The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic (“COVID-19”) in Africa at the beginning of 2020 has buoyed awareness amongst African governments to increase financial resources for social assistance schemes and reach people affected by restriction measures put in...
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Nigeria’s 'In Care of the People' (COPE) conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme was launched in 2007 across 12 of Nigeria's 36 federated states (National Poverty Eradication Programme 2007). Although some states in Nigeria have other CCT programmes of...
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In Southern Africa, in the past 10 years there has been an increase in expenditure on social protection programmes. While these are often conceived of primarily in terms of smoothing consumption patterns and alleviating the most severe forms of poverty, they...
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In the framework of efforts to fight extreme poverty and recognizing the importance and need to protect the poor and vulnerable population, in 2007 Mozambique approved Law No. 4/2007 which structured social protection into three levels, including basic social...
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