Livelihoods and social protection
Many developing countries lack social welfare systems, placing large numbers of poor people at risk from economic and natural shocks and stresses. Livelihoods thinking has been influential in the evolution of transformative social protection that seeks to provide, protect and promote livelihoods assets and strategies. More….
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- How Adaptive Social Protection can benefit the agricultural sector in south Asia
- ( A. Arnall;K. Oswald;M. Davies;T. Mitchell;C. Coirolo / Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK , 2010)
- The concept of Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) refers to a series of measures which aims to build resilience of the poorest and most vulnerable people to climate change by combining elements of socia...
- Integrating climatic-disasters prevention and risk-management tools in Madagascar and Haiti
- ( L. Bockel;M. Thoreux;S., D. Sayagh / EASYPol , 2009)
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Lack of resilience to climatic accidents seems to be one of the main reasons for the transformation of climatic accidents into environmental, economic and social disasters for rural communities.&nb...
- Adaptive social protection - a framework for adjusting to climate change
- ( M. Davies;J. Leavy / Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK , 2010)
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This brief argues that social protection initiatives are as much at risk from climate change as other development approaches. The authors think that these initiatives are unlikely to succeed in red...
- Microfinance and the broader social responsibilities
- ( Microfinance Gateway, CGAP , 2008)
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Microfinance has proven successful but if it is to continue to be viable and receive support, microfinance institutions (MFIs) must be able to demonstrate that they are fulfilling their mission as ...
- An overview of existing social protection programmes and childhood poverty in West and Central Africa
- ( R. Holmes;T. Braunholtz-Speight / Overseas Development Institute, London , 2009)
- This report seeks to provide an overview of existing social protection policy and programming initiatives in the West and Central Africa and to assess the extent to which these address the particular ...
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