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    Living with our Bibi: a qualitative study of children living with grandmothers in the Nshamba area of north western Tanzania

    HelpAge International, 2008
    The Kwa Wazee Project works with grandparents and the grandchildren who live with them (generally orphaned as a result of HIV/AIDS) in the Kagera district of Tanzania. The main activity of the Project is to provide a cash transfer in the form of a pension to grandparents (mostly grandmothers). Grannies get small monthly pensions for themselves and for the grandchildren they support.
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    Cash transfers and child labour: an intriguing relationship

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2008
    Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes provide cash to poor households. In return, the households are expected to meet the conditionalities attached to schooling, among others. Several evaluations have found positive impacts on primary school attendance. This one page article considers how CCT programmes have impacted on Child Labour.
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    Social issues under economic transformation and integration in Vietnam, Volume 1

    Vietnam Development Forum, 2008
    Fast growth and integration has intensified social problems in Vietnam. New problems have also arisen. Rapidly urbanising areas are experiencing issues with street children, prostitution, and HIV/AIDS epidemic transmission. Nationally there are problems in the education system and social welfare, rising inequality, and in elderly populations.
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    Is there a rationale for conditional cash transfers for children in South Africa?

    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 Africa.
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    Innocenti Social Monitor 2006: understanding child poverty in South-Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States

    UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2006
    This study examines child poverty in the 20 countries of South-Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (SEE/CIS). It is designed to stimulate effective policy responses and action in these countries towards the decisive improvement of children’s lives.
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    Reducing child poverty with cash transfers: a sure thing?

    Consortium for Street Children, 2006
    Can cash transfer programmes targeted at children be effective in reducing childhood poverty? This article examines the effectiveness of three types of cash transfer programmes.
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    The role of cash transfers in tackling childhood poverty

    Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004
    This briefing paper focuses on the contribution one main social protection instrument - child-oriented cash transfers - can make to reducing childhood poverty and vulnerability.The paper argues that child-oriented cash transfers and wider social protection strategies can play an important role in reaching various Millennium Development Goals, including those on health, education, nutrition and
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    IDS In Focus Issue 1: Social Protection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    Social protection has come a long way in a short time. Ten years ago, it was a new phrase for social safety nets, and was limited to interventions that provided short-term support to people lacking the capacity to cope on their own.
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    Reviewing ten years of the School Nutrition Programme

    Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2005
    The South African School Nutrition Programme was established in 1994 to address the food needs of impoverished school children. However, researchers are divided about the policy value of the school nutrition programme, with one group wishing to expand the programme whilst the other advocates limiting its scope.
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    Ending child poverty and securing child rights: the role of social protection

    Plan, 2005
    This paper examines social protection interventions and how these relate to child rights. It specifically looks at social protection and child rights in relation to cash transfers, in-kind transfers, and microfinance.The author argues that social protection instruments, and in particular, cash transfers, have enormous potential to reduce child poverty.

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