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Resources

Virtual Library

Documents

Update on African Union’s Livingstone 2 Process

Summary Recommendations from Livingstone 2 Process: “Investing in Social Protection in Africa”

Recommendations from the Regional Experts Meeting in Senegal

Recommendations from the Regional Experts Meeting in Egypt

Recommendations from the Regional Experts Meeting in Uganda

Livingstone Call for Action

Yaoundé Call for Action

Publications

Africa conflict prevention programme – Annual Report 2007/2008
DFID

Africa factsheet
DFID

A garantia do direito à renda no Brasil: a experiência do Programa Bolsa Família
(Available in Portuguese only, English version to be available)

Are Improving Terms of Trade Helping Reduce Poverty in África?
Anderew Mold

Budget support to Ghana: A risk worth taking?
DFID

Cash Transfers: Lessons from Africa and Latin America
Poverty in Focus #15

Conditional Cash Transfers in African Countries
Nanak Kakwani, Fabio Veras Soares and Hyun H. Son

Country Assistance Strategy - Mozambique
DFID, 2008-2012

Eliminating world poverty: making governance work for the poor – section 3: helping people get security, incomes and public services
DFID


Entitlement to Income in Brazil: the Experience of the Bolsa Família Programme
Rosani Cunha

Evaluation of MDS Policies and Programmes – Results
Volume 1 – Food and Nutritional Security
Jeni Vaitsman and Rômulo Paes-Sousa

Evaluation of MDS Policies and Programmes – Results
Volume 2 – Bolsa Família Programme and Social Assistance

Jeni Vaitsman and Rômulo Paes-Sousa

Expanding the Social Security Net in South Africa: Opportunities, Challenges and Constraints
Kalie Pauw and Libert Mncube

Ghana Human Development Report 2004
UNDP-UNFPA

Job Creation versus Cash Transfers in Kenya
Eduardo Zepeda

Kenya Country Assistance Plan
DFID

Modernizing social assistance to promote social inclusion
Armando Barrientos

Monitoring and Evaluating Poverty Reduction Policies in Mozambique – Social Relations of Rural Poverty
DFID

Mozambique factsheet
DFID

Old-Age Poverty and Social Pensions in Kenya
Hyun H. Son and Nanak Kakwani

Operationalising pro-poor growth – Ghana

DFID

Social Protection: The Role of Cash Transfers
Poverty in Focus #8

Southern African Regional Plan
DFID

Targeted Cash Transfer Programmes in Brazil: BPC and the Bolsa Familia
Marcelo Medeiros, Tatiana Britto and Fabio Veras Soares

The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Nutrition: The South African Child Support Grant
Jorge M. Aguero, Michal R. Carter and Ingrid Woolard

The System for Evaluating and Monitoring Social Development Programmes and Policies: the case of the Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger

Manuals

Zero Hunger Booklet

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Multimedia Resources

Interviews

Lawrence Ofori Addo
Coordinator of the Livelihoods Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) in Ghana
Listen in English
Text in English

Foday Conteh
Senior Monitor Evaluation Officer of the Social Safety Net Programme from the Ministry of Employment and Social Security of Sierra Leone
Listen in English
Text in English

Doré-Ann Michelle Van Wyk
Namibian National Planning Commission
Text in English

Interviews with Secretaries and Coordinators from the Ministry of Social Development and Fight Against Hunger

Interview with Ernesto Jeger and Melissa Andrade about the Africa-Brazil Cooperation Programme on Social Development
IPEA - Institute for Applied Economic Research

 

Radio Programmes*

Bolsa Família: Conheça como funciona o programa

Beneficio da Prestação Continuada: ajuda para idosos e deficientes

PETI coloca criança no lugar de criança

Restaurante popular e comida barata a R$ 1,00

Cozinhas comunitárias: alimento barato para a população

Compra de pequena produção ajuda a agricultura familiar

Cisternas garantem água de boa qualidade

Cisternas garantem acesso à água no semi-árido

*Available in Portuguese

 

Presentations

Seminar on Social Promotion and Protection in African Countries (Brasilia, 25 August 2008)

The Role of African Union and NEPAD in Social Protection
Mrs. Boitshepo Giyose

The National Social Protection Strategy (NSPS), Government of Ghana
Mrs. Angela Asante Asare

Government of the Republic of Namibia
Mrs. Dore-Ann Van Wyk
Mr. Izak Strauss

National Social Protection and Promotion in Kenya

Cash Transfer Programme for Older Persons / Persons with Disabilities – Kenya
Mrs. Esther Mathenge, Minister of Gender, Children and Social Development

Cash Transfer for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (CT-OVC) Program – Kenya
Mr. Ahmed Hussein

Promoção e Protecção Social em Angola
Mrs. Nilsa Batalha*
Mr. Miguel Pereira*

Perspectiva do Governo Moçambicano, o Secretariado Técnico de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional (SETSAN)
Mr. Edgar Cossa*

Proteção Social em Moçambique
Mrs. Lucia Mairosse*

Debate Panel 1: NEPAD & Mozambique*

Debate Panel 2: Kenya & Angola*

*Simultaneous translation


Ministry of Social Development and Fight Against Hunger - Study Tour presentations (Brasilia, 26-27 August 2008)

Overview of the National System of Food and Nutritional Security
Mr. Onaur Ruano, National Secretary of Food and Nutritional Security*

Food Acquisition Programme – PAA
Cistern Programme
Mr. José César de Medeiros, Director of the Integrated Policy Management Department of the National Secretariat of Food and Nutritional Security – SESAN*

Public Tools of Food Security: Community Restaurants, Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture, Food Banks
Sr. Crispim Moreira, Director for the Promotion of Decentralised Systems of the National Secretariat of Food and Nutritional Security – SESAN*

The Single System of Social Assistance: Overview and Main Programmes
Mrs. Ana Lígia Gomes, National Secretary of Social Assistance*

Overview of Bolsa Família
Mrs. Camile Mesquita, Manager of the Department of Management of the Cash Transfer Programmes, National Secretariat of Citizenship Income – SENARC*

Management of Benefits
Conditionalities
Mrs. Camile Mesquita, Manager of the Department of Management of the Cash Transfer Programmes, National Secretariat of Citizenship Income – SENARC*

Levels of Social Control of Bolsa Família
Mrs. Camile Mesquita, Manager of the Department of Management of the Cash Transfer Programmes, National Secretariat of Citizenship Income – SENARC*

National Council of Social Assistance – CNAS
Mrs. Patrícia de Marco, Counsellor and MDS’s Representative in the National Council of Social Assistance*

Presentation on the Monitoring and Evaluation System of Brazil’s Social Promotion and Protection Programmes
Mr. Roberto Wagner, Director of Information Management and Technological Resources of the National Secretariat of Evaluation and Information Management – SAGI*
Part 1 Part 2


Mrs. Junia Quiroga, General-Coordinator of Evaluation and Monitoring of Implementation and Impact of SAGI*

Presentation of the Initiatives of Generation of Opportunities of Social Inclusion
Mr. Ronaldo Garcia, National Secretary of Institutional Networking and Partnerships – SAIP*

Bolsa Familia Programme in Recife


Regional Experts Meeting on Social Protection in Egypt (Cairo, 13-14 May 2008)

Opening Speech
Mark Gorman – HelpAge International

Lessons from cash transfers in Africa and el sewhere:  Impacts on Vulnerability, Human Capital Development and Food In security
John Hoddinott – IFPRI

Can developing countries afford basic social security?
Social Security Department - International Labour Office

Estce que les pays à faible revenu peuvent prendre en charge un niveau de ba se de sécurité sociale?
Département de la Sécurté Sociale - Bureau International du Travail

The Brazilian Social Protection Policies and Experience, and the Developing South to South Cooperation
Ministério de Desenvolvimento Social e Combate à Fome

Social Protection and Pro-poor Growth in Africa
Michael Samson

Targeting Groups Eligible for Social Welfare in Egypt
Ibtissam El-Gaafarawi - National Centre for Social and Criminological Re search, Cairo

Zambia Social Protection Study
Bestone Mboozi – Ministry of Community Development and Social Services

Context and Results of the two major cash transfer programmes in Brazil
Melissa Andrade - International Poverty Centre

An Introduction to the Regional Hunger & Vulnerability Programme & its work with stakeholders
RHVP – Regional Hunger & Vulnerability Programme

Social Protection Issues in Egypt
Ahmed Abulkheir - Ministry for Social Solidarity of Egypt

Statement of the Representative of the African Union

Making the case for a comprehensive, rights-based notion of Social Protection
Dennis Arends - UNICEF Egypt


Regional Experts Meeting on Social Protection in Uganda (Kampala, 28-30 April 2008)

MDS Officials Presentation - April 29th, 2008

MDS Officials Presentation - April 30th, 2008


National Consultation on Social Protection in Mozambique (Maputo, 10 March 2008)

Discursos de abertura e encerramento da Ministra da Mulher e da Ação Social / Opening and closing speech of the Minister of Woman and Social Action*

A Situação Atual da Proteção Social em Moçambique / Social Protection in Mozambique*

Relatório – Consulta Nacional sobre Protecção Social / Report: National Consultation on Social Protection (Portuguese)*

*Available in Portuguese only

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Training Material

Brazil’s Single Registry Experience: a toll for pro-poor social policies

Designing and Implementing Social Transfer Programmes

Michael Samson, Ingrid van Niekerk, Kenneth Mac Quene

 

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Links

African Union

Help Age International

Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme (RHVP)

Information and Exchange Centre for the Extension of Social Protection in Portuguese-Speaking Countries

Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA)

Brazilian Ministry of External Relations

Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC)

Relevant links on Social Protection

Africa

Latin America and the Caribbean

Asia and the Pacific

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