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Social Protection for Social Justice

Published by: IDS

The articles in this IDS Bulletin are drawn from a conference hosted by the Centre for Social Protection at IDS in April 2011.

Politics of Citizenship: Experiencing State-Society Relations from the Margins

This introduction discusses the articles in this Special Issue, which are all focused on exploring the everyday interactions between marginalised individuals and groups and the state in contemporary India.

Designing Social Protection as an Effective and Sustainable Investment

Published by: IDS

Social protection is a dynamic and innovative response to poverty and vulnerability.

Transforming Livelihoods for Resilient Futures: How to Facilitate Graduation in Social Protection Programmes

Published by: Future Agricultures Consortium

The vision for graduation rests on the assumption of the existence of a large population of low-productivity, risk-prone and often poor households.

Transformative Social Protection Programming for Children and their Carers: a Gender Perspective

Published by: Taylor and Francis

Although social protection has gained substantial attention in recent years as a development measure and long-term response to poverty and vulnerability, it is also being increasingly criticised for failing to pay adequate attention to differences between social groups and the different problems they face in terms of access and take-up of provisions and services.

Interactions of ‘Power’ in the Making and Shaping of Social Policy

This paper focuses on the interactions of power as analysed through the formulation story of a recently enacted social policy, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), India.

Lessons from the Children and AIDS Regional Initiative (CARI): Child and HIV Sensitive Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa

Published by: UNICEF ESARO

This documentation explores child- and HIV-sensitive social protection implemented under the umbrella of CARI in five of nine selected countries within the Eastern and Southern Africa region (ESAR): Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland and Tanzania.