What is Rights-Based Approach

This chapter is aiming at exploring the potential role of social protection policies in alleviating the socio-economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. It adopts two levels of a comparative approach. The first level explores different approaches in adopting and implementing social protection policies and schemes. The second presents the factors that affect the efficiency of social protection policies by comparing different responsive policies adopted by some developing countries to COVID-19 multifaceted challenge. It argues that the success of each responsive social protection program depends on many factors, such as sustainability, coverage and inclusion, etc. The main finding is that social protection policies have been designed for several decades relied on the poverty alleviation approach which was for treating consequences of poverty not the main causes of misery. The COVID-19 outbreak made it clear that there is a need to adopt human rights approach in designing and implementing social protection policies.