Johanna Knoess
Deutsche Gesellschaft fr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
DISCLAIMER: This presentation does not necessarily reflect the views of ADB or the Government concerned, and ADB and the Government
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Contributions of Social Protection to Climate Change

Adaptation and Response
Preventive Role

Protective Role

Promotive Role

Livelihood promotion
& diversification

Prevention of
negative
coping strategies

Human capital
development

Reducing the impact

of shocks, e.g.
through insurance

Income and
consumption
smoothing

Increasing long-term
resilience

Scaling up

Opportunities for
graduation out of
poverty

Climate proofing
infrastructure

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Challenges for Shaping the Policy Agenda

Institutional barriers:
Lack of coordination between different ministries

Social
Protection

Legislative barriers:

Climate
Change
Adaptation

Lack of complementary and coherent approaches

Technical barriers:

High degree of technical specializations

Political barriers:

Disaster
Risk
Management

Required time horizons beyond legislative periods

Financial barriers:
Competition for budget allocations amongst ministries
Quick allocation of emergency funds
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Orientations for Policy Making in Shock Response

Cross-sectoral coordination
Early on preparedness is key
Legal & institutional frameworks, committees, mainstreaming

Integrating strategies & planning

Plans at various levels
Linkage to early warning, risk & vulnerability assessment

Scaling up response
Expanding coverage rapidly

Ethiopian PSNP in
2011: from 6,5 to
9,6 Mio people
with geographical
targeting

NREGA: selfselection and

increase of work
days from 100 to
150 recently

Flexible delivery systems

Targeting & distribution

Predictable financing arrangement

Devising risk financing strategy
Pooling & smoothing of different sources
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African Risk
Capacity: Risk
financing
mechanism linked
to social
protection
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Orientations for Policy Making in Adaptation

Do not forget the long-term perspective!

Asset Building
Building climatesmart
infrastructure
Considering climate
change impacts
climate proofing

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Livelihood
Promotion
Livelihood
diversification
(more profitable
crops)
Improved
production
(access to
irrigation)

Graduation
Approaches
Linkages to
services for
livelihoods
development
Access to credit

Access to training/
education

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Role of Development Partners

Supporting policy development

Capacity strengthening
Supporting predictable and flexible
financing arrangements
Alignment with national strategies
Coordination
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Germanys contribution: Linking Climate Risk Insurance

with Social Protection Schemes
G7 InsuResilience Initiative
Increasing access to climate risk insurance
for an additional 400 million people in the
most vulnerable developing countries

InsuResilience Beneficiaries

Using social protection systems for

pay-outs from climate risk insurance
e.g. under African Risk Capacity (ARC)
Better linking climate risk insurance with
disaster relief, moving towards policy
coherence
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Thank you!

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