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Africa Civil Society and Social Protection Review meeting
22 March 2007
- 23 March 2007
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Grow Up Free From Poverty Coalition; Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme (RHVP)
Johannesburg, South Africa
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The Grow Up Free From Poverty Coalition and the Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme (RHVP), with support from the UK Governments Department for International Development (DFID) recently held an Africa Civil Society and Social Protection Review meeting to take stock of existing civil society engagement in social protection policy formulation within Africa, and to develop proposals to promote broad-based, effective and accountable programmes of national and regional civil society participation in social protection policy formulation.
The objectives of the meeting
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Learn from existing civil society activity; coordinate and plan future national civil society engagement.
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Consider and debate the elements of a progressive consensus on social protection policy, strategy and process. The lack of such a consensus around core social protection issues such as affordability, conditionality, universality, comprehensiveness, integration of social protection into social policy, delivery and institutional constraints, types of social transfers, severely constrains progress in debates and discussions at a national level, as well as causing friction amongst social protection advocates.
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Provide accessible information which illustrates the benefits of social transfers, answers frequently asked questions and explains the contentious areas.
Introduction
Concept Note review the background, rationale and objectives of the meeting.
Agenda
Participants
Background documents
Presentations from the meeting
Africa Civil Society and Social Protection Review meeting: Mozambique presentation
Conselho Cristão de Moambique & HelpAge International
Social transfers advocacy series: building national ownership and commitment through understanding
Presented by: John Rook
Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme
Africa Civil Society and Social Protection Review: Swaziland Overview
Africa Civil Society and Social Protection Review: Lesotho Presentation
Social Protection & Civil Society: unique challenges & unique opportunities in Zimbabwe
Unite for Children Unite Against AIDS: UNICEF
Presented by: Douglas Webb
UNICEF ESARO
Prioritising social assistance to children, older people and disabled people
Presented by: Angela Penrose
Grow up free from Poverty Coalition
Civil Society and Social Protection Policy Processes in Malawi: Where are we?
Malawi Civil Society Coalition
Africa Civil Society and Social Protection Review meeting: Presentation on Namibia
Rev. Dr. C. Haarmann, E. Unaeb
Social Cash Transfers for Africa: a transformative agenda for the 21st century
Presented by: Job Ogonda
HelpAge International
Social Protection Situation in Kenya
Presented by: John Anampiu
Action Aid International, Kenya
What is social protection for?
Presented by: Malcolm Ridout
DFID Southern Africa
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