There is a growing realisation of the importance of strenghthening the preventive, developmental, promotive, transformative, integrative and re-integrative context of social protection in sub-saharan Africa - through ensuring that poor and vulnerable people are linked to labour market and...

This paper provides an overview of the development of the conceptual framework underlying social protection programming and policy among the key international development institutions active in this sector. It sets out the historical, institutional and political factors underlying the current...

The 2009 European Report on Development analyses the costs and characteristics of fragility (Section 1), the capacity of fragile countries to cope with negative shocks such as the 2008-09 financial crisis (Section 2), and the EU’s current engagement with fragile countries as well as the...