Social Protection for Employment Community (SPEC) promotes South-South learning on approaches and evidence on linking social protection to employment. The community was born out of an international workshop titled South-South Knowledge Exchange Forum on Linking Social Protection with Employment Opportunities held in Jakarta in 2016, attended by representatives from 20 countries. Since then, the community has hosted webinars, developed a knowledge repository and published a number of materials.

Key Publications:

• Linking Social Protection to Sustainable Employment: Current Practices and Future Directions . This report presents the potentials, challenges and case studies on linking social protection to employment. The report draws on South-South Knowledge Collaboration (workshop): Designing and Implementing Social Protection Programs for Employment, held in Manila, the Philippines in 2017.
• Resource Matrix provides easy access to over 200 publications on social protection for employment.

Webinars organised by SPEC with various partners:

• Integrating the graduation approach with government social protection and employment generation programs
• Seeking Economic Inclusion for Refugees: A Case Study of the Graduation Approach in Ecuador
• Social protection and the Changing Labour Market: Finding the Missing Links
• Harvesting Child Nutritional Gains through the Graduation Approach: Results from Randomised Control Trial on BRAC’s Targeting the Ultra Poor (TUP) Program
• PROSPERA Social Inclusion Program Mexico: The role of evaluation
• Chile's Intersectoral Social Protection System and its Familia Program
• BRAC's Ultra-Poor Graduation Approach: Evidence, Innovations, and Intersection with Social Protection 
• Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) of Philippines: Linking Cash Transfer to Sustainable Livelihood Development
• Impact of COVID-19 on public works programs: Policy options in the short and medium term
• Economic inclusion and COVID-19 response
• Economic inclusion and the National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) Jeevika
• The adaptive social protection program in Sahel
  

Feel free to reach out to our team at fazley.mahmud@socialprotectionhub.org, february.curry@giz.de, maya.ryandita@socialprotectionhub.org