This volume provides a systematic discussion of social policy reform in sub-Saharan Africa in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. The following Conclusion relies on existing social policy scholarship to draw lessons from other parts of the world that might be helpful in the African context before translating them into clear policy recommendations. As suggested in the volume’s chapters, context matters significantly for lesson drawing and, in today’s post-COVID-19 context, simple policy borrowing from other regions is not what should be emphasised. The attention to the specificities of the African context is thus central to our policy recommendations, although readers interested in a specific country might need to further adapt them to its concrete cultural, institutional, and political settings.