The aim of the national workshop in Maldives was to strengthen national capacities to use data and innovative tools for evidence-based policymaking in social protection. The national multistakeholder workshop introduced an innovative tool to strengthen evidence-based and inclusive policymaking in the area of social protection in the Maldives. Based on evidence generated by multiple tools, the workshops helped discuss how to use and institutionalize policy tools and results to inform the design, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of social protection policies so that no one was left behind. The workshop also aimed to collect feedback from participants to guide the further development and localization of the policy tools. 

By the end of the workshop, it was expected that participants would:

1. have a strengthened capacity to use data to build the evidence base to inform more inclusive social protection design and implementation to accelerate recovery from the triple crisis;

2. understand how to navigate the SP2LNOB tool and inform relevant social protection policies/schemes with evidence;

3. recognize the complementarity of different frameworks in use at the country level and presented during the workshop to monitor advances on the Sustainable Development Goal targets related to social protection;