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Scoping of existing support programmes for small business –

The 1995 White Paper on the National Strategy for the Development of Small Business find practical expression in the Integrated Small Business Development Strategy...

ESR Review Vol 14 No-1 2 September 2013

Monitoring the progressive realisation of socio-economic rights in South Africa: The case for a comprehensive monitoring tool Barriers to social protection uptake in East...

Uppsala Statement final

The Uppsala Statement by Global Civil Society Organisations on the Right to Social Security. Following a two days conference organised by the Church of...

Graduation Critical Consideration for South African Paper

Central to recent development discourses in the Global South1 is the role of social protection systems in poverty alleviation. Social protection was critical to...

Dynamics between savings and credit for low-income households

Access to microfinance and microcredit for the poor has sparked critical debates over its ‘acclaimed’ successes and failures. Advocates of the microfinance agenda argue...

Project Monitoring and Evaluation

MONITORING EXERCISE ALLOWS IMPLEMENTING ORGANISATION TO TRACK PARTICIPANTS PROGRESS IT ALSO HELPS IDENTIFY AREAS FOR COURSE CORRECTIONS, INFORMS AND ADAPTATION TO INCREASE CHANCES OF...

Drought in Angola and Namibia

Angola and Namibia are facing their severest drought in over a quarter of a century. Some 330,000 people in Namibia are food insecure, 14 percent...

Cash response – Emergency Drought Relief Namibia 2013

A recently abandoned cattle post. In one of the interviews we learned that due to a lack of grazing the hearders had moved on....

SPII media release – New monitoring tool aims to build up an evidence base to in order to break down poverty and inequality

Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute introduces socio-economic rights monitoring tool. For the first time ever, civil society has a tool in its hands...

Summary of Methodology Paper – Taking Stock – How to make Sense of Progressive Realisation of Socio-Economic Rights and Evaluate Progress made over Time – the case for the realisation of socio-economic rights1

Few people would disagree that the realisation of socio-economic rights is key for overcoming South Africa’s persistent struggle with poverty and inequality. However, when...

Policy brief – Towards Transformation June 2013 – Measuring, Monitoring & Evaluating Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa

Few people would disagree that the realisation of socio-economic rights (SERs) is key for overcoming South Africa’s persistent struggle with poverty and inequality. The...

ICESCR Booklet (Jan2013)

The South African Constitution enshrines socio-economic rights- such as the right of access to healthcare services and social security, sufficient food and water, as...