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First and foremost, many concerns and issues should be taken in consideration when designing, planning, and implementing social protection system.
One of them most important aspects in the sustainable funding but also the inclusiveness in designing and targeting.
Social protection is a result of political well with support from developed countries to achieve the global social floor.

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My key take home points will definitely the processes involved in developing a social protection strategy. Identifying the needs, creating a strategy ,institutionalizing the strategy, financing, governance and coordination and the selection of targets for the program. These points have shaped my thoughts further in positioning me where I can tap from a wealth of knowledge to develop a social protection scheme my organization will embark on.

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My key take home points will definitely the processes involved in developing a social protection strategy. Identifying the needs, creating a strategy ,institutionalizing the strategy, financing, governance and coordination and the selection of targets for the program. These points have shaped my thoughts further in positioning me where I can tap from a wealth of knowledge to develop a social protection scheme my organization will embark on.

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Mamoud Bah
Sierra Leone

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 importants of coming up with innovative ways to design and fund social protection. However, political will is a key requirment to make the SP a success

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 importants of coming up with innovative ways to design and fund social protection. However, political will is a key requirment to make the SP a success

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I have learned of the key aspect of social protection and gender. The role it has to empower the poor segment of the society and particularly the participation of women and girls in productive activities.

Etali Genesis Akwaji, SUSTAIN Cameroon

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It is important to come up with innovative ways to design and fund social protection. However, political will is a key requirment to make the SP a success.

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A discussion on fiscal space with a focus on political will, given the post-COVID-19 scenario is extremely important.

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- Key components of SP system design and how to work their inter-dependencies with a deeper dive on employing the ToC

- The import of social dialogue (ABND) to National SP strategy development and effectiveness of participatory processes.

- Political will and not Fiscal as a deterrent to progressive realisation of SP

- My Library must-have ILO (Harvey-Ball approach) tool for innovative assessments of financing instruments.

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Prior to this module, I used to think the most important element in a social protection programme is the cost to start the programme. However, by taking this module I now acknowledge that although resources and fiscal space are important for designing a social protection system, prioritisation of social protection is a matter of political will. I really liked the following quote from the module: "The world does not lack the resources to eradicate poverty, it lacks the right priorities".

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I found the concept and practice of fiscal space analysis very useful.

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I am so gratefull to your institution and to all the course facilitators because i have learnt alot in Fiscal space to finance programmes; The Adoption of a national social protection policy as well as financing Social protection systems. Thanks

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Was great to learn fiscal space and how to increase it. The session on how to design strategy and programs were highly useful.

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Nations have the resources to eradicate poverty, its just not their priority list. Investing in Social protection is a political choice, rather than a fiscal one.

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Tenele Ndlovu, GIZ South Africa

Inclusive participation, with this at the designing stage of national strategies we can never go wrong. we need to bring everyone to the table and discuss, incorporating all differing views from different perspective.

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The complexity while being nit fully immersed fiscal policies in support of social protection implementation was interesting.

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It was a very interesting course that consider the same project cycle to apply during developing a social protection system. It has many dimensions that needs to be consider during the designing process, and needs different stakeholder participation to make this system active

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A wider perspective of the Social Protection Systems concept and its components, understanding its cross-multidisciplinary nature and complex interlinkages with legal, economic, social, Environmental and political frameworks, which must be national contextualized, to respond to local circumstances and requirements, and which development and target setting must derive from multi-stakeholder participatory process, for a progressive Implementation to achieve sustainable social protection schemes to not let one behind.

Alejandro Contreras Cerdan – Energy Factor – Mexico

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My key take away is that for SP programmes to be successful, there are lots of linkages between various stakeholders, who must be included in the whole process from strategy to design to implementation.

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The design of a robust social protection system is a balancing act between creating a strong governance, legal and financing structure on the one hand, and the need for flexibility to respond to the dynamic social, economic, political and demographic developments on the other.

