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This policy brief from the World Bank provides an overview of cash transfers in African countries. The brief defines “cash transfers” and their uses. The brief also lists key design elements of cash transfer programs in Africa, including the opportunities for innovation that cash transfer programs create, the accountability mechanisms in place, and the monitoring and evaluation. The brief highlights the differences between conditional and unconditional transfers and cash and non-cash transfers and the evidence on whether conditional or unconditional transfers are a better model. The brief…
Over the last decade, research in basic human development has revealed that institutional care - particularly when used to serve children under five - is not an appropriate form of alternative care, and instead of protecting children can put them at further risk of harm. Efforts have been made to transition international thinking away from the use of orphanage-based systems and toward providing family-based care. With this in mind, the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute’s (CCAI) The Way Forward Project brought together a group of…
The chapters featured in this report offer a prognosis on the future of street children and offers recommendations to government and non-governmental bodies on how to help these children. The first chapter reviews the survey data on street-connected youth to uncover more information about who the street children are, the problems they face, and the prospects they have. The second chapter uses this data to inform recommendations related to meeting the needs of these children.
Department of Sociology, University of Ghana for the Department of Social Welfare and Save the Children Fund (UK)