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socialprotection.org presents: Reaching rural areas in the social protection response to COVID-19: opportunities and challenges Speakers Cecilia Mbaka, Head of the National Social Protection Secretariat, Kenya Reema Nanavaty, Director of the Self Employed Women's Association's (SEWA), India Mounir Cherif, Social Protection Expert, Tunisia Lixia Tang, Deputy Dean, College of International Development and Global Agriculture, China Agricultural University Discussant Kroum Markov, Social Protection Policy Specialist, ILO Moderator Ana Ocampo, Social Protection Officer, FAO
Reaching rural areas in the social protection response to COVID-19: opportunities and challenges Speaker Cecilia Mbaka National Social Protection Secretariat, Kenya Cecilia Mbaka the Head of the National Social Protection Secretariat in Kenya’s State Department of Social Protection. She previously served as Head of the Division of Social Welfare and Older Persons and as founding Director of the National Council for Persons with Disabilities. Ms Mbaka has more than 25 years’ experience providing strategic leadership and engagement of civil society and research stakeholders to advance policy development and strengthen service delivery to vulnerable persons. In recognition of her achievements in advancing the rights of the poor and vulnerable, including older people, she was in December 2017 awarded the Order of Grand Warrior (OGW) by the President of Kenya.
Reaching rural areas in the social protection response to COVID-19: opportunities and challenges Speaker Reema Nanavaty Self Employed Women's Association's (SEWA), India Reema Nanavaty has been working with the SEWA since over 35 years expanding its membership to over 1.5 million members, making it the single largest union of informal sector women workers. Reema facilitated rebuilding lives and livelihoods of 60000 earthquake affected rural women and 40000 riot-affected members. She is leading the rehabilitation programs in Afghanistan and in Sri Lanka; providing vocational training in rural livelihood security to war-affected widows. Reema oversees 4813 self-help groups (SHG), 160 co-operatives and 15 economic federations, pan India including 16 states, and also in 7 South- Asian countries, focusing on women’s economic empowerment by building women owned enterprises, building women led supply chains, introducing modern ICT-based tools and facilitating Green-Energy initiatives and livelihoods. Reema is currently member of the Advisory Council on Gender of the World Bank Group.
Reaching rural areas in the social protection response to COVID-19: opportunities and challenges Speaker Mounir Cherif Social Protection Expert, Tunisia Mounir Cherif is a social protection expert with thirty-four years of experience in the sector. He has extensive experience working in Tunisia, for instance at the Centre de Recherches et d'Etudes Sociales CRES and the Caisse Nationale de Sécurité Sociale CNSS, as well as providing technical assistance to other countries, in particular in Francophone Africa. He focuses his work mainly on innovative mechanisms to extend social security coverage to uncovered populations, and conducting assessments and strategic studies to ensure the sustainability of social security schemes.
Reaching rural areas in the social protection response to COVID-19: opportunities and challenges Speaker Lixia Tang China Agricultural University Dr. Tang Lixia, Professor, Deputy Dean of China Institute for South-South Cooperation in Agriculture (CISSCA), Head of Development of Development Management, College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University. She has been involved in several research projects on poverty analysis and livelihood development, social public policy analysis, international development aid and China engagements in Africa. The field sites of her research work cover more than 20 provinces in China and several developing countries, e.g. Zambia, India, Thailand, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Tanzania and Ethiopia.
Reaching rural areas in the social protection response to COVID-19: opportunities and challenges Speaker Kroum Markov ILO Kroum Markov is working at the ILO since 2001, initially for the International Labour Standards Department on the application of ILO’s social security instruments and, since 2017, for the Social Protection Department (SOCPRO) as Social Protection Policy and Legal Specialist. He has developed a strong knowledge of ILO’s social security standards, providing technical support to the bodies responsible for monitoring the application of ILO Conventions and Recommendations. Through his work, he supports ILO constituents design and implement comprehensive Social protection policies and rights-based systems grounded in the principles enshrined in ILO standards. Kroum is a lawyer specialized in International and European law; he also holds post- graduate diplomas in International Administration (DESS) and in International Economic Law (DEA) from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Reaching rural areas in the social protection response to COVID-19: opportunities and challenges Moderator Ana Ocampo FAO Ana Ocampo is a Social Protection Officer at FAO Headquarters. She focuses her work on the extension of social protection to rural populations, social protection and resilience, in particular in the context of climate change, as well as on the linkages between social protection and agriculture. She has experience in the social protection sector, supporting policy and programme reforms, design and implementation, in Latin America and the Caribbean, Southern Africa, and Central Asia. Prior to joining FAO, she has worked at the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and UNICEF.
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REACHING RURAL AREAS IN THE SOCIAL PROTECTION RESPONSE TO COVID-19: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES: A CASE FOR KENYA Presented by : Cecilia Mbaka, Head Social Protection Secretariat in the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection 28 July 2020
• Kenya has a population of 47.5m people and 36.5% of this live below the poverty line; A REVIEW OF • A total of 14, 1.3 and 4.2 million people live in rural; KENYA peri-urban and core-urban; and informal settlements respectively; SIT ITUATION • 80 percent of Kenya’s land mass is characterized by aridity; • People living in the arid areas are exposed to cyclical climatic shocks and are exposed to many other forms of vulnerabilities.
• To date, Kenya has over recorded 16,000 cases with 7,500 recoveries and 278 deaths. Majority of these cases are concentrated in Nairobi; • This pandemic will exacerbate poverty due to job loses in the COVID – 19 19 agricultural sector, the main livelihood source for the rural communities; IN IN KENYA • Already, the pandemic has triggered massive job losses in the service industry sectors in rural and urban areas; • The movement restrictions imposed by the Government are bound to disrupt food production by smallholder farmers; • Over 80 per cent of food consumed in Kenya is produced by small holder farmers in rural areas;
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