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Transformative Social Protection

Published by: IDS

Social protection describes all public and private initiatives that provide income or consumption transfers to the poor, protect the vulnerable against livelihood risks, and enhance the social status and rights of the marginalised; with the overall objective of reducing the economic and social vulnerability of poor, vulnerable and marginalised groups.

Making Sense of Gender in Shifting Institutional Contexts: Some Reflections on Gender Mainstreaming

Published by: IDS

For many speakers at the ‘Gender Myths and Feminist Fables’ conference, on which this IDS Bulletin is based, gender mainstreaming...

MFIs with a Poverty mandate should go beyond “knowing the market” to assessing their impact on clients’, “Crossfire” debate with Damian von Stauffenberg (founder of the first microfinance rating agency)

Microfinance, Poverty and Social Performance

Published by: IDS

This IDS Bulletin presents wide-ranging contributions from the three-year Imp-Act programme of action research, a partnership of 30 MFOs in 20 countries and three UK universities.

Institutional Complexity and Resource Access in Transition: the Challenges of Co-operation for Rural Livelihood Improvement

Final Report prepared for SSRU of the Department for International Development (DfID), Project No. R8172.

Extending Social Protection to Informal Workers in the Horticulture Global Value Chain

Globalisation has led to important changes in the nature of work, and workers access to social protection. In large parts of the global economy work is becoming increasingly informalised, both in important global export sectors as well as domestic production.

Ensuring Impact: Reaching the Poorest while Building Financially Self-Sufficient Institutions, and Showing Improvement in the Lives of the Poorest Women and Their Families

Published by: Kumarian Press

In Daley-Harris (Ed.), Pathways Out of Poverty, Connecticut, USA: Kumarian Press

Social Pensions in Namibia and South Africa

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This paper documents the history of the pension in both countries and presents evidence on its economic, demographic and social impacts in Namibia. Apart from providing non-covariate income against livelihood shocks such as drought, the social pension stimulates local trade, enhances the status of elderly family members, and contributes to the costs of primary and secondary education.

Food Insecurity in Ethiopia

A discussion paper for DFID Food insecurity in Ethiopia derives directly from dependence on undiversified livelihoods based on...