Tag: Social protection

In this post, we set out our vision for what social protection in India should aim to do, and then pose some questions on how we might achieve this.

Blog post series: This series of posts will attempt to do two things – first, to examine the definitional boundaries of social protection and where they relate to other financial services for low-income households, and second, to use this to arrive at a working definition of social protection for policymakers and research organisations such as Dvara Research. As a first step, we break down a few questions in this first post.

In this set of videos, we discuss our work pertaining to exclusion and the delivery of social protection entitlements

This blog post deconstructs three crucial examples of states seeking to implement digital welfare systems and contracting out design and implementation to private entities

Dvara Research, in collaboration with Gram Vaani, University of Montreal, and Tika Vaani has been selected for the Azim Premji University COVID-19 Research Funding Programme 2020

The Social Protection Initiative organised a closed-door virtual roundtable discussion on social security for self-employed workers

The second post in our three-part series on Pensions.

Launching the Social Protection Initiative at Dvara Research

Research on Life insurance coverage and metrics used to measure

Even as the city of Chennai was grappling with the after-effects of the devastating floods of December 2015, exactly a year later, Cyclone Vardah unleashed its fury, leaving behind a trail of destruction and devastation.