A database of 98 climate-relevant social protection programs in emerging and developing economies

Published: 18 October 2024| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/bsbj9fbgyy.1
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Description

The database maps the integration of climate considerations in social protection programs in emerging and developing economies. Using a mixed-methods approach, we identified 98 climate-relevant social protection programs and collected data on over 70 variables related to their scope and climate relevance at policy, design, and implementation level. The database might periodically be revised to improve the data points for each program (including referencing, coding, etc.). We do not intend to add new programs to it. Please ensure to download and cite the latest version of the database available in this page for the most up-to-date and precise data. We encourage researchers and practitioners to use the database in building a more comprehensive understanding of climate-relevant social protection programs worldwide.

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Methodology for data collection is described in detail in: Costella et al., (2024). Mapping the integration of climate considerations in social protection in LMICs: An assessment of ninety-eight climate-relevant social protection programs, Climate Risk Management, forthcoming. Under files section, a visual overview of methodology used is shared. Methodology Summary: Initial Identification Phase: - Manually collated all programs from a corpus of 394 academic and grey literature sources on social protection and climate change (2008-2021). - Identified potentially relevant programs from two large databases and a social protection program stocktaking, using keyword searches. - Added a small number of program names from interview notes collected in a separate research project. - Compiled a list of approximately 550 potential climate-relevant social protection programs. Criteria Development and Testing: - Created preliminary rules for program inclusion and tested them on a subset of programs from South Asia (SAR) and East Asia Pacific (EAP). - Refined these rules to establish final inclusion criteria: 1) Program was active between 2010 and 2022. 2) Program is in a country classified as a “non-advanced economy” by the IMF (April 2023). 3) Program is a formal social protection intervention. 4) Program is climate-relevant. Operationalization of Variables: - Applied an analytical framework to the SAR-EAP subset to further define research variables and a codebook. - Defined variables for analysis per program, covering aspects such as program data, social protection identifiers, policies, institutions, objectives, design features, actions, and results. - Full Data Collection Phase: - Collected detailed information for each variable across all identified programs. - Relied on written documentation from various sources, stored in Zotero, and included references in the database for substantiating variables. - Removed programs that did not meet these criteria from the database. - Arrived at a database with 98 programs, all meeting the four inclusion criteria.

Institutions

Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, University of Wolverhampton, Universiteit Twente

Categories

Environmental Science, Social Policy, Climate, Climate Change, Social Welfare, Climate Change Adaptation, Poverty Alleviation

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