This online event raised the question of how to bring a system’s approach to live:

• What does it require to move from a set of social protection programmes to an overall social protection system? Why have some countries been successful, and others are lagging behind?
• Does a system’s approach always mean that programmes have to be interlinked and how is this feasible in resource and capacity constrained countries?
• Which social protection programmes can and should be combined? Should they be of the same kind or of different kinds?
• How can different programmes best be co-ordinated and harmonised with each other? Which governance framework is conducive?
• How much and what kind of information do they have to exchange? Is data privacy a concern?
• What are the criteria of a system’s-based approach?

Panellists:

• Chris de Neubourg, Professor at Tilburg University, and Director of Social Policy Research Institute
• Veronika Wodsak, Social Protection Policy Specialist, ILO
• Benson Chisanga, Lecturer, University of Zambia
• Garima Bhalla, Economist and Social Protection Specialist, FAO

Moderator: Esther Schüring, Professor, Bonn Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, and Markus Loewe, Research Team Leader, DIE