Volume 11, Issue 29, January - June, 2025

Impact of comprehensive social protection on building climate-resilient economic development, in Ethiopia

Seid Ahmed Muhe

Department of Sociology, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hawassa University, Ethiopia,

ABSTRACT

Social protection is a central public policy component for countries like Ethiopia to address poverty, vulnerability and inequality, and climate crises. This significantly enhance the success intervention in agriculture, hygiene and health, education, and water, thus accelerating the country's sustainable development goals, especially for the most vulnerable members of society through building climate resilience economic development. Investing in social protection reduces the vulnerabilities of poor people to external shocks such as aggregate income shocks, and instability to the effects of climate change. Effective social protection contributes to social cohesion, accelerating socio-economic development, including improved security, sustained peace, and greater social stability. Establishing Ethiopia social protection framework is part and parcel of an integrated approach to progressively realizing social and economic rights. Indeed, equitable comprehensive social protection services significantly contribute the attainment of climate-resilient economic and social development and have an immense impact to climate change mitigation and adaptation action of the country. Therefore, integrating social protection with various aspects of the country development programs brings equitable distribution and expansion of social protection services.

Keywords: Social Protection, Climate Change, Resilience Building, Economic Development, Green Economy

Climate Change, 2025, 11(29), e2cc1053

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v11i29.e2cc1053

Published: 03 January 2025