10 November 2022
Social protection in a time of global uncertainty: what’s next?
In just two decades since the early 2000s, social protection established itself as a vibrant social policy sector in countries across...
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10 November 2022
In just two decades since the early 2000s, social protection established itself as a vibrant social policy sector in countries across...
13 September 2022
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.
3 May 2022
Published by: Wiley
To increase the effectiveness of social assistance on child nutrition, programmes are increasingly combined with behaviour change...
29 April 2022
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...
30 March 2022
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.
30 March 2022
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.
25 March 2022
27 January 2022
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.
7 October 2021
Published by: PLOS
To strengthen the impact of cash transfers, these interventions have begun to be packaged as cash-plus programmes, combining cash with...
30 March 2021
It is widely recognised that poverty undermines early childhood development (ECD). In turn, poor childhood development reinforces the...