AAH Action against Hunger [USA]
ACLED Armed Conflict Location and Event Data [USA]
ACRC African Cities Research Consortium [UK]
AfDB African Development Bank [Côte d’Ivoire]
AIDESEP Asociación Interétnica para el Desarrollo de la Selva Peruana [Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest]
AIDS acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
ANC African National Congress [South Africa]
ANC antenatal care
ATMIS African Union Transition Mission in Somalia
BASIC Better Assistance in Crises Research [UK]
CaLP Cash Learning Partnership
CASS-RT Centre for Applied Social Sciences Research and Training [Cameroon]
CCCCDFPRTs Conventions, Covenants, Charters, Codes, Declarations, Frameworks, Protocols, Recommendations and Treaties
CCT conditional cash transfer
CDGP Child Development Grant Programme [Nigeria]
CLARISSA Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia
CLSPPPs Constitutions, Laws, Strategies, Policies, Programmes and Projects
CMD Centre for Management Development [Nigeria]
CSAE Centre for the Study of African Economies [UK]
CSO civil society organisation
CSSR Centre for Social Science Research [South Africa]
CUCI Covid-19 Urban Cash Initiative [Malawi]
CVA cash or voucher assistance
DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [German Research Foundation]
DODMA Department of Disaster Management Affairs [Malawi]
DRF Disaster Risk Finance
EBA Expert Group for Aid Studies of the Government of Sweden
ECLAC Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean [Chile]
EGS Employment Generation Scheme [Ethiopia]
EKKE National Centre for Social Research [Greece]
EP&D Department of Economic Planning and Development [Malawi]
EPPI Evidence for Policy & Practice Information Centre [UK]
EPRI Economic and Policy Research Institute [South Africa]
ESID Effective States and Inclusive Development
ESPID Expanding Social Protection for Inclusive Development [Nigeria]
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [Italy]
FCAC fragile and conflict-affected contexts
FCAS fragile and conflict-affected states
FCDO Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office [UK]
FCND Food Consumption and Nutrition Division, IFPRI
FES Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung [Germany]
FGD focus group discussion
FHI Family Health International [Nigeria]
FILAC Fondo para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos indígenas de América Latina y el Caribe [Development of the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean, Bolivia]
FONCODES Fondo de Cooperación para el Desarrollo Social [Fund for Social Development Cooperation, Peru]
GAPVU Gabinete de Apoio à População Vulnerável [Mozambique]
GDP gross domestic product
GEWEL Girls’ Education & Women’s Empowerment & Livelihoods [Zambia]
GIZ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit [Germany]
GRASSP Gender-Responsive and Age-Sensitive Social Protection
GSD Gender and Social Development
HDPN humanitarian–development–peace nexus
HIV human immunodeficiency virus
HLPF United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development [USA]
IAOS International Association for Official Statistics [Asociación Internacional para las Estadísticas Oficiales]
IBEI Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals [Spain]
IDCPPA Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa [South Africa]
IDMC Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre [Switzerland]
IDP internally displaced person
IDS Institute of Development Studies [UK]
IEP Instituto de Estudios Peruanos [Institute of Peruvian Studies]
IFPRI International Food Policy Research Institute [USA]
IFS Institute of Fiscal Studies [UK]
ILO International Labour Organization [Switzerland]
INEI Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática [National Statistics Institute, Peru]
INGO international non-governmental organisation
IPC-IG International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth [Brazil]
IRACA Intervenciones Rurales Integrales [Integral Rural Interventions Programme, Colombia]
ISSS international social security standards
JONAPWD Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities [Nigeria]
JSRB Jigawa State Rehabilitation Board [Nigeria]
JSSPP Jigawa State Social Protection Platform [Nigeria]
KII key informant interview
KM knowledge management
LEAP Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty [Ghana]
LEWIE local economy-wide impact evaluation
LMICs low- and middle-income countries
LSE London School of Economics and Political Science [UK]
M&E monitoring and evaluation
MCDSS Ministry of Community Development and Social Services [Zambia]
MENA Middle East and North Africa
MERIT Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology [The Netherlands]
MGCDSW Ministry of Gender, Community Development, and Social Welfare [Malawi]
MIDIS Ministerio de Desarrollo e Inclusión Social [Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion, Peru]
MIS Management Information System
MNSSP Malawi National Social Support Programme
MoA Ministry of Agriculture [Ethiopia]
MOLSA Ministry of Labour and Social Assistance [Somalia]
MoSD Ministry of Social Development [Occupied Palestinian Territory]
MSME Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises [Zambia]
MTR Mid Term Review [Malawi]
NAF National Aid Fund [Jordan]
NBCO needs-based community organising
NCTP National Cash Transfer Programme
NDA National Disability Allowance
NGO non-governmental organisation
NLD National League for Democracy [Myanmar]
NRF National Research Foundation [South Africa]
NSPP National Social Protection Policy [Nigeria]
NUCC National Unity Consultative Council [Myanmar]
NUG National Unity Government [Myanmar]
NVC non-violent communication
OCHA United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs [USA]
ODA Official Development Assistance
ODI [formerly] Overseas Development Institute [UK]
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [France]
OPM Oxford Policy Management [UK]
OPT Occupied Palestinian Territory
PAMSCAD Programme of Actions to Mitigate the Social Costs of Adjustment [Ghana]
PASGR Partnership for African Social and Governance Research [Kenya]
PEP public employment programming
PFII Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues [USA]
PID Project Information Document
PIM programme implementation manual
PMT proxy means test
PRIO Peace Research Institute Oslo [Norway]
PSNP Productive Safety Net Programme [Ethiopia]
PtoP From Protection to Production
ReSA Red de Seguridad Alimentaria [Food Security Network, Colombia]
RMNCH reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health
RUTF ready-to-use therapeutic food
SAC State Administration Council [Myanmar]
SAIS Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies [USA]
SCI Save the Children International [UK]
SCT Social Cash Transfer [Zambia]
SCTP Social Cash Transfer Programme [Malawi]
SCTPP Social Cash Transfer Pilot Project [Zambia]
SDG Sustainable Development Goal
SISBEN system of identification for social assistance beneficiaries [Colombia]
SMS Short Message Service
SNNP Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples
SPACE Social Protection Approaches to COVID-19 Expert Advice Service
SRSP shock-responsive social protection
SSC Social Security Corporation [Jordan]
SSN Social Safety Network [Iraq]
SSSP shock-sensitive social protection
TDS temporary direct support
TWG technical working group/thematic working group
UBR Unified Beneficiary Registry [Malawi]
UN United Nations [USA]
UNECA United Nations Economic Commission for Africa [Ethiopia]
UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [Switzerland]
UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund [USA]
UNOCHA United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs [USA]
UNRWA United Nations Relief and Works Agency [Jordan]
UNU-MERIT United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute [the Netherlands]
UNU-WIDER United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research [Finland]
USR unified single registry
WBG World Bank Group [USA]
WFCL worst forms of child labour
WFP World Food Programme [Italy]
ZCF Zambian Cooperative Federation