Maximizing impact: The Intersection of Social Protection and Resilience
Published by: World Food Programme
This brief explores the relationship between social protection and resilience, aiming to clarify conceptual linkages and contribute to...
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Published by: World Food Programme
This brief explores the relationship between social protection and resilience, aiming to clarify conceptual linkages and contribute to...
In this Centre for Social Protection international conference we will discuss and debate the past, present and future roles of social...
In just two decades since the early 2000s, social protection established itself as a vibrant social policy sector in countries across...
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Social assistance has proven a vital component of the response to the unprecedented global crisis of Covid-19. Almost all countries across the world implemented some form of social assistance to provide a buffer against the pandemic’s socioeconomic consequences.
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Millions of people around the world do not have access to adequate sanitation facilities, undermining progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 6.2 that calls for adequate and equitable sanitation for all.
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper makes theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions to the study of social policy diffusion, drawing on the case of social protection in Africa, and Zambia in particular. We examine a range of tactics deployed by transnational agencies (TAs) to encourage the adoption of cash transfers by African governments, at the intersection between learning and coercion, which we term ‘coercive learning’, to draw attention to the important role played by TA-commissioned policy drafting, evidence generation, advocacy, and capacity-building activities.
Published by: PLOS
To strengthen the impact of cash transfers, these interventions have begun to be packaged as cash-plus programmes, combining cash with...