Social Protection Policies and Programmes

Poverty affects both the quality and length of children’s lives, reduces the ability of families to adequately provide for their children, and is a significant cause of family breakdown and child separation. Social assistance programmes aim to reduce child poverty and act as a safety net for families with minimal resources.

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Andrew Dunn,

Country level evaluation of contributing factors to the establishment of an alternative care system.

Arkadi Toritsyn,

Project Evaluation Report for UNICEF Moldova

Steering Committee of the IATT on Children and HIV and AIDS,

Evaluates AIDS mitigation and targeting with child sensitive objectives and global guidance

Florence Martin and Tata Sudrajat, Save the Children, Indonesia Ministry of Social Affairs, UNICEF,

Comprehensive evaluation of national responses and level of care standards for children without parental care in Indonesia.

Tatiana Feitosa de Britto, International Poverty Centre,

Provides analysis of the historical background and current structure of El Salvador's conditional cash transfer programme with attention to family integration

Fábio Veras Soares, Rafael Perez Ribas, Rafael Guerreiro Osório,

Evaluates targeting and human capital impacts of Brazil's Bolsa Familia Program in comparison with Mexico's Oportunidades, and Chile's Chile Solidario.

Kathy Lindert, Anja Linder, Jason Hobbs, and Bénédicte de la Brière,

Highlights key features of the the Bolsa Familia conditional cash transfer (CCT) Program, such as its design and implementation.

Interagency Task Team (IATT) on Children and HIV and AIDS: Working Group on Social Protection,

A 4-page advocacy document outlining the potential benefit of cash transfers in the context of children and AIDS.

UNICEF,

Brief overview of a project designed to give monetary aid to poor families. Program seeks to reduce poverty while promoting health and education.

Kalie Pauw and Liberty Mncube,

Examines constraints to expansion of the social welfare net in South Africa. Cites substitution taking place within the social budget since education and health expenditures have already declined in favour of increased welfare transfer expenditures.