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This webinar, hosted by the Cash Transfer and Child Protection Task Force, was held on Tuesday, 16 Apr 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 (EST, New York). The objective was to discuss the newly released report, “Cash Transfer Programming and Child Protection in Humanitarian Action: Review and Opportunities to Strengthen the Evidence” developed by Layal Sarrouh with support from Hannah Thompson and Christina Torsein of Proteknon Consulting Group. The report summarizes the evidence for cash transfer programming and child protection in humanitarian contexts and recommends…
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…
A regional Save the Children participatory research initiative was undertaken to build knowledge on endogenous care practices within families and communities, especially informal kinship care, in order to better understand how the practice works and provide recommendations for programming to increase the care and protection of children. The research was conducted in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, and was primarily qualitative and exploratory. Similar research was underway in Niger and was…
At the core of social protection is a concern for addressing vulnerability and risk. It is increasingly understood that social protection policy frameworks and programmes must be informed by a recognition of the diversity of vulnerabilities and risks, and the way in which these evolve across the lifecycle. This report focuses on children’s vulnerabilities and risks related to an absence of protection from violence, abuse and neglect, and the ways in which measures to address such vulnerabilities and risks can be more effectively integrated into social protection policy frameworks in the West…
This paper discusses a series of challenges (both constraints and opportunities) for building stronger social protection systems in West and Central, a region where formal social protection systems have historically been extremely weak but where the need for mechanisms to protect and empower the vulnerable is perhaps greater than anywhere. Poverty rates remain very high across most of the 24 countries in the region, and progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has lagged behind all other regions of the world.
After a brief review of the main factors of…
This document contains an updated list of literature and bibliographies concerning children and families affected by HIV/AIDS around the world. Resource topics include education, child headed households, care for children and families, community mobilization and capacity building, socio-economic impact and microeconomic response, evaluation and assessment, costing interventions and national response, situational analysis, law and policy, psychosocial issues, scaling-up and older care providers. Most of the resources are focused on sub-Saharan Africa.
There is wide acceptance of the five key strategies for addressing the needs of orphans and vulnerable children that are presented in The Framework for the Protection, Care and Support of Orphans and Vulnerable Children Living in a World with HIV and AIDS and Children on the Brink. Economic strengthening is an important component of the first three of these strategies (strengthening family capacities, strengthening community capacities, and ensuring children’s access to essential services).
The present study was carried out in recognition of the importance of economic…