employment generation in addition to their protective role such as consumption smoothening. The paper reviews evidence on the … employment generation. Based on our review complemented with secondary data analyses, we conclude that in addition to their role … as an effective anti-poverty instrument, labor-intensive PWPs have important roles in mitigating poor labor market …

, and employment projects in Sub-Saharan Africa", which compares, and draws lessons from the African experience. It …, and provides stakeholder views: it reports high impact on employment, income, and local capacity building; improved … reconciliation of short-term, and long-term goals, and, beneficiary participation, and ownership should be key to social funds …

employment; set wages not higher than market levels but high enough to incentivise participation; ensure transparency in the …. Evidence points to the importance of community participation for the implementation of higher quality infrastructure and better … community participation in the programme cycle. • Digitalisation of PWPs (and social protection ingeneral) should be promoted as …

Many low- and middle-income countries have introduced Public Works Programmes (PWPs) to fight poverty. PWPs provide … temporary cash-for-work opportunities to boost poor households' incomes and to provide better infrastructure to local … collected as part of a 20- year longitudinal survey, show positive associations of family participation in the Productive Safety …

risks on poor farmers and unskilled and semi-skilled workers. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act … (MGNREGA) is the largest social protection programme in the world that provides 100 days of unskilled wage employment to any …