Public employment programmes and COVID-19

FAO Senior Social Protection Officer, Alejandro Grinspun, delivers a presentation on the role of public employment programmes under the social protection umbrella, specifically as they relate to COVID-19 pandemic. Grinspun kicks off this video with a brief historical review of public works programmes implemented in the past as a response to financial and health crises and explains how, when programmes are adapted to more effectively assist households in the wake of a pandemic or crisis, the easier it is to transition into the recovery phase. The latter part of this video is an interview between Grinspun and Rajeev Alal, Director of Natural Resource Management and Agroecology at the India chapter of the German Development Agency (GIZ), where a discussion focuses on the Mahatma Gandhi National Employment Guarantee Scheme and how the public works programme was tweaked to support households during COVID-19.
Duration 23M46S.