Growing up in Ethiopia and Andhra Pradesh: the impact of social protection schemes on girls’ roles and responsibilities

Camfield, Laura ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0165-9857 (2014) Growing up in Ethiopia and Andhra Pradesh: the impact of social protection schemes on girls’ roles and responsibilities. European Journal of Development Research, 26 (1). 107–123. ISSN 1743-9728

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Abstract

The focus of this article is the effect on adolescent girls’ roles and responsibilities of public works schemes or cash transfers, which are the main forms of social protection in developing countries. Increasing participation in social protection is intended to enhance the development of girls in participating households, but evidence on their school participation and workloads suggests that the reverse may be happening. The article probes what happens to girls’ roles and responsibilities when households participate in social protection schemes in rural Ethiopia and Andhra Pradesh. It argues that effects are complex, and often context-specific; however, the assumption that ‘beneficiaries’ benefit means that negative impacts are rarely acknowledged. The article combines a review of other papers addressing the effects of social protection on children’s work with analysis of quantitative and qualitative data, recognising that this question cannot be answered with a methodology that considers girls’ schooling or workloads in isolation.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: adolescent girls,child work,ethiopia,india,social protection,geography, planning and development,development,sdg 1 - no poverty ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3305
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Gender and Development
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Impact Evaluation
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Life Course, Migration and Wellbeing
University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
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Depositing User: Pure Connector
Date Deposited: 24 Oct 2013 17:34
Last Modified: 09 Apr 2024 02:37
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/43880
DOI: 10.1057/ejdr.2013.36

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