Social Protection for Africa's Children

271 Pages·2010·1.612 MB·English

by  Sudhanshu Handa, Stephen Devereux, Douglas Webb

Social Protection for Africa’s
Children
Social protection is an increasingly important part of the social policy dialogue in Africa,
and yet because of its relatively new place in a rapidly evolving agenda, evidence on crit-
ical design choices such as targeting, and on impacts of social protection interventions, is
mostly limited to case studies or small, unrepresentative surveys. This impressive collec-
tion makes a major contribution to building the evidence base, drawing on rigorous analy-
sis of social protection programs in several African countries, as well as original research
and thinking on key topical issues in the social protection discourse.
Social Protection for Africa’s Children is divided into four parts. The first presents
economic and human-rights-based right arguments for social protection as an integral part
of the social policy menu in Africa. This is followed by a part on targeting, which high-
lights some of the key policy trade-offs faced when deciding between alternative target
groups. The third part presents rigorous quantitative evidence on the impact of social cash
transfers on children from programs in South Africa, Malawi and Ethiopia, and the final
part addresses a set of issues related to social justice and human rights.
This book significantly advances existing knowledge about social protection for chil-
dren in Africa, both conceptually and empirically. It makes a strong case for social pro-
tection interventions that address the short-term (amelioration) and long-term (structural)
needs of children, and shows that programming in this sector for children is both feasible
and achievable. Policy-makers and practitioners in this sector will have, in this book, the
theoretical and empirical evidence necessary to advance social protection for Africa’s
children in the decades to come. Furthermore, this book should be an essential resource to
postgraduates and students focusing on development economics in Africa.
Sudhanshu Handa is Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, USA. He served as UNICEF Regional Social Policy Advisor for East and
Southern Africa in 2007–08. Stephen Devereux is a researcher at the Institute of Devel-
opment Studies and a Director of the Centre for Social Protection, UK. He has worked
extensively in Africa and his research interests include famine, food security and social
protection. Douglas Webb is a social scientist with 20 years of experience of HIV and
social development issues in East and Southern Africa. He has worked for Save the Chil-
dren UK as HIV Advisor in London and is currently based in UNICEF in Ethiopia.
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Social Protection for
Africa’s Children
Edited by Sudhanshu Handa,
Stephen Devereux and Douglas Webb
Foreword by Frances Stewart