The Pacific Islands are one of the sub-regions in the world most affected by the impacts of climate change and natural disasters (Ras and Fabris 2021). Classed as Small Developing Island States (SIDS), Pacific countries are particularly susceptible to...
Pastoral communities around the world are building on their centuries-old coping strategies to complement their traditional herding practices with alternative means of livelihood. In the Afar region of north-east Ethiopia, in addition to rearing...
After Prospera , Mexico in on a path to introduce a scholarship scheme – that is, something similar to a high school conditional cash transfer (CCT) program targeted by age and with no particular poverty criteria. This resembles Prepa Sì , an urban CCT...
Civil society organisations have been mobilizing resources and human force to tackle Brazil’s historical sub-habitation and social exclusion problems. This blog will analyse the case of TETO Brasil, its intervention methods, objectives and concrete...
Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) to stop the spread of COVID-19 hit the poor and informal workers in Indonesia particularly hard. Does the government of Indonesia’s (GoI) social protection and labor response consider those most in need? Government...
This blog post was originally published by BRAC UPGI’s website. Please check it here . By Arinaitwe Shammah, Technical Specialist, BRAC Uganda When one thinks of Uganda, what images generally come to mind? A resilient nation with the second youngest...
Let’s begin with a refresher on the effects of cash transfers on child nutrition ! Manley et al updated a database of impact evaluations now including 129 estimates and found that cash reduces both stunting and wasting, but only by 1.3%. Also,...
Let me start this week with a somewhat cautionary tale about providing transfers at very low levels. Prifti et al study the effects of the Social Cash Transfer program in Tigray, Ethiopia, on children’s labor and school attendance . What did they find?...
Let’s start with a smile! Does money make people happier? McGuire et al review the impact of 38 cash transfer studies on measures of subjective well-being . They find that after about 2 years, the average effect of CTs is 0.10 standard deviations in an...
Addressing the pertinent question of the future of social protection in East Africa, on 22nd June, socialprotection.org hosted a webinar presenting the recently published report “Social Protection in East Africa: Harnessing the Future”, and was led by...
