The podcast series draws on findings from a research programme called Action for Empowerment and Accountability (A4EA), a multi-country research initiative hosted by the Institute of Development Studies in the UK. The podcasts in this series will explore areas of women’s collective action, changing civic spaces, and donor programmes to support empowerment and accountability.

What does social protection mean? Do we have any effective policies to help the most vulnerable? What do these policies look like in Pakistan’s fragile economic landscape further impacted by Covid-19?

Collective for Social Science Research. (2021). How does the State plan to protect its poor?