Contact Info
- 6th Floor, I & M Building 2nd Ngong Avenue, Upper Hill
- +254 (0)20 2985000; +254 (0)729 111031 / +254 (0)731 000065
- info@pasgr.org
- Office Hrs: Today 9.00am to 6.00pm
Project Status: Completed
Launched: April 2012
Social protection was selected as a research theme due to the apparent high level of priority placed on the issue by African governments, the donor community and regional intergovernmental bodies like the African Union (AU). At the national level, social protection has been given attention in numerous plans and strategies.
To place social protection policy and research attention in perspective, PASGR commissioned a scoping paper from the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). The paper examined the extent of social protection research and policy interest across the region, and identified knowledge gaps and research opportunities potentially relevant to governance of social protection in Africa.
PASGR determined that one of the knowledge gaps is the need for better understanding of the scale and nature of “non-state” social protection. A research project was subsequently developed as described in this framework paper, and PASGR invited interested African researchers to submit concept notes. A series of policy briefs was developed from the findings in six African countries.
The project ‘Features, Governance Characteristics and Policy Implications of Non-State Social Protection in Africa’ had two concurrent objectives:
The project was officially launched at a workshop in Nairobi in August 2012 where 12 research teams (selected from among 56 submissions) presented the concept of their research project for feedback from peers, resource persons and PASGR staff. Ten of the 12 teams were offered a “seed grant” to develop a full research plan, after which a further selection process determined which nine projects would be funded to a maximum of USD 60,000 per team.
6th Floor, I & M Building
2nd Ngong Avenue, Upper Hill
P.O. Box 76418-00508
Nairobi, Kenya
Email: info@pasgr.org
Tel: +254 (0)20 2985000;
+254 (0)729 111031 / +254 (0)731 000065
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