Sharing lessons learned from Brazil'Äôs Social Protection response to COVID-19

A one-year programme funding the World Bank to analyse, document and disseminate Brazil'Äôs successful experience with the emergency benefit to protect vulnerable populations from the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although Brazil has had difficulties controlling the spread of the virus, its emergency cash transfer programme (Auxilio Emergencial, AE) has been one of the largest and most rapidly deployed social protection programmes in the world, helping 67 million informal workers who would otherwise have struggled badly. Sharing these learnings through this FCDO project meets a demand from poorer countries who have been seeking advice on how to improve their social protection policies at speed and during a crisis.