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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.
7 July 2014
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
This article calls for a moment of pause to consider the current direction of social protection thinking and practice. It introduces a special issue in which a range of authors explore the relationship between social protection and social justice.
The Cairo Regional Bureau of the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Centre for Social Protection at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex conducted a scoping study of social protection programmes in the Middle East and North Africa region.
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.
1 March 2014
Published by: Elsevier
In recent years, conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have gained unprecedented popularity in the fight against poverty, and can now be found across the globe. Experience is most long-standing and widespread in Latin America, with almost every country in the region running a CCT program.
1 January 2014
Published by: IDS
Unpaid care work and social protection are intrinsically linked. In order to address this challenge, policies must recognise the value of women’s work, shift the burden of care work away from women and families and improve access to the vital services that will help improve women and girls’ wellbeing.
IDS led the evaluation of the Concern Worldwide graduation programme in Rwanda ‘Enhancing the Productive Capacity of Extremely Poor People’.