This report investigates beneficiary and community perspectives on the Senior Citizens Grant (SCG) in Uganda. This is one of six country reports for the DFID commissioned project: Transforming cash transfers: beneficiary and community perspectives on social protection programming. Each report...
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Social protection and social grants
by Paul Bukuluki, Carol Watson in 2013
by Andrew Charman in 2013
This presentation argues that social protection programmes that focus on enhancing agricultural productivity within small farms can provide a short-term pathway out of poverty. Input transfers are (cost and programme) effective when targeted broadly, and led to improved maize and cash crop...
by Marito Garcia, Charity MT Moore in 2012
This World Bank publication identifies more than 120 cash transfer programs that were implemented between 2000 and mid-2009 in Sub-Saharan Africa. These programs have varying objectives, targeting, scale, conditions, technologies, and more. A sizable number of these programs conducted robust...
by David Neves, Andries Du Toit in 2013
The livelihoods of South Africa's rural African poor have long been characterized by diverse activities, and intertwined with urban opportunities. This paper examines the interlinked nature of land, employment and rural livelihoods within contemporary South Africa, in order to examine aspects of...
by Alex Dubb in 2012
This paper argues that the rise and decline of small-scale sugarcane grower (SSG) production in KwaZulu-Natal must be historically located within a changing structural relationship with miller-processors, in turn conditioned by shifts in regulatory frameworks. Critically, the emergence of SSG...