International Workshop - Making social protection work for pro-poor disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

The aim of the workshop will be to engage development policy-makers and practitioners in a dialogue on how social protection can be used to help poor and vulnerable people adapt to climate variability and change in developing countries. It will address the following issues:

- Delivering adaptation: using social protection to deliver disaster risk reduction (DRR) and adaptation assistance to poor and vulnerable people
- Spreading risk: using social protection to spread livelihoods risk as a mechanism for long-term climate adaptation
- Supporting graduation: ensuring social protection supports graduation from social protection systems in a changing climate

The geographical focus of the workshop will be south Asia and east Africa, although projects and initiatives from other regions of the world will also be featured. Social protection in both urban and rural areas will be considered.