Post-Disaster Household Assessments and Eligibility Determination for Post-Disaster Social Protection Benefits
The frequency and severity of disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have necessitated improving the mechanisms to identify affected individuals and households; assess post-disaster needs and conditions; and determine who will be eligib...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/592661593696978078/Post-Disaster-Household-Assessments-and-Eligibility-Determination-for-Post-Disaster-Social-Protection-Benefits http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34200 |
| Summary: | The frequency and severity of disasters
in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have necessitated
improving the mechanisms to identify affected individuals
and households; assess post-disaster needs and conditions;
and determine who will be eligible for post-disaster Social
Protection (SP) support. Intended populations for different
types of post disaster support vary and are often
constrained by fiscal space and resource availability. Rapid
increase of SP benefits to existing beneficiaries has been a
common and useful SP response to support poor and vulnerable
households affected by a shock. However, while LAC exhibits
comparatively high coverage of SP programs among the total
population and the poorest quintile when compared to other
regions, there are still large coverage gaps, particularly
in some countries. This further constrains rapid provision
of SP benefits to non-beneficiaries or deploying emergency
safety nets to affected households. Furthermore, existing SP
beneficiaries are not the only persons in need of support in
post-disaster contexts, as disasters often push near-poor
individuals and households into poverty. This guidance note
shares country experiences and provides solutions for
effectively assessing post-disaster needs and conditions to
inform the provision of post-disaster social protection
benefits and services. |
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