Can social protection help deliver pro-poor disaster risk reduction and

climate change adaptation?Lawrence Haddad

Institute of Development StudiesAddis workshop, March 14-17, 2011

Social protection

Helping poor households manage

risk

Disaster Risk Reduction

Reduce risk exposure, improve

preparedness to respond

Climate Change Adaptation

Helping poor households adapt to

changing climatePotential for synergy

Leveraging the performance of different risk management approaches

Social protection performance improves: weak interactions

Social protection performance improves: strong interactions

Social protection

Development economics

Disaster Risk Reduction

Physical sciences and social

development

Climate Change Adaptation

Social development and physical sciencesDisciplines

Social protection

Ad hoc multilateral and bilateral funds

Disaster Risk Reduction

Coordinated international

funds

Climate Change Adaptation

Coordinated international

fundsFunding

Social protection

Ad hoc multilateral and bilateral funds

Disaster Risk Reduction

Coordinated international

funds

Climate Change Adaptation

Coordinated international

funds

But it is not impossible to integrate the 3 approaches

124 agricultural

projects from South

Asia

How do we make the benefits outweigh the costs?

benefits

costs

Enablers?• Simplify the jargon!• Support learning platforms that bring the tribes together

(theme 2)• Find ways to allow cross-sector working: sharing,

coordinating, integrating (theme 1)• Demonstrate the value added of integration through

impact analyses – average and distribution (theme 4)• Understand the factors behind the successes (e.g. attitudes

to uncertainty, theme 3)• Pool donor and government funding streams (theme 1)• Embed in university training• People manage high levels of everyday risk without

knowing “SP, DRR & CAA” – learn from everyday experiences

Thank you