Millions of pounds of international development funds are invested annually in social
protection programmes to tackle poverty. Poverty is perpetuated by risk and vulnerability …

Despite decades of evidence on the gendered patterns of poverty and vulnerability, and the
knowledge that progress on women's empowerment and gender equality contributes to the …

Box 1: Poverty and vulnerability as a gendered experience 11 Box 2: Monitoring and
evaluation indicators for gender-aware social protection 35 Box 3: How do you do gender …

Social protection may be high on the policy agenda in international development circles, but
the way it plays out in practice at national and local level is deeply political, especially so …

Drawing from a 2010 study of women receiving the Child Support Grant in an urban area of
South Africa, this article discusses the link between social protection, women's …

A gender lens was applied in an empirical study to assess the dynamics and policy
implications of one of South Africa's largest social protection programmes, the Child Support …

The reduction of poverty after the demise of apartheid is attributed largely to South Africa's
expansive social protection program. A key driver of this growth has been the Child Support …

... possibly the most comprehensive contribution to a detailed and thorough analysis of
gendered dimensions of international poverty contexts, causes, and consequences ever …

Executive summary The importance of social protection has become increasingly
recognised in recent years, especially in the wake of the recent food price and global …

The idea that women bear a disproportionate and growing burden of poverty at a global
scale, often encapsulated in the concept of a 'feminization of poverty', has become a virtual …