Socialprotection.org Webinar - Where next in digital social protection? Lessons from the COVID-19 crisis taken into the future

This is the fourth session in the "ASPects – Practice Exchange on ASP" series and within this framework is particularly related to Building Block 4 “Data & information systems” of the World Bank’s Adaptive Social Protection framework.  These webinars are dedicated to bringing together practitioners, leading experts, and policy makers to share and exchange perspectives on Adaptive Social Protection (ASP). Each webinar within the series will focus on specific practically relevant aspects of one related ASP Building Block (Institutional arrangements and partnerships - Programs - Data and information - Finance). The series, organised by the GIZ Global Program Social Protection Innovation and Learning (SPIL) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in cooperation with socialprotection.org and other partners, aims at informing the global public policy dialogue on building back better systems and better preparedness for future shocks.

This webinar will bring together key takeaways from the COVID-19 response and implications for the future. To set the scene, this webinar will begin with a framing presentation that provides an overview of some of the high-level trends globally focusing on digital innovation during the COVID-19 social protection response, particularly in relation to registration and enrolment, and key implications. This will be followed by short presentations by sectoral experts to report on their lessons from COVID-19 as well as their suggestions to prepare for future shocks and make social protection systems more adaptive.

Speakers:

Alexandra Doyle, Consultant Poverty and Social Protection, Oxford Policy Management 

Rodrigo Ortiz D'avila Assumpcao, Social Protection Management Information Systems Specialist, ILO

Jonathan Marskell, Senior Program Officer, Identification for Development (ID4D) Initiative, World Bank

Angelina Fisher, Adjunct Professor of Law, Director Policy and Practice, New York University School of Law

Moderator: Saurav Bhattarai, Social Protection Innovation and Learning (SPIL), GIZ