81286881-Expert Pool for Technical Advisory on (Digital) Adaptive Social Protection

With coordination offices on three continents, GIZ"s Social Protection Innovation and Learning (SPIL) global programme facilitates cross-border knowledge exchange and global learning about adaptive social protection (ASP). This aims to improve the resilience of social protection systems with regard to large-scale shocks and crises. The programme brings together social protection with disaster-risk management and climate-change adaptation, collaborating with a series of national, multilateral and international partners. Amongst them are the World Bank, the Partnership of Economic Inclusion (PEI), the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the World Food Programme (WFP). It also implements a variety of exchange formats, with a view to scaling up innovations and consolidating social protection systems in partner countries. The aim is to achieve this via three interrelated areas of action. These are, firstly, global knowledge exchange, which is fostered through high-profile public events that target development and government decision-makers. Secondly, focussed specialist workshops, which are organised to expand the conceptual boundaries of ASP and thirdly, their discoveries, which feed into the global exchange and into operationalising ASP at country level. Besides its regular activities to promote global exchange and learning, the programme sets out to implement country packages in selected countries to support the implementation of social protection strategies in partner countries. This will take place in the form of a complementary technical assistance (TA) facility to build and implement social protection systems (including social assistance and social insurance schemes) that are adaptive and responsive to shocks in the long-term. The intervention in countries builds on a strategic partnership with the World Bank by linking German TA programmes with IDA (International Development Association) social protection investments to enhance the impact of investments on systems strengthening and donor coordination. The current intervention focuses on Rwanda and Uzbekistan and might be extended as part of a next project phase. The country components will be complemented by a global component that implements knowledge exchange and targeted innovation support. It includes the provision of specialized expertise such as on standard setting e.g. in the digital sphere (interoperability, data protection) and links to existing work packages on the global level such as knowledge exchange with bi- and multilateral social protection programmes.