Boosting the impact of social protection

Abstract

With the aim of eradicating poverty and hunger, FAO provides countries with evidence-based policy support to design social protection programmes that are nutrition-sensitive, risk-informed and shock-responsive, and advocates to expand social protection coverage to poor and vulnerable rural people. FAO, together with its main partner UNICEF, has been generating evidence on the productive impacts of social protection in rural areas and supporting the design of broader rural development strategies that combine social protection programmes and agricultural interventions. This flyer presents success stories from Zambia and Lesotho, showing how social protection can change the life of rural people, lifting them out of poverty and hunegr.