1. Social Protection – current DFID engagement
Paul Wafer, Poverty Response Team Leader
ILO Geneva ‘Show & Tell event’, May 2010

2. DFID’s policy position (10/05/2010)
tbc

3. …But there’s an ongoing portfolio of activity
Bilateral country programming
Research and Evidence generation
Initiatives on Capacity Development
Multilateral Financing/ International

4. Bilateral Country Programming
Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: LIC focus
(plus Yemen, Vietnam, Indonesia)
Systems strengthening – supporting national government-led programmes
10 year commitments in Mozambique, Zambia, Kenya; large programmes in Ethiopia, Ghana, Uganda, Zimbabwe; increasing engagement in Malawi, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Nigeria
Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh
Reaching c 32 million beneficiaries

5. Research and Evidence generation
Cash Transfers Evidence paper published by July 2010
Long term programmes with research consortia: Chronic Poverty Research Centre, Young Lives, Pathways to Women’s Empowerment
Future Agricultures Consortium – Growth and Social Protection theme
Systematic reviews on 6 topics (autumn 2010)
Review of DFID’s Social Protection portfolio, 2011
Short term policy research with ODI, IDS

6. Initiatives on Capacity Development
Social Protection Manual/Toolkit with EPRI (South Africa)- publishing in June 2010 plus online evidence database ( )
South-South Learning – Brazil-Africa Programme
Tailor-made in-house training for DFID staff – IDS, June 2010 (places for other donors too!)
Actively involved in PovNet Train4Dev training on social protection initiative

7. Multilateral Financing/ International
Support to the World Bank’s Rapid Social Response Programme - £2m direct + £200m indirectly through the pilot IDA Crisis Response Window (CRW)
Funding/ active engagement in European Report on Development 2010 (SP focus)
Continued advocacy for SP through G20
Ongoing work with OECD-DAC on Social Protection definitions/measurement
…But would welcome more bilateral collaboration !

8. Paul Wafer, Tim Conway, Catherine Arnold, Andy Sumner;
Poverty Response Team
Established Sept 2009
In DFID’s Governance & Social Development Group, Policy Division
Paul Wafer, Tim Conway, Catherine Arnold,
Andy Sumner;
Karen Johnson, Phil Cockerill
+ Dennis Pain (Addis)

9. Not ‘Tell’ but Ask
Keeping momentum on social protection as the agenda moves to ‘post-crisis’ – what’s needed?
Scaling up in LICs – how to mobilise international action?
Yet more pilots or serious systems building? How?
Building political coalitions for social protection in-country – getting better at political economy?

10. Not ‘Tell’ but Ask - 2
What about ‘Accra principles’ for Social Protection work at country level?
An appetite for more comprehensive international coordination?
What lessons should we learn from sectors/issues that are ‘mainstream’ – does Social Protection need a Fast Track Initiative, ‘Global Consensus’ or Global Fund?