Transfer Project News

Explore our new page on social protection responses to COVID-19.

See the resources our team is using to continue researching during the pandemic.

Working Papers

Pandemics and Violence Against Women and Children: This paper outlines nine pathways linking pandemics and VAW/C, eight policy and programme responses, and three streams for future research.

A rapid review of economic policy and social protection responses to health and economic crises and their effects on children: This review assesses evidence on past economic policy and social protection responses to health and economic crises and their impacts.

Reports & Briefs

A Cash Plus Model for Safe Transitions to a
Health and Productive Adulthood: Midline Report

Increasing links between social protection and
humanitarian cash in COVID-19 response

Social protection: ensuring effective response and
inclusive recovery in the context of COVID-19 in Africa

Social Protection and COVID-19 response in rural areas

Gender-sensitive social protection: A critical component of
COVID-19 response in low- and middle-income countries

Rural Social Protection 101

Presentations

Natalia Winder (UNICEF) appeared on UNICEF Innocenti's Leading Minds session on What the experts say on Coronavirus and support for families (4 June)

Tia Palermo (University at Buffalo) presented Social Safety Nets and linkages to Violence Against Children and Violence Against Women reduction as part of Promundo's Learning Dialogue Series (4 June)

Ashu Handa (UNC) was part of UNC African Studies Center's Future of Social Protection in Africa webinar (11 June)

News

Two of our papers were ranked in Wiley’s top 10% most downloaded papers: Household and Individual‐Level Productive Impacts of Cash Transfer Programs in Sub‐Saharan Africa and Cash Transfers, Early Marriage, and Fertility in Malawi and Zambia.

Amber Peterman (UNC) was quoted in Bhekisisa's article The lockdown women planning their escape from abusive homes.

Pamela Pozarny's (FAO) research brief on COVID-19 Impacts On The Poverty Landscape appeared in African Eye.

Read about FAO's Household Food Basket initiative launched in Senegal in response to COVID-19.

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The Transfer Project is an innovative research and learning initiative which supports improved knowledge and practice on social transfers in Africa. The project is supported in partnership with national governments, research partners and civil society, UNICEF, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH).

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