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  Issues in labour market inequality and women’s participation in India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme

  International Labour Organization, 2011

  The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (MGNREGP or NREGP), functions as an income supplement for poor households by providing 100 days of work to a rural household, with 33 per cent of all workdays reserved for women workers.
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  Occupational health and safety and the poorest

  Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing, 2011

  This report addresses the role of employment in efforts to reduce poverty in the context of increased globalisation and its impacts on labour markets. Worldwide, countries are experiencing a decline of jobs with secure and lasting contracts and work-related social benefits.
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  Social protection programmes contribute to HIV prevention

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2015

  This brief describes the pathways through which social protection contributes to HIV prevention, particularly in addressing the social, economic and structural drivers of HIV in adolescents.
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  Connect with Respect: preventing gender-based violence in schools; classroom programme for students in early secondary school (ages 11-14)

  UNESCO Bangkok, 2016

  Students learn best in schools that provide safety and social support. However, some young people experience violence and harassment in, around, and on the way to school. This includes gender-based violence (GBV), which can take many different forms and can negatively impact students’ learning.
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  How does a national poverty programme influence sexual debut among Kenyan adolescents?

  Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2016

  Cash transfer programmes have recently emerged as promising interventions for HIV prevention among adolescents in Africa. However, the precise mechanisms through which risk reduction occurs are not well understood.
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  Ghana LEAP programme increases schooling outcomes

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2015

  There is a growing body of literature analysing the impacts of social cash transfer programmes (SCT) on schooling. This brief summarizes findings from the impact evaluation of the Ghana Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme on schooling outcomes overall and for various subgroups: by sex, age group and cognitive ability. 
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  The State of Food and Agriculture: social protection and agriculture: breaking the cycle of rural poverty

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2015

  This edition of The State of Food and Agriculture 2015 reviews the effectiveness of social protection interventions in reducing poverty, raising food consumption, relieving household food insecurity and hunger, and promoting longer-term improvements in nutrition. It is argued that social protection programmes are effective at reducing poverty and hunger.
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  Cash for women's empowerment? A mixed-methods evaluation of the government of Zambia's Child Grant Programme

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2016

  Social cash transfer programmes in developing countries are often claimed to benefit the empowerment of women, despite a lack of clear evidence supporting this outcome.
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  Cash transfer programmes, poverty reduction and empowerment of women: a comparative analysis

  International Labour Organization, 2013

  This working paper is a comparative analysis of selected cash transfer programmes (CTPs) from Brazil, Chile, India, Mexico and South Africa that aims to better understand how to increase the impact of CTPs on women’s poverty alleviation and economic empowerment.
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  Cash transfer programmes, poverty reduction and empowerment of women in South Africa

  International Labour Organization, 2015

  This country study of cash transfer programmes, poverty reduction and economic empowerment of women in South Africa forms part of a comparative analysis with Brazil, Chile, India, and Mexico. The report provides an overview of the social assistance system in South Africa, looking into the policy objectives, types and levels of social grants as well as how these are administered.

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