The Climate Change and Social Protection (CCASP) Research Initiative was founded to support a major shift in the ambition, vision, and urgency in social protection and climate policies and programmes in the Global South to address the large-scale socio economic challenges that climate change is likely to induce in the medium term.
It aims to do this by:
- exploring the implications of climate change for social protection needs;
- identifying ways for social protection to contribute to managing climate change;
- creating a knowledge base of effective policy and programme options on social protection and climate change;
- creating synergies and learning between the climate change and social protection communities;
- and highlighting the ways that the sector will need to adapt to respond to the changes in the patterns of poverty that climate change will bring about.
Overall CCASP aims to improve our understanding of the social protection and climate change intersection, and strategically consolidate learning to inform and stimulate the expansion of social protection systems that can protect populations from the worst impacts of climate change, globally.
Over the last year CCASP has been working on these issues with:
- DFAT
- FCDO
- EC
- KfW
CCASP is currently working with DFAT on a collaborative process to explore and address the key areas where existing social protection orthodoxies are challenged and will need to be revisited to address future climate challenges.
CCASP is led by Anna McCord and was founded in 2022 by Anna McCord and Cecilia Costella.
Climate Change and Social Protection (CCASP) Research Initiative 