Webinars by series

African Dialogue on COVID-19 and the Future of Social Protection

To provide a platform for an engaging conversation between African Governments, civil society organizations, and people affected by COVID-19 on how to address critical social protection gaps exposed by the pandemic and progress towards inclusive and rights-based social protection, the African Union, the Africa Social Protection Platform, HelpAge International, WIEGO, Save the Children, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) – Zambia, and the ILO Regional Office for Eastern and Southern Africa organised a virtual dialogue made up of three connected webinars. The conversation revolves around the VOICES of affected populations, the ACTIONS of Governments to expand social protection during COVID-19, and Africa’s VISIONS for social protection as part of an inclusive recovery.

Arab Social Protection Compass. Towards Integrated Approaches for Universal Social Protection

Recognising the wealth of experiences and knowledge across the Arab Region, as well as the potential for learning and exchange of ideas on pursuing integrated approaches for ensuring universal social protection, the ILO Regional Office for the Arab States, in collaboration with the International Social Security Association (ISSA), is launching the Arab Social Protection Compass webinar series.

ASPects – Practice Exchange on ASP

The series, organised by the GIZ Global Program Social Protection Innovation and Learning (SPIL) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), in cooperation with socialprotection.org and other partners, aims at informing the global public policy dialogue on building back better systems and better preparedness for future shocks. Each webinar within the series is dedicated to bringing together practitioners, leading experts, and policy makers to share and exchange perspectives on Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) with a focus on specific practically relevant aspects of one related ASP Building Block (Institutional arrangements and partnerships - Programs - Data and information - Finance).

Asia-Pacific Social Protection Series

The Asia-Pacific Social Protection Webinar Series is one of the main activities ADB and socialprotection.org are promoting to encourage knowledge sharing among practitioners and experts in the region. With this webinar series, the organisers wish to invite participants to learn more about emerging issues of vulnerability in countries in the Asia-Pacific region, particularly related to social protection and new evidence on COVID-19, new technology, demographic shift, climate change and disaster risk management.

BRAC Regional Dialogues: Applying Evidence to Achieve Long-Term Development, Poverty Eradication, and Inclusive Growth

In honor of the 20th Anniversary of BRAC’s Graduation approach and BRAC’s 50th Anniversary‎, BRAC, United Nations Development Programme, BRAC Institute of Governance & Development, and partners will host a Regional Dialogue series with key stakeholders across Africa and Asia to discuss recent research and learnings around effective poverty eradication efforts that promote long-term growth, recovery, and resilience.

Bridging Global and Local Knowledge for Universal Social Protection

The 2023-25 Irish Aid/ILO Partnership Regional Programme on “Accelerating the Achievement of Universal Social Protection to Leave No-one Behind” aims to expand social protection systems in Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and Vietnam. It serves as a hub for learning, coordination and sharing experiences and practices across regions and the Global South. The partnership goal is to speed up the implementation of universal social protection through broadening social protection reach, promoting sustainable financing and national dialogues aimed at addressing the gaps in social protection coverage through shaping policies and strategies.

Child Allowance Series

This webinar series presented first-hand insights into the design and implementation of child allowance programmes and child-sensitive social protection. Each webinar provided an overview of a country’s experiences with child grants and their impacts.

CoP-SSC4C Webinar Series

The goal of the CoP-SSSC4C webinar series is to showcase good practices of South-South triangular cooperation (SSTC). These webinars bring together practitioners, experts, partners and people from different sectors who promote SSTC with a focus on advancing the rights and promoting the welfare of children. The Online Community of Practice on South-South Cooperation for Children, which was jointly created by UNICEF, the IPC-IG and UNOSSC, gathers all information related to this webinar series and promotes further discussions on the topic.

Country dialogue
on Social protection

The main focus of this webinar series is to share country cases on the design and implementation of social protection policies and programmes to promote social development and poverty reduction. It features experiences of cash transfers, productive inclusion and access to services from Brazil, Mali and Chile. This series was launched as part of the Brazil Learning Initiative for a World without Poverty (WWP).

Disability inclusive social protection

COVID-19 has highlighted the inequality gaps and disempowering structures in all societies, drawing attention to the reality that persons with a disability, in particular, have been living at the intersection of poverty and exclusion for too long. Disability specific expenditures related to essentials such as assistive devices and increased transportation costs are rarely accounted for in social protection responses. The barriers faced by persons with a disability to accessing education, employment, and services in line with the general community, also generate extra costs for them. In each webinar our guest speakers talk about the gaps, the barriers and the opportunities they are seeing to the full inclusion of persons with a disability in social protection responses and accessing services, to ensure their full, dignified and effective participation and inclusion globally.

