This project aimed to establish a comprehensive country-based social protection knowledge foundation, which enables the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) to provide qualified policy advice and technical support to the ESCWA Member States with their social protection reform objectives. More specifically, the template produced, and the process undertaken is meant to enable and facilitate cross-country knowledge exchange for the Group of Experts on Social Protection Reforms (GESPR, who will serve as the country focal points for the ESCWA process) but also for their peer-to-peer learning on relevant policy/design, delivery mechanism, social protection financing and organizational set-up issues. To this end, IPC-IG collaborated with ESCWA to develop a highly user-friendly, self-explanatory template providing ESCWA Member States’ government entities hands-on guidance to produce comprehensive social protection systems and reforms country profiles´ reports.

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)

Middle East and North Africa

Algeria , Bahrain , Egypt , Iraq , Jordan , Kuwait , Lebanon , Libya , Mauritania , Morocco , Oman , Qatar , Saudi Arabia , Somalia , Sudan , Syria , Tunisia , United Arab Emirates , Yemen

Knowledge Production

Social Protection

SDG 1 - No Poverty

Template and training 

In colaboration with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), the IPC-IG developed a template for elaborating comprehensive social protection systems and reforms country profile reports. The IPC-IG also provided a presentation of the template for the ESCWA project team members and an introductory training session on how to use the template. 

1. Template including the core aspects of a comprehensive social protection systems and reforms country profile, providing sufficient guiding information on how to produce country profile reports highlighting findings, gaps and strengths of the social protection system.

2. Presentation for the project team members on how to use the template, provided by the template´s authors.