The need for social protection increases manifold during crises, especially those with an extraordinary magnitude such as the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused soaring unemployment, poverty and food insecurity in 2020, hitting women, young people and workers in the informal sector particularly hard in the Arab region.
On 25 February, ESCWA organized a virtual workshop on “Targeted Social Protection in Arab Countries during COVID-19” to discuss the implications of Arab States’ responses to the pandemic for their social protection systems.
Participants assessed the readiness of those systems to withstand pandemic pressure and revealed gaps. They proposed medium- and long-term reforms to improve social protection systems, based on the lessons learned during the past year.
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2 Mar 2021
Targeted social protection in Arab countries during COVID-19
