Wahenga Comments
News
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12 Mar 2010Eldis
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11 Mar 2010AfricaNews
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10 Mar 2010The Guardian
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9 Mar 2010IRIN
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8 Mar 2010Times Online
Events
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26 Mar 2010 - 27 Mar 2010Social Protection/Safety Nets for Vulnerable Social Groups under Economic Growth in EthiopiaAddis Ababa, Ethiopia
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28 Apr 2010 - 30 Apr 2010Africa-EU workshop on Employment and Decent Work in AfricaNairobi, Kenya
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16 Jun 2010 - 18 Jun 2010'Issues in Social Security': The Global Crisis : Impact and Challenges for Social SecuritySigtuna, Sweden
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27 Jun 2010 - 30 Jun 2010Poster Session at the ERD Conference: New Faces for African DevelopmentDakar, Senegal
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29 Nov 2010 - 4 Dec 2010World Social Security Forum 2010Cape Town, South Africa
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.
'Anonymous' comments on the continuing debate around unconditional and conditional cash transfers, as highlighted by Sissy Teese and the World Bank.
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...
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.
Bernd Schubert is remarkably sanguine about the problem of leapfrogging. The general assertion that “There is disappointment among those households that did not get in because of the 10 percent cut-off point and there is some envy. But there is no evidence of serious problems” is as far as we know contrary to the general experience of welfare schemes...
The Government of Zambia has been running a set of pilot cash transfers to test which could best form the basis of a national social protection system. The pilot being run in the Katete district transfers money to everyone over the age of 60 years, thus creating a form of social pension...
Based on its experiences in southern Africa, RHVP has advocated forcefully on a number of fundamental principles for delivering sustainable social protection...
As a contribution to the ongoing debate about how best to target social cash transfers, this Comment responds to the Frontiers of Social Protection (FoSP) brief on poverty targeting, in which social cash transfer schemes in Ghana and Malawi are analysed, and follows Bernd Schubert’s earlier Comment, "Targeting Social Cash Transfers"...