I have a problems with the concept itself: why should these people be given protection - social or otherwise - before they make efforts to first help themselves?
If they are suffering because some more powerful groups or elites are abusing them, then should the international community not focus on combating the powerful abusers?
My worries start from what I see in Africa: cash transfers and other aid is going to the poor. They are in effect receiving "pensions" for doing nothing. I had to work nearly 30 years to get my pension and these people simply have to be poor (or forest-dependent) to qualify for the same. Is this reasonable, given international norms that pensions should be earned?
I have a problems with the concept itself: why should these people be given protection - social or otherwise - before they make efforts to first help themselves?
If they are suffering because some more powerful groups or elites are abusing them, then should the international community not focus on combating the powerful abusers?
My worries start from what I see in Africa: cash transfers and other aid is going to the poor. They are in effect receiving "pensions" for doing nothing. I had to work nearly 30 years to get my pension and these people simply have to be poor (or forest-dependent) to qualify for the same. Is this reasonable, given international norms that pensions should be earned?
Mafa Chipeta