E-Coaching on Social Protection: Towards Responsive Systems

7 September - 4 December 2020 As governments around the world have taken urgent action to save lives and protect livelihoods from the COVID-19 pandemic, leveraging, adapting or introducing new social protection measures have been central to country immediate and medium-term responses. With one in two people in the world not benefiting from any form of social protection, this is an unprecedented challenge. Drawing on the ILO's knowledge and expertise, this e-Learning program offers you the opportunity to further strengthen your competences on social protection in the context of the global emergency, learn about best practices and get on the job technical support through e-coaching. As a result, you will be able to devise more responsive and sustainable social protection interventions to help your country weather the current health crisis and mitigate the longer-term social and economic impacts on the most vulnerable groups. OBJECTIVES Through this training, participants should have acquired the knowledge to: • Understand key principles, concepts and challenges to update and enhance social protection competences within the framework of the unfolding crisis • Review and analyse best practices in country responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and how they might apply to your own context • Apply learning to context by conducting a needs assessment to identify possible social protection interventions and coverage gaps • Undertake a social protection policy analysis and formulate evidence-based recommendations to increase the effectiveness of your social protection system • Develop a responsive social protection intervention with support from sector experts through dedicated distance coaching sessions CONTENT The E-Coaching on Social Protection: Toward Responsive Systems consisted of 60 hours of learning over a period of 12 weeks, structured as follows: • Phase 1 - Social Protection fundamentals in light of COVID-19 • Phase 2 – Best practices and lessons learned • Phase 3 - Contextual analysis and responses • Phase 4 – On the job e-coaching ACHIEVEMENT The assessment structure included the following elements: • Individual assignments (30%) • Final assignment (50%) • Interaction and sharing (20%)