Briefs
The impacts of combining agricultural and social protection interventions. What do we know and what else do we need to know?
30 January 2017
Publication
30 January 2017
Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture
This is the policy brief drawn from a longer review that analyses and summarizes impact evaluation findings that focus on the interaction between agricultural...
Public Works and Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment: Rwanda’s Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme
21 November 2016
Publication
21 November 2016
Country: Rwanda
The brief summarizes findings of the first PtoP case study on rural women’s economic empowerment and focuses on the public works component of Rwanda’s...
Social Protection in the Sahel and West Africa: Strengthening Resilience for Food Security and Nutrition
15 November 2016
Publication
15 November 2016
Work area: Social Protection and Resilience
The brief aims at summarizing the efforts of FAO to maximize the impacts of social protection interventions in the Sahel and West Africa by strengthening...
Gender-differentiated impacts of the Lesotho Child Grant Programme on child welfare
01 September 2016
Publication
01 September 2016
Country: Lesotho
The Lesotho Child Grants Programme (CGP) is an unconditional social cash transfer that targets poor rural households with orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs). The primary objective of the programme is to improve the living standards...
Publication
Country: Ethiopia
This brief describes the broad array of impacts arising from a cash transfer programme that was piloted in the Tigray region of Ethiopia from 2011 to 2014.