they are a collection of services provided by state and nonstate actors including communities to individuals for overcoming poverty and vulnerability and includes transfers in cash or kind subsidies and welfare ilo a and aim to prevent poor and other vulnerable groups from falling into poverty or being caught in a poverty trap when affected by temporary shocks such as natural disasters or economic downturn social safety nets can take several forms targeted or untargeted conditional or unconditional cash or inkind allowances such as conditional cash transfers child allowances food stamps food rations or school feeding programmes adb b generally speaking the higher the social development the greater is social security and in turn the greater the social protection similarly stronger social security measures foster stronger social protection which in turn raises the level of social development and vice versa