Malawi and Livelihoods
- Capital:
Lilongwe - Population:
15447500 - Size:
118480.0 Km2
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- Safety nets: reducing risk and encouraging development
- Lynn Brown; Ugo Gentilini / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
- Providing ‘safety nets’ during food shortages involves distributing food or cash. This is a common short-term relief strategy to food shortages. Many economists claim that these discourage economic development, but safety ne...
- Protecting against poverty and vulnerability in Malawi
- Stephen Devereux; Bob Baulch; Ian Macauslan / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
- Levels of poverty and vulnerability in Malawi are very high. And many poor people are vulnerable to falling deeper into poverty. A key reason is inability to cope with increasing exposure to sudden and unexpected changes (shocks). Wha...
- How can food aid support womens' role in food crises?
- ActionAid International, 2007
- Women are often at the centre of food crises and are disproportionately affected by hunger, yet their central role in providing solutions is often overlooked. This discussion paper lays out some of the key issues in modern food crises...
- Beating the hungry season through food and cash transfers in Malawi
- Stephen Devereux; Peter Mvula; Colette Solomon / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
- Humanitarian responses to food crises usually involve providing food or cash aid. Both approaches have their limitations. In Malawi, the success of Concern Worldwide’s Food and Cash Transfers Project justifies using a complementa...
- Direct cash transfers are a cost-effective way to reduce extreme poverty: findings from Malawi
- B. Schubert; M. Huijbregts / United Nations Children's Fund, 2006
- Evidence from a pilot social cash transfer programme in Malawi indicates that it is a cost-effective, quick way to meet the basic needs of ultra-poor households whose members are unable to work. This report shares experiences and less...
- Cash not food: new emergency response trialed in Southern Africa
- Paul Harvey; Kevin Savage / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
- Oxfam’s response to predictions of acute food insecurity in Malawi and Zambia in 2005–2006 included cash transfers as an alternative to emergency food aid. Recipients were able to purchase the equivalent of a standard food a...
- Assessing the effectiveness and impacts of direct welfare transfers in Malawi
- Concern Universal International, Malawi, 2006
- This briefing paper documents the lessons learnt from the Dedza Safety Nets Pilot Project (DSNPP) in Malawi. The DSNPP compared the impact of all three DWT systems, i.e. cash, voucher and in-kind transfers on chronic poverty and vulne...
- Finds little evidence for the educational impact of cash transfers
- F. Reimers; C. da Silva; E. Trevino / UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2006
- This paper examines the educational effects of conditional cash transfers (CCT) for education. The study finds that based on the evidence reviewed in this paper, there is very limited support for the conclusion that CCTs are effective...
- Argues for increased cooperation between social protection initiatives and the education sector
- Mobile Task Team on the Impact of HIV/AIDS on Education, 2005
- This report looks at the effectiveness of social protection programmes for educationally marginalised children (EMC) in Eastern and Southern Africa. The purpose of the education review was to: identify sectoral players ...
- Alternative humanitarian assistance for food insecure southern Africa
- P. Harvey; K. Savage / Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2006
- In response to predictions of an impending food crisis in southern Africa in 2005 - 2006, Oxfam deployed a relief response. As an alternative to emergency food aid, the agency undertook cash transfer schemes in both Malawi and Zambia....
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