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This policy brief examines how Albania’s poverty-targeted social assistance program, Ndihma Ekonomike (NE), could mitigate shock impacts, using COVID-19 as a case study. It reviews Albania’s exposure to hazards, the high and persistent poverty risk, NE’s reforms and performance, the COVID-19 response, and recommendations to strengthen future crisis resilience.","Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disc losure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized  \nADAPTIVE SOCIAL  \nPROTECTION IN ALBANIA: The Case of Social Assistance  \nCountries are increasingly turning to their social protection systems to protect poor people from the negative effects of shocks. Given the growing size and frequency of covariate shocks – such as natural disasters, forced displacement and pandemics – many countries around the world have turned to their social protection systems to build the resilience of poor and vulnerable households to such events by investing in their capacity to prepare for, cope with, and adapt to shocks.2 This so-called Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) aims to identify how social protection systems can respond directly to protect people from sudden losses of income, disruptions to livelihoods and increasing costs of essential goods and services arising from shocks. In the absence of such support, when shocks hit, families risk falling into (deeper) poverty, which may force them to use negative coping strategies – such as withdrawing their children from school – that often negatively affect human capital accumula-  \ntion. The growing use of social protection programs in response to shocks is seen in the COVID-19 response: by December 2020, a total of 215 countries or territories had planned or implemented social protection measures as part of their response to the pandemic, with most of these social assistance programs delivering cash benefits.3  \nThis policy brief focuses on how social assistance, which aims to protect the poorest households from destitution, can be leveraged to protect the poorest from shocks in Albania. This policy brief considers the role that the Ndihma Ekonomike (NE), Albania’s poverty-targeted social assistance program, may play in mitigating the impact of shocks on the poorest people in the country, drawing on the recent COVID-19 pandemic asa case study. This policy note starts by briefly describing Albania’s exposure to covariate shocks to justify why utilizing adaptive social protection  \n~~ ~~ 1  \n1 This policy note was written by Stefanie Brodmann, Sarah Coll-Black, and Cornelius von Lenthe, with guidance from Tatiana Skalon. It draws heavily on a background note for the Albania Country Economic Memorandum 2021, which was prepared by Stefanie Brodmann, Sarah Coll-Black, and Cornelius von Lenthe (World Bank Social Protection and Jobs), with inputs and comments from Zoran Anusic, Gozde Meseli Teague, Juna Miluka, Efsan Nas Ozen, Ana Maria Oviedo, Gonzalo Reyes, Jamele Rigolini, Hilda Shijaku, and Christoph Ungerer. The preparation of this policy note benefited from support provided by the Government of Switzerland through the Albania Financial Resilience and Recovery technical assistance to the World Bank–SECO Sovereign Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance Program for Middle-Income Countries.  \n2 Bowen, T., C. del Ninno, C. Andrews, S. Coll-Black, U. Gentilini, K. Johnson, Y. Kawasoe, A. Kryeziu, B. Maher, and A. Williams. 2020. Adaptive Social Protection: Building Resilience to Shocks.  \n3 Gentillini, U., Almenfi, M. and Dale, P. 2021. Social Protection and Jobs Responses to COVID-19: A Real-Time Review of Country Measures (December 11, 2020) . COVID-19 Living Paper Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. [http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/467521607723220511/Social-Protection-and-Jobs-Responses-to-COVID-19-A-Real](http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/467521607723220511/Social-Protection-and-Jobs-Responses-to-COVID-19-A-Real)Time-Review-of-Country-Measures-December-11-2020  \nin responding to future shocks may be warranted. It then describes the NE, focusing on its recent reform and current performance, and subsequently discusses how the government used this program to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The note then offers recommendations, drawing on international experience, for how the NE could be further leveraged to protect the poor and vulnerable from f","cbCaibpjPhXsM0LB","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibpjPhXsM0LB","pdf",384498,4,1,6,"English","en",105,"# Overview of Adaptive Social Protection\n## Shocks and the need for resilience\n# Albania’s exposure and poverty context\n# Ndihma Ekonomike (NE): reforms and performance\n# COVID-19 response through social assistance\n# Recommendations for future shock protection","[{\"question\":\"What is Adaptive Social Protection and what problem does it address?\",\"answer\":\"Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) refers to using social protection systems to respond directly to shocks by protecting people from sudden income losses, disrupted livelihoods, and higher essential costs.\"},{\"question\":\"Why is Albania a relevant case for adaptive social assistance?\",\"answer\":\"Albania faces frequent disaster risk, with flooding and earthquakes, and 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