Economic inclusion
learning series

These webinars are based on country experiences from around the world, presented, moderated and discussed by seasoned experts from the domain of economic inclusion. The main objective of the series is to promote peer-to-peer learning regarding the diverse experiences of countries that are scaling up economic inclusion programmes.

Empowering Change: Gender-responsive and Inclusive Social Protection Approaches for All

Gender-responsive and inclusive social protection is a powerful tool for poverty reduction and empowerment. In this series of thematic webinars delivered by STAAR, we will explore how, why, and where to implement gender-responsive and inclusive social protection systems, drawing on global evidence, emerging research and lessons learned. The series will focus on the following areas: providing flexible and responsive Technical Assistance to strengthen gender-responsive and inclusive social protection systems; designing LGBT+-inclusive social protection; linking social protection with economic programming to support rural women’s economic empowerment; and social protection for gender-responsive and disability-inclusive climate action in rural settings. While the webinar series is deep diving into specific themes, STAAR has also produced accessible guidance that covers the fundamentals of gender-responsive social protection, which can be accessed here..

EU-SPS Series

The European Union Social Protection Systems Programme (EU-SPS) was a European Union initiative co-financed by the OECD and the Government of Finland, which supported low- and middle-income countries in building sustainable and inclusive social protection systems. It worked in cooperation with national and regional social protection authorities, think-tanks and expert institutions in 10 countries. This related webinar series, organised by GIZ, focuses on strengthening social protection systems to address chronic issues such as shock-responsiveness and health care provision and financing.

Fiscal space for social protection: knowledge
sharing initiative

The growing interest in social protection measures has come at a time of global economic slowdown. This has created a strong need for more evidence-based research and knowledge-sharing opportunities in the area of financing social protection. The IPC-IG, together with HelpAge International, developed this webinar series to contribute to these efforts towards fiscally sustainable social protection systems.

Gender-Senstitive Social Protection Series

Can social protection contribute to gender equality and women’s empowerment? The webinars in the Gender-sensitive social protection series promote the work of specialists and practitioners contributing to equality and women’s economic empowerment. The aim is to create interest among experts, as well as the general public, and to facilitate collaboration among professionals working with this important topic.

Improving Synergies between Social Protection and Public Finance Management

Funded by the European Union (EU) and implemented jointly by the International Labour Organization (ILO), UNICEF, and the Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors (GCSPF), the Social Protection and Public Finance Management Programme (SP&PFM Programme) is organizing a series of webinars. The sessions aim to showcase country experiences and contribute to the international debate on innovative solutions to increase financing and improve PFM for strengthening national social protection systems to achieve universal coverage for all.

Interoperability in Action

The "Interoperability in Action" series is organised by the Digital Convergence Initiative (DCI) for the development and consensus building on standards for integrated social protection information systems. These workshops are a forum to exchange use cases, interfaces, and experiences regarding the interoperability of systems through the use case scenarios and technical demonstration in a controlled environment. Each session brings together social protection practitioners and information technology experts, highlighting a specific system interoperability capability scenario with Social Protection Management Information System (SP-MIS).

ISPA Tool Series

The ISPA Tools are a set of practical tools designed to help countries improve their social protection systems by analysing their strengths and weaknesses and offering options for further action. These webinars, organised by the ISPA Coordination Team, aim to introduce these tools, as well as their uses and implementation in specific countries.

Linking Social Protection to Sustainable Employment

Policy makers are increasingly looking at the contribution of social protection programmes to promote livelihoods and assist poor and vulnerable people in accessing jobs in the formal and informal sectors. These webinars explore different programmes worldwide that are creating short- or long-term employment opportunities, as well as producing multiplier effects on local economic development by increasing demand for labour and for goods and services. This series is organised by the Social Protection for Employment Community (SPEC).

Linking Social Protection with humanitarian cash sharing initiative

The series is organised by the Grand Bargain Cash Subgroup, co-led by IFRC, UNICEF and DFID, to link social protection with humanitarian actors by exploring the connections between the two agendas and the design and implementation of Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA).

Models of Psychosocial Intervention for Migrants, Refugees and Displaced Persons


Organised jointly by GIZ and the Iniciativa Ciudadana para la Promoción de la Cultura del Diálogo, this webinar series presents best practices in attending to the migrant, refugee and displaced populations.

