WUNRN
WOMEN & CASH TRANSFERS SOCIAL PROTECTION RESEARCH
ON CASH TRANSFERS: BENEFICIARY & COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES
http://transformingcashtransfers.org/
Elderly woman receives a cash transfer
lifeline in Yemen - Oxfam International (Flickr)
SOCIAL PROTECTION PATHWAYS: SHAPING SOCIAL
JUSTICE OUTCOMES FOR THE MOST MARGINALISED, NOW & POST 2015
http://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/8390.pdf - 16 Pages
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Holding Cash Transfers to Account: Beneficiary and
Community Perspectives
Full Report - Holding Cash Transfers to Account:
Beneficiary and Community Perspectives - pdf, 79 Pages
http://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/8380.pdf
This report summarises key features of the
cash transfer programme in each country and the extent to which programme
objectives address empowerment, social justice, social cohesion and
citizenship alongside economic vulnerability. It considers positive
experiences and concerns at the individual, household and community levels, as
well as beneficiary and community views on programme governance and
accountability.
This
synthesis report presents qualitative and participatory research findings on
beneficiary and community perceptions of five unconditional cash transfer
programmes: two in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region (the
Palestinian National Cash Transfer Programme (PNCTP) in Gaza and the West Bank,
and the Social Welfare Fund (SWF) in Yemen); and three in sub-Saharan Africa
(Kenyas Cash Transfers for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (CT-OVC) programme,
Mozambiques Basic Social Subsidy Programme (PSSB), and Ugandas Senior Citizen
Grant (SCG), part of the Social Assistance Grants for Empowerment (SAGE)
programme).
In
light of the recent global financial crisis and ongoing debates among the
international community as to key global development priorities post-2015, social
protection is increasingly seen as essential not just to tackle rising levels
of
risk and vulnerability but also to promote social inclusion and social justice.
While
the MENA region has a long history of formal social protection, sub-Saharan
Africas experience is much more recent. Across both regions, social protection
policy and programming has largely focused on a short-term safety net approach.
While this support is important, its limitations have become evident, leading
to calls for social protection to address the longer-term and structural
causes of poverty and vulnerability, including the social inequalities that
perpetuate poverty such as gender inequality, unequal citizenship status, and
displacement.
This
report aims therefore to contribute to discussions about the role Social
protection can play in tackling the broad range of sociopolitical
vulnerabilities that affect poor and marginalized people, as well as its
potential for strengthening social justice and buttressing the state-citizen
contract.
Alternative Ethnographic Research on Cash Transfers: December 2, 2014
Analysis:
http://www.irinnews.org/report/100907/cash-transfers-good-for-people-bad-for-the-community