Transformative Social Protection for Children in Africa: The Case of South Africa and Mauritius

Musavengana Chibwana

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004685604_005

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This chapter reflects on the conceptualisation of social protection within the African Children’s Charter and how its normative guidance influenced Mauritius and South Africa’s framing of social protection. After Chile, Mauritius and South Africa are two of the top three countries identified by the World Bank as the top spenders on social assistance. The chapter gleans some lessons from these two countries that are worth learning from. In the same breath, since both countries use cash transfers as the backbone of their social protection interventions, the chapter raises a trepidation that cash transfers intervene at the level of individuals and households rather than addressing the structural setup of a society that makes children vulnerable in the first place. The chapter conceptualises social protection not as a palliative endeavour but as a social justice issue that should be justiciable within a jurisdiction. The chapter argues that the cash transfer interventions in both countries provide for narrow conceptualisations of poverty as income or food deficits whilst paying a blind eye to the multidimensionality of poverty. This conceptualisation is also problematic in that it brands the poor as a homogeneous group needing a one size-fits-all intervention which in this case is cash transfers. The chapter engages with some transformative interventions in both countries, with the jurisprudence of the Grootboom Case being instructive on how social protection should be framed.

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The Social, Economic and Cultural Rights of Children in Africa

Challenges and Reflections from the Perspective of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child

ISBN:: 9789004685604

Verleger:: Brill | Nijhoff

Print-Publikationsdatum:: 21 Dec 2024

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Challenges and Reflections from the Perspective of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child

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