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WOMEN & CASH TRANSFERS – SOCIAL PROTECTION – RESEARCH ON CASH TRANSFERS: BENEFICIARY & COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES

 

http://transformingcashtransfers.org/

 

Woman receives a cash transfer lifeline in Yemen © some rights reserved by Oxfam International, 2012 (Flickr)

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

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 (Kenya’s Cash Transfers for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (CT-OVC) programme, Mozambique’s Basic Social Subsidy Programme (PSSB), and Uganda’s 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 Africa’s 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