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Social Protection Intervention: Evaluation Research Design

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This paper describes the research design for investigating and evaluating the Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia (CLARISSA) social protection cash-plus intervention in a slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Behaviour Change Communication for Child Feeding in Social Assistance: A Scoping Review and Expert Consultation

Published by: Wiley

To increase the effectiveness of social assistance on child nutrition, programmes are increasingly combined with behaviour change...

Chicken or Egg? A Bi‑directional Analysis of Social Protection and Social Cohesion in Burundi and Haiti

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

A limited but growing number of studies point to mixed effects of social protection on social cohesion. Relatively little is known about...

Social Assistance and Covid-19: Reaching the Furthest Behind First?

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This briefing reviews experiences of social assistance measures in response to Covid-19 across low- and middle-income countries, and the extent to which these measures were inclusive of the most marginalised individuals or reached the furthest behind first.

Social Assistance in Response to Covid-19: Reaching the Furthest Behind First?

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Social assistance has proven a vital component of the response to the unprecedented global crisis of Covid-19. Almost all countries across the world implemented some form of social assistance to provide a buffer against the pandemic’s socioeconomic consequences.

Comprehensive Social Protection Programming: What is the Potential for Improving Sanitation Outcomes?

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Millions of people around the world do not have access to adequate sanitation facilities, undermining progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 6.2 that calls for adequate and equitable sanitation for all.

Effectiveness of Cash-plus Programmes on Early Childhood Outcomes Compared to Cash Transfers Alone: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis in Low- and Middle-income Countries

Published by: PLOS

To strengthen the impact of cash transfers, these interventions have begun to be packaged as cash-plus programmes, combining cash with...

Pathways to Stronger Futures? The Role of Social Protection in Reducing Psychological Risk Factors for Child Development in Haiti

It is widely recognised that poverty undermines early childhood development (ECD). In turn, poor childhood development reinforces the...