Institute of Development Studies

CSP Conference 2011 Papers

All papers are conference drafts to the Centre for Social Protection conference 'Social Protection for Social Justice' held at the Institute of Development Studies, UK from 13th to 15th April 2011.

All papers are the copyright of their authors who should be contacted prior to any use.

Opening Plenary Panel

Theme 1. Constructing democratic governance: social protection and new social contracts

Theme 2. Social protection and transformation of social and economic drivers of vulnerability

Theme 3. Social protection and sustainable adaptation to climate and environmental change

Theme 4. Social protection, inequality and redistributive justice

Conference Directors

Allister McGregor and Stephen Devereux

Opening Plenary Panel

0.1 Adésínà, J.O. (2011) 'Rethinking the Social Protection Paradigm: Social Policy in Africa’s Development' 

0.2 Morgan, R. and Yablonski, J. (2011) 'Addressing, not just managing vulnerability: Policies and Practice for Equity and Transformation'

0.3 Devereux Social protection for social justice (presentation only)

Theme 1. Constructing democratic governance: social protection and new social contracts

Convenors: Dolf te Lintelo and Deepta Chopra

1.1. Conceptualising social protection for social justice

1.1.1 Hickey A social justice approach to social protection (presentation only)

1.1.2 Kabeer, N. (2011) ' The Politics and Practicalities of Universalism: a Contribution-Based Perspective on Social Protection'

1.1.3 Babajanian Conceptualising social justice and social protection (not currently available)

1.2. Constructing social contracts: what role for external actors?

1.2.1 de Haan, A. (2011) 'The Rise of Social Protection in Development: Progress and Pitfalls'

1.2.2 Harland, C. (2011) 'Can the Expansion of Social Protection Bring About Social Transformation in African Countries? The Case of Zambia'

1.2.3 Schüring, E. and Lawson-McDowall, J. (2011) 'Social Protection in Zambia – Whose Politics?'

1.3. Constructing social contracts: the role of domestic actors

1.3.1 Hassan, S. (2011) 'Rights, Activism and the Poor in India: Supreme Court and the ‘Right to Food Case’'

1.3.2 Sanubi, F.A. (2011) 'Social Protection as a Residual Safety Net in Democratic Governance in Nigeria: A Critical Analysis of Some Current Policy Initiatives'

1.3.3 Ofreneo, R.P. (2011) 'The Rights-Based People’s Social Protection Agenda: Interweaving Social, Gender and Environmental Justice'

1.4. The politics of implementation: MGNREGA in India

1.4.1 Chopra MGNREGA and social contracts in India (presentation only)

1.4.2 Vij, N. (2011) 'Building Capacities for Empowerment: the Missing Link between Social Protection and Social Justice Case of Social Audits in Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India'

1.4.3 Narayan Implementation of MGNREGA in India (withdrawn)

1.5. Actors and agents in social protection delivery 

1.5.1 Tessitore, S. (2011) 'One Step Beyond: Redefining the Role of Recipients as Citizens in Social Protection Programming and Policy'

1.5.2 Sholkamy Social workers and cash transfers in Egypt (not currently available)

1.5.3 Te Lintelo Informal social protection and the state (presentation only)

Theme 2. Social protection and transformation of social and economic drivers of vulnerability

Convenor: Keetie Roelen 

2.1. Coping and social protection in fragile contexts 

2.1.1 Osofisan, W. (2011) 'Towards Strengthening State-Citizen Relationship in Fragile States and Environments: The Role of Cash Transfer Programmes'

2.1.2 Alabi, O.D. (2011) 'Social Transformation & Economic Empowerment of Vulnerable Populations: the Case of Sierra Leone'

2.1.3 Garde, M., Dornan, P. and Espinoza, P. (2011) Exploring the Links between Social Protection Programmes and Household Coping with Shocks

2.2. Social protection and the politics of marginalisation 

2.2.1 Jha, A. (2011) 'Enhancing the Social Status of the Marginalized – ‘Recipients’ to ‘Owners’'

2.2.2 Thaha Affirmative action for Muslims in India (not currently available)

2.2.3 Schneider, M., Waliuya, W., Barrett, S., Musanje, J. and Swartz, L. (2011) '“Because I am Disabled I Should Get a Grant”: Including Disability in Social Protection Programmes'

2.3. Gender, social protection and social justice

2.3.1 Jones, N. and Holmes, R. (2011) 'If Gender ‘Makes Development and Economic Sense’, why is Social Protection Gender-Blind? The Politics of Gender and Social Protection'

2.3.2 Evans, M. (2011) 'Single Mothers in Malaysia: Social Protection as an Exercise of Definition in Search of Solution'

2.3.3 Devereux, S. and Solomon, C. (2011) 'Can Social Protection Deliver Social Justice for Farmwomen in South Africa?'

2.4. Social protection and children 

2.4.1 Roelen, K. and Sabates-Wheeler, R. (2011) ' A Child Sensitive Approach to Social Protection: Serving Practical and Strategic Needs'

2.4.2 Whiteford, P. and Yoshihara, R. (2011) 'Social Protection in Small Island States in the Pacific: A Case Study of Child Wellbeing in Vanuatu'

2.4.3 Hypher, N. (2011) 'The Role of Social Protection in Achieving Equitable Reduction of Child Mortality'

2.5. Social vulnerabilities and social protection 

2.5.1 Hochfield, T. and Plagerson, S. (2011) 'The Social Construction of the Cash Transfer Mother in Soweto, South Africa: The Emergence of Social Stigma?'

