Rachel Sabates‐wheeler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1398541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Sabates‐wheeler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Sabates‐wheeler |
| SIGNATURE | WHEELER R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3173-212X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 220 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Do social and humanitarian assistance mediate the impacts of conflict on lives and livelihoods? Lessons from Ethiopia during the Tigray crisis
The paper examines how conflict disrupts social assistance and whether humanitarian aid can fill gaps during crises. • The analysis uses household panel data from Amhara to show how conflict and climate shocks affect poverty and food security. • When the PSNP was curtailed by conflict, humanitarian aid filled the gap, highlighting benefits of coordinated support. • The study assesses how social and humanitarian aid mediate conflict and climate sh…
The limits to cash‐plus provision in protracted crises
Can Social Protection Programmes Promote Livelihoods and Climate Resilience in Conflict-Affected Settings? Evidence from Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme
The paper discusses the growing interest in using social protection to address climate-related vulnerabilities and strengthen resilience, particularly in conflict-affected settings. It examines the Productive Safety Net Programme in Ethiopia, highlighting that while social assistance offers a protective function, it falls short of reducing long-term vulnerabilities, especially in settings characterised by multidimensional and enduring stressors a…
Introduction
Social protection has established itself as a vibrant policy sector across the global South, and as a pillar of international development cooperation. Social protection features in numerous country policies and development agency strategies, as well as in several Sustainable Development Goals. However, the global context today is characterised by a range of emerging and intensifying challenges and uncertainties, including post-Covid-19 pandemic r…
Glossary – Reimagining Social Protection
This is the Glossary for IDS Bulletin 55.2, Reimagining Social Protection
Social Protection in Conflict and Conflict-Related Displacement Crises
In recent years, efforts to encourage the use of social protection in response to conflict and displacement have increased. Yet many of the lessons from social protection and shock-responsive programmes emerged in response to climate shocks and other disasters and are not necessarily transferable to conflict and displacement settings. Ultimately, the concern must be how to sustain support to the poorest and most vulnerable populations during conf…
Beyond rights-based social protection for refugees
The use of social protection measures has garnered increasing attention in recent years from academics and policymakers aspiring to unite the humanitarian origins and development ambitions of displacement governance regimes. Much of this attention has been focused on establishing and strengthening national systems of social protection provision. Analysis of policy approaches to social protection has become increasingly detailed, but typically doe…
The place of religious inequalities within international development and humanitarian response frameworks
Within the international development and humanitarian arenas no one disagrees with the language and aspirations of inclusion, protection, rights and equality. Yet, most development framings – policy and operational – have still to develop meaningful ways to attend to the specific advantages or disadvantages associated with religious views or beliefs that shape the way people and communities function and behave within society. This paper explores …
Providing social assistance and humanitarian relief
Expanding Social Protection Coverage with Humanitarian Aid
While social protection programmes have multiplied over the last two decades across sub-Saharan Africa, these coexist alongside humanitarian assistance in many places, calling for better integration of assistance delivered through the two channels. Progress on this front is hampered by limited evidence of whether and how these historically siloed sectors can work together. Using quantitative and qualitative data from districts covered by Ethiopia…
Targeting Social Transfers in Ethiopia's Agro-pastoralist and Pastoralist Societies
Over the past two decades national and other large-scale social assistance programmes have multiplied across sub-Saharan Africa. These programmes require considerable human resource capacity, institutional arrangements and systems of identifying eligible people, as well as delivery structures and mechanisms. Several countries have sought to extend programmes to areas at the margins of state power where governance and administration reflect negoti…
Urban social assistance
Graduation after 10 years of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme
Breaking out of the policy enclave approach to child labour in sub-Saharan African agriculture
This article is framed by the tension between a substantial universalising framework of global instruments on workers’ rights and child labour on one hand, and their outsourced implementation through the social policy enclaves of transnational corporations on the other hand. It uses the concept of ‘social policy enclaves’ to explore this tension and how it might be resolved to the benefit of children who work in African agriculture. To do this, t…
Insights into smallholder capacity for agricultural commercialisation
Over the last 15 years, the agricultural economics and development literature has amply highlighted success stories of smallholder farmers in developing countries, illustrating their increased engagement and integration with markets, in other words, higher rates of commercialisation. Yet, this seeming ‘success’ should not detract from the large proportion of farmers who, through engaging in high-value market chains, face high risks that often lