Documenting Social Protection Best Practices: Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Management

This paper seeks to further the dialogue between humanitarian actors, development partners and ministries within the government so that there may be a deeper understanding of what constitutes best practices for Social Protection Policies and what steps can be taken to enhance current practices. Social Protection Policies fall under a very wide umbrella that encompasses several different types of schemes and efforts. This paper focuses on the programs that most closely relate to risk reduction and disaster management by the implementation of cash transfer programs. Most particularly, this paper seeks to understand how to improve Social Protection schemes that benefit women and children.