Overview:
Social assistance has become an important tool to reduce poverty and social exclusion. While in developed countries, activation policies have become popular by combining income guarantees with access to training, job search and access to services such as child care and rehabilitation, in the context of developing countries some new social assistance programs aim at breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty by investing in the productivity and resilience of poor and vulnerable households with children.
There is a series of social assistance arrangements in the world, linking in a way or another the cash component to services and programmes allowing beneficiaries to better access employment and income generating opportunities, social protection, health, and citizenship rights.
CIARIS offers a space for increasing our knowledge from countries’ experiences and for sharing ideas and practices among practitioners around the world.
We recommend to read in the right-hand column
the background papers, and use the bibliographic references, the list of
website and examples and the database on Social Assistance in Developing
Countries at
http://www.chronicpoverty.org/resources/BooksReportsOther.html
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