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

Cash transfers (CTs) have been increasingly used in low-and middle-income countries as a
poverty reduction and social protection tool. Despite their potential for empowering …

Executive summary The last decade has seen social protection gaining centrality in the
development agenda of many African countries. Several factors explain this heightened …

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 …

Targeting is a much, if not the most, contested element of social protection policymaking,
programme design and implementation. In debates and contestations, targeting and …

Background One of the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals is to 'promote
gender equality and empower women'(United Nations Millenium Project 2005). Providing …

Over the last decade, social safety nets (SSNs) have rapidly expanded in Africa, becoming a
core strategy for addressing poverty, responding to shocks, increasing productivity and …

This paper examines the contribution of social protection to social inclusion. It draws on the
work by Babajanian and Hagen-Zanker (2012), which offers a framework for researching …

Despite strong economic growth in Nigeria, 54% of the population remains living in poverty.
Of significant concern is the fact that, despite recent forecasts that poverty may be reducing …

Over the last decade, social safety nets (SSNs) have rapidly expanded in Africa, becoming a
core strategy for addressing poverty, responding to shocks, increasing productivity and …