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SOCIAL PROTECTION - THE ROLE OF CASH
TRANSFERS
CONSIDER GENDER DIMENSIONS:
Example of excerpt: "The ability to measure
poverty and identify the poor is essential for designing any targeted transfer
programme.....A sharper form of geographical tareting is community targeting,
which presumably allows for better identification of the needy. However,
community-based programmes also have their local political demands and
prerequisites, their gender bias, their patronage and clientelism, and may run
counter to the universalistic cultures of local communities. They can exacerbate
local differentiation, be captured by local elites who may traditionally
sanction discrimination. In many cases, deliberate exercise of administrative
discretion has led to the exclusion of women....."
CASH TRANSFERS & SOCIAL
PROTECTION
The International Poverty Centre has a comprehensive research agenda on
cash transfer programmes. It is currently focused on comparative studies in
selected countries in
Latin America and
Sub-Saharan Africa. Research encompasses both quantitative and qualitative
methods and ex-ante and ex-post analyses of the impact of cash transfers on
poverty and inequality. Major funding for this research is currently provided by
the
UK Department for International
Development (DFID),
Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), and the UNDP
Regional Bureau for Africa.
They have been successful in middle-income countries, such as
Brazil, Mexico and South Africa. Now other Latin American countries and
low-income countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia are considering them as a
starting-point for integrated social protection systems.
This webpage highlights IPC publications on cash transfers and
includes other important research papers, evaluation reports and interviews on
the topic from multilateral organizations, NGOs, governments and practitioners.
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