Conditional Cash Transfers: A 'Pathway to Women's Empowerment'?
Are Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) really empowering women? If not, might they even be making things worse? This review of CCTs, particularly of PROGRESA in Mexico, argues that although these...
View ArticlePromoting Synergies between Child Protection and Social Protection: West and...
How can measures to address the vulnerabilities and risks faced by children be more effectively integrated into social protection policy frameworks in West and Central Africa? This report focuses on...
View ArticleGender Vulnerabilities, Food Price Shocks and Social Protection Responses
This study argues that women are bearing a disproportionate share of the burden of the 2008 food price crisis, both as producers and consumers. The impacts of the crisis have changed and/or magnified...
View ArticleTackling Child Vulnerabilities through Social Protection: Lessons from West...
This report synthesises learning from child-sensitive social protection programmes in Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Congo, and Senegal. A child-sensitive approach to social protection needs to...
View ArticleRethinking Social Protection Using a Gender Lens
To what extent is social protection programming reinforcing women's traditional roles and responsibilities, or helping to transform gender relations in economic and social spheres? How can policy and...
View ArticlePublic Works and Employment Programmes: Towards a Long-term Developmental...
How can public works programmes deliver longer-lasting development impact? This paper notes that few Public Employment Programmes (PEPs) have been implemented on a scale large enough to address...
View ArticleUsing Technology to Deliver Social Protection: Exploring Opportunities and Risks
What are the opportunities and risks of using information and communications technology (ICT) to deliver social protection? This article considers experiences from southern Africa, focusing on pilot...
View ArticleDelivering Money: Cash Transfer Mechanisms in Emergencies
This report offers guidance on assessing the different options for cash delivery. It also explores the potential for stronger partnerships with private sector providers and looks at developments in the...
View ArticleSocial Protection and Poverty
What is the potential for social protection programmes to address poverty and vulnerability in developing countries? This comprehensive report provides an overview of social protection and an...
View ArticleLessons from Social Protection Programme Implementation in Kenya, Zambia and...
In what ways can social protection programming with its investments in human capital (through education, health and nutrition) stop the intergenerational transfer of poverty? This study examines social...
View ArticleCapital, Capacities and Collaboration: the Multiple Roles of Community...
Recent experiences demonstrate the significance of collective savings among low-income urban citizens in developing countries. Such practices have helped to raise incomes, consolidate and protect...
View ArticleChildren and Social Protection in the Middle East and North Africa: A Mapping...
This study maps child-sensitive social protection initiatives in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), where children are typically overrepresented among the poor. It also considers the main actors...
View ArticleCash Transfers: Evidence Paper
What impact do cash transfers have on reducing poverty and increasing the resilience of poor households? This paper assesses the evidence and looks at the extent to which it can be generalised. It...
View ArticleThe Politics of Social Protection: What do we get from a 'social contract'...
There have been growing calls to reframe social protection in terms of extending the 'social contract' to the poorest groups. This is often understood as relocating social protection within a broader...
View ArticleSocial Protection Floor for a Fair and Inclusive Globalization
This report outlines recommendations on how to extend social protection coverage through the social protection floor approach. A social protection floor involves an integrated set of nationally-driven...
View ArticleWalking the Talk: Cash Transfers and Gender Dynamics
Do cash transfers (CTs) in emergency contexts currently benefit women and contribute to women's empowerment? How can NGOs and donors develop more gender-sensitive CT programmes that help to redress...
View ArticleAddressing Inequality: Framing Social Protection in National Development...
This article argues that social protection will be most effective in reducing inequality when integrated in a coherent and redistributive national development strategy (NDS). An NDS provides an...
View ArticleSocial Protection, Efficiency and Growth
This paper considers the evidence on the cost of social protection to reduce poverty, and its contribution to efficiency and growth. It finds that social protection is one mechanism for making growth...
View ArticleIs there a Role for Cash Transfers in Climate Change Adaptation?
This article argues that cash transfers are likely to contribute to adaptive capacity by: (1) meeting basic needs; (2) helping the poor respond to climate-related shocks; (3) helping vulnerable...
View ArticleIntroduction: 'Gender and Development' Special Issue on Social Protection
s journal issue examines how social protection has been understood and implemented by the state, NGOs, and community organisations, and the impact of different initiatives on gender equality and...
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