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RHVP communications & advocacy strategy
2005
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Social assistance in low income countries database, DFID
2005, Barrientos, A., Smith, R.
The database aims to: - provide a summary of the evidence available on the effectiveness of social assistance interventions in developing countries, with special reference to low income countries;…
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Social transfers and chronic poverty: emerging evidence and the challenge ahead
2005
In summary, the evidence suggests that social transfers may have a role in contributing to a range of MDGs in very poor countries. But it is difficult to draw definitive conclusions given the absence of…
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Southern Africa's food and humanitarian crisis of 2001-04: causes and lessons, Discussion Paper, Agricultural Economic Society Annual Conference, Nottingham
2005, Wiggins, S.
In trying to understand the nature of event, it useful to think of it as a set of four layered crises. At the base, there is widespread chronic poverty in Southern Africa that leaves the majority of the…
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The pilot social cash transfer scheme, Kalomo district, Zambia
2005, Schubert, B.
This working paper presents a review and analysis of the Kalomo Pilot Social Cash Transfer Scheme, initiated in November 2003 by the Ministry of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS) of the…
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The use of household economy approaches to provide information for the design of social protection policies and programmes (draft)
2005, Seaman, J., Petit, C.
This report presents a method for predicting the need for social protection and for modelling possible outcomes of policy choices. It is based on the tried and tested methodology of Household Economy analysis…
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What do cash based responses imply for the international food aid system? Cash and emergency relief: conference debates
2005, ODI
(ODI)
Closing Plenary Session: Where next for cash based responses? The intention of this session was to consider what cash responses mean for both donors and aid agencies: what key outstanding questions and…
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Win or lose? An examination of the use of public works as a social protection instrument in situations of chronic poverty
2005, McCord, A.
This paper agues that public works programmes appear to be protected from the scrutiny and criticism to which other social protection instruments are subject, and to dominate alternative options as the…
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Beyond the continuum: the changing role of aid policy in protracted crises, Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG)
2004, Harmer, A and Macrae, J
This year?s review of trends examines how the international development aid system is becoming increasingly engaged in situations which, for many years, have been seen as largely the preserve of the humanitarian…
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Coping Strategies in Post-War Rural Mozambique
2004, Bruck, T.
This paper analyses post-war coping strategies by farm households in developing countries. The analysis is based on a portfolio model of activity choices in war-affected rural Sub-Saharan Africa. A case…
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Development of food security and vulnerability information systems in southern Africa: the experience of Save the Children UK
2004, Marsland, N.
Critical learning points come from an exploration of the development of both institutions and methodologies in the Southern African context. The paper draws out key issues from different ?stages? of development…
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DFID policy paper on social protection (draft). ODI
2004, Shepherd, A et al.
This paper argues that well designed social protection can have a positive rather than a restraining impact on economic growth (and therefore on the first MDG) and can help to shape the pattern of economic…
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Food security: what have we learnt from the southern Africa crisis
2004, Cromwell, E.
(ODI)
Firstly, market-based economic development will not thrive in the region by the efforts of the private sector alone. Specific policy incentives which encourage NGOs and community-based organisations to…
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Hunger and vulnerability in southern Africa: A DFID regional strategy paper
2004
DFID will develop a three year programme of support for improved food security in the region. Building on the analysis we have set out, and in partnership with other donors, this work will focus on four…
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Recasting food aid's role: policy brief
2004, Barrett, C., Maxwell, D.
Significant policy and operational changes could make food aid a far more effective tool for reducing poverty and hunger while reducing costs. Key reforms include: - Negotiate a new Global Food…
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Roles of and Alternatives to Food Aid in Southern Africa: A report to Oxfam
2004, Mousseau, F.
This report is structured in four distinct parts: - The first one revisits the response to the food crisis, with a specific consideration to the genesis of the crisis in Malawi in 2001-2002.
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The Effects of Market Reform on Maize Marketing Margins in South Africa, MSU International Development Working Paper # 83
2004, Traub, L.N., Jayne, T.S.
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The implications of HIV/AIDS on social protection
2004, Slater, R.
This paper makes the following policy conclusions and recommendations: - Singling out the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a special and unique kind of crisis can be useful for directing resources and political…
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The underlying causes of the food security crisis in the southern Africa region - Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe
2004, Drimie, S.
This research specifically sets out to: - Develop a brief outline of the extent of the crisis in the region over the 2002-2003 and 2003- 2004 periods;
- Review the impacts of HIV/AIDS on…
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Transformative social protection, IDS Working Paper # 232
2004, Devereux, S., Sabates-Wheeler, R.
Social protection describes all public and private initiatives that provide income or consumption transfers to the poor, protect the vulnerable against livelihood risks, and enhance the social status and…
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