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African countries have battled diverse shocks spanning multiple dimensions in recent decades, including health, political, economic, social, and climatic incidents.

Crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of the conflict in Ukraine not only exposed the continent¡¯s vulnerability to shocks, but thrust more people into a vicious cycle of hunger, malnutrition, and vulnerability.

Social protection, as a key tool to advance nutrition and resilience in Africa, can address food security and nutrition, while building sustainable development, combating poverty and ensuring effective access to social security for the whole population. It is the cornerstone of policies that seek to reduce poverty and address vulnerability through interventions that help individuals or households to meet essential needs and manage risks. It can also help people attain their food and nutrition and contribute to supporting household income and domestic consumption needs, by increasing families¡¯ purchasing power and therefore access to nutritious food, as well as by relieving the negative impact of shocks and stressors that affect the consumption of healthy diets. It is a powerful tool to prevent and recover from economic crises, natural disasters, and conflicts and can also help to combat inequalities, which are frequently intersected with malnutrition. This has the potential to foster human capital development, social cohesion, and inclusive economic growth.

Comprehensively designed, universal, and carefully implemented social protection systems represent investments in human capital development and are an important part of the solution to reaching multiple development objectives simultaneously, in alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is particularly in relation to goals 1 and 2 of both the SDGs and the African Union Agenda 2063.

Well-designed and implemented social protection systems, schemes and programmes have demonstrated the positive effects on people¡¯s well-being and livelihoods, including on food security, nutrition, health, resilience, gender equality, economic inclusion, decent work, natural resource management and climate change adaptation and mitigation.

This webinar is an interactive panel discussion that presents an opportunity to share best practices and discuss barriers and opportunities to improve social protection on the continent.

Join experts as they share ideas and craft recommendations that contribute to better social protection in Africa.