Leila Patel
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3697623 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Leila Patel |
| NOMBRES | Leila |
| APELLIDO | Patel |
| FIRMA | PATEL L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2499-820X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 89 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
“I can do anything”
Cash transfers paid to mothers and women caregivers of children in developing countries are associated with alleviating child and household poverty. But what happens when men claim these benefits? This discourse analysis of 13 interviews with men recipients of South Africa’s Child Support Grant (CSG) in Soweto, South Africa reports on their conceptions of masculinity and fatherhood, in a context characterised by widespread father absence. We find…
Lessons From a Pilot Study of a ‘Cash Plus’ Family Intervention for Child Support Grant Recipients in South Africa
Cash transfers combined with strengthening interventions are widely advocated to respond to the multi-dimensional needs of children and their families. However, few local evidence-based programmes have been developed and tested. This article reports on the lessons learnt from a pilot study of a cash plus intervention, the Sihleng’imizi programme, delivered to child support grant (CSG) beneficiaries and their families in Soweto, South Africa. A qu…
Youth Employability programmes in South Africa
This article analyses a subset of eight youth employability programmes (YEPs) operating across South Africa using a panel survey of participants. It assesses the features of these YEPs and their links to subsequent employment while controlling for individual characteristics. Each YEP delivered technical and soft skills training, alongside other programme features offered in different combinations. Additionally, a financial capability intervention…
A case for rethinking the gender targeting of child cash transfers in Brazil and South Africa
Little is known about the effects of the receipt of child‐centred cash transfers by men. This article tests whether caregiver sex matters in determining stunting (low height for age) in child beneficiaries of Brazil's Bolsa Família and South Africa's Child Support Grant using household survey data. Overall, we find that caregivers’ socioeconomic and education status are more influential alongside the region of residence. However, among households…
The social development approach to social protection and social welfare
This chapter formulates the distinctive features of the social development approach to social protection and its linkages to the wider social welfare system in development contexts. It reviews different normative accounts that provide a conceptual basis for the field. It outlines the key features of the social development approach and contrasts them with these accounts, including their limitations. The analysis shows that the social development a…
Handbook on Social Protection and Social Development in the Global South
A community of practice approach for school-based developmental social work in South Africa
This article reports on social worker reflections on the benefits and barriers of a multisectoral community of practice to improve child well-being for beneficiaries of the Child Support Grant in poor urban communities in Johannesburg, South Africa. The findings could inform cash plus school based social work policies and practice
Connecting Cash Transfers with Care for Better Child and Family Well-Being
Food insecurity in South Africa
This article presents the results of the five waves of the National Income Dynamics Study – Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS-CRAM) on food security between May 2020 and May 2021. Despite significant investments in social protection, food insecurity and household and child hunger remained stubbornly high. We conclude that given the protracted nature of the pandemic, slow economic recovery, household and child hunger have stabilised at higher …
Context Matters—Child Growth within a Constrained Socio-Economic Environment
Communities in major cities in developing countries may experience economic vulnerability, which has detrimental consequences for maternal and child health. This study investigated individual-, household-, and community-level factors associated with child growth and resilience of early-grade learners aged 6 to 8 years. Demographic characteristics, depression scale, child wellbeing, and anthropometric measurements were collected on a sample of 162…
Livelihood activities and well-being outcomes of cash transfer beneficiaries in Soweto, South Africa
Despite a growing body of research on the benefits of cash transfers in reducing poverty, limited knowledge exists of beneficiaries' usage of social assistance to pursue livelihood activities in urban areas. This qualitative narrative enquiry provides empirical evidence that when cash transfers are combined with a wide range of livelihood activities, then material and psychosocial as well as personal, household, and business outcomes are improved…
Cash Transfers and Caregivers
In South Africa adolescent girls have the highest HIV incidence of any sex or age cohort. Scalable HIV-prevention interventions targeting this group are critical for epidemic control. Reaching 12.2 million children, the Child Support Grant mitigates the socio-structural drivers of HIV risk. This qualitative study of eight adolescents and their caregivers in Westbury, Johannesburg, explored how caregiving increases protective potential. ‘Caregivin…
Assets, cash transfers and urban livelihoods in South Africa
How access to cash transfers (CTs) contributes to assets and livelihoods is not well understood in development contexts. This qualitative study draws on the sustainable livelihoods approach and describes how beneficiaries acquire, mobilise and convert a diversity of assets into livelihood strategies amidst high levels of unemployment and poverty. We find that receipt of CTs had a catalytic effect enabling the pursuit of livelihoods, facilitating …
Why Is Youth Unemployment So Intractable in South Africa? A Synthesis of Evidence at the Micro-Level
How family and child cash transfers can empower women
