This report summarises key features of the cash transfer programme in each country and the extent to which programme objectives address empowerment, social justice, social cohesion and citizenship alongside economic vulnerability. It considers positive experiences and concerns at the individual, household and community levels, as well as beneficiary and community views on programme governance and accountability.
This synthesis report presents qualitative and participatory research findings on beneficiary and community perceptions of five unconditional cash transfer programmes: two in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region (the Palestinian National Cash Transfer Programme (PNCTP) in Gaza and the West Bank, and the Social Welfare Fund (SWF) in Yemen); and three in sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya’s Cash Transfers for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (CT-OVC) programme, Mozambique’s Basic Social Subsidy Programme (PSSB), and Uganda’s Senior Citizen Grant (SCG), part of the Social Assistance Grants for Empowerment (SAGE) programme).
In light of the recent global financial crisis and ongoing debates among the international community as to key global development priorities post-2015, social protection is increasingly seen as essential – not just to tackle rising levels of risk and vulnerability but also to promote social inclusion and social justice.
The report provides an analysis of methodological options on the cost of gender-based violence and intimate partner violence, by studying different literatures and studies, and provides recommendations. It includes a case study on the cost of intimate partner violence against women in the UK during 2012 and provides a calculation of the costs in the EU.
Estimating the Costs of Gender-Based Violence in the European Union – Report
Извор: WUNRN – 08.12.2014
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Pro-female policies can encourage greater labor participation of women
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Middle East, N Africa, S Asia ripe to benefit from high female workforce
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Increasing role of Japanese women could raise income per capita by 4 percent
September - The global economy could be greatly boosted by unleashing the economic power of women, who remain the world’s largest excluded group, the head of the IMF told a high level gathering in Japan.
“Excluding women simply makes no economic sense—and including them can be a tremendous boon to the 21st century global economy,” the IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said in a keynote speech at the “World Assembly for Women” in Tokyo.
She identified three main ways to unleash the economic power and potential of women: change economic policies, change laws and institutions, and change attitudes and culture.
Demands for social justice are increasingly part of mainstream development debates, including post-2015 policy dialogues that highlight the importance of striving towards ‘resilience for all’. Although the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have galvanised a global consensus to improve human development, the mixed and modest inroads achieved thus far in tackling major development challenges – including the ongoing global financial crisis, rising food prices, and political insecurity underscored by the dynamics of the post-Arab Spring – highlight the need for a stronger policy and programming focus on addressing inequality and social exclusion (Kabeer, 2010; OECD, 2010; ECA et al., 2012).
Извор: WUNRN – 05.12.2014
In the name of tradition and culture
Annie Banda - Coalition of Women Living with HIV and AIDS, Malawi, Hajjarah Nagadya - International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) Eastern Africa, Uganda Martha Tholanah - ICW Southern Africa, Zimbabwe
Violence against women and girls, particularly those living with HIV, remains widespread in all eastern and southern African countries, cutting across class, tradition and culture. This violence is deeply present and ingrained in our daily lives, and it often is sustained by cultures that ignore, condone, justify or encourage it in the name of tradition.
The main challenge is that in patriarchal societies, the cultural norm of masculinity is one of the key drivers of violence against women, leading some men to believe that they can treat women as their personal property. Unequal and often violent treatment of women has gone on for so long that many women and girls just accept it as part of their culture. Many have not known any other way of being treated.
