"Since the mid 1990s, and following the successful implementation of large scale programs in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, cash transfers have become an important part of the poverty alleviation toolkit in developing countries."
Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input regarding Human Rights Council Resolution 49/20 on the rights of the child and social protection. This submission reflects Human Rights Watch’s research on social protection and children in Ghana, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Uganda, and the United States.
"[L]arge-scale national social cash transfer programs with poverty alleviation objectives may have potential positive spillover benefits in terms of reducing HIV risk among young people in Eastern and Southern Africa." Interventions to delay sexual debut have been an important part of the HIV prevention strategy in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) due to t