Linking Nepal’s social protection programs with anticipatory action
This report and its brief present the learnings from a workshop organized in the context of a project aiming to link social protection programs (SPP) and anticipatory action (AA) in Nepal. As an auxiliary to the Government of Nepal, Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS) has been supporting in overall disaster management (DM), now particularly to integrate Anticipatory Action (AA) into the DM cycle. NRCS has been exploring different ways of linking SPP and AA with the assumption that:
- this can improve time and cost efficiency as existing systems are utilized to take early actions.
- and ensure sustainability of AA as SPPs are already institutionalized.
In Nepal, Social Protection Programs are designed at either federal, provincial, or local level. While larger programs such as Social Security Allowance, Prime Minister Employment Program, Mother Program etc. are designed and financed by the federal level, programs such as Bank account for daughters - lifelong security and the Disaster Risk Insurance are Provincial government programs. Leveraging federal SPPs with humanitarian assistance can provide a way to reach a large-scale disaster that affects across districts and regions, however, there is a potential to tap into the provincial and local level programs to aid with disasters with local impacts.
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