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This website aims to reach a wide and diverse audience and to encourage that audience to engage in the hunger and vulnerability debate by promoting awareness, understanding and advocacy on social protection and social transfers, as well as build knowledge and understanding of the multi-dimensional character of poverty, hunger and vulnerability across southern Africa.
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News
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3 Sep 2010IPS
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2 Sep 2010Reuters Africa
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1 Sep 2010Current Intelligence
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31 Aug 2010The Guardian
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30 Aug 2010IPS
Events
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2 Sep 2010 - 3 Sep 2010PEGNet conference on "Policies to foster and sustain equitable development in times of crises"Development Bank of Southern Africa, Midrand, South Africa
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20 Sep 2010 - 22 Sep 2010Millennium Development Goals SummitUN Headquarters, New York
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29 Nov 2010 - 4 Dec 2010World Social Security Forum 2010Cape Town, South Africa
Jobs
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International Policy Centre For Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG), formerly known as the International Poverty Centre (IPC)Home-based (3 month contract)
Sissy Teese has taken up the gauntlet once again with the World Bank. This time, the object of her wrath is a new paper by the Bank entitled Rewarding STI Prevention and Control in Tanzania (with, according to Teese, “the horrendously contrived acronym of RESPECT”) which provides quarterly cash transfers, each equivalent to nearly one-tenth of average annual income, to those who avoid unsafe sex. Calling it “the most expensive condom in African history”, Teese questions the economic viability of this experiment.
Is there a link between social pensions and a decrease in the number of children born in sub-Saharan Africa? This Comment summarises the findings by Göran Holmqvist of the Nordic Africa Institute in a new paper which suggests there is.
Hot on the heels of RHVP’s meeting with IDS, ODI and DEV, which resulted in the joint statement on Social Protection in Africa: Where Next?, the Programme Director of RHVP, Nicholas Freeland, picks up on an errant formula which emerged at the meeting, was met with general derision, and was unceremoniously dropped from further discussion. But he sees some value in the equation, because it helps not only to understand the role of social protection in tackling vulnerability, but also to explain the difficulty of getting consensus on national social protection programmes in Africa. The equation is: vulnerability = poverty + risk – empowerment.