This paper considers the situation of youth and adolescents affected by war and displacement throughout the world, and provides a summary of the key issues to be explored with regards to their protection. It draws upon insights and experience from researchers, practitioners and war-affected young people themselves in an attempt to better understand the challenges they face during war and the resulting implications for policy and practice.
The User's Guide is intended for practitioners undertaking poverty and social impact analysis (PSIA) in developing countries. Given the broad scope of policy issues, methods, and challenges involved, the User's Guide does not specify minimum standards for PSIA, but rather provides suggestions on how to approach the analysis. In advocating a multidisciplinary approach to PSIA, the User's Guide presents both economic and social analysis tools and methods. While focusing on distributional impacts, PSIA also addresses issues of sustainability and risks to policy reform that come with the poverty and social impacts of policy changes.
This paper examines how social protection can be used to protect children and families affected by HIV and AIDS, and specifically, how well cash transfers can fare with respect to securing basic subsistence and reducing poverty, while also protecting the human capital of children - specifically, their education, health and nutrition. The paper reviews evidence to date on the impacts of programs under different designs, and reviews key policy debates that accompany decisions about whether to adopt cash transfers and how to design them to be responsive to the context of HIV and AIDS. In particular, it examines systems, experiences and dilemmas of targeting, and the debate on conditionality, i.e. whether cash transfers should be conditioned on beneficiaries' participation in education and health services.
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