CHASP Advisory: advancing social assistance and poverty graduation in East and Horn of Africa.
“Governments and development partners need to be deliberate about setting up and financing systems and programs that expand social safety nets,” says Omondi Otieno Ooyi, Global Director of CHASP Advisory, in an editorial article on tackling poverty featured in the August-September issue of Msafiri Magazine by Kenya Airways.
The concept and practice of Social Protection as a tool and instrument for poverty reduction, economic growth, and the humanitarian response have rapidly gained global popularity within the last decade with many developing countries slowly embracing social assistance as a strategy for reducing vulnerability among their populations. Conceivably, there has been a significant increase in governments spending and investment in social protection programs which in turn has led to notable positive effects in socio-economic development and livelihood improvement for select beneficiary communities.
