13-17 August 2023
Workshop

TRANSFORM for social protection human capacity building in Yemen

Location
  • Coral Hotel, Aden, Yemen
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ESCWA and UNICEF, following a request for technical assistance from the Yemeni Social Welfare Fund, are jointly planning a training workshop on Social Protection (TRANSFORM). The aim is to support the reform efforts in building a modern and inclusive social protection system in Yemen.

TRANSFORM is a capacity-building initiative on the administration of social protection floors for practitioners in the Arab and African regions, with a focus on non-contributory social assistance. Through the facilitation of a team of Arabic TRANSFORM Certified Trainers, the TRANSFORM training targets a group of key staff at the Yemeni Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour, the Social Welfare Fund, and officials from other line ministries working on social protection. 

Outcome document

Curriculum highlights

The sessions below were identified as of being utmost importance to participants:

  1. Social Protection terminologies activity on Day 1
  2. Theory of Change scenario development on Day 1
  3. Introduction to social protection life cycle on Day 1
  4. General overview of social protection administration on Day 2
  5. Monitoring and evaluation lecture on Day 3; and
  6. Financial administration of social protection on Day 4.

Participants feedback

Participants indicated that they could have benefited from more in-depth discussion on the following topics:

  1. social protection concepts inclusive of contributory and non-contributory assistance
  2. selection policies and social protection administration information systems
  3. the integration of more examples into the monitoring and evaluation lecture
  4. shock responsive social protection systems; and

referring to country examples comparative to the Yemeni context. 

The participants provided some recommendations for strengthening future TRANSFORM applications that include:

Meetings with the in-country team beforehand and sharing documents on the country context were extremely helpful with MT preparation. If time allows, it would be good if the country lead person went through curriculum materials and slides to make suggestions about how to tweak certain elements or identify areas that require either in-depth or light-touch discussion over the five days.

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