Social protection has risen rapidly up the development policy agenda in the last
decade. There is also a clear trend to making social protection, as well as food
security, ‘rights-based’ rather than ‘discretionary’. Yet no clear consensus has so far
emerged concerning many basic design choices and implementation modalities of
social protection policies and programs.
The present report contains the analysis and recommendations of the High Level Panel of Experts, as approved by its Steering Committee at its meeting 6-8th June 2012 held in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
