1. Platform activities focusing on Africa April 2017

2. Content overview Overview Past Activities Ongoing Activities
sp.org African members
Highlights from Africa and the Middle East
Past Activities
Ongoing Activities
Future Activities
most numbers are from end march 2017
SPIAC-B – 22nd September 2016

4. 2,017 of members from all around the world…
Europe and Central Asia
441 (22%)
North America
162 (8%)
Middle East & North Africa
62 (3%)
Total number of active members (and %) – last 3 months
Total active members from 10th of April until 10th of Feb : 366 = 18% OF TOTAL 2017 MEMBERS
Sub-Saharan Africa %
Latin America and the Carribbean %
Europe and Central Asia %
East Asia & Pacific 164 8%
North America 162 8%
South Asia 113 6%
North Africa and the Middle East 62 3%
TOTAL
Asia and the Pacific
277 (14%)
Latin America & the Caribbean
453 (22%)
Sub- Saharan Africa
622 (31%)
by April 10, 2017

5. a) sp.org African members
Total number of members from Africa and the Middle East
684
(34%)
Nigeria
Ethiopia
10 most represented countries
Uganda
Mozambique 87
Kenya 59
Nigeria 57
Angola 55
South Africa 42
Uganda 33
Ethiopia 27
Malawi 22
Zimbabwe
Zambia 20
Kenya
Malawi
Angola
Zimbabwe
Zambia
Mozambique
Sth Africa

6. … all working with social protection
To implementation
And monitoring of social protection programmes
From conception
Specialists and Consultants 195 (29%)
Project Managers, Communications and Knowledge Managers
173 (25%)
Researchers and Academics
80 (12%)
IMPORTANT: the member repartition by country on slide 3 focuses on African members only, while the other numbers also gather members from the middle east.
The total is not equal to 100% as we did not put the students category
Advisors, Analysts and Associates
135 (20%)
Evaluation and Monitoring Officers
60 (9%)
Over 100 policymakers from Africa are members of the platform

7. b) Highlights from Africa and the Middle East
175 (31%)
769 (31%)
9 (30%)
8 (24%)
650+ part.
684 members
Total nb of stakeholders visible on the platform by mid April: 567
Nb. Of Participants from Africa attending webinars
415 sub Saharan, 57 north Africa and middle east
African Development Bank Group
African Union
Council for the Development of Social Science research in Africa
Ministries and national agencies
REPOA

8. 2. Past activities: Online Communities focusing upon Africa
377 total participants
DFID, EU-SPS, FAO, IPC-IG, UNICEF, Univ. Eduardo Mondlane
Exchange knowledge Brazil-Africa
Online tool for face to face courses (Mozambique and Angola)
Event follow-up and networking
Private groups for CoP members (Anglophone and Francophone)
9 Online
Communities
60%

9. 2. Past activities: Webinars focusing upon Africa
656 total attendees
Dev. Pathways, DFAT, DFID, EPRI, FAO, HelpAge, IPC-IG, ISPA, OPM, Uganda Gov., UNICEF, WWP
Family agriculture and rural women empowerment;
Child Allowance; Shock-responsive Social Protection;
Productive Social Safety Net Program in Tanzania;
Social Protection Investment and Fiscal Space
8 Webinars
60%
Uganda - Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development
8 webinars:
Social Protection Investment Case - the example of Uganda
Constituency Building and Fiscal Space for Social Protection - Navigating Political Space
Protection sociale et renforcement de l’agriculture familiale
The South African experience with the Child Support Grant
Shock-responsive social protection in practice: perspectives from Kenya and Mozambique
Social protection and the empowerment of rural women in Africa
Kenya’s Single Registry: A tool for planning, coordination and monitoring
Assessing Social Protection Payment Delivery of the Productive Social Safety Net Program (PSSN) in Tanzania

10. 2. Past activities: Other highlights
Africa Programme Profiles
Organizers: IPC-IG and UNICEF, supported by DFID
Mapping study of 127 African social protection programmes
Virtual meeting: ‘Brazil–Africa: The Gender Aspects of Social Protection’
Organizers: IPC-IG, supported by DFID
Closed meeting
2 publications produced based on these knowledge sharing activities
between Brazil and Africa
Brazil–Africa knowledge-sharing on Social Protection and food and nutrition security
Brazil–Africa knowledge-sharing: What do African policymakers say? 
Evaluating National Integrated Cash Transfer Programmes with TRANSFER project
Organizers: UNICEF, FAO, Save the Children, University of North Carolina
3. OC + study on SP and food security developed with DFID
(we can stress this study and also have a link to the DFID project page Raquel just created)
4. Africa Programme Profiles (document and platform) – with DFID and Unicef

11. 3. Ongoing Activities
E-course on rural poverty and social protection for the MENA region - FAO
5 webinars / Group of participants
To be held in June-July 2017
E-Learning version of the TRANSFORM Regional African SP Training Package – ILO & EU-SPS
Adapt the 9 modules into an asynchronous instructor-led online-course to be hosted by socialprotection.org & other online educational organizations such as the African Virtual University
50 hours / 2-2½ months
Participants: Senior technical officials from Africa
First course: September-November 2017
Translation of the platform into French
Objective: To facilitate the access from French communities

12. 4. Future Activities
‘HIV-Sensitive Social Protection’ Online Community and Webinar series – with UNICEF
Will be launched in June/August 2017
1 Online Community: This will be an open community, providing an online space for experience sharing on HIV-sensitive social protection topics, with a focus on countries from the Sub-Saharan Africa.
2 webinars: To cover the main findings from a research on HIV-Sensitive Social Protection Programmes in four countries, namely Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Webinars on the UNICEF Menaro Project and Menaro Programme Profile
Webinar 1: Overview of social protection programmes in MENA from a Child and Equity Lens
Webinar 2: Public Financing for Child-Sensitive Social Protection in MENA: what is yet needed to expand child-sensitive and equitable social protection?
Webinar 3: Social Protection Legislative frameworks in MENA from a Child-Rights Perspective
Webinar 4: Building shock-resistant national social protection systems

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