By Sudhanshu Handa, Stephen Devereux, Douglas Webb
Social security is an more and more vital a part of the social coverage discussion in Africa, and but due to its particularly new position in a quickly evolving schedule, facts on severe layout offerings reminiscent of focusing on, and on affects of social safety interventions, is usually constrained to case stories or small, unrepresentative surveys. This extraordinary assortment makes a huge contribution to construction the proof base, drawing on rigorous research of social security programmes in different African international locations, in addition to unique learn and pondering on key topical concerns within the social security discourse.
Social defense for Africa’s Children is split into 4 elements. the 1st offers financial and human-rights established correct arguments for social safety as a vital part of the social coverage menu in Africa. this can be via a component on concentrating on, which highlights many of the key coverage trade-offs confronted whilst figuring out among replacement objective teams. The 3rd half provides rigorous quantitative facts at the influence of social money transfers on teenagers from programmes in South Africa, Malawi and Ethiopia and the ultimate half addresses a collection of matters concerning social justice and human rights.
This e-book considerably advances latest wisdom approximately social safety for kids in Africa, either conceptually and empirically. It makes a robust case for social safeguard interventions that tackle the fast time period (amelioration) and long-term (structural) wishes of youngsters, and exhibits that programming during this area for kids is either possible and feasible. coverage makers and practitioners during this area can have, during this publication, the theoretical and empirical facts essential to increase social defense for Africa’s kids within the many years to return. moreover, this e-book can be a vital source to postgraduates and scholars focussing on improvement economics in Africa.
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4 The rationale for social protection There are two streams of thought on why developing effective and efficient social protection systems is important. Rights-based arguments for social protection are grounded in the articles of various international covenants that most African countries have signed, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Economic arguments are rooted in the notion that market failures, such as incomplete insurance or credit markets and asymmetric information, lead to sub-optimal responses by individual actors.
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Poverty Center defines social protection as interventions from public, private and voluntary organizations and informal networks to support communities, households and individuals in their efforts to prevent, manage and overcome a defined set of risks and vulnerabilities. Other development partners, including NGOs, have definitions of their own. ” This is the working definition of social protection that is used in this chapter. Two common threads running through these various definitions are worth emphasizing.
In the second of two chapters on the CSG – Lessons learned from the campaign to expand the Child Support Grant in South Africa – Paula Proudlock examines the protracted struggles between civil society and the South African state around first introducing (in 1998) and subsequently extending access to social assistance as a legally enforceable right for poor children in South Africa. Although the South African government is internationally applauded for the extent and relative generosity of its social welfare programs, this chapter reveals that civil society activism – public education, advocacy, even litigation – has been instrumental in many significant achievements, including improving take-up rates, increasing the payment and raising the age threshold.