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.