Abstract
Social protection system is one of the best tools used by government to elevate the poverty that aggravated due to the individual and governmental crises especially in Iraq. Any country aims to make a new economic and social growth should enlist the social protection within the strategies. As a result to the economic and social changes passed in Iraq, these conditions have affected the local situations. Thus, the government has introduced the social protection to solve these results. The current paper supposed that this tool may perform the role effectively. The study concluded that this tool couldn’t perform the suitable role effectively due to the weak targeted planning to the poverty categories; there was no recognition to the poverty average in rural and urban areas, corruption, and inflation accompanied by high average per capita that prevent the system to perform the role and achieve the mapped out aims in the reduction of poverty line in Iraq generally and Nineveh generally..
