Social protection in Africa /
Frank Ellis, Stephen Devereux, Philip White.
- xii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Part I: Themes 1. Overview 2. Vulnerability 3. Targeting 4. Delivery 5. Coordination and coverage 6. Cost-effectiveness 7. Market effects 8. Asset protection and building 9. Lesson learning: strengths, weaknesses and the state of the art Part II: Case studies from southern Africa 10. Introduction to the case studies Case studies: 1. Old age pension, Lesotho 2. Food subsidy programme, Mozambique 3. Public works programmes, Malawi 4. Dowa emergency cash transfer, Malawi 5. Social cash transfers, Zambia 6. Urban food programme, Zimbabwe 7. Food assistance programme, Mozambique 8. School feeding, Lesotho 9. Neighbourhood care points for orphans and vulnerable children, Swaziland 10. Education material fairs, Mozambique 11. Input subsidy programme, Malawi 12. Food security pack, Zambia 13. Input trade fairs, Mozambique 14. Chiefs' fields for orphans and vulnerable children, Swaziland 15. Small livestock transfers, Zimbabwe
The purpose of this book is to make accessible to a broad audience the ideas, principles and practicalities of establishing effective social protection in Africa. It focuses on the major shift in strategy for tackling hunger and vulnerability, from emergency responses mainly in the form of food transfers to predictable cash transfers to the chronically poorest social groups. The diverse case studies in this book provide a unique and timely exploration of the effective, and less effective, ways that social transfers are delivered to the chronically poor and vulnerable in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Humanitarian assistance--Africa. Economic assistance--Africa. International relief--Africa.