Social protection can safeguard access to productivity-boosting opportunities

Social protection can safeguard access to productivity-boosting opportunities

Selahattin Selsah Pasali1 & Ermina Sokou2

More than reducing poverty and income inequality, social protection safeguards access to basic opportunities across the life cycle, particularly in times of need. When a household is protected through a social protection scheme, potential loss of income from unemployment, maternity, disability, sickness or old age does not have to upend their standard of living.