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Social protection has become an inherent element of the development response and is one of the success stories of development policy in...
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Social protection has become an inherent element of the development response and is one of the success stories of development policy in...
Published by: University of South Africa
The recent occurrences of famine in Ethiopia and Southern Africa have propelled this key issue back into the public arena for the first...
Published by: Routledge
Published by: Routledge
Conventional approaches to poverty assessment are dominated by narrow measures of current household income, expenditure and consumption....
Published by: IDS
We live in a highly food insecure world. Although global food supplies are more than adequate, the latest United Nations ‘Report on...
Published by: John Wiley and Sons
Minimum wage legislation aims to reduce poverty by raising the wages of the poorest workers towards or above the poverty line. Despite...
During 1999 and 2000, between 10,000 and 100,000 people died in the Somali region of Ethiopia, following three consecutive years of...
Published by: Taylor & Francis Online
Graduation programmes are innovative because they combine regular cash transfers with livelihood promotion and – most innovatively – a combination of training and tailored coaching. The latter is sometimes considered the ‘X-factor’ in the graduation model, but little evidence exists regarding its role in affecting change. This paper presents findings from a mixed methods evaluation of a graduation programme in Burundi. We find that (i) training and coaching are important complements to cash and material support in achieving positive change, (ii) positive effects extend to the wider community, and (iii) continuous, tailored, and positively engaging modes of messaging are imperative for achieving change.
Published by: IDS
Famine: Lessons Learned was produced as the world was responding to four potential famines simultaneously – in Nigeria, South Sudan, Yemen and Somalia.
Published by: UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti
The broad-ranging benefits of cash transfers are now widely recognized. However, the evidence base highlights that they often fall short in achieving longer-term and second-order impacts related to nutrition, learning outcomes and morbidity.