Social protection

The Full Circle Project is a response by a women’s organisation to the dynamics of women’s poverty and economic exclusion in contemporary Britain. The authors emphasise the need for credit provision for women to be seen as only one part of an integrated strategy for poverty reduction. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor […]

Participatory appraisal methods have been developed in a Southern context to facilitate the involvement of people in analysing their own situation and seeking solutions to their problems. This article describes a Community Assessment in the UK, in which participatory methods were used effectively to support community residents in putting together a plan for local action. […]

This article looks at poverty amongst black and white women in Britain, and proposes that Credit Unions (community banks) could lead the way in establishing a feminist anti-poverty strategy offering not only financial but also socio-political and emotional benefits. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents […]

Although the economy is booming, America has the highest poverty levels in the industrialised world. This article looks at the way in which welfare policies are influenced by attitudes to poverty and to poor people, and argues for a different approach based on an accurate analysis of the causes of poverty. This article is hosted […]

During the 1990s, the street press movement has spread rapidly throughout the developed world. The movement is a unique social experiment which tackles the problems of homelessness through the concept of self-help. Helping homeless, ex-homeless and vulnerably accommodated people help themselves through the selling of newspapers or magazines can break dependency on state benefits, and […]

A notable absentee from the ten-point action plan set out by the 1990 World Summit for Children was the issue of street children. Yet such children are a common sight in cities of the developing world, and live in some of the most extreme conditions of poverty. The article looks at the experience of street […]

Sukaynah Salameh is a Palestinian woman living in Lebanon, who recently became a Lebanese citizen. She has been involved in social and development work since 1976, as a founding member of several NGOs, including VDSA. She studied law and arts at the Beirut University College. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. […]