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Searching with a thematic focus on Children and young people, Poverty, Social protection, Livelihoods

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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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  Making cash count: lessons from cash transfer schemes in east and southern Africa for supporting the most vulnerable children and households

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This study reviews unconditional cash transfers in 15 countries of east and southern Africa. It examines four programmes in more depth, in Ethiopia, Lesotho, Mozambique and Zambia, with an emphasis on design issues such as cost-effectiveness, accuracy of targeting, delivery modalities, institutionalisation and potential for scaling up.
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  At all costs?: applying the means test for the Child Support Grant

  Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, 2005

  This paper estimates the cost of the means test for the Child Support Grant (CSG) in South Africa to Government and to applicants.The main findings include: the mean cost to the government (DSD and SAPS) of applying the means test is estimated at R165 020 million under the current regulationsthe average cost to CSG applicants, in complying with the requirements of the means test, is
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  The equality predicament: report on the world social situation 2005

  UN, 2005

  This report traces the trends and patterns in economic and non-economic aspects of inequality and examines their causes and consequences across and within regions and countries.
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  How does working as a child affect wage, income and poverty as an adult?

  World Bank, 2005

  This study assesses the future poverty impact of child labour. Drawing on empircal evidence from Brazil, the report examines the trends and tradeoffs between education and child labour.
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  Social security for children in the context of AIDS: questioning the state's response

  Medical Research Council, South Africa, 2004

  This paper argues that the existing state security provision is not a sufficient mechanism to support poor orphans and vulnerable children.
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  Children in need of care or in need of cash? Questioning social security provisions for orphans in the context of the South African AIDS pandemic

  Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, 2003

  The South African debate on social security provision for children in the context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic has focussed primarily on different mechanisms for giving cash grants to children who have been orphaned.

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