Urban Social Assistance: Evidence, Challenges and the Way Forward, with Application to Ghana
Motivation Urban areas are growing as is urban poverty, yet few countries have developed comprehensive programmes for social assistance...
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Motivation Urban areas are growing as is urban poverty, yet few countries have developed comprehensive programmes for social assistance...
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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...
Social protection has become an inherent element of the development response and is one of the success stories of development policy in...