This brochure highlights the important role that social protection has to play in addressing many of the barriers poor rural households face in building resilient and sustainable livelihoods. Despite progress in recent decades, 736 million...

Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture

Using rural economy-wide impact simulation methods and cost-benefit analysis, this study examines the impacts of individual and combined social...

Many social protection programmes, including cash transfers, public works programmes and asset transfers, target women as main beneficiaries or...

Many social protection programmes, including cash transfers, public works programmes and asset transfers, target women as main beneficiaries or...

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...