BRIDGING KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTISE IN SOCIAL PROTECTION.
As social protection systems become more complex, the demand for skilled, dynamic, and connected leaders has never been greater.
We create platforms that equip social protection practitioners, policymakers, development partners, and organizations with practical knowledge, reliable evidence, expert support, and strong professional networks. This helps them design and lead effective systems that protect people from poverty and create sustainable change. Our approach is rooted in African experiences, guided by global best practices, and focused on practical solutions.
Learn from experience. Lead with confidence. Build systems that deliver.
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About us
Across Africa, social protection systems are responding to increasingly complex challenges. Climate change, humanitarian crises, economic uncertainty, and persistent poverty are creating a greater need for skilled professionals and practical solutions.
The Institute for Social Policy is CHASP Advisory’s flagship initiative for learning, research, and professional development in social protection. It supports professionals working in government, development organizations, NGOs, and the wider social protection sector.
More than a training center, the Institute is a space where people connect, share ideas, learn from real-world experience, and explore what works.
By bringing together African knowledge and global best practices, we strengthen decision-making and contribute to better social protection systems across Africa and beyond.
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Explore our popular courses
01 | CERTIFIED SOCIAL PROTECTION PROFESSIONAL (CSPP)
Course Lead: Dr. Omondi Otieno Ooyi & Winnie Mwasiaji
Course Description
Africa’s flagship practitioner certification and the foundation for all advanced ISP programmes. Learn how social protection systems are designed, financed, delivered and governed, through case studies, simulations and real workplace application.
02 | ADAPTIVE & SHOCK-RESPONSIVE SOCIAL PROTECTION CERTIFICATION
Course Lead: Felix Mwenge & Stefanie Bitengo
Course Description
Build practical skills to design social protection systems that can respond to climate shocks, droughts, floods, conflict, pandemics and economic crises. Covers adaptive social protection, shock-responsive approaches and anticipatory action.
03 | ADVANCED PROFESSIONAL IN ECONOMIC INCLUSION SYSTEMS
Course Lead: Sam Owilly
Course Description
Learn to design pathways out of poverty through livelihoods, graduation approaches, entrepreneurship, financial inclusion and market systems. Draws on lessons from Africa, Latin America and Asia.