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Searching with a thematic focus on Livelihoods, Livelihoods social protection, Cash transfers, Poverty, Social protection

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    Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction and Social Protection

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
    This paper outlines linkages between climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction (DRR) and social protection.
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    Social protection in Africa: where next?

    Centre for Social Protection, 2010
    Has social protection in sub-Saharan Africa lost its way? Many countries now have social protection strategies. Emergency cash transfers have displaced or complemented food aid, some large-scale programmes have been introduced, others have been consolidated.
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    Cash transfers: to condition or not to condition?

    Eldis Gateway to Development and Environment Information, 2009
    In response to the recent food crisis and global financial crisis, the G-20 countries and the World Bank announced increased spending on social protection programmes, including cash-based systems.
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    Response to 'Targeting Social Cash Transfers' comment

    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 of this response suggests that the Comment is shaky, incoherent, defeatist, misguided and - in the final analysis - fatally flawed.The respondent argues that the comment is:
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    Electronic delivery of social cash transfers: lessons learned and opportunities for Africa

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2010
    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 to which recipients must travel to receive their benefit.
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    Cash transfers, gender and generational relations: evidence from a pilot project in Lesotho

    Overseas Development Institute, 2008
    This paper reviews the World Vision's 'Cash and Food Transfers Pilot Project' in Lesotho, focusing on the impact of cash transfers on gender relations. The paper highlights the concerns that cash transfer programmes may have significant negative gender impacts. I the suspicions about women's ability to control the use of cash within the household compared to certain types of in-kind assistance.
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    Conditional cash transfers: a ‘pathway to women’s empowerment’?

    Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC, 2008
    Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) provide mothers of school-age children in extreme poverty with a cash subsidy conditional on their children's attendance at school and health clinics. This paper assesses the evidence for the claim that these programmes empower women. It finds that:
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    A social pension in Zambia: perceptions of the cash transfer pilot in Katete

    HelpAge International, 2009
    The Government of Zambia, via its Ministry of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS), has been running a set of pilot cash transfers to test which could best form the basis of a national social protection system. The pilot being run in the Katete district transfers money to everyone over the age of 60 years, thus creating a form of social pension.
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    Social protection policy: responses to older people’s needs in Zanzibar

    HelpAge International, 2009
    Zanzibar runs a system of contributory pensions (the ZSSF) covering those employed in the public and formal sectors.  But overall, only about 40 per cent of older people receive any form of cash payment in their old age. Changing family structures, migration and general poverty have eroded traditional patterns of support, and even where support exists, it is normally inadequate.
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    Targeting social cash transfers

    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 concepts and inclusive concepts.

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