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Devereux, Stephen
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How to Make ‘Cash Plus’ Work: Linking cash transfers to services and sectors
The broad-ranging benefits of cash transfers are now widely recognized. However, the evidence base highlights that they often fall short in achieving longer-term and second-order impacts related to nutrition, learning outcomes and morbidity. In recognitio
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Researching the Linkages Between Social Protection and Children’s Care in Rwanda: The VUP and its effects on child wellbeing, care and family reunification
This research investigates the links between the Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme (VUP), child well-being, children’s care and family reunification. It is part of a wider study on the linkages between social protection and children’s care in Rwanda, Ghana a
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Choice, Dignity and Empowerment: Cash and food transfers in Swaziland
The Emergency Drought Response (EDR) project introduced cash transfers as a response to the food crisis of 2007/08 in Swaziland. Some 6,200 households (close to 40,000 people) in two severely affected regions received a half ration of food (maize, beans a
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Making cash count. Lessons from cash transfer schemes in east and southern Africa for supporting the most vulnerable children and households
In the light of chronic poverty, food insecurity and increasing HIV and AIDS in east and southern Africa, there is a growing recognition by policy-makers and practitioners of the importance of cash transfers for reaching vulnerable children and households
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Strengthening national responses to children affected by HIV/AIDS. What is the role of the State and social welfare in Africa? Background paper for Wilton Park Conference, November 2005
This paper from UNICEF provides an overview of the situation of children affected by HIV and AIDS, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. It assesses the current policy directed at responding to these children's needs and the role of different institutions i