Social Protection Resource Centre (SPRC) was established as a premier think tank, dedicated to working on Social Policy with the realization that the past policy choices and initiatives could not enable ordinary Pakistanis to reasonably withstand the vulnerability in any social, economic, or humanitarian crisis, including natural disasters. As these vulnerabilities and shocks, in most cases are not naturally occurring, the relevant stakeholders need more holistic, critical debates. SPRC has been designed to generate original, indigenous knowledge on the social questions being faced by Pakistanis and to provide policy advice and practical assistance to society, markets, and governments at all tiers of governance. It works on a whole range of related issues such as Social Protection, Globalization and Regional Integration, Trade, Industry and Investment Policy, Environmental Degradation, Services Sector Development, Competition Policy and Practice, Climate Change, Media Development, Civil Service Reform, Disaster Management and Food Security, among others. In order to realize its vision to reduce social exclusion in Pakistan and help achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in letter and spirit, SPRC seeks to: 1. Help adopt a consensual Social Policy undergirding the national framework for the provision of adequate social protection to all the citizens of Pakistan as a right 2. Help retool the existing mechanisms and arrangements of social assistance, social insurance, active labour market programmes, social security regimes, and provision of basic social services to grow into a sustainable national social protection system introduced at the national level and administered at the provincial and local levels 3. Define and measure the unmet, partially-met, and poorly-met social protection needs and propose solutions, particularly, with a view to helping address the socio-economic challenges faced by the at-risk children and adolescents, older persons, disabled.
