Executive Summary
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the Arab Reform Initiative (ARI) are organizing a side event entitled “Supporting and Sustaining Social Protection during Conflicts: Insights from Current ‘Better Assistance in Crises’ (BASIC) Research.” This side event will showcase new empirical research findings from the FCDO- supported BASIC research program, which aims to inform policy and programming on how to help poor and vulnerable people cope better with crises and meet their basic needs through more effective social assistance. The event will shine fresh light on local and national actors, capacities and processes that shape complex humanitarian aid, social assistance, and social protection systems in situations of conflict, displacement, and protracted crises, notably in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon. It will be an opportunity to: i) discuss the findings and their implications for building and protecting social assistance and protection systems in conflict, displacement, and crises settings; ii) take forward and feed-back insights from a Global Forum on social protection in conflicts taking place in Rome in October; and iii) discuss how emerging policy priorities may be taken forward in the region.
