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‘To be a woman is to make a plan’: a qualitative study exploring mothers’ experiences of the Child Support Grant in supporting children’s diets and nutrition in South Africa
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2018)
Food security and good nutrition are key determinants
of child well-being. There is strong evidence that cash
transfers such as South Africa’s Child Support Grant (CSG)
have the potential to help address some of the ...
Child Support Grant access and receipt among 12-week-old infants in an urban township setting in South Africa
(Co-Action Publishing, 2014)
BACKGROUND: Cash transfers (CTs) are increasingly used as a strategy to alleviate poverty and improve child
health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. The Child Support Grant (CSG) is the largest CT
programme ...
The experience of cash transfers in alleviating childhood poverty in South Africa: Mothers’ experiences of the Child Support Grant
(Routledge, 2014)
Cash transfer (CT) programmes are increasingly being used as policy instruments to
address child poverty and child health outcomes in developing countries. As the
largest cash-transfer programme in Africa, the South ...
Children, Social Assistance and Food Security
(The Black Sash, 2021)
The Child Support Grant (CSG) in South
Africa, which is the smallest of all the grants,
is currently R460 per month after being
increased from R450 in April 2021. This grant
needs to cover many basic needs for a child ...
Social Protection in a Time of Covid
(The Black Sash, 2021)
The Covid-19 Social Relief of distress Grant (Covid-19 SRD) was introduced in South Africa in May 2020 to mitigate the
devastating effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. It provided for people between 18 and 59 years of age, ...