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Session: Scaling Up Social Safety Nets in Response to Disasters: The Critical Role of National Programs

Related Event

  • Understanding Risk & Finance Conference

Related Countries

  • Ethiopia

Related Regions

  • Sub-Saharan Africa

Event Summary

Session Lead

  • Berhanu Woldemichael, Director, Food Security Coordination Directorate, Ethiopia

Speakers

  • Martin John Owor, Commissioner, Disaster Preparedness and Management, Uganda
  • Sunya Orre Morongei, Director of Technical Services of National Drought Management
  • Liz Drake, Section Head Social Protection, Emergencies & Resilience, Senior Poverty, Hunger
  • Massimo La Rosa, ECHO office in Nairobi, European Union

Description

Scalable social safety nets can provide rapid, transparent financial support to targeted populations immediately following a shock. This session will explore the innovative work on scalable safety nets going on in several African countries. It highlighted the design and financing of such mechanisms, and discuss how they fit into the broader vision for disaster response in Africa.

Country perspectives from Berhanu Woldemichael, Martin John Owor, and Sunya Orre Morongei were followed by a discussion moderated by Berhanu Woldemichael.

Session Resources

  • Scaling Up Social Safety Nets Powerpoint
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