Guidance material
Managing climate risks through social protection
13 November 2019
Publication
13 November 2019
Work area: Social Protection and Resilience
Given the imminent challenges climate change poses for poverty reduction and sustainable development, the need for coherent and integrated climate risk management approaches that address the underlying causes of vulnerability – and that simultaneously increase...
Publication
Many social protection programmes, including cash transfers, public works programmes and asset transfers, target women as main beneficiaries or...
FAO Technical Guide 2 - Integrating gender into the design of cash transfer and public works programmes
15 November 2018
Publication
15 November 2018
Many social protection programmes, including cash transfers, public works programmes and asset transfers, target women as main beneficiaries or...
FAO Technical Guide 3 - Integrating gender into implementation and monitoring and evaluation of cash transfer and public works programmes
15 November 2018
Publication
15 November 2018
Many social protection programmes, including cash transfers, public works programmes and asset transfers, target women as main beneficiaries or recipients of benefits. Extending social protection to rural populations has great potential for fostering rural women’s...
Myth-Busting? Confronting Six Common Perceptions about Unconditional Cash Transfers as a Poverty Reduction Strategy in Africa
10 October 2018
Publication
10 October 2018
This paper summarizes evidence on six perceptions associated with cash transfer programming, using eight rigorous evaluations conducted on large-scale government unconditional cash transfers in sub-Saharan Africa under the Transfer Project. Specifically, it investigates if...