GRASSP: Angola
Gender-responsive age-sensitive social protection in Angola
Highlights
Over the last decade, the Government of Angola has implemented on a series of reforms aimed at establishing a comprehensive social protection system and strengthening it so it would cover some of the country’s most vulnerable populations. The reforms included the first ever cash-transfer programme, a child-sensitive unconditional social cash transfer programme for food-insecure households with children up to age five - Valor Criança. This programme also linked families to other services including birth registration, early childhood development, adolescent empowerment and community-led sanitation – known as a ‘cash plus’ programme.
As part of the multi-year Gender-Responsive Age-Sensitive Social Protection (GRASSP) project, research was conducted on the effectiveness of Angola’s social protection system and its impact on children’s lives and the role it plays in fostering gender equality.
The research project in Angola resulted in two reports and two short briefs, all in English and Portuguese. Report 1 focuses on the impacts of the Valor Criança programme on various domains of child and household well-being. Report 2 examines the extent to which gender and child rights have been embedded in Angola’s social protection system, focusing on the decision- and policy-making processes that led to the design, implementation and financing of the reforms.
