Achieving social protection for all through partnerships

Context

Social protection means protecting people against specific risks, such as unemployment, as well as from collective crises such as natural disasters or war. It is a human right and is effective against poverty and inequality. The United Nations 2030 Agenda therefore stipulates that everyone should be covered by social protection. However, this is currently true for around only half of the world’s population.

Germany therefore supports flexible public services which provide social protection for people and strengthen their resilience.

Objective

Global initiatives, alliances and partnerships supporting flexible social protection systems which reduce poverty and social disadvantage.

Approach

Focus of the programme:

1. It further develops the publicly accessible openIMIS software and promulgates its use. This software serves to optimise the management of health and social protection programmes.
2. In addition to this, the programme supports the Digital Convergence Initiative (DCI). It thus promotes the digitalisation and alignment of social protection systems in partner countries across the globe.
3. At the same time, the programme improves financing for social protection. To this end, it supports cross-institutional dialogue to develop strategies. Apart from this, it supports specific countries in linking financing arrangements for climate risks with social protection.
4. The programme develops new approaches to linking bilateral and multilateral development cooperation. To achieve this, it is collaborating with the World Bank and the United Nations to improve the digital backbones of the social protection systems in Rwanda and Uzbekistan.
5. The leadership program ‘Lead the Change for Social Protection’ empowers decision makers in four selected countries to collaboratively shape and advance national social protection reforms.

Last update: February 2025