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Social Protection

The SHD’s work examines the vulnerability of urban workers in metropolitan centres and small towns, reimagining and designing social protection regimes, expanding maternal and childcare practices, and designing pathways to increased programme coverage.

 

This work focuses on:

  • Policy and programme design of urban employment programmes and engagement with the quality of employment in informal work.
  • Implementation strategies to deliver social protection, food security, and health benefits.
  • Developing and building childcare infrastructure for informal workers and their children at worksites and in residential areas.
  • Design and support for place-based interventions for urban informal work through transit planning, and other infrastructure and housing support.

Featured Projects

  • COVID Collective: COVID-19 Social Science Research Evidence Platform (2022-2023)This study highlighted lessons from state and non-state relief efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic to improve social protection for informal settlements post-crisis. It synthesised insights from relief efforts by a labour union in Jaipur and a network of non-state actors in Delhi. It was conducted in partnership with Institute of Development Studies (IDS)–University of Sussex, and funded by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).
  • Delivering social protection to informal workers: Lessons learned from COVID-19 relief measures in India (2020-2022)This study used the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated lockdowns in India as a critical moment to assess social protection systems and draw lessons for their improvement. Through two reports—one focusing on relief measures undertaken by state actors and the other on those by non-state actors—it analysed the delivery and definition of relief in the complex and constrained conditions of the lockdowns. This study was funded by AXA Research Fund.
  • Support to the Government of Delhi’s Emergency Hunger Committee (2020-2021)IIHS researchers were members of the Government of Delhi’s Emergency Hunger Response Committee during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown. The Committee helped design and implement an e-coupon-based emergency food ration scheme that reached nearly six million people through about 1,500 public schools.
  • Urban employment programmes (2022-2023)IIHS undertook an in-depth review of international and domestic urban employment programmes (UEPs) to understand their forms and potential to address unemployment and wage disparity. The study included a convening with representatives from government, academia, and civil society. This was funded by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
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