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Thsis ession, held as an invitation-only discussion for SPIAC-B working group members and selected practitioners, used the World Bank’s real-time tracker of social protection responses to the global energy price shock as a starting point. The tracker, which has documented more than 200 policy responses across over 100 countries, highlights that governments tend to rely primarily on subsidies and price controls during crises, while social protection responses are often limited and ad hoc. The discussion provided a space for participants to candidly reflect on how these findings compare with their own experiences, explore the challenges of responding to compounding and protracted crises, and consider what would be needed to build more effective and responsive social protection systems. - Read more about the webinar discussions and access the slide presentation: https://socialprotection.org/learn/webinars/when-crises-compound-%E2%80%94-gap-between-system-we-designed-and-response-we-delivered Moderator: Sarah Hague, Senior Adviser, UNICEF Discussant: Ugo Gentilini, Lead Economist, Social Policy, Middle East and North Africa region, World Bank This was the first session of the Pressure Test, a practitioner series produced by the SPIAC-B Working Group and hosted by socialprotection.org. Each installment brings a substantive piece of analytical work — a mapping, a set of operational guidance, a case study — into direct contact with practitioners who are living the complexity it tries to describe. The analytical work is the entry point and participants are invited to push back on it, challenge simplifications, and say where it holds and where it fails. The premise is to provide a space where serious analytical work gets tested against operational reality, by people who know both. Learn more about this series: https://socialprotection.org/webinar-series#pressure-test _____________ About socialprotection.org - Join our community of global social protection practitioners: http://socialprotection.org/ - Subscribe to our mailing list to be updated on future webinars and the latest social protection content: https://socialprotection.org/subscribe-our-webinar-alerts Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/socialprotectionorg/ X: https://twitter.com/SP_Gateway LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/socialprotection.org/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/socialprotectionorg TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@socialprotectionorg Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/socialprotection.bsky.social