Social protection in Africa / created by Frank Ellis, Stephen Devereux and Philip White.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part I: Themes -- 1. Overview -- 2. Vulnerability -- 3. Targeting -- 4. Delivery -- 5. Coordination and coverage -- 6. Cost-effectiveness -- 7. Market effects -- 8. Asset protection and building -- 9. Lesson learning: strengths, weaknesses and the state of the art -- Part II: Case studies from southern Africa -- 10. Introduction to the case studies -- Case studies: 1. Old age pension, Lesotho -- 2. Food subsidy programme, Mozambique -- 3. Public works programmes, Malawi -- 4. Dowa emergency cash transfer, Malawi -- 5. Social cash transfers, Zambia -- 6. Urban food programme, Zimbabwe -- 7. Food assistance programme, Mozambique -- 8. School feeding, Lesotho -- 9. Neighbourhood care points for orphans and vulnerable children, Swaziland -- 10. Education material fairs, Mozambique -- 11. Input subsidy programme, Malawi -- 12. Food security pack, Zambia -- 13. Input trade fairs, Mozambique -- 14. Chiefs' fields for orphans and vulnerable children, Swaziland 15. Small livestock transfers, Zimbabwe.

The purpose of this book is to make accessible to a broad audience the ideas, principles and practicalities of establishing effective social protection in Africa. It focuses on the major shift in strategy for tackling hunger and vulnerability, from emergency responses mainly in the form of food transfers to predictable cash transfers to the chronically poorest social groups. The diverse case studies in this book provide a unique and timely exploration of the effective, and less effective, ways that social transfers are delivered to the chronically poor and vulnerable in Sub-Saharan Africa.