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Urban Social Assistance : Emerging Insights from Three African Countries. / Vanessa Moreira.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Moreira, Vanessa.
- Series:
- Social Protection and Labor Discussion Papers
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cash Transfers.
- Pensions & Retirement Systems.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Social Protections & Assistance.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Urban Development.
- Urban Poverty.
- Local Subjects:
- Cash Transfers.
- Pensions & Retirement Systems.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Social Protections & Assistance.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Urban Development.
- Urban Poverty.
- Other Title:
- Urban Social Assistance
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2016.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- As countries implement social assistance (or safety net) programs, a range of technicalhurdles can affect their implementation differently in rural and urban areas. In urban areas,the focus of this study, cost of living can be higher and more prone to economic slowdowns.Poverty can be more severe than in rural areas and accompanied by high malnutrition rates.Implementation challenges in most urban areas relate to the lack of proper identification,outreach, intake, and registration of potential beneficiaries. These are in part due to thelack of social cohesion and different channels of communication. Therefore, social workersare likely to play an even more fundamental role in program implementation and M&Eprocesses.
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