Social transfers are increasingly seen as a key tool in Eastern and Southern Africa to combat the triple threat of chronic poverty, hunger and HIV/AIDS. Targeting effectiveness in defining which groups are eligible and how these groups are identified is fundamental to the impact of these...

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes have been under close scrutiny with regard to their impacts on intermediate outcomes such as increase in school attendance, improved nutrition, higher immunization rates and attendance to at pre- and postnatal care and health checks for children. But it...

The objective of this study is to assess the implications of Brazil?s conditional cash transfer programme, the "Bolsa Familia" Programme (hereinafter the ?PBF?), for the Decent Work Agenda. The Decent Work Agenda first emerged in a report by the Director-General of the ILO in June 1999. Decent...

O Programa Subsídio de Alimentos (PSA) é o principal programa de proteção social básica do governo de Moçambique, em termos de cobertura. Foi criado em 1990 para ajudar os idosos destituídos (mulheres acima de 55 anos e homens acima de 60), pessoas que vivem com deficiências, doentes...