2.5.2 MacAuslan, I. and Riemenschneider, N. (2011) ‘Richer but Resented: What do Cash Transfers do to Social Relations and does it Matter?’

2.5.3 Camfield, L. and Vennam, U. (2011) 'Security, Productivity and “Social Equity”? A Community-Level Exploration of Tensions Within the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme'

2.6. Social protection for sustainable vulnerability reduction

2.6.1 Abdulla, A., MacAuslan, I. and Schofield, L. (2011) 'Vulnerability Reduction in Kenya's Urban Slums'

2.6.2 Adjei Social protection and social justice in Ghana (not available)

2.6.3 Uraguchi, Z.B. (2011) 'Social Protection for Redistributive Justice: Socio-economic and Political Drivers of Vulnerability to Food Insecurity in Bangladesh and Ethiopia'

Theme 3. Social protection and sustainable adaptation to climate and environmental change 

Convenor: Chris Béné

3.1. Climate change, disasters, and social protection 

Siegel, P.B. and Jorgensen, S. (2011) 'No-Regrets Approach to Increased Resilience and Climate Change Justice: Toward a Risk-Adjusted Social Protection Floor'

3.1.2 Davies, M., Béné, C., Arnall, A. and Newsham, A. (2011) 'Promoting Climate-Resilient Livelihoods through Adaptive Social Protection: The Case of the Agricultural Sector in South Asia'

3.1.3 Cannon Disasters and social protection (presentation only)

3.2. Social protection for climate change adaptation

3.2.1 Bonfiglioli, A. and Watson, C. (2011) ' Bringing Social Protection Down to Earth: Integrating Climate Resilience and Social Protection for the Most Vulnerable'

3.2.2 Siegel, P.B., Gatsinzi, J. and Kettlewell, A. (2011) 'Adaptive Social Protection in Rwanda: A No-Regrets Approach to Increased Resilience in Territorial Planning Context'

3.2.3 Godfrey Wood, R. (2011) 'Is there a Role for Cash Transfers in Climate Change Adaptation?'

Theme 4. Social protection, inequality and redistributive justice

Convenors: Rachel Sabates-Wheeler and Gabriele Koehler 

4.1. Alternative visions for rights-based social protection 

4.1.1 Carroll, K. (2011) 'The Case for Social Protection within a National Development Strategy Framework'

4.1.2 Koehler, G. (2011) 'Transformative Social Protection: Reflections on South Asian Policy Experiences'

4.1.3 Datta Strengthening social assistance governance in India (not currently available)

4.2. Framing welfare and welfare regimes in social protection 

4.2.1 Tiwari, I.P. (2011) 'State Welfarism and Social Welfare Policy (Protection Policy) in Asia: A Quadripartite Indistinct/Sluggish Nexus of International Propagandas, Slothful State, Moribund Family, and Right-prone Individual?'

4.2.2 Ehmke, E. (2011) 'Socio-political Ideas and Political Society in the Indian Welfare Trajectory'

4.2.3 Fryer Neoliberalism and social spending in South Africa (not currently available)

4.3. Ensuring access to social protection and social rights 

4.3.1 Fischer, A.M. (2011) 'The Demographic Imperative of Scaling Up Social Protection'

4.3.2 MacAuslan, I. and Sabates-Wheeler, R. (2011) 'Structures of Access to Social Protection for Migrants'

4.3.3 Nefdt, W., Colvin, C., Stuttaford, M. and London, L. (2011) 'The Role of Social Capital among Civil Society Organisations for Realising the Right to Health and Social Justice'

4.4. Social protection, inequality and economic empowerment 

4.4.1 Sansour, M. and Zahran, N. (2011) 'Reducing Vulnerability through Economic Empowerment: A New Approach to Social Protection in Palestine'

4.4.2 De Los Rios, J. and Trivelli, C. (2011) 'Savings Mobilization in Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Seeking Mid-term Impacts'

4.4.3 Staunton, C. (2011) 'Hard Cash in Hard Times: a Social Accounting Matrix Multiplier Analysis of Cash Transfers and Food Aid in Rural Zimbawe'

4.5. Social justice in global social protection agendas 

4.5.1 van Ginneken, W. (2011) 'Social Protection and the Millennium Development Goals: Towards a Human Rights-based Approach'

4.5.2 Cichon The Social Protection Floor (presentation only)

4.5.3 Marcadent Social assistance and the Decent Work Agenda (presentation only)