Adaptive Social Protection: Building Sustainable Capacities of Vulnerable Societies
- The current situation in Pakistan demands moving from an individual-level approach to a community-level approach and increased focus on intended results rather than devising tools for policy implementation for strengthening social protection mechanisms.
- Good governance practices followed by governmental support is crucial for the provision of social security to vulnerable populations. Therefore, local organisations and local government should be strengthened, rather than NGOs, as a long-term policy-driven goal.
- Financial inclusion, through savings and digital innovation, in Adaptive Social Protection can enhance efficiency and make vulnerable societies self-efficient at both local and regional levels. Therefore, Pakistan needs to shift towards a saving-based model with demand-side mapping for designing social protection programmes.
- An efficient Adaptive Social Protection programme is one that is inclusive of shock responsiveness.
