Maximizing impact: The Intersection of Social Protection and Resilience
Published by: World Food Programme
This brief explores the relationship between social protection and resilience, aiming to clarify conceptual linkages and contribute to...
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Published by: World Food Programme
This brief explores the relationship between social protection and resilience, aiming to clarify conceptual linkages and contribute to...
Published by: IDS
Globally, our food systems are highly inequitable. In a world with enough food, hunger is becoming normalised for large numbers of...
This open access book compiles a series of chapters written by internationally recognized experts known for their in-depth but critical...
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper starts from an empirical observation that levels of hunger or food insecurity in middle-income and high-income countries are often higher than might be expected, and in some cases are rising rather than falling in recent years. We document levels and trends in selected food security indicators for three case study countries: Brazil, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Food systems are characterised by inequities in every component, from production through to consumption. This paper seeks to make sense of various perspectives and concepts that account for the multiple forms of inequity.
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper makes theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions to the study of social policy diffusion, drawing on the case of social protection in Africa, and Zambia in particular. We examine a range of tactics deployed by transnational agencies (TAs) to encourage the adoption of cash transfers by African governments, at the intersection between learning and coercion, which we term ‘coercive learning’, to draw attention to the important role played by TA-commissioned policy drafting, evidence generation, advocacy, and capacity-building activities.
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The relatively recent emergence and sustained rise of social protection as a policy agenda in Africa can be understood as either a nationally owned or ‘donor-driven’ process. While elements of both can be seen in different countries at different times, this paper focuses on the pivotal role of transnational actors, specifically international development agencies, as ‘policy pollinators’ for social protection.
Motivation Urban areas are growing as is urban poverty, yet few countries have developed comprehensive programmes for social assistance...
Published by: IDS
Evaluations of social protection interventions across Africa often register significant success in improving household food security indicators, but little or no improvement in individual nutritional outcomes. One reason is under-coverage of poor people; another is the low value of social transfers. This paper reviews experiences with social protection in six African countries – Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
Social protection is not explicitly mentioned as part of SDC’s strategic objectives 2017-2020 or listed as a SDC priority theme (as...