Social protection response to COVID-19 in rural LAC: The potential of digitalisation to build back better

This policy research brief analyses how digitalisation can facilitate rural populations’ access to effective and adequate social protection
and economic inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean. It investigates the region’s social protection response to COVID-19 and
highlights three good practices in providing digitalised social protection to vulnerable rural populations during the crisis. Based on this
analysis and considering the local obstacles to digitalised social protection in rural areas, recommendations are provided to build rural
social protection back better after the pandemic.