Impact Initiative: Recent submissions
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The International Labour Organization's Measure of Legal Health Coverage: Is it Conceptually Strong?
(University of Cape Town, 2018)In 2014, the International Labour Organization (ILO) issued its annual World Social Protection Report. This report aimed to provide practical information on social protection that could be used by stakeholders for the ... -
The Limits to 'Global' Social Policy: The ILO, the Social Protection Floor and the Politics of Welfare in Africa
(University of Cape Town, 2018)Bob Deacon’s study of the Social Protection Floors initiative, led by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) entailed a pioneering study of the making of global social policy. Just how global is this ‘global social ... -
South Africa's Hybrid Care Regime: The Changing and Contested Roles of Individuals, Families and the State after Apartheid
(SAGE, 2018)The post-apartheid state in South Africa inherited a care regime that historically combined liberal, social democratic and conservative features. The post-apartheid state has sought to deracialise the care regime, through ... -
Familial Child Welfare Regimes: The Case of Botswana, 1966-2017
(University of Cape Town, 2018)Most Anglophone countries in Southern Africa provide a form of social cash transfers (SCTs) to families with children but do so in different ways. Botswana is a case of a “familial child welfare regime”, in that public ... -
Pro-poor Birth Coverage and Child Health in Africa
(Taylor and Francis, 2018)This paper explores which African countries had relatively low rates of underweight children and relatively high birth coverage (percentage of births with a skilled attendant) in the poorest quintile. Swaziland and Rwanda ... -
Social Protection, Intergenerational Relationships and Conflict in South Africa
(University of Cape Town, 2018)It has long been acknowledged that social protection contributes to patterns of stratification but there is little attention paid to the ways in which it creates conflict and inequalities in intergenerational relationships ... -
The International Labour Organization's Measure of Legal Health Coverage: Is it Reliable?
(University of Cape Town, 2018)The International Labour Organization’s (ILO) 2014/2014 World Social Protection Report included several indicators for quantifying the expansion of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), including measures for both effective and ... -
Youth Livelihoods in the Cellphone Era: Perspectives from Urban Africa Youth livelihoods in the Cellphone Era
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2018)Issues surrounding youth employment and unemployment are central to the next development decade. Understanding how youth use mobile phones as a means of communicating and exchanging information about employment and livelihoods ... -
Mobile Phones, Gender, and Female Empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa: Studies with African Youth
(Taylor and Francis, 2019)Data from qualitative and survey research with young people in 24 locations (urban and rural) across Ghana, Malawi, and South Africa expose the complex interplay between phone ownership and usage, female empowerment, and ... -
Groundwater and Welfare: A Conceptual Framework Applied to Coastal Kenya
(Elsevier B.V., 2020)The links between groundwater and welfare are highly contested, unclear and confounded by political, environmental and economic factors. The lack of understanding of these links has wider implication on policies and ... -
Modelling Welfare Transitions to Prioritise Sustainable Development Interventions in Coastal Kenya
(MDPI, Basel, Switzerland, 2020)Welfare transitions are weakly understood in sub-Saharan Africa due to limited panel data to analyze trajectories of household escaping from, falling into, or remaining out of deprivation. We model data from 3500 households ... -
Rethinking the Economics of Rural Water in Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2020)Rural Africa lags behind global progress to provide safe drinking water to everyone. Decades of effort and billions of dollars of investment have yielded modest gains, with high but avoidable health and economic costs borne ... -
Rainfall and Groundwater Use in Rural Kenya
(Elsevier B.V., 2019)This study examines the relationship between rainfall and groundwater use in rural Kenya, using automatically-transmitted hourly data from handpumps (n = 266), daily rainfall records (n = 19), and household survey data ... -
Global Water Policy and Local Payment Choices in Rural Africa
(Springer Nature, 2019)Sub-Saharan Africa is least likely to meet the Sustainable Development Goal for safely-managed drinking water. Africa is estimated to require at least three times more annual investment, as a share of the gross regional ... -
Water Science, Policy, and Management - A Global Challenge
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019)Universal delivery of improved drinking water services in rural Africa and Asia has been an enduring policy challenge for decades. Whilst drinking water coverage has generally improved, only one in five countries below 95% ... -
Risk Factors Associated With Rural Water Supply Failure: A 30-year Retrospective Study of Handpumps on the South Coast of Kenya
(Elsevier B.V., 2018)An improved understanding of failure risks for water supplies in rural sub-Saharan Africa will be critical to achieving the global goal of safe water for all by 2030. In the absence of longitudinal biophysical and operational ... -
How the International Media Framed 'Food Riots' During the Global Food Crises of 2007-12
(Springer, 2018)This paper explores the framing of ‘food riots’ in the international media during the global food crisis period of 2007–12. This is an important issue because the international media’s overly simplistic treatment of ... -
Food Riots in Bangladesh? Garments Worker Protests and Globalized Subsistence Crises
(Zapruder World, 2019)This paper explores the politics of provisions in Bangladesh through an analysis of the so-called ‘food riots’ of 2008. On the face of it, poor, malnourished, mal-governed Bangladesh was a clear candidate for food riots ... -
Religious Fragmentation, Social Identity and Other-regarding Preferences: Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment in India
(Elsevier, 2019)We examine the impact of religious identity and village-level religious fragmentation on other-regarding preferences. We report on a series of two-player binary Dictator experiments conducted on a sample of 516 Hindu and ... -
Global-local Divides and Ontological Politics: Feminist Health Workers in Kenya
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2019)This theoretical paper argues that Feminist Science and Technology Studies (FSTS) can help advance the emancipatory project in critical Ed Tech research. To support this claim, we deploy Tsing’s concept of ‘scale-making ...