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2003
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The southern Africa crisis: a critical review of needs assessment practice and its influence on resource allocation, HPG Background Paper
2003, Darcy, J.A., Griekspoor, A., Harmer, Watson, F.
This case study explores the relationship between humanitarian needs assessment and decision making in a slow-onset emergency. It is concerned principally with the international humanitarian system and…
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Why is southern Africa hungry? The roots of southern Africa's food crisis
2003, Lambrechts, K., Barry, G.
They are calling this a crisis ?unlike any other?, ?complex?, ?structural?, and a ?new variant? emergency due to the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS. Christian Aid believes that the hunger crisis is due to…
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2002
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Can social safety nets reduce chronic poverty, Development Policy Review 20 (5).
2002, Devereux, S.
Conceptualises social safety nets as publicly funded transfer programmes with ?consumption smoothing?, rather than ?mean shifting? objectives. The article suggests that safety nets can have protection…
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Community-Based Targeting Mechanisms for Social Safety Nets: A Critical Review
2002, Conning, J., Kevane, M.
This paper interprets case studies and theory on community involvement in beneficiary selection and benefit delivery for social safety nets. Several considerations should be carefully balanced in assessing…
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Nets, ropes, ladders and trampolines: the place of social protection within the current debates on poverty reduction
2002, Conway, T., Norton, A.
The paper reviews the different definitions of social protection and the relative importance managing vulnerability as opposed to assisting the chronically poor; whether social protection should be based…
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Safety nets and opportunity ladders: addressing vulnerability and enhancing productivity in south Asia
2002, Kabeer, N.
The paper reviews the social protection measures in South Asia and suggests a number of lessons regarding the relative benefits of targeted and universal programmes; the need to differentiate microfinance…
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Social protection for the poor: lessons from recent international experience, IDS Working Paper # 142
2002, Devereux, S.
The paper synthesises current thinking and evidence on a number of issues around the design and impact of social protection programmes, including: the case for and against targeting resource transfers;…
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Strengthening public safety nets from the bottom up
2002, Morduch, J., Sharma, M.
This article describes ways of building public safety nets to complement and extend informal and private institutions. The most effective policies will combine transfer systems that are sensitive to existing…
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Trade for food security in the Horn of Africa: a concept note (for the European Commission)
2002, Joannes, P., Rook, J.
Addressing foreign exchange access rather than availability, requires a different approach and a different instrument, which could take the form of a ?Food Security Guarantee Facility? (FSGF). The primary…
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2001
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Private sector participation in the delivery of safety net transfers: issues and mechanisms, Malawi National Safety Nets Programme
2001, Maleta, M., Rook, J.
The study focuses specifically on the role of the private sector in the delivery mechanisms for the targeted inputs and targeted nutrition components of the NSNP. As opposed to the other two components…
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2000
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Income risk, coping strategies and safety nets
2000, Dercon, S
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Income risk, coping strategies and safety nets, Centre for the Study of African Economies
2000, Dercon, S.
In this paper, the author focuses on the opportunities available to households to use risk-management and risk-coping strategies, and on the constraints on their effectiveness.
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International Development Paper # 23
2000, Jayne T.S. et al.
This paper identifies the factors driving the allocations of food aid in Ethiopia. It determines both how food aid is allocated across rural regions, reflecting the targeting criteria of the federal government,…
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Policy options for increasing the contribution of social protection to food security
2000, Devereux, S.
Among the many explanations of why southern Africans coped less effectively with the food crisis of 2001/02 than with the drought of 1991/92, three sets of factors ? AIDS, market liberalisation, and governance…
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The Household Economy Approach: A resource manual for practitioners
2000, Save the Children UK
Aim of the manual is to describe the components of the Household Economy Approach (HEA) by Save the Children and the practical techniques to needed to use them. The HEA has two main parts: 1. Quantitative…
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1999
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Making less last longer: informal safety nets in Malawi, IDS Discussion Paper 373, Institute of Development Studies
1999, Devereux, S.
This paper examines the role of informal safety nets in providing protection against recent livelihoods shocks in Malawi, drawing on secondary sources and survey undertaken in rural and urban communities…
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Successes and challenges of food market reform: experiences from Kenya, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe, MSU International Development Working Paper # 72
1999, Jayne, T.S. et al.
The major challenges facing policymakers in the region are: (1) how to design agricultural marketing systems to better serve as a catalyst for farm productivity growth (2) how to cost-effectively deal…
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1998
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The effects of liberalisation on grain prices and market margins in Ethiopia, MSU International Development Working Paper # 68
1998, Jayne, T.S. et al.
This report analyzes the effects of grain market reform in Ethiopia on grain prices and price spreads between major wholesale markets. The experience of Ethiopia during the 1990s represents a case in which…
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1996
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Guidelines for Crop and Food Supply Assessment Missions
1996, FAO/ WFP
The Guidelines move beyond the national level approach to food security and the ?food balance sheet? in an attempt to explore food security at the sub-national level and interventions for vulnerable population…
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1994
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Market-Oriented Strategies to Improve Household Access to Food: Experience from Sub-Saharan Africa, International Development Paper # 15
1994, Jayne T.S. et al.
The objectives of this report are to identify market-oriented strategies to alleviate both chronic and transitory food insecurity, and to examine the interactions between short-run targeting mechanisms…
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