It is to the credit of the Zambian leadership and the development community that a great deal of momentum for nutrition has been built in the past few years. The level of undernutrition in Zambia is high and persistent, with almost one in every two...
Institutions and agencies involved: Institute of Development Studies, IDS
The overall results from the collection of evaluation reports over the four-year period of 2010–2014 demonstrate unequivocally that common perceptions about cash transfers—that they are a handout and cause dependency, or lead to alcohol and tobacco...
Institutions and agencies involved: American Institutes for Research, AIR
Minister in the Office of the Vice-President Sylvia Chalikosa says over 18,000 households who were affected by food insecurity due to an El Nino in 2015/2016 have received K11.3 million support through the emergency cash transfer. The Direct Response...
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Organiser: EU Social Protection Systems Programme, EU-SPS
The WFP Centre of Excellence launched a new publication that gathers five papers about social protection in African countries. Called “Case studies on social protection and food and nutrition security”, the publication promotes knowledge sharing and...
Institutions and agencies involved: World Food Programme, WFP, Economic Policy Research Institute, EPRI
When the Patriotic Front (PF) gained power in Zambia in 2011 on a pro-poor ticket, with a promise to ‘put money into people’s pockets’, the PF President was actively searching for policy instruments that could help him to fulfil this pledge, including a...
Can universal social protection be achieved through a single program? Our new book offers a framework to navigate the universal basic income (UBI) debate , one of the hottest globally. Based on three years of work involving 12 authors, new estimates and...
The study adopted a mixture of both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to gather the data. Primary data was collected from 7 markets in 2 districts (Chisamba & Chibombo). This approach included conducting individual interviews with the...
Institutions and agencies involved: Plan International
Let’s begin with a big question: how are cash transfers institutionalized in Africa? Lavers and Hickey chart the pathways for cash transfers absorption into government structures . Such process occurs in two distinct ways: one involves an initial “push”...
The views, thoughts, and opinions presented in this blog post belong to its author(s). They are not necessarily shared by socialprotection.org. There can be no excuse for the fact that child labour has increased for the first time in two decades. World...