E-coaching on Social Protection

As countries across the world are recovering from the social and economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, while dealing with other external pressures including climate change and the cost of living crisis, social protection remains high on the agenda. Drawing on the knowledge and expertise of a broad partnership, the course offered the opportunity to hone important competences in social protection to face a disruptive environment. It presented emerging good practices, the latest debates and state of the art analysis as well as getting on-the-job, customised e-coaching. The course focused on devising, implementing and managing more responsive social protection systems and interventions in each individual context. OBJECTIVES Through this training participants will: - Understand key principles, concepts and challenges to update and enhance social protection competences within the framework of the unfolding polycrisis; - Review and analyse best practices in country responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and other covariate shocks - Conduct 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 through dedicated distance coaching sessions. CONTENT - Social protection fundamentals: principles, concepts and challenges in developing and implementing responsive social protection interventions in the current context; - Lessons from social protection responses to ongoing emergencies: getting real time data and information from experts and a global network of social protection professionals; - Best practices and lessons learned: exploring and analysing the most innovative, effective and sustainable measures currently implemented around the world; - High-quality ‘real time’ online tuition: get access to social protection technical experts and sector specialists through asynchronous and synchronous online tuition; - Focus on a specific area of work: select a specific area of work depending on your needs and context from a range of interventions including social health protection, contributory and non-contributory schemes and responses; - On the job technical support: provided through tailored one to one e-coaching by technical experts NUMBER OF HOURS: The training on Social Security consisted of 60 learning hours over a period of 13 weeks.