Food security
- Electronic delivery of social cash transfers: lessons learned and opportunities for Africa
- ( Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme , 2010)
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Delivery of cash transfers typically involves a compromise between the cost of reaching recipients literally at the door of their homes, and the savings from providing them at a central point ...
- Response to 'Targeting Social Cash Transfers' comment
- ( C. Gorical / Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme , 2009)
- Responding to the paper Targeting Social Cash Transfers comment, (on the process of defining target groups and designing the targeting mechanism for the Malawi Social Cash Transfer Scheme), the author...
- Targeting social cash transfers
- ( B. Schubert / Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme , 2009)
- In the process of defining the target group for the Malawi Social Cash Transfer Scheme (SCTS) the Government had to choose between universal targeting and poverty targeting and between categorical con...
- "Ever upwardly mobile": how do cellphones benefit vulnerable people? Lessons from farming cooperatives in Lesotho
- ( K. Vincent;T. Cull;N. Freeland / Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme , 2009)
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While there is growing evidence of cash transfers reducing hunger and vulnerability, less is known about effective delivery mechanisms for such transfers, particularly in remote areas. In this resp...
- One out of ten: social cash transfer plots in Malawi and Zambia
- ( Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme , 2008)
- An explicit objective of the current social cash transfer (SCT) pilots in Malawi and Zambia is to learn lessons. Between them, these schemes, which are now operational in over ten districts, hav...
- REBA case study brief
- ( 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 mod...
- Regional Evidence Building Agenda (REBA) Thematic Briefs
- ( S. Devereux;F. Ellis;P. White / Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme , 2008)
- This series of briefs provides a regional synthesis of findings of 12 thematic studies and 20 individual case studies of social transfer schemes undertaken by the Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Pro...
- What will higher global food prices mean for poor consumers and small farmers in southern Africa?
- ( J. Koch;J. Rook / Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme , 2008)
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Rising food prices present a very real threat to ongoing efforts to combat poverty and hunger in southern Africa. However, this brief produced by the Regional Hunger & Vulnerability Programme (...
- The practitioners' guide to the household economy approach
- ( T. Boudreau / Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme , 2008)
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This document presents a guide to the Household Economy Approach (HEA). HEA is a livelihoods-based framework for analysing the way people obtain food, non-food goods and services, and how they migh...
- The social protection policy in Malawi: processes, politics and challenges
- ( B. Chinsinga / Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme , 2007)
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This paper analyses the evolution of Malawi's social protection policy which is nearing its completion. It is critical of the fact that there has been no accompanying nationwide debate a...
