Description
This interactive and facilitated six-week course is designed for anyone interested in learning the basics of social protection and how to apply it through the lens of sustainable development.
Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Demonstrate the need for universal social protection systems for individuals and societies to advance sustainable development
- Grasp the important national-level implications of social protection being a human right
- Recognize the value of and create a culture around social protection as an investment and lever to achieve sustainable development
- Utilize concrete policy steps to design, finance, implement, and deliver nationally appropriate social protection systems
- Identify global trends, tools, and good practices in social protection, particularly in the context of building up individual, household, and national socio-economic and crisis resilience
- Actively advocate for establishing universal, comprehensive, rights-based, and sustainable social protection systems in their country or regional context
Course Contents
Introductory week: What is social protection?
Week 2: Present and Future: Social Protection, Partnerships, and the 2030 Agenda (the “why” and “who”)
Week 3: Key pillars of social protection (the “what”)
Week 4: Designing, financing, and reforming social protection systems (the “how”)
Week 5: Implementing comprehensive social protection systems (the “how”)
Week 6: Looking ahead: global trends and adaptive social protection (the “future”)
Target Audience
Participants will come from various backgrounds and will have different levels of experience with working on social protection. Their work will span civil society, academia, the private sector, mass media, political parties, governments, NGOs, international organizations, donors, social workers, educators, volunteers, and influencers. We are looking for motivated people who do not necessarily have prior knowledge about social protection but who can demonstrate they will use the knowledge gained to benefit others.
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