Good girls and good education: avoiding the “bad life” in Rwanda
“We have sex to stay in school, and we want to go to school so that we don’t have to have sex.” This year’s International Day of the Girl Theme is Innovating for Education. This theme appeals to me on a number of levels, but mainly because it is somewhat...
Grandmas, Pensions and Female Genital Cutting
Rebecca Calder reports on the surprising finding that pensions may be contributing to a reduction in female genital cutting in Karamoja, Uganda. In the 7th edition of our Pathways Perspectives...
Mis-labelled Cash Transfers
Nicholas Freeland, a Senior Social Policy Specialist, criticises a report written about a two year pilot social protection scheme in Morocco and how an unconditional transfer became 'mislabelled'.
As DFID commits to disability-inclusive social protection, we highlight an essential solution
3rd December: Development Pathways today sets out a solution for addressing the large gaps in life outcomes between persons with and without disabilities as the UK’s Department for International Development...
Child-Sensitive Social Protection in Fiji: Assessment of the Care and Protection Allowance
UNICEF and Fiji’s Ministry of Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation commissioned Development Pathways to carry out the assessment of the Care and Protection Allowance, a national scheme that provides monthly cash transfers and food vouchers to children in vulnerable and low-income families.
To condition or not to condition: what is the evidence?
‘The World Bank do not like having conditions imposed on them: so why impose them on others?’ In the first of our Pathways Perspectives of the year, we look at...
Preventing violence against children in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka has shown leadership in mapping its child protection system and drafting a National policy on Child Protection. UNICEF’s country discussion paper, which Development Pathways contributed to, identifies the...
SDG Baseline Report on Children in Indonesia
The Government and Unicef SDG Baseline Report on Children in Indonesia, provides a snapshot of where the country’s children stand at the start of the period up to 2030, when the goals are due to be met.
Social protection programme’s role in tackling female genital mutilation highlighted
Uganda’s Senior Citizens Grant (SCG) is contributing to the combating of female genital mutilation, the Government of Uganda has highlighted. A video from the Government’s Expanding Social Protection programme – responsible...
Children in Indonesia: An analysis of poverty, mobility and multidimensional deprivation
This Indonesian Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) report provides estimates of monetary child poverty, poverty dynamics and welfare mobility, and multidimensional child deprivation. It also presents results from a micro-simulation...