Cash Transfer Programmes, Poverty Reduction and Empowerment of Women in South Africa (GED Working Paper no. 4/2015)
Resources - Author: Marianne S. Ulriksen, Sophie Plagerson / Year: 2015
This working paper is one of the five country studies on cash transfer programmes and women’s empowerment. The review of the South African experience in this study is complemented by country studies on Brazil, Chile, India and Mexico. Its results have also informed a comparative study, authored by Elaine...
Read MoreCash transfer programmes, poverty reduction and empowerment of women in South Africa
Resources - Author: Marianne S. Ulriksen, Sophie Plagerson / Year: 2015
Cash transfer programmes have been implemented in many countries as a key component of their national social protection floors and because these programmes provide a modest but regular income to poor households, they have the potential to reduce poverty and to enhance women’s economic empowerment. However, there have been...
Read MoreCash transfer programmes, poverty reduction and empowerment of women: A comparative analysis
Resources - Author: Elaine Fultz, John Francis / Year: 2013
This publication summarizes existing knowledge on the impact of cash transfers on women. These transfers are of relevance for gender equality, first, because as a group, women spend fewer years in paid employment than men, receive lower wages, and live longer. All three differences increase women’s risks of poverty....
Read MoreFiscal Space and the Extension of Social Protection: Lessons learnt from developing countries (ESS Working Paper No. 33)
Resources - Author: Fabio Durán-Valverde, José Francisco Pacheco / Year: 2012
This paper focuses on the analysis of experience in creating fiscal space for the extension of social protection. It presents the results of studies conducted in eight developing countries (Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Costa Rica, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Thailand) that successfully extended social protection including floors for national...
Read MoreEquity in financing and use of health care in Ghana, South Africa, and Tanzania: implications for paths to universal coverage
Resources - Author: Anne Mills, Bertha Garshong, Bronwyn Harris, Filip Meheus, Gemini Mtei, James Akazili, Jane Macha, Jo Borghi, John E Ataguba, Prof Di McIntyre, Suzan Makawia / Year: 2012
Universal coverage of health care is now receiving substantial worldwide and national attention, but debate continues on the best mix of financing mechanisms, especially to protect people outside the formal employment sector. Crucial issues are the equity implications of different financing mechanisms, and patterns of service use. This report provides...
Read MoreGood practices on Single Window Services: Research on existing Single Window Services around the world (India, Chile, Brazil, South Africa, Pakistan) and key lessons to be learned for Cambodia
Resources - Author: Diane Taieb, Valérie Schmitt / Year: 2012
The aim of this research is to identify good and bad practices of Single Window Services around the world, by looking at the experiences of countries where these services are already in place. Link to Word...
Read MoreAccess to courts and the right to work for informal traders in South Africa
Legal depository - Country: South Africa / Body: Constitutional Court of South Africa / Year: 2013
Upon an urgent request, the Constitutional Court of South Africa intervened in a lower court affair to prevent the municipal government and Metropolitan Police Force from hindering what was asserted to be lawful activity by informal traders under the auspices of “Operation Clean Sweep”. Until the legality of the...
Read MoreSingle registries and integrated MISs: De-mystifying data and information management concepts
Resources - Year: 2014
In recent years, there has been greater focus on coordinating and harmonising systems for social protection, which has led to growing interest in and pressure on exploring ways to integrate data and better handle information management across social protection programs. This paper aims to resolve some confusion by discussing the advantages...
Read MoreSocial security coverage extension in the BRICS: A comparative study on the extension of coverage in Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa
Resources - Author: ISSA / Year: 2013
This comparative study of the International Social Security Association ISSA presents the diverse approaches of the BRICS for the extension of social security coverage. It shows how responses take into account the local realities and environment in each country, with a focus on innovations that measurabley extend and improve...
Read MoreSADC Code of Social Security
Legal depository - Country: Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe / Year: 2007
This instrument provides guidelines on the Southern African Development Community’s approach to social protection. Link to page...
Read MoreProvision of social security for permanent residents in South Africa
Legal depository - Country: South Africa / Body: Constitutional Courts / Year: 2004
Summary: The case was brought before the Constitutional Court of South Africa by Mozambican citizens living in South Africa as permanent residents. The applicants challenged the validity of certain provisions of the Social Assistance Act 59 of 1992 that denied social assistance to foreign nationals. They cited the infringement...
Read MoreSpecial protection in pension programmes for women in South Africa
Legal depository - Country: South Africa / Body: Other Domestic Courts / Year: 2007
Summary: Four male applicants, above the age of 60 but below 65, mounted a constitutional challenge to Section 10 of South Africa’s Social Assistance Act 13 of 2004 and the relevant Regulations, which set the age for accessing an old age grant at 60 for women and 65 for...
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