The Poverty and Inequality Practice

The Poverty and Inequality Practice (PIP) is a small independent UK-based company founded in 2012 which provides research and advisory services to governments and international development agencies on social protection policy development in Africa and Asia. PIP uses interdisciplinary approaches combining qualitative and quantitative methods and is headed by Anna McCord, working in collaboration with a range of international researchers.

Currently PIP is developing a programme of work to examine the implications of climate disruption for Social Protection provision in the medium term, looking at both practical programming issues and also the conception of social protection more widely, through the Climate Change and Social Protection (CCASP) Initiative, which is co-Lead by Anna and Cecilia Costella, with inception funding from DFAT.

PIP celebrates its 10^th birthday in October 2022 and would like to thank the governments, research institutions and international development institutions with whom it has worked over this time to take forward the social protection agenda, including ODI, OPM, Development Pathways, IIED, the Red Cross Climate Centre, Save the Children, FCDO, GIZ, KFW, DFAT, the World Bank, ILO, UNICEF, IFAD, WFP, FAO, IADB, the HSRC, and Universities of Sheffield, Wolverhampton, Manchester and Addis Ababa.

Here’s to the next ten years…