Social protection has emerged as a strategy to minimize climate change impacts by building
the resilience of vulnerable communities. It is increasingly being used in disaster risk …

The one billion people living with disabilities globally already face a heightened risk of
poverty, which will likely be exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic unless interventions to …

Targeting is the process by which specific populations, usually 'the poor', are identified and
reached to receive development programmes. There are various approaches which are …

In most global south countries, various informal institutions provide welfare to a large
segment of the neglected, poor and vulnerable populations through informal social …

Despite the centrality of shame and stigma within research on welfare in high-income
countries, these issues only exist within the periphery of rapidly expanding practice in and …

While access to support for individuals with disabilities has attracted international attention,
children with disabilities and their families continue to face a range of barriers that limit their …

While people with disabilities are often targeted as key beneficiaries of social protection,
there is little evidence available on their participation in existing programmes. This study …

It is one of the great paradoxes of social security that neoliberals–the advocates of low taxes
and low social spending–can appear as the champions of the “poor” and the …

Disability-targeted cash transfers are increasingly used by governments in low-and middle-
income countries as a tool to address poverty and exclusion among people with disabilities …

Purpose This study seeks to gain an understanding of access to rehabilitation services and
disability allowances for children with disabilities and their families from the perspectives of …