posted on 2024-09-05, 20:56authored byBrigitte Rohwerder
Leave no one behind is the central, transformative
promise of the Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs), aimed at reaching the poorest and
combating discrimination and (multiple and
intersecting) inequalities that undermine people’s
human rights. The importance of leaving no one
behind is vital in contexts of recurrent shocks,
climate and humanitarian crises, protracted
conflict, and forced displacement that cause
disruption, deprivation, and a lack of access to
basic needs. Crises often exacerbate existing
inequalities and vulnerabilities for socially
excluded and marginalised people, including
women and girls, children and youth, older people,
people with disabilities, ethnic and religious
minorities, and sexual and gender minorities.
Social assistance, in the form of government
provided or humanitarian assistance, seeks to
alleviate crisis impacts. The structures, systems,
and barriers that exclude some people generally
can also exclude them from social assistance in
crises. Such exclusion, both before and during a
crisis, can increase deprivation, reduce resilience
to shocks, and exacerbate protection risks by
increasing people’s vulnerability to exploitation and
abuse. Crises, consequently, can
disproportionately impact marginalised people. A
lack of inclusive social assistance programming
thus undermines rights, ethics, and effectiveness
in crises – as explored in this summary briefing of
the three BASIC Research working papers on
inclusion.
Funding
Default funder
History
Publisher
Institute of Development Studies
Citation
Rohwerder, B. (2022) Inclusion of Marginalised Groups in Social Assistance in Crises, BASIC Research Theme Brief, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, DOI: 10.19088/BASIC.2022.023