By leveraging a comparison of Brazil’s Bolsa Família and South Africa’s Child Support Grant, this article probes whether and how income transfer programs enhance the standing of women recipients. Empowerment is assessed according to economic decision making, bodily protection and integrity, and psycho-social wellbeing and growth. The comparative analysis determines that regular income assistance boosts the self-esteem and agency of women recipien…
How cash transfers enable agency through livelihoods in South Africa
Evidence of non-economic indicators as markers of success for youth in youth employability programs
Welfare regimes in the global South
Standard definitions and classifications are inadequate to explain current welfare regimes, particularly in the global South. This article explores whether the capability approach can provide an alternative lens for welfare regime analysis. The development of welfare regime theory, and the primary dimensions of analysis are reviewed. The capability approach is critically applied to assumptions underlying comparative welfare regime research, in pa…
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 45 No. 4
This article provides an historical background to the special issue by tracing the evolution of social development, asset building and social investment in different parts of the world.These approaches transcend remedial and service-oriented interventions and seek to promote progressive social change.They also stress the importance of investing in people and communities, and focusing on their strengths rather than deficits.The historical evolutio…
Perspectives of South African caregivers in receipt of Child Support Grants
Cash transfers have delivered measurable benefits for poor and vulnerable children in low‐ and middle‐income countries. However, on its own, a cash transfer is insufficient to promote holistic child well‐being. In the quest for appropriate complementary family support services, known as ‘cash plus’ programing, this qualitative study sought to explore the perspectives of a group of South African caregivers, all of whom were in receipt of a Child S…
Social policy in South Africa
Social Protection in Africa
Social protection is one of the most recent, yet fastest growing social policy instruments in low and middle income countries to end poverty. At least 50 countries in Africa have non-contributory social protection programmes targeting poor and vulnerable households and individuals. Are these social policies an extension of residual social policies, or do they signal new directions in social policy in the Global South? This article reviews the the…
‘Children, families and the conundrum about men’
South Africa has an exceptionally high number of absent fathers. Approximately half of the children in the county are living without daily contact with their fathers, which is assumed to have dire social and economic consequences for them, their families and communities. Despite growing societal interest in the phenomenon of absent fathers, social and family policies are silent about the role of men or fathers in a highly feminised, familial and …
Social Welfare and Social Development
Development, social policy and community action
"How do citizens in poor communities benefit from and perceive state interventions? How do citizens in poor communities interact with others in the community to promote the well-being of themselves and their families? What are the implications of the above for community based research, policy and practice? Development, Social Policy and Community Action: Lessons from Below addresses these questions based on rigorous and multi-faceted research con…
Indigenous Welfare and Community-Based Social Development
Although indigenous community-based welfare practices have historically promoted social well-being in African communities, their contribution has seldom been recognized. Because these practices play a major role in social development, they should be more effectively integrated with formal social development programs. Three examples of community-based social development innovations in Southern African countries, which integrate traditional coopera…
Developmental social work in South Africa
Developmental social work is receiving increasing international recognition and much may be learnt from its application in different societal contexts. The article draws on empirical data from a South African study and provides valuable insight into how social workers conceptualize and translate developmental social work into practice
It buys food but does it change gender relations? Child Support Grants in Soweto, South Africa
A gender lens was applied in an empirical study to assess the dynamics and policy implications of one of South Africa's largest social protection programmes, the Child Support Grant (CSG). The findings are based on a household survey conducted in an urban community in Soweto, South Africa. They suggest that the grant supports women's ability to control and allocate resources, and that this has a positive impact on household food security. While t…
Social policy in South Africa
Child Support Grants in South Africa
Despite the growth of cash transfers to reduce poverty, promote child and family well-being and women's empowerment, the gender dynamics and impact of social protection remains poorly understood. We hypothesise that poor female care-givers receiving a cash transfer for their children are better able to contribute to the material and social well-being of their children than female care-givers who do not receive a cash transfer. This paper reports …
How family and child cash transfers can empower women
By leveraging a comparison of Brazil’s Bolsa Família and South Africa’s Child Support Grant, this article probes whether and how income transfer programs enhance the standing of women recipients. Empowerment is assessed according to economic decision making, bodily protection and integrity, and psycho-social wellbeing and growth. The comparative analysis determines that regular income assistance boosts the self-esteem and agency of women recipien…
How cash transfers enable agency through livelihoods in South Africa
The interaction of local and international child welfare agendas
This article assesses the interaction between international and local influences in South African child welfare practice and education between 2001 and 2010. Based on a mixed methods study, it finds that the primary mechanism for international exchange occurred through funding. Professional imperialism continued to be evidenced in the domination of Northern agendas in local curricula and the lack of critical interrogation of external practices. A…
