section a presents the analytical concepts that frame the connections that exist between social protection disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation strategies the differences between disasters and hazards are established to frame the debate and policy recommendations are put forward based on a scheme that is being used in the international literature section b then describes the situation of social protection in relation to disasters in latin america and the caribbean and the main social protection tools associated with the public response to such situations section c then describes three interesting cases in developing countries bangladesh ethiopia and mozambique which are highly and increasingly disasterprone although these countries have per capita gross domestic products gdp that are considerably lower than most of the regions countries they have been able to set up disasterrelated social protection systems with a mix of successes and errors