PhD IDS student Emmanuel Monyei has published a new journal article titled "Adaptive and Climate Shock Responsive Social Protection in the Global South: Can a transformative turn strengthen climate resilience?"

In his article, Emmanuel addresses the problem that climate shocks in the Global South worsen poverty, exclusion, and undermine rights and resilience. Social Protection (SP) is increasingly used to mitigate these impacts but often emphasizes short-term relief over long-term solutions. Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) links SP with disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA), yet its transformative potential, focused on rights, inclusion, and addressing structural inequalities, is limited in practice. In his article, Emmanuel introduces Adaptive and Climate Shock Responsive Social Protection (ACSRSP) as a unifying assessment lens with a clearer focus on rights-based and inclusion-driven features. Using a structured evaluation approach, his study examines SP policies in ten climate-vulnerable countries across protective, preventive, promotive, and transformative areas. Evidence over time shows that while protective transfers are common, preventive insurance, promotive measures, and transformative features, such as rights-based strategies, gender and social inclusion, participation, and institutional coordination, are often disconnected. ACSRSP provides a practical evaluation perspective for improving ASP through inclusive, rights-centered social protection systems that bolster resilience to climate shocks. The main goal is to evaluate how effectively national SP systems in Global South countries incorporate transformative, rights-based features within the ASP framework, placing these findings within broader global discussions on climate finance and inclusive adaptation strategies.

Emmanuel Monyei (2026). ‘Adaptive and Climate Shock Responsive Social Protection in the Global South: Can a transformative turn strengthen climate resilience?’ Climate Interactions, 2:1, 2629273: https://doi.org/10.1080/29966876.2026.2629273.