Developmental Social Policy, Social Welfare Services and the Non‐profit Sector in South Africa
The potential and challenge of constructing a democratic developmental welfare state through synergistic state‐civil society relations is the focus of this article. The author argues that while South Africa's pluralist approach, involving a leading role for the state in partnership with voluntary organizations, is a viable policy option to address the country's developmental challenges, anomalies between policy proclamations and actual practice r…
Welfare regimes in the global South
Standard definitions and classifications are inadequate to explain current welfare regimes, particularly in the global South. This article explores whether the capability approach can provide an alternative lens for welfare regime analysis. The development of welfare regime theory, and the primary dimensions of analysis are reviewed. The capability approach is critically applied to assumptions underlying comparative welfare regime research, in pa…
Perspectives of South African caregivers in receipt of Child Support Grants
Cash transfers have delivered measurable benefits for poor and vulnerable children in low‐ and middle‐income countries. However, on its own, a cash transfer is insufficient to promote holistic child well‐being. In the quest for appropriate complementary family support services, known as ‘cash plus’ programing, this qualitative study sought to explore the perspectives of a group of South African caregivers, all of whom were in receipt of a Child S…
Transforming child and family services in urban communities in South Africa
Post‐apartheid, South African agencies have been required to shift their services in fundamental ways, including offering services in previously un‐resourced areas, honouring the rights of children and families, ensuring that users, staff and governing bodies are representative of the population and providing developmental social welfare services in place of child protection‐oriented interventions only. A study of urban South African child welfar…
How Theory Shapes Practice
Research internationally and in South Africa attribute the deficit in our understanding of the link between child and woman abuse by an intimate male partner of the mother as being largely due to the different theoretical frameworks adopted by social workers with significant implications for practice. Social workers working with abused children tend to adopt a child-centred approach, putting the needs of the child first, whilst those working with…
Getting it Right and Wrong
This article reviews the progress made and discusses the challenges for social welfare and social work in a post-apartheid society since the adoption of the White Paper for Social Welfare a decade ago. Much has been achieved in setting a developmental welfare policy agenda. An expansive social security system is contributing to a reduction in poverty and inequality and enhanced human capacity with direct human development benefits for beneficiari…
Towards a critical theory and practice in social work with special reference to South Africa
Livelihood activities and well-being outcomes of cash transfer beneficiaries in Soweto, South Africa
Despite a growing body of research on the benefits of cash transfers in reducing poverty, limited knowledge exists of beneficiaries' usage of social assistance to pursue livelihood activities in urban areas. This qualitative narrative enquiry provides empirical evidence that when cash transfers are combined with a wide range of livelihood activities, then material and psychosocial as well as personal, household, and business outcomes are improved…
Does school breakfast make a difference? An evaluation of an in-school breakfast programme in South Africa
South African Women's Struggles in the 1980's
Towards a critical theory and practice in social work with special reference to South Africa
South African Women's Struggles in the 1980's
Getting it Right and Wrong
This article reviews the progress made and discusses the challenges for social welfare and social work in a post-apartheid society since the adoption of the White Paper for Social Welfare a decade ago. Much has been achieved in setting a developmental welfare policy agenda. An expansive social security system is contributing to a reduction in poverty and inequality and enhanced human capacity with direct human development benefits for beneficiari…
Linking the Circles of Violence
The co-occurrence of woman and child abuse in the same family system is not acknowledged and is poorly understood in South Africa. Exploratory, qualitative research findings indicate that the phenomenon is unknown and unrecognised locally. Diverse theoretical approaches informing social work practice as well as the mandates of their respective organisations have a bearing on why the phenomenon is not identified and addressed holistically. These i…
It buys food but does it change gender relations? Child Support Grants in Soweto, South Africa
A gender lens was applied in an empirical study to assess the dynamics and policy implications of one of South Africa's largest social protection programmes, the Child Support Grant (CSG). The findings are based on a household survey conducted in an urban community in Soweto, South Africa. They suggest that the grant supports women's ability to control and allocate resources, and that this has a positive impact on household food security. While t…
Introduction
Developmental Social Policy, Social Welfare Services and the Non‐profit Sector in South Africa
The potential and challenge of constructing a democratic developmental welfare state through synergistic state‐civil society relations is the focus of this article. The author argues that while South Africa's pluralist approach, involving a leading role for the state in partnership with voluntary organizations, is a viable policy option to address the country's developmental challenges, anomalies between policy proclamations and actual practice r…
Developmental social work in South Africa
Developmental social work is receiving increasing international recognition and much may be learnt from its application in different societal contexts. The article draws on empirical data from a South African study and provides valuable insight into how social workers conceptualize and translate developmental social work into practice
