Publication: April 2019
In the last decades, Social Safety Nets (SSNs) are increasingly being used as a key measure to alleviate poverty and vulnerability among people in developing countries, not only to face short-term calamities but also for long-term development, contributing to a more self-reliant, economically viable population. While in 2009 only 19 countries possessed a national Social Protection (SP) strategy in place that outlines systemic approaches, currently around 68 do so (Abdurazokzoda, 2014). When a country’s poor population remain poor after implementing a Social Safety Nets program, it indicates a failure of the program. In order for SSN program to be successful, it is required to meet a certain criteria. Failing to meet this criteria, is the reason to the failure of SSN programs.
