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.

Such programmes include in-kind and in-cash transfers, and food for work initiatives. Social assistance programmes are a part of social welfare and must include clear child care policies that protect children and strengthen family and community capacities to access services and provide care.

Cash transfers are a means of financially supporting the most vulnerable households to improve the child’s access to essential goods and services, such as health and education. They include the use of child support grants, child and family allowances and targeted and conditional cash transfers. They may be combined with investment in child education and health services, and redistributive tax policies.

In-kind transfers provide access to essential goods and services instead of cash payments. Conditional cash transfers provide money to poor families on achieving certain actions, such as sending children to school.

Social assistance programmes may struggle to target those most in need, and provide sustainable support. Economic policies, including social assistance, and household economic strengthening, require substantial research, monitoring, and gatekeeping to ensure that the poorest and most vulnerable are reached and that long term benefits can be achieved for families, including child headed households.

The literature in this section provides country examples and analyses of social assistance programs, focusing primarily on cash transfer schemes.

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ការគាំទ្រកុមារក្នុងអំឡុងពេលនៃជំងឺកូវីដ១៩តាមរយៈការឧបត្ថម្ភសាច់ប្រាក់ - Cash Transfer

Family Care First, 25 Mar 2021

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Opportunities to improve the system of social protection of graduates of institutional institutions in Uzbekistan

Zaitov E. Kh, Abdukhalilov A. A - Academica: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal , 2021

The article analyzes the results of a sociological study of the prospects for improving the system of social protection of graduates of institutional institutions in Uzbekistan.

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State of the Social Service Workforce Report 2020: Responding, Adapting and Innovating During COVID-19, and Beyond

The Global Social Service Workforce Alliance, 2021

Drawing from a review of global reports and case studies, as well as from information sourced from Global Social Service Workforce Alliance members, this report explores the key challenges social service organizations and workers have faced since the beginning of the pandemic and showcases how they have been able to adapt and innovate in response to such challenges.

Have social protection responses to Covid-19 undermined or supported gender equality?

Rebecca Holmes and Abigail Hunt - ODI, 2021

This paper draws on two case studies – South Africa and Kerala, India – to discuss the gender implications of social protection responses to Covid-19 in 2020.

Buenas prácticas en la prestación de servicios de cuidado residencial de la niñez y adolescencia en Guatemala (Informe completo)

Changing the Way We Care, 2021

Estudio orientado a la transformación de servicios de cuidado residencial a familiar y comunitario de la niñez y adolescencia en Guatemala.

Supporting Families and Children Beyond COVID-19: Social protection in high-income countries

UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 01 Dec 2020

This new UNICEF Innocenti report explores how the social and economic impact of the pandemic is likely to affect children; the initial government responses to the crisis; and how future public policies could be optimized to better support children.

Social protection for families with children and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean: An imperative to address the impact of COVID-19

ECLAC-UNICEF, 01 Dec 2020

This report showcases the centrality and urgency of social protection for families with children and adolescents in the COVID-19 context.

COVID-19 and Food Security in Ethiopia: Do Social Protection Programs Protect?

Abay, Kibrom A.; Berhane, Guush; Hoddinott, John; Tafere, Kibrom - World Bank, 01 Nov 2020

This paper assesses the impact of Ethiopia's flagship social protection program, the Productive Safety Net Program on the adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the food and nutrition security of households, mothers, and children.

Connecting Cash Transfers with Care for Better Child and Family Well-Being: Evidence from a Qualitative Evaluation in South Africa

Leila Patel & Eleanor Ross - Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 29 Oct 2020

This study provides evidence from an evaluation of a bespoke family strengthening intervention for Child Support Grant beneficiaries in 10 urban communities in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Social Protection and Child Protection: How to Join Forces to Protect Children from the Impact of COVID-19 and Beyond (Provisional Release)

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, 08 Oct 2020

The objective of this guidance is to lay out key arguments for close collaboration across Social Protection and Child Protection to address the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on children and families towards reduction of adverse Child Protection outcomes.