The European Commission has created a guidance package for humanitarian and development staff with latest insights and strategies on working with social protection in fragile, conflict and displacement situations.
Traditionally, humanitarian assistance has been focused on short-term response to save lives and address acute needs of crisis-affected populations. With humanitarian crises becoming increasingly complex, recurrent and protracted...
From 22 to 24 January, staff from EU Delegations, ECHO regional offices, European Commission, Member States and partner organisations gathered at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health in Paris to discuss ways of bridging...
In this interview, we talk to Sigrid Kühlke of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), in Nairobi, Kenya. In our conversation, we discussed the social...
Designed to provide insights and strategies for humanitarian and development staff, this e-learning course introduces and reflects knowledge from the European Commission´s Guidance Package on Social Protection across the...
In the past month, socialprotection.org hosted the ‘e-vent’, a forum for all those working in the #socialprotection or related field to, informally and anonymously, vent about the shortcomings and opportunities in their work...
UNICEF, along with partners such as the World Bank, European Commission, International Labour Organisation, World Food Programme and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, is increasing their focus on supporting...
© European Union/KM Asad This volume of ten operational notes is a supplement to the Reference Document No 26 on Social Protection across the Humanitarian-Development Nexus. A Game Changer in Supporting People through Crises and...
This Case Study on Kenya summarizes the context and main features of the alignment process of humanitarian assistance and national systems after a macroeconomic shock. Kenya´s rate of urbanisation is outpacing urban infrastructure...
This Case Study on Kenya summarizes the context and main features of the horizontal expansion (ex ante) of social protection programmes in response to slow onset natural disaster (drought). 80% of the land mass and one-third of...
