social protection systems are essential to attaining inclusive development by providing automatic stabilizers during periods of crisis by providing additional incomes to the poor and enabling them to maintain access to food and basic services various types of programmes may be considered for the ldcs such as employment generation measures cash transfer programmes targeted social services and micro finance programmes the fragmented social safety nets that exist in these countries lack the framework of institutionalized welfare systems these social safety nets are not adequately handed are not coheren and do not provide coverage to protect the majority of the vulnerable populations