South Africa and Livelihoods
- Capital:
Pretoria - Population:
49000000 - Size:
1219912.0 Km2
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- Khanya's experiences using livelihoods approaches in the Free State, South Africa
- I. Goldman; M. Roos; E. Jacobs / Eldis Document Store, 2001
- Can a Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) approach help to develop a more pro-poor plan? Can the SL framework be amended to make it a more useful tool for community based planning? If the use of the SL approach is to make a difference to pro...
- Climate change, vulnerability and adaptation
- S. Eriksen; K. O'Brian; L. Rosentrater / Global Environmental Change and Human Security International Project Office, 2008
- In its most recent assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported that all of Africa is likely to warm during this century, with the drier subtropical regions warming more than the moist tropics. Annual rainfall is...
- Twenty cash transfer case studies from Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe
- Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2008
- Cash transfers are increasingly being used to address hunger and vulnerability in Sub Saharan Africa – often as an alternative to food aid. Such interventions have been informed by different models of social protection. In this ...
- Conditional cash transfers for South African children
- F. Lund; M. Noble; H. Barnes; G. Wright / School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2008
- This paper assesses the rationale behind Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) in South Africa. It looks at evidence of the reach and impact of major CCT programmes, particularly in Latin America, and the Child Support Grant (CSG) in South...
- Climate change and sub-Saharan Africa: points of vulnerability and potential for adaptation
- H. Connor; L. Mqadi; P. Mukheibir / HELIO International, 2007
- Africa is vulnerable to climate change on two fronts: firstly, because of existing vulnerabilities and secondly, due to capacity limitations for disaster mitigation and inability to adapt to climate change. There is an urgent nee...
- Extending the South African pension scheme to cover all of the elderly population
- Department of Social Development, Republic of South Africa, 2008
- The government of South Africa is undertaking retirement reform initiatives to establish a comprehensive social security system. The potential components of the system are a universal noncontributory system (or social assistance), a m...
- South Africa’s Child Support Grant (CSG)
- J.M. Aguero; M.R. Carter; I. Woolard / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
- This paper estimates the impact of South Africa’s Child Support Grant (CSG) on child nutrition as measured by child height-for-age. It finds that large dosages of CSG treatment early in life significantly boosts child height. Wh...
- How politics can shape poverty reduction efforts
- S. Hickey; T. Braunholtz-Speight / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2007
- This policy brief looks at the role that politics plays in shaping efforts towards poverty reduction. While this has received growing recognition within international development over the past decade, from the ‘good governance&r...
- The effects of having pensioners in the household on South African labour supply responses
- C. Ardington; A. Case; V. Hosegood / Research Program in Development Studies, Princeton University, 2007
- This paper quantifies the labour supply responses of prime-aged individuals to changes in the presence of old-age pensioners in their households, using longitudinal data collected in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The authors c...
- Comparing effectiveness of South Africa’s rural and urban development programmes
- D., Everatt; M., Smith; G. Solanki / Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2006
- This report is the third in a sequence that gives qualitative and quantitative data from socio-economic and demographic baseline studies in 21 South African areas (nodes) making up the Integrated Sustainable Rural Development Programm...
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