Country Case Studies
Publication
Country: Lesotho
This report presents analysis and findings from an institutional assessment conducted during March - September 2019 of the Lesotho Child Grants Programme (CGP), a national social protection...
The state of social insurance for agricultural workers in the Near East and North Africa and challenges for expansion
23 March 2021
Publication
23 March 2021
Agricultural workers are exposed to many risks during their life cycle and are particularly vulnerable to covariate risks, such as droughts, armed conflict and pandemics. Despite the great potential of social protection policies to protect...
Publication
Work area: Social Protection and Resilience
Country: Mexico
This paper is a summary of the institutional analysis of the proyecto de inclusión productiva rural (proinpro), intended to analyse the institutional mechanisms that determined the effectiveness and restrictions of the coordination between this...
Publication
Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture
Country: Zambia
Promoting coherence and the articulation between social and productive interventions, which target the same population of poor smallholder farmers, can trigger synergistic effects with a grater rich than standalone programs. The complementarity can also contribute...
Complementing cash with productive inputs to improve food security and resilience among the extreme poor in Mali
25 February 2021
Publication
25 February 2021
Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture
Country: Mali
Neither agriculture nor social protection alone can address all the constraints faced by poor rural households. Combined interventions are shown to have greater impacts than stand-alone interventions in assisting vulnerable populations to combat poverty and...