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An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
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  1. The affordability of social protection in the light of international spending commitments

    Publication - Journal articles or issues - 12 August 2013
    Development Policy Review Vol. 31, iss. 4
    Jessica Hagen-Zanker, Anna McCord
    In this article, Jessica Hagen Zanker and Anna McCord analyse social protection affordability by comparing target spending levels with actual government expenditure in five African countries. They find that meeting any of the sectoral targets in full would require either sectoral trade-offs, or significant increases in donor or government expenditure.
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  2. Cash transfers: good governance and accountability in short supply

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 8 August 2013
    Cash transfers are very popular way of improving social protection, with a proven track record of reducing poverty at household level and increasing access to basic services around the world. But despite generally positive results, there's been little research done on how they affect household and community dynamics, or on their impacts on marginalised groups such as women, youth, the elderly and people with disabilities.
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  6. Cash transfer as part of a social security program in Northeastern Kenya
    Cash transfer as part of a social security program in Northeastern Kenya

    Cash transfer as part of a social security program in Northeastern Kenya.
    License: Creative Commons
    Credit: Colin Crowley
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    The governance of cash transfers: lessons and ways forward

    Event - Round-table - 25 April 2013 14:00 - 16:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

    The focus of the roundtable session was on how citizen involvement in cash transfer programme governance and accountability can help support broader state-citizen relations.

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  7. Women waiting to receive their cash transfer
    Women waiting to receive their cash transfer

    License: Creative Commons
    Credit: EU Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (Flickr)
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    Holding cash transfers to account

    Event - Public event - 25 April 2013 11:00 - 13:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

    Do cash transfer programmes effectively address issues of social exclusion? These and other questions will be explored in an ODI event which will present findings from Transforming Cash Transfers, a DFID-funded study that investigates beneficiary and community perspectives on unconditional cash transfer programmes in five countries - Kenya, Mozambique, the Occupied Palestinian Territories (both Gaza and West Bank), Uganda and Yemen.

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  10. The political economy of local adaptation planning: exploring barriers to Flexible and Forward-looking Decision Making in three districts in Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 25 February 2013
    Lindsey Jones, Eva Ludi, Aklilu Amsalu, Luis Artur, Matthew Bunce, Shirley Matheson, William Muhumuza and Daniel Zacarias
    This paper explores key institutional barriers in preventing effective Flexible and Forward-looking Decision Making (FFDM) within development policy and programming. More specifically, it explores the influence of various institutional and sociopolitical drivers on the ability of district governance processes to adapt to change and uncertainty.
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