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The USAID- and PEPFAR-funded MEASURE Evaluation project conducted a six-country study for insight on current approaches to case management delivery and the cost of those approaches.
This brief outlines the findings from the Government Capacity Building and Support project, in South Africa, which Pact implemented with support from three partners…
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Little is known about how much it costs to implement services for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), such as case management. When cost estimate data are available, the ranges for unit expenditures are strikingly wide and it is difficult to compare across programs or intervention service areas. Case management—a cornerstone of OVC programming and the platform on which OVC services are delivered—is largely conducted by community-based case workers (CWs). Research shows that CWs contribute meaningfully to HIV service delivery, impacting the social determinants…
Cash transfers to households are becoming an increasingly common policy instrument for reducing poverty in some countries of sub-Saharan Africa. Many of today’s cash transfer programs operate as donor-funded pilot studies which are not always modelled at the design stage to estimate their cost and impact on household poverty when run at scale. Basic ‘microsimulation’ tools, widely used in developed economies since the 1960s, are necessary in order to make the calculations needed to model the effects of social welfare reforms or tax reforms, and can also be applied to cash transfer schemes in…
The purpose of this paper is to investigate and help shed light on what progress has been made in the social development sector - besides the payment of social grants - to advance the rights of vulnerable children in South Africa. More specifically, it focuses on those programmes and interventions that may be grouped together under the term ‘social welfare services.’ The kind of services that traditionally form part of this area of work include, to name but a few examples, interventions (including children’s court services) where children are victim to or at risk of abuse, neglect or…
This paper discusses the available literature relating to the cost of care and support for people who are infected and affected by HIV/AIDS in South Africa. The focus is primarily on orphans for this allows us to acknowledge the need for HIV/AIDS management interventions to incorporate those affected, but not necessarily infected by HIV/ AIDS, and to cover the issue of ‘support’. We conclude the paper by outlining areas requiring more research, in view of our argument that South Africa still has some way towards the design and implementation of an effective care and support strategy.
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