In recent years, social protection has emerged worldwide as a major new focus in efforts to reduce poverty and vulnerability. Since the early 2000s, conditional and unconditional cash transfer programmes have gained significance as key elements of social safety nets throughout Africa. The UN-supported Social Protection Floor Initiative (SPF-I) has helped place social protection as a key component of national poverty and inequality reduction strategies, supporting the realisation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and influencing the discussion of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda. In this context, Brazil is a long-term supporter of the SPF-I and has contributed its own recent poverty and inequality reduction experiences to the Initiative’s pool of best practices. The International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG) is a global forum for South-South dialogue on innovative development policies, with the mission of promoting policy dialogue and facilitating learning around social policies among developing countries. The United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) has contracted the IPC-IG to carry out the implementation of outcomes 1 and 2 of the project “Brazil & Africa: fighting poverty and empowering women via South-South Cooperation”. Notably, Outcome 1 is titled “Increased and improved knowledge-sharing and learning in African Low Income Countries (LICs) on the design and implementation of social development/ social protection programmes inspired by relevant Brazilian public policies, experiences and practices, contributing to the overarching goal of poverty eradication”. It focuses on producing knowledge related to social protection and gender issues, aimed at Brazilian and African policymakers and practitioners, and on promoting the sharing of knowledge among them. This outcome is divided into eight Outputs. In this report, the IPC-IG presents its progress regarding the implementation of these outputs, as defined in the project planning document (PRODOC). This report will be updated regularly until the conclusion of the project in March 2017.