Presentation made by Fabio Veras Soares (Research Coordinator) and Mariana Hoffmann (Communications and Outreach Officer), at the Social Protection Inter-Agency Cooperation Board (SPIAC-B) meeting in Brussels. October, 2013

1. Social Protection Interagency Cooperation Board
4th SPIAC-B Meeting,
Brussels, 29 October 2013
“The G20 Social
Protection Knowledge
Sharing Platform”
Fabio Veras Soares,
Research Coordinator,
and
Mariana Hoffmann,
Communication and
Outreach Officer
www.ipc-undp.org

2. Background
In 2011, the G20 Development Working Group (DWG)
recommended the creation of a knowledge sharing
platform on social protection as part of the
recommendations in Pillar 6 (Growth with Resilience)
and Pillar 9 (Knowledge Sharing)
The International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
(IPC-IG) and the Poverty Practice (UNDP/HQ) took
charge in developing the prototype of a knowledge
sharing platform in consultation with the World Bank
and ILO: http://www.socialprotection.org/ and the
financial support from AusAid.
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3. Facilitating South-South learning on social
protection policies
 Challenge: The existing websites and databases
on social protection are institution-centered and not
necessarily integrated in a format that can reach a
broader audience and/or facilitate knowledge
sharing
Target audiences: policymakers, development
practitioners and specialists, with a focus on MICs
and LICs.
 Strategy: unbranded gateway that will gather a set
of comprehensive, updated learning resources on
social protection, promote of key themes in the
south-south policy debate and encourage interactive
engagement
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4. Facilitating South-South learning on social
protection policies
Expected outcomes: 1) Expansion of knowledge about
innovations and current practices related to social
protection; 2) Increase and improvements in cooperation
activities in the area of social protection between LICs and
MICs; 3) Expansion of nationally owned social protection
programmes
Topics: Social Protection areas: Cash Transfers (e.g.
pensions, family/child allowance, CCTs); Food Security
(e.g. school feeding programmes, mother and child nutrition
programmes, smallholder agriculture); Employment
Programmes (e.g. employment guarantee schemes, asset
transfers)
Features: Searchable database with data sources housed
in agencies; Events and Library sections through automated
feeds; Knowledge: section for users to actively share and
exchange knowledge; Links to potential partners websites
and communities of practices.
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5. Why the IPC?
 South-South knowledge exchange is part of the IPC’s
mandate to foster South-South collaboration.
 The IPC-IG has already laid out the groundwork on SouthSouth knowledge-sharing on social protection.
 Worldwide network that can be mobilized and expanded
to further contribute to the gateway, as well as a team of
researchers that with vast experience and knowledge in
different fields of social policies.
 The IPC-IG has disseminated over 850 policy-oriented
research publications; its global network covers 189
countries and reaches out to over 37,000 selected
stakeholders.
 The IPC-IG website receives a monthly average of over
160,000 visits, with visitors from over 170 countries.
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6. Next steps
 Round of consultations and feedback
Partnership building and user engagement
Strategy development for a revamped gateway
Mapping social protection frameworks in the
developing world
Consolidation of advisory board and Management
Team
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7. Thank you for your attention!
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