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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, 2015This 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.DocumentCash for women's empowerment? A mixed-methods evaluation of the government of Zambia's Child Grant Programme
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2016Social cash transfer programmes in developing countries are often claimed to benefit the empowerment of women, despite a lack of clear evidence supporting this outcome.DocumentCash transfer programmes, poverty reduction and empowerment of women: a comparative analysis
International Labour Organization, 2013This 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.DocumentCash transfer programmes, poverty reduction and empowerment of women in South Africa
International Labour Organization, 2015This 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.DocumentReport on cash transfer programmes (CTPs) from a human rights perspective
United Nations General Assembly, 2009Non-contributory cash transfer programmes (CTPs) provide payments in the form of cash to individuals or households with the key objective of increasing their real income in order to enable a minimum level of consumption within the household.DocumentSocial protection in Asia: research findings and policy lessons
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010This is a synthesis report from the Social Protection in Asia (SPA) policy-research and network- building programme, 2007-2010, funded by the Ford Foundation and IDRC.DocumentEngendering social security and protection: challenges for making social security and protection gender equitable
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2011The on-going negative impacts of the 2007/2008 global economic crisis has underlined the need for, and the role of social protection.DocumentSocial Protection Floors and gender equality: a brief overview
International Labour Organization, 2013This paper examines some of the linkages between gender inequality and social protection, recognising that effective and equitable access to social protection is a key tool for reducing poverty and inequality. The paper identifies various gender-specific vulnerabilities and inequalities in relation to women’s access to social protection.DocumentWomen workers and the politics of claims-making in a globalizing economy
Political and Social Economy of Care (UNRISD), 2015This paper draws on empirical studies to examine how the politics of claims-making by women workers in the Global South have evolved in the context of increased globalisation.DocumentWork and welfare: revisiting the linkages from a gender perspective
Political and Social Economy of Care (UNRISD), 2012This paper takes a gender perspective to examine the relationship between employment and social policy. It challenges key assumptions about the translation of patterns of growth into welfare outcomes that are made in most poverty- and inequality-reduction approaches.Pages