Evaluating Outside the Box: An Alternative Framework for Analysing Social Protection Programmes

Devereux, Stephen; Roelen, Keetie; Béné, Christophe; Chopra, Deepta; Leavy, Jennifer; McGregor, JoAnn

doi:10.1111/j.2040-0209.2013.00431.x

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“…The shifts in gender norms created by the opening up of economic opportunities and socio-cultural changes through NGO interventions, the Christian church, and education are being resisted by some men, especially of the older generation. Policy and interventions that involve or target women can impact on social dynamics and conflict (Devereux et al 2013), highlighting the need to be sensitive to cultural norms and fine-scaled relationships. As Hodgson (2001) has argued, without this sensitivity, external interventions can ignore aspects of women's power and add weight to gender inequalities.…”

Section: Diversity and Change In Maasai Well-being Conceptionsmentioning

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Well-being and conservation: diversity and change in visions of a good life among the Maasai of northern Tanzania

Woodhouse¹,

McCabe²

2018

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ABSTRACT. The Simanjiro plains, east of Tarangire National Park in Northern Tanzania are a key dispersal area for wildlife, and are of vital importance to Maasai pastoral livelihoods, which are rapidly diversifying. Diversification is coupled with fragmentation of the rangelands as agriculture expands and multiple actors compete for land. These changes reflect transformations occurring across pastoral rangelands, and pose the broader challenge of reconciling conservation and development objectives. We propose that qualitative research using a three-dimensional human well-being framework, encompassing material, relational, and subjective aspects, can inform locally legitimate and socially just conservation. Through semistructured group interviews across four villages, we explore well-being conceptions of Maasai men and women in Simanjiro. In particular we focus on the value of understanding social complexity for conservation research in the form of (i) the heterogeneity of conceptions of well-being across gender, age groups, and villages; (ii) temporal dynamics in notions and experiences. Material assets, namely land (for grazing and agriculture) and livestock are important to people but are intertwined with other aspects of well-being. Subjective well-being is centered on concerns about future security, especially with regards to land. Autonomy and social unity (relational dimension) are key priorities. We reflect on the implications for conservation at the study site, and more broadly on how well-being can better be incorporated into policy and practice that takes social justice seriously. The diversity we find in well-being priorities and experiences shows the importance of taking a disaggregated approach that conceptualizes benefits and burdens across a range of locally important well-being components ensuring the priorities of the most marginalized groups are represented.

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Section: Diversity and Change In Maasai Well-being Conceptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Well-being and conservation: diversity and change in visions of a good life among the Maasai of northern Tanzania

Woodhouse¹,

McCabe²

2018

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“…Accordingly their evaluations have been preoccupied by measuring changes in beneficiaries' income, nutrition, health or education as they are not only clearly linked to economic growth, but also relatively easier to measure and quantify. Concentrating on these material effects, evaluations of cash transfers have indeed produced robust evidence that these programmes do work in terms of material wellbeing (Devereux et al, 2013;MacAuslan & Riemenschneider, 2011). However, it is increasingly acknowledged that not only do poverty and 2 F. Samuels & M. Stavropoulou vulnerability have multiple, including psychosocial, dimensions (Walker et al, 2013), but also that cash transfers can have effects that exceed their original material objectives (Devereux et al, 2013).…”

Section: Development and Psychosocial Wellbeingmentioning

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“…Some studies have found that cash transfers increased household tensions and domestic violence as well as tensions between beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries with negative wellbeing effects (Devereux et al, 2013). Thus in South Africa, female recipients of the child transfer reported being looked down on by non-recipients and facing negative comments such as being lazy or unwilling to work (Hochfeld & Plagerson, 2011).…”

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‘Being Able to Breathe Again’: The Effects of Cash Transfer Programmes on Psychosocial Wellbeing

Samuels

Stavropoulou

2016

The Journal of Development Studies

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The multidimensional nature of poverty and vulnerability and the role of psychosocial dimensions in achieving wellbeing are increasingly being recognised, yet development programme assessments still tend to focus on material outcomes. We situate this article within a wellbeing framework and after reviewing evidence on the psychosocial effects of cash transfer programmes, we explore findings from a qualitative and participatory study on beneficiary experiences of unconditional cash transfers in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa. Narratives reveal how cash transfers can improve psychosocial wellbeing at individual level and in relation to others suggesting that psychosocial dimensions need to be considered when planning, implementing and evaluating cash transfer programmes.

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“…(2013) for diversity of considerations in welfare provision; and Devereux et al (2013) for multiplicity of factors in evaluating policy. Other factors promoting diversity include the ideational and institutional as in Buxton (2013) for social policy in Venezuela and health provision in Thailand, Yivayanond and Hanvoravongchai (2013), and Brazil, d'Ávila Viana and da Silva (2013).…”

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The Continuing Enigmas of Social Policy

Fine¹

2017

Towards Universal Health Care in Emerging Economies

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractOne particular index of the systemic nature of the current crisis is the weaknesses of intellectual responses to the crisis and the inability, often self-confessed by orthodox thinkers and policy makers, to offer convincing or viable remedies. Unsurprisingly, this intellectual deficiency has primarily focused on the role of finance. But the intellectual weaknesses-especially as far as policy responses are concerned-run deeper and wider, covering (un)employment, industrial and housing policies, and so on. To a large extent, this reflects the debilitating influence of neoliberalism (looking at things in terms of a simple dichotomy between market and state, themselves simply conceived), the compromises with it, and the corresponding weaknesses of alternatives on offer prior to the crisis. These weak alternatives have swung between looking backwards to a Keynesian/interventionist renewal, and inventing alternative monikers for contemporary capitalism, such as post-Fordist or, more recently, the Cheshire-cat grinning knowledge economy.In this light, this paper examines critically what has been one of the most successful intellectual contributions to the neoliberal period, Esping-Andersen's Welfare Regimes Approach (WRA) to comparative social policy. The paper shows that the WRA has deep roots within the conditions of the post-war boom and, as a consequence, was already well past its "use by date" when it emerged in the 1990s, let alone over the subsequent two decades of neoliberalism that have been underpinned by financialization. A close examination of the literature on the WRA shows how it has suffered from being unable to account for the differences between countries and programmes and has neglected both the changing conditions associated with neoliberalism and the causal factors underpinning it, and the closer determination of social policies themselves. The paper offers similar commentary on other approaches to social policy, such as appeal to convergence, divergence or path dependence. To some degree, the study of social policy has become tired, having been used to addressing yet one more crisis of the welfare state as if all that is involved is another round of responses to neoliberal antipathy or straitened economic circumstances.With such analysis as critical point of departure-together with specification of financialization, its relationship to neoliberalism and their variegated influences over social ...

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Evaluating Outside the Box: An Alternative Framework for Analysing Social Protection Programmes

Cited by 31 publications

References 28 publications

Well-being and conservation: diversity and change in visions of a good life among the Maasai of northern Tanzania

Well-being and conservation: diversity and change in visions of a good life among the Maasai of northern Tanzania

‘Being Able to Breathe Again’: The Effects of Cash Transfer Programmes on Psychosocial Wellbeing

The Continuing Enigmas of Social Policy

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