BASIC Research: Recent submissions
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Shock-Responsive Social Protection: What is Known About What Works in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations?
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-03)While shock-responsive social protection (SRSP) has become popular in global and national development discourses, its operationalisation in fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCAS) remains more limited, yet it is ... -
Beyond Rights-Based Social Protection for Forcibly Displaced People
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02)Having a right that is not respected is not the same as having no right at all. At least this should not be the case. Failure to receive something to which you are entitled should lead to formal redress or failing that, ... -
Climate Resilience and Social Assistance in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings
(IDS, 2022-02)This paper aims to improve our understanding of the nature, causes, and multiple dimensions of how social assistance may address climate vulnerability and resilience within fragile and conflict-affected settings (FCAS), ... -
Cash and Livelihoods in Contexts of Conflict and Fragility: Implications for Social Assistance Programming
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02)This paper examines the role of cash-plus programming (including graduation) for livelihoods, income, protection, and health outcomes in contexts of different conflict intensity. We assess the origins of cash-plus programming ... -
The Risks and Outcomes of Getting Help for Marginalised People: Navigating Access to Social Assistance in Crises
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02)Crises exacerbate existing inequalities and vulnerabilities for marginalised people, including women and girls, children and youth, older people, people with disabilities, ethnic and religious minorities, and sexual and ... -
Politics and Governance of Social Assistance in Crises From the Bottom Up
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02)This paper reviews existing perspectives on the politics and governance of social assistance in crises from the bottom up – from sub-national regions (or states/provinces) down to districts, sub-districts, towns, and ... -
Risks, Accountability and Technology Thematic Working Paper
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02)Aid agencies, governments, and donors are expanding investment in digitisation of their beneficiary identification and registration systems, and remote and algorithmic control of humanitarian and social protection programmes. ... -
Capacity and Coordination Challenges for Social Assistance in Crisis Situations
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02)The terms ‘capacity’ and ‘coordination’ feature consistently in literature on humanitarian cash transfers and social protection. Multiple international agency projects and initiatives seek to build or strengthen both. Yet, ... -
Displacement and Social Assistance
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02)Displacement forms part of virtually any major crisis. It introduces a level of complexity when providing social assistance that leads to a specific, usually context-dependent set of challenges. It is widely recognised ... -
Cash and Livelihoods in Contexts of Conflict and Fragility
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02)Multiple efforts have been made in recent years to introduce cash transfers augmented by livelihood support (‘cash-plus’) into protracted crisis contexts to support lives and livelihoods. Yet, little learning has been ... -
Social Assistance and Climate Resilience in Fragile and Conflict-affected Settings
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02)This brief gives an overview of the evidence, gaps and future directions for social assistance and climate resilience, with a particular focus on FCAS. Drawing on a recent literature review, we examine existing debates and ... -
Accountability in Crises: Connecting Evidence From Humanitarian and Social Protection Approaches to Social Assistance
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02)Social assistance in crises, whether part of a social protection system or driven by humanitarian needs, provides crucial support to people affected by disaster and conflict. Accountability is a central component ... -
Managing the Risk and Benefits of Digital Technologies in Social Assistance Provision
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02)Aid agencies, governments, and donors are expanding investment in the digitisation of their beneficiary identification and registration systems, in digitised systems for cash payments, and in the remote and algorithmic ... -
The Politics of Social Assistance in Crises
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02)Social protection policies increasingly exist in crisis-affected settings. Their implementation is mediated by politics, resource constraints, and the attitudes and beliefs of those responsible for shaping policy. However, ... -
Inclusion of Marginalised Groups in Social Assistance in Crises
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02)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 ... -
Value For Money of Social Assistance in FCAS: Considerations, Evidence, and Research Priorities
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02)Value for Money (VfM) is an essential tool for balancing difficult policy and programme decisions and the trade-offs between the ‘5 Es’ of economy, efficiency, effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and equity. While many ... -
Financing Social Assistance in Crisis Situations
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02)Protracted crises are increasing and becoming compounded, but financing solutions for humanitarian and social assistance in fragile and conflict-affected settings (FCAS) are not keeping up. UN consolidated ... -
Targeting Social Assistance in Protracted Crises
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02)This brief highlights a number of targeting considerations that are unique to, or intensified by, contexts of protracted crises. We showcase the state of the evidence and debate, gaps in the knowledge, and directions ... -
Social Assistance Systems in Crisis Situations: Resilient, Responsive and Sensitive?
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02)Evidence on what enables social assistance systems to deliver routinely, effectively and efficiently is limited in crisis situations. Shock-responsive social protection (SRSP) and adaptive social protection (ASP) have ... -
Country Reviews of Social Assistance in Crises: A Compendium of Rapid Assessments of the Nexus Between Social Protection and Humanitarian Assistance in Crisis Settings
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-06)This collection brings together brief overviews of the social assistance landscape in eight fragile and conflict-affected settings in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East: Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, ...