‘Building resilient livelihoods for the poorest through social protection: Lessons for Ghana’.
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2017-03-28
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University of Ghana
Abstract
Graduation’ is increasingly stated as an objective of social protection interventions. This lecture emphasizes the
importance of understanding graduation as a sustained improvement in livelihoods over time rather than simply
an exit from social protection support. For sustained positive changes to occur in the livelihood dynamics of the
most vulnerable in society, social protection programmes must be coordinated and harmonised within and across
sectors. Lessons will be drawn from a variety of national social protection programmes across the globe to think
about ways in which future social protection initiatives can be better adapted and tailored to the needs and rights
of the poorest.
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BIO: Prof Rachel Sabates-Wheeler
Development Economist with 20 years of experience working in areas of rural development, institutional analysis
and social protection. A Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex
since 2001, and the Director of the Centre for Social Protection between 2006 and 2011. She has published on
issues of rural institutions in post-soviet transitions, social protection in Africa, migration and poverty, and has
worked for numerous international agencies. Rachel has been centrally involved in a numerous large research
programmes that explored understandings of risk and vulnerability both conceptually and empirically. These
studies include: the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), Ethiopia; the Hunger Safety Net Programme (HSNP),
Kenya; the Child Support Grant (CSG), South Africa.. Rachel went on leave of absence from 2.5 years (2012-2014)
to work for UNICEF in Rwanda as the Chief of Social Policy and Research.
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social protection, resilient livelihoods, Ghana