Pathways to Inclusive Social Protection

The two-part webinar series, ‘Pathways to Inclusive Social Protection,’ organised by the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in partnership with UNICEF and hosted by socialprotection.org, explores how inclusive and gender-responsive social protection systems can be designed to support those most at risk of exclusion and insecurity. Rooted in the Asia-Pacific context, but offering globally relevant insights, and guided by GEDSI (Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion) principles, the series highlights integrated, people-centred approaches that address barriers faced by persons with disabilities, women, and other marginalized groups.

Policy Dialogue Series

The Policy Dialogue Series gathers members of the USP2030 Working Group on Social Protection and Food Systems Transformation and guests to regularly discuss how to strengthen the linkages and synergies between social protection and food systems. Each session is structured around a single central topic proposed in advance by a WG member/organization and is underpinned by three unifying parameters: the Evidence, the Framework, and the Practice. Sessions comprise two components: (1) A publicly accessible webinar and discussion facilitated using the socialprotection.org platform; and 2) An expert discussion session among WG members and key stakeholders to synthesize learnings. The Series allows members of the WG to share insights, gain perspectives, and synthesize evidence, thus encouraging multisectoral and interagency dialogue on nutrition-sensitive social protection and contributing to an overarching framework for strengthening policy and practice in this domain.

Public Works in a Changing Geopolitical and Climate Context: Lessons for the Future

The three part series will explore critical contemporary issues in public works programming. Each of the three webinars will take as their starting point a new publication from the ILO, ODI/SPARC, and the World Bank respectively, that critically examines issues relating to policy, design, political economy, evaluation, impact and innovation, exploring the key challenges PWP need to address if they are to play a significant role in social protection provision in a context of geopolitical, macroeconomic and environmental disruption. The webinars will bring together actors working on public works from different agencies, and different sectors - social protection, employment, rural livelihoods and the environment - and discussants will include practitioners working on programme implementation at country level. The series aims to promote dialogue and reflection, in order to identify lessons for more effective future programme design and implementation.

Rethinking Social Protection: Inclusive, Adaptive, and Future-Ready Systems

This eight-part webinar series will explore the current state and evolving landscape of social protection systems in Asia and the Pacific. It will highlight both the innovations and challenges faced by these systems, offering practical insights and solutions. The discussions will focus on how social protection systems are adapting to meet new and emerging challenges, as well as the strategies and approaches being implemented to strengthen and enhance these systems..

Shock-responsive Social Protection Series

Speakers unpack the concept of shock-responsive social protection in these sessions as they discuss regional and country experiences. This series was organised by OPM to present the linkages between social protection systems and humanitarian interventions.

Social accountability Series

'Social accountability' refers to the steps that governments can take to improve the participation of benefit recipients and broader civil society in accountability initiatives, and the steps they can take to hold governments accountable for the delivery of social protection. This is a three-part webinar series focused on social accountability in the delivery of social protection.

Social Protection and Gender Equality Series

If appropriately designed and implemented, social protection policies and systems play a critical role in transforming the lives of women and girls. This webinar series, organised by the ODI and DFID ahead of the 63rd Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63), focuses on the theme of “social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls”.

Social Protection Approaches in Crisis Series

TAAR and BASIC Research are delivering a series of thematic webinars to jointly explore how, why and when to use social protection approaches in contexts of crisis. Drawing on emerging learning and research findings from both programmes, the following topics will be explored: Climate and shock-responsive social protection; Conflict-affected contexts; Gender-responsive social protection in crises; The role of localisation in delivering more effective social protection in crises

Social Protection for Prevention of and Response to Gender-Based Violence (GBV)

DFAT, in collaboration with FCDO, UNICEF, and STAAR, and with the support from the socialprotection.org platform, is organising a webinar and podcasts series on gender-based violence entitled ‘Social Protection for Prevention of and Response to Gender-Based Violence (GBV)’. This series will take place from February to May 2023 and will explore how social protection can both mitigate against gender-based violence over the life course providing a protective measure, ensure that delivery chains have been assessed for and address safeguarding risks and support survivors of violence meet their immediate needs.

Social Protection in South Asia

In 2019 the IPC-IG, UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA), and Country Offices worked together to undertake a comparative overview and analysis of important dimensions to assess social protection systems in South Asia. Given the COVID-19 crisis and the many responses created to mitigate its impacts, the presentation of pre-COVID analysis will benefit from an additional agenda: snapshots on how the pre-COVID-19 social protection landscape is being modified by the ongoing crisis, what responses are being planned, and what are the prospects for the ‘new normal’ of social protection setups going forward.

