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4 May 2016
Published by: Taylor & Francis Online
This article investigates how well South Africa's Child Support Grant (CSG) responds to the material and psychosocial needs of adolescents, and the resultant effects on schooling and risky behaviour.
25 April 2016
Published by: Sage Journals
Targeting as a mechanism for allocating scarce public resources efficiently and equitably has recently come under sustained attack, for both pragmatic reasons and ethical reasons. Universalism is offered as a fairer and more inclusive alternative, although universal programmes are sometimes erroneously conflated with categorically targeted programmes.
5 April 2016
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper examines the linkages between social protection and resilience to climate change among poor rural households. To date there is a very limited understanding of the potential role of social protection programmes in contributing to an increase in resilience of the rural poor with respect to climate change.
During this seminar, Keetie Roelen and Disa Sjöblom will discuss work on child-sensitive social protection in South Asia, including a study on the child-sensitivity of government-implemented social protection programmes in Nepal and experiences with Save the Children's Child-Sensitive Social Protection (CSSP) programming in Bangladesh, India and Nepal.
1 April 2016
Published by: Elsevier
This paper identifies several positive synergies between social protection programmes and enhanced entitlements to food.
15 March 2016
Welcome to the thirty fourth issue of the Centre for Social Protection Newsletter.
1 March 2016
Published by: Concern Worldwide
This final evaluation report on the 'Enhancing the Productive Capacity of Extremely Poor People' project in Rwanda summarises and compares the findings from several rounds of surveys as well as qualitative fieldwork.
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is collaborating with the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) to conduct an impact evaluation of the Social Cash Transfer (SCT) programme in Oromia and SNNP Regions of Ethiopia for UNICEF Ethiopia.
2 February 2016
1 January 2016
Published by: Family for Every Child
This research investigates the impact of the Child Support and Foster Child grants in South Africa on children's care. It examines the effect of these grants on the quality of children's care and on decisions about who will provide care to children. It also explores implementation issues regarding both grants and proposes options for making support more effective and efficient.