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17 March 2015
Published by: IDS
The rapid ascendancy of social protection up the development policy agenda in the past ten to 15 years raises questions about whether its current prominence will be sustained, or whether it will turn out to be just another development fad that declines and ultimately disappears.
The European Commission's Advisory Service in Social Transfers' project (ASiST) aims to increase the contribution of social transfers to addressing food and nutrition security. The project gives advisory services as requested by EU delegations. These services include building capacity for the design of social transfer programmes, developing a body of knowledge and supporting the policy dialogue.
The 'Balancing unpaid care work and paid work: successes, challenges and lessons for women's economic empowerment programmes and policies' project aims to create knowledge about how women's economic empowerment (WEE) policy and programming can generate paid work that empowers women and provides more support for their unpaid care work responsibilities.
1 December 2014
Published by: IDS
From a biomedical perspective, non-communicable disease (NCD) is not a new problem, particularly in the global North. However, awareness of the increasing burden from these conditions in low- and middle-income countries (L&MICs) has only recently emerged in the arena of development policy and practice (Beaglehole et al. 2011).
18 November 2014
Published by: Taylor and Francis
Although detailed assessments of poverty and well-being are crucial for formulating adequate policies, all too often such assessments focus on average outcomes. In this paper we present an analysis of child well-being for Kazakhstan that moves beyond averages in two ways.
1 October 2014
Published by: Wiley
This paper uses quantitative and qualitative data collected by Young Lives, a longitudinal study of childhood poverty, to identify factors that contribute to households becoming or remaining poor in rural Ethiopia.
1 October 2014
Published by: Family for Every Child
This report investigates the links between child wellbeing, children's care, family cohesion and the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty Programme (LEAP). The Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty Programme (LEAP), a national social protection scheme, aims to reduce extreme poverty in the country and is centred on providing cash transfers to the most vulnerable.
This project will examine the future of social protection and the major issues and debates that are likely to dominate thinking around these issues in the next 5-10 years.
Nepal has expanded its investment in social protection over the last few years, with a National Framework for Social Protection drafted in 2011. However, the impact of social protection generally and on children is compromised by challenges in coverage, implementation and delivery. Save the Children commissioned IDS to assess how social protection addresses child poverty in Nepal in order to inform their advocacy at the national level.
1 April 2014
Published by: Family for Every Child
This research investigates the links between the Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme (VUP), child well-being, children's care and family reunification.