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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.


In Focus
  • “Portfolios of the Poor” book review
    9 March 2010

    Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day represents a unique attempt to interrogate not only the balance sheets of poor households, but more importantly the processes of cash flow and turnover, and the money management strategies and decision-making processes that govern these processes. The authors employ a new technique they call “financial diaries”, from which the information emphasises that far from being a homogenous group, the 2.5 billion global population classified as poor or ultra poor are very different and their lives and contexts are dynamic.

  • Botswana journalists cover poverty
    4 March 2010

    Following the training workshop sponsored by RHVP and facilitated by FrayIntermedia in Gaborone in January, which covered reporting on poverty, food security and social protection, several entries were submitted for the best article or report. The winner is announced in this issue of the Wahenga Reporter.

  • RHVP’s Josee Koch comments on South Africa’s child grant increase
    25 February 2010

    South Africa’s children, the country’s most vulnerable population group, will benefit through the increase in social grants recently outlined in the national budget.

    The latest Department of Social Development statistics show that more than 12.8 million children benefited from the CSG at the end of January 2009.

    Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Project policy advisor Josee Koch agrees... that the increase in monthly grant payments can generally be described as a positive development, but questions what impact it will have on individual recipients.
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  • Reflections on the financial services industry and implications for social cash transfers
    Katharine Vincent
    9 March 2010

    This Comment reports and reflects on the developments reported at a recent private sector conference on Banking and Mobile Money, and examines the implications of an increasingly plural financial services landscape for the electronic delivery of social cash transfers.

  • Conditional v Unconditional: Why not just “Cash Transfers”?
    Anonymous
    3 February 2010

    'Anonymous' comments on the continuing debate around unconditional and conditional cash transfers, as highlighted by Sissy Teese and the World Bank.

  • The World Bank responds to Sissy Teese's 'Conspirational' claims
    Ariel Fiszbein - Berk Özler - Norbert Schady
    27 January 2010

    In “The World Bank’s New Social Protection Model: Conspirational Cash Transfers”, Sissy Teese accuses us of being part of a conspiracy to promote CCT (as opposed to unconditional transfers, UCT) and manipulating evidence for that purpose. The reality is that it is her note that follows a conspirational approach… none of us believe that CCT are necessarily superior to UCT...

  • The World Bank’s New Social Protection Model: Conspirational Cash Transfers
    Sissy Teese
    18 January 2010

    Is there a conspiracy afoot? Sissy Teese examines the World Bank's analysis of cash transfer schemes and asks whether evidence is being skewed in favour of conditional cash transfers, and the consequences of this on the continuing debate on the merits of unconditional and conditional cash transfers.

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