Substantial allocations of the national budgets are being invested annually in social protection policies and programme to address high levels of poverty and vulnerability...

Social Protection has never been as important as it is now in Southern Africa. We at the Secretariat are excited about the call for...

There is increasing interest in South Africa in the development of methodologies and tools for measuring, monitoring and evaluating the progressive realisation of socio-economic...

This review reflects the findings of SPII’s investigation into National and Provincial budget allocations over a 5 year period 2007/08 – 2011/12. Although the tax...

This policy review has been undertaken as part of a broader project conducted by the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII). The objectives...

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...

The realisation of socio-economic rights (SERs) is crucial to South Africa overcoming the persistent challenge of poverty and inequality. However, unless the implementation or...

 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...

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...

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

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...

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...