Indigenous Welfare and Community-Based Social Development
Although indigenous community-based welfare practices have historically promoted social well-being in African communities, their contribution has seldom been recognized. Because these practices play a major role in social development, they should be more effectively integrated with formal social development programs. Three examples of community-based social development innovations in Southern African countries, which integrate traditional coopera…
How Theory Shapes Practice
Research internationally and in South Africa attribute the deficit in our understanding of the link between child and woman abuse by an intimate male partner of the mother as being largely due to the different theoretical frameworks adopted by social workers with significant implications for practice. Social workers working with abused children tend to adopt a child-centred approach, putting the needs of the child first, whilst those working with…
The interaction of local and international child welfare agendas
This article assesses the interaction between international and local influences in South African child welfare practice and education between 2001 and 2010. Based on a mixed methods study, it finds that the primary mechanism for international exchange occurred through funding. Professional imperialism continued to be evidenced in the domination of Northern agendas in local curricula and the lack of critical interrogation of external practices. A…
Transforming child and family services in urban communities in South Africa
Post‐apartheid, South African agencies have been required to shift their services in fundamental ways, including offering services in previously un‐resourced areas, honouring the rights of children and families, ensuring that users, staff and governing bodies are representative of the population and providing developmental social welfare services in place of child protection‐oriented interventions only. A study of urban South African child welfar…
Child Support Grants in South Africa
Despite the growth of cash transfers to reduce poverty, promote child and family well-being and women's empowerment, the gender dynamics and impact of social protection remains poorly understood. We hypothesise that poor female care-givers receiving a cash transfer for their children are better able to contribute to the material and social well-being of their children than female care-givers who do not receive a cash transfer. This paper reports …
‘Children, families and the conundrum about men’
South Africa has an exceptionally high number of absent fathers. Approximately half of the children in the county are living without daily contact with their fathers, which is assumed to have dire social and economic consequences for them, their families and communities. Despite growing societal interest in the phenomenon of absent fathers, social and family policies are silent about the role of men or fathers in a highly feminised, familial and …
Does school breakfast make a difference? An evaluation of an in-school breakfast programme in South Africa
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 45 No. 4
This article provides an historical background to the special issue by tracing the evolution of social development, asset building and social investment in different parts of the world.These approaches transcend remedial and service-oriented interventions and seek to promote progressive social change.They also stress the importance of investing in people and communities, and focusing on their strengths rather than deficits.The historical evolutio…
Perspectives of South African caregivers in receipt of Child Support Grants
Cash transfers have delivered measurable benefits for poor and vulnerable children in low‐ and middle‐income countries. However, on its own, a cash transfer is insufficient to promote holistic child well‐being. In the quest for appropriate complementary family support services, known as ‘cash plus’ programing, this qualitative study sought to explore the perspectives of a group of South African caregivers, all of whom were in receipt of a Child S…
Social policy in South Africa
Social Protection in Africa
Social protection is one of the most recent, yet fastest growing social policy instruments in low and middle income countries to end poverty. At least 50 countries in Africa have non-contributory social protection programmes targeting poor and vulnerable households and individuals. Are these social policies an extension of residual social policies, or do they signal new directions in social policy in the Global South? This article reviews the the…
Welfare regimes in the global South
Standard definitions and classifications are inadequate to explain current welfare regimes, particularly in the global South. This article explores whether the capability approach can provide an alternative lens for welfare regime analysis. The development of welfare regime theory, and the primary dimensions of analysis are reviewed. The capability approach is critically applied to assumptions underlying comparative welfare regime research, in pa…
Why Is Youth Unemployment So Intractable in South Africa? A Synthesis of Evidence at the Micro-Level
How family and child cash transfers can empower women
By leveraging a comparison of Brazil’s Bolsa Família and South Africa’s Child Support Grant, this article probes whether and how income transfer programs enhance the standing of women recipients. Empowerment is assessed according to economic decision making, bodily protection and integrity, and psycho-social wellbeing and growth. The comparative analysis determines that regular income assistance boosts the self-esteem and agency of women recipien…
How cash transfers enable agency through livelihoods in South Africa
Evidence of non-economic indicators as markers of success for youth in youth employability programs
Cash Transfers and Caregivers
In South Africa adolescent girls have the highest HIV incidence of any sex or age cohort. Scalable HIV-prevention interventions targeting this group are critical for epidemic control. Reaching 12.2 million children, the Child Support Grant mitigates the socio-structural drivers of HIV risk. This qualitative study of eight adolescents and their caregivers in Westbury, Johannesburg, explored how caregiving increases protective potential. ‘Caregivin…
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