Social Protection in the
MENA region

This webinar series is a result of the "Social Protection Knowledge Generation and Policy Analysis in MENA" project, a partnership between the IPC-IG and UNICEF MENARO. These webinars address different aspects of social protection provision in the Middle East and North Africa, following a number of social protection reforms seen across the region.

Social protection response to COVID-19 Webinar Series

This series is designed to explore the role of social protection in responding to the COVID-19 crisis. During these sessions, social protection experts discuss how countries around the world are reacting to the impacts of the pandemic through social protection actions, by exploring different experiences and addressing key issues related to universal social protection, informality, unemployment, old-age care, universal health coverage, adaptive social protection, gender-responsive social protection, food security, among others.

Social protection to promote gender equality and to reduce other socio-economic inequities

Social protection was the priority theme both at the CSocD57 and at the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63) 2019. In anticipation of these major events, the EU-SPS, UNDESA and THL jointly organised this webinar series to enhance the mutual coordination and synergies towards the social protection agenda between actors from Africa and Europe engaged with social development and, specifically, with gender equality.

Social Registries Series

Jointly organised by DFAT and OPM, this webinar series addresses the integration of data and information management for social protection. Variations of components, roles and functions of social protection information systems are widely explored by showcasing different experiences on this highly technical topic.

Talking interoperability - Dialogue Series

The "Talking interoperability" dialogue series is organised by the Digital Convergence Initiative (DCI). These meetings aim to facilitate in-depth technical conversations around designing for interoperability in the social protection sector. By bringing together digital social protection and technology experts from government agencies, software vendors, system integrators and international organisations, they aim to promote peer-based learning and problem solving.

The Brazilian experience on Social Protection Programmes Series

This webinar series promotes country dialogues around concrete experiences regarding the implementation of anti-poverty social assistance. The experiences of Brazil, Colombia, Senegal and Mexico were shared throughout four webinars.

The State of Social Assistance in Africa

With this webinar series, the UNDP invites participants to learn more about the situation of social assistance in African countries, looking in particular at legal frameworks, and the institutionalisation and financing of social assistance. The series presents findings on these three foundational aspects of social assistance, drawing on the publication “The State of Social Assistance in Africa” and its accompanying data platform. The publication was developed by the UNDP in partnership with the African Union and in collaboration with ILO, UNECA and UNICEF.

THRive - Strengthening Nutrition Delivery through Take-Home Rations

The Take-Home Ration (THR) component of India’s Supplementary Nutrition Programme under POSHAN 2.0 and Saksham Anganwadi is a key intervention aimed at improving the nutrition of children under three, pregnant women, and lactating mothers. Rooted in the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme, which was expanded in 2008–09 to establish 1.4 million Anganwadi Centres (AWCs), THR has progressively evolved to meet nutritional standards. In recent years, the Ministry of Women and Child Development has introduced guidelines to fortify THR with essential micronutrients and, as of April 2025, limit the use of added sugars, salts, preservatives, and synthetic additives to enhance dietary quality. With updated norms under the National Food Security Act and POSHAN 2.0, there is a growing need to assess current THR practices and develop effective, cost-efficient state-level models that ensure alignment with these revised standards.

Towards inclusive social protection systems: participation and inclusion of persons with disabilities

This webinar series is organized as an introduction to the guidance note on building more inclusive social protection systems. It addresses several issues regarding the core functions of the social protection system for people with disabilities, namely ensuring income security, coverage of disability related extra cost and access to needed services, in particular health care as well as care and support services.

Universal Health
Coverage Series

Many countries strive to provide universal health care, while facing the challenge of establishing a transparent and efficient decision-making process. This can create significant inefficiencies and access barriers to patients. These webinars, organised by GIZ, aim to showcase best practices in handling these challenges.

USP2030 Series

This webinar series gathered different stakeholders to discuss key topics involving universal social protection programmes and policies, and share reports on the current status, challenges and opportunities. The USP2030 webinar series was organised by the socialprotection.org team, in collaboration with the IPC-IG.

Webinar Series on Early Childhood Development

This series aims to promote the exchange of knowledge, experiences, and lessons learned in the implementation of policies, strategies and social protection interventions designed to reach families and children from an early stage. The experiences shared in this webinar focus mainly on the coordination and implementation of programmes at the local level.