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  Measuring health and well-being of young people in the Transfer Project

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2015

  This policy brief addresses the knowledge gap that exists about the effectiveness of cash transfer programmes to impact young people’s health, development and well-being.
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  Public works: an effective safety net for the poor?

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2009

  Rigorous evaluations of the impacts of public works programmes in low and middle income countries are limited. Programmes can be successful in terms of targeting poor people, as well as generating short-term employment and income gains for participants. However, there is less evidence in terms of sustainable income gains and the benefits to poor people from the assets created.
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  Participatory Vulnerability Analysis: a step–by–step guide for field staff

  ActionAid International, 2004

  This guide is developed to assist field workers and communities to analyse people’s vulnerability, draw action plans, mobilise resources and enact appropriate policies, laws and strategies to reduce their vulnerability to disaster. This guide is specifically developed consistent with the PVA approach to: 
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  Cash-transfer programming in emergencies: pocket cards

  Oxfam, 2006

  These 15 cards contain key elements on how to assess whether cash is the most appropriate response to any particular emergency.Three types of cash interventions are compared - cash grants, vouchers and cash-for-work. Benefits and disadvantages of all three forms are presented, and related issues such as community targeting and security of delivery are touched upon.
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  Pro-poor macroeconomic policies require poverty and social impact analysis

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2003

  This paper shows that in the PRGF (Poverty Reduction Growth Facility) the IMF continues to use the same rigid economic model and fails to recognise that different macroeconomic policy options exist. It then provides examples of the considerable work also going on outside the IMF on developing techniques for PSIA of macroeconomic frameworks, which the fund has failed to take an active role in.
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  Social protection in Asia and the Pacific

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2002

  The publication is a practical and comprehensive manual for policy-makers and professionals in the field.