JO Amoah, J Mensah - Social Dynamics, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper examines the extent to which Ghana's National Social Protection Policy (NSPP) reflects the gendered risks and vulnerabilities of women and men in Ghana. Informed by …
If gender is neglected in the design and implementation of mainstream social welfare models, unequal social and economic outcomes for men and women tend to be reproduced …
N Awortwi - Development Policy Review, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In Africa, the state is not the biggest responder to poverty and social vulnerability. While international attention has searched for State remedies to State shortfalls, the poor …
B Asaki, S Hayes - Gender & Development, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Grassroots women in poor communities are creating their own innovative social protection mechanisms, and often moving beyond this to foster economic growth and prosperity. In this …
Issues of transformative change in gender relations have been on the development agenda for four decades and no-one could say that there have not been significant policy initiatives …
C Piovani, N Aydiner-Avsar - Review of Political Economy, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Over the course of the neoliberal era, social protection policies have been transformed dramatically; these changes have had profound gender implications. Since the early 1980s …
The question of whether to condition a social cash transfer program or not has been controversially debated in the development scene, often without a clear concept of what …
Social protection is a relatively new policy approach that aims to integrate concerns about social security and poverty reduction into a unified framework (Kabeer, 2008). To date, the …
L Cameron - IZA World of Labor, 2019 - wol.iza.org
Women face different risks in their daily lives than men do. Many women have difficulty accessing social protection programs, which are not devised with women in mind. Programs …