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After the FACT: An Evaluation of Concern Worldwide’s Food and Cash Transfers Project in Three Districts of Malawi, 2006

Report prepared for Concern Worldwide, Malawi

Identification of Methods and Tools for Emergency Assessments to Distinguish between Chronic and Transitory Food Insecurity and to Evaluate the Effects of Various Types and Combinations of Shocks on these Different Livelihood Groups

Desk Review prepared for the Strengthening Emergency Needs Assessment Capacity (SENAC) Committee of the WFP

Social Protection in Africa

Published by: Edward Elgar Publishing

The purpose of this book is to make accessible to a broad audience the ideas, principles and practicalities of establishing effective social protection in Africa. It focuses on the major shift in strategy for tackling hunger and vulnerability, from emergency responses mainly in the form of food transfers to predictable cash transfers to the chronically poorest social groups. The diverse case studies in this book provide a unique and timely exploration of the effective, and less effective, ways that social transfers are delivered to the chronically poor and vulnerable in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Vulnerability to Chronic Poverty and Malnutrition in Malawi

The purpose of this project, is to develop a conceptual framework to improve the understanding of vulnerability to chronic poverty and...

New Directions for African Agriculture

Published by: IDS

This IDS Bulletin draws together contributions from a diverse range of researchers and development practitioners working in Africa, with the common goal of exploring why agriculture is contributing to poverty reduction and livelihood improvement in some places

Making Cash Count: Lessons from Cash Transfer Schemes in East and Southern Africa for supporting the most vulnerable children and households

This study was conducted as part of a UNICEF-commissioned review of social protection measures reaching the increasing numbers of vulnerable children in east and southern Africa.