INTRODUCTION Social protection is high on the HIV-prevention agenda for youth in sub-Saharan Africa. However, questions remain: How do unconditional cash transfers work? What is the effect of augmenting cash provision with social care? And can "cash plus care" social protection reduce risks for adolescents most vulnerable to infection? This study tackles these questions by first identifying med...

In the Horn and East Africa, social protection providers fall into two main categories: informal and formal. Informal providers are communities and external social networks such as family members, relatives and other social structures outside pastoral systems. Strong informal social protection networks based on religious, clan or family affiliations have always played a vital role in pastoral c...

This article discusses the experience of six conditional cash transfer programmes in Latin America, a model of social safety-nets which has grown to dominate the social protection sector in the region during the past decade. While they have been generally successful in terms of achieving their core objective, it is still not clear whether these programmes constitute the most cost-efficient or s...

It is said that ninety percent of the world’s population does not have the social protection. The statement however true does not concern us much as we are some times least worried about the problems of the neighbor at least not to speak of the town we live in, but the problem for our policy makers is not that of the world but of our own population and to be more nearer to the issue it is not e...

This article reviews the labour situation of independent workers regarding social security coverage in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. These workers account for approximately 24 per cent of the employed labour force and most of them work in the informal economy. The scope of social protection for independent workers has become a relevant issue in the reform agendas for the social security systems...

This paper studies optimal investment in multi-species protection when species interact in an ecosystem and there is uncertainty about the exact nature of species interaction. The analysis is based on a model of stochastic species extinction in which survival probabilities are interdependent. Individual species protection plans can increase a species’ survival probability within certain limits ...

• The extent to which gender is integrated into social protection approaches has been uneven • Harnessing the potential of social protection to transform gender relations requires strategic linkages with complementary programmes and the inclusion of men and boys • Social protection interventions must invest in disaggregated data and analysis to make gender visible in programme design, implement...

Watershed protection may be a fine idea, but how much does it cost? How does it change the bottom line for the region, the development community, landowners and residents alike? This question is increasingly being posed to those advocating better watershed protection. In this article, we review economic research on the costs and benefits of employing watershed management tools and tally the sco...

Scholars and activists have long campaigned for domestic violence to be recognised as criminal offending, however, at the same time, they have also consistently warned that a risk of criminalisation is that it inflicts further harm to women. This article draws on a study of criminal prosecutions of breaches of domestic violence protection orders in Queensland, Australia and explores the process...

Low ART-adherence amongst adolescents is associated with morbidity, mortality and onward HIV transmission. Reviews find no effective adolescent adherence-promoting interventions. Social protection has demonstrated benefits for adolescents, and could potentially improve ART-adherence. This study examines associations of 10 social protection provisions with adherence in a large community-based sa...