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Fatima Abdulsalam Abdallah mom and me healthier together initiative 

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Fatima Abdulsalam Abdallah mom and me healthier together initiative 

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I learnt a lot on the very vital ways on the policy, programme design, implementation and delivery of social protection programmes. The supplementary videos which I enjoyed added much to the already gained knowledge in this module.

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Jackline Omondi ciheb-kenya.It was interesting learning the steps of building a comprehensive social protection system.

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Jackline Omondi ciheb-kenya.It was interesting learning the steps of building a comprehensive social protection system.

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I have learnt that the social protection tools are multi dimensional and it is therefore important to engage different key stake holders, to attain sustainable success.

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I learnt some very interesting tools for designing and reformi ng social protection programmes. I appreciate the supplementary material and the interesting videos.

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Designing a social protection system is a long process mainly passing through the adoption and willingness by the Government of a national strategy which consists of assessing the needs of the population, the institutional capacities, the sources of financing the benefits in order to implement the schemes and constantly monitor them as the entire topic is not static and evolves over the time. Starting with the policies defining the social protection Programs, all the steps need to be analyzed before and during Implementation/Delivery actions.

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Political unstability, desire of the people and avilability of onor

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Bekederemo Angela. KARIS, Lagos, Nigeria

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Bekederemo Angela. KARIS, Lagos, Nigeria

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Social protection systems can be built progressively, with priority given to social protection floors. Social protection systems should be contextualized in national circumstances and aligned to national sustainable development priorities

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That designing a social protection strategy requires horizontal and vertical institutional capacities to be developed. Along with stakeholder engagement and political will.

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I have learnt that it is not actually the lack of fiscal space that hinders social protection systems but to a greater extent the lack of political will in our countries. The examples given in this module clearly revealed that implementing social protection systems is actually affordable even in low income countries than Uganda.

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The knowledge on ingenious ways of creating fiscal space to fund social protection programmes; the tools to measure social protection interventions; and that social protection is an investment and not a cost.

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My key takeaways are
1. Designing Social Protection system involves a number of very vital processes and steps which should always be considered.
2.  I learned the very useful tools in designing social protections systems.

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I learnt that there is a large financial gap between what is actually spent and what should be spent for social protection systems globally.
This financial gap does not depend on financial resources availability as much on political will.
There are different steps to take into account when designing a social protection programme.

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I learnt about the different available tools to conduct an evidence-based system assessment as well as some innovative strategies to create additional fiscal space, which in the end comes down to political will.

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Decisions on funding social protection are not fundamentally fiscal, rather political. There are also several innovative ways to explore in order to expand fiscal space for social protection.

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The knowledge on how to design a social protection policy, and it is always beneficial in this course to see examples and do like a thinking or a reflection on the country we live in. It is always important also to know that the right assessment micro and macro is a great way to start and achieve better results.

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Designing a Social Protection plan is no mean feat as it requires a lot of both macro and micro studies and planning on the intended target group. Having the fiscal space is one thing but targeting the right group and expecting the desired results is a different ball game altogether.

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It is essential to create a strong 'How' of Social protection and along with other factors, the political will and active participation is the key to achieve the goals

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Political support is essential for the development of any national strategy, in addition, it is sometimes necessary to generate new forms of financing to accompany these strategies.

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The "how" of social protection. The building blocks required to construct social protection systems which include looking at designing, financing, and reforming social protection systems.

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Critical need to come up with innovative and sustainable means to enable more countries be in a position to fund social protection strategies and programmes - once the political will has been marshalled.

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Means to design new or reforming existing social protection policies, the many interesting ways countries could finance social protection policies/programmes and how multi-dimensional poverty index should be used (as opposed to a linear poverty line index) when assessing the true extent of those deemed poor.

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The importance of political will along with data and evidence to the design of a social protection system. Evidence-based  data is critical at every stage of the process. The importance of enshrining social protection in national legislation. I also really enjoyed reading about the theory of change and possible outcomes for assessing the impact of social protection programs.