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Education access and retention for educationally marginalised children: innovations in social protection
Mobile Task Team on the Impact of HIV/AIDS on Education, 2005This report looks at the effectiveness of social protection programmes for educationally marginalised children (EMC) in Eastern and Southern Africa.DocumentUsing social transfers to scale up equitable access to education and health services
Department for International Development, UK, 2006This paper focuses on the impact of one form of demand-side policy option – social transfers, particularly cash transfers and vouchers - on access to health and education services by the extreme poor.DocumentPROGRESA and its impacts on the welfare of rural households in Mexico
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005In early 1998, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) was asked to assist the PROGRESA administration to "determine if PROGRESA is functioning in practice as it is intended to by design".DocumentA new approach to social assistance: Latin America’s experience with conditional cash transfer programs
World Bank, 2004This paper reviews the experience of the Latin America and Caribbean region in introducing conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes which provide money to poor families conditional upon investments in human capital, usually sending children to school and/or bringing them to health centers on a regular basis.DocumentDelivery mechanisms of cash transfer programs to the poor in Bangladesh
World Bank, 2005This paper examines the practical issues and financial costs of delivering cash benefits from source to recipients. An analysis of cost-effective mechanisms for this purpose is also presented.The study analyses three alternative delivery methods used in Bangladesh. Issues concerning targeting and the leakage of funds is also examined.DocumentCan low income countries afford basic social protection?: first results of a modelling exercise
International Labour Organization, 2005This report presents the methodology and the results of a modelling exercise that demonstrates that basic social protection benefits are not out of reach for low-income countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, even though some international assistance would be necessary for a transitory period.DocumentMinimum Income for School Attendance (MISA) initiative: achieving international development goals in African least developed countries
International Labour Organization, 2001In some Latin American countries, an innovative approach has been introduced to reduce poverty, to enhance the human capital of the poor and to combat child labour. The approach involves providing a minimum income to the poorest and most vulnerable families, conditional on regular school attendance by all their children of school going age.DocumentThe role of cash transfers in tackling childhood poverty
Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004This 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 andDocumentTargeting of transfers in developing countries: review of lessons and experience
World Bank, 2004This book provides a general review of experiences and lessons learned with methods used to target interventions in developing countries.DocumentDoes Chronic Poverty Matter in Uganda?
Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2006This policy brief describes the circumstances of the chronically poor in Uganda, and offers a range of suggestions on programmes and areas for attention to support the Ugandan government's social protection agenda.The paper specifically notes the need for efforts to target very poor households.Pages