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Empowering or Reinforcing Traditional Roles: Can CCTs Address Gender Vulnerabilities?

Empowering or Reinforcing Traditional Roles: Can CCTs Address Gender Vulnerabilities?

by Fabio Veras Soares, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth and
Elydia Silva,  National Bank for Social and Economic Development (BNDES), Brazil

 Most conditional cash transfer (CCT)
programmes in Latin America select a woman as the primary recipient of the transfer. In most cases she is the mother of children in the household or the woman responsible for those children.
The rationale behind this is that the money spent by women tends to be concentrated more on goods and services that are more likely to have a positive effect on the children’s well-being.

http://www.ipc-undp.org/pub/IPCOnePager115.pdf

Posted at 03:33PM Aug 31, 2010 by IPC in Social Inclusion  |  Comments[0]

How Should MDG Implementation Be Measured: Faster Progress or Meeting Targets?

http://www.ipc-undp.org/pub/IPCOnePager109.pdf

OP 109: How Should MDG Implementation Be Measured: Faster Progress or Meeting Targets?

by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Joshua Greenstein, the New School

 A critically important aspect of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is that they provide concrete, time-bound and quantitative objectives against which poverty reduction can be measured. Governments can be held accountable by their people. The international community can hold accountable, and be held accountable by, national governments. If this newfound accountability is to be worthwhile, however, the method of determining progress or lack thereof must be the correct one. We argue that the correct measure is whether faster progress is being made, not whether the targets are to be met. The MDGs are not hard planning targets; they are aspirational norms and they offer benchmarks in an evaluative framework.

 http://www.ipc-undp.org/pub/IPCOnePager109.pdf

Posted at 11:39AM May 11, 2010 by IPC in Social Inclusion  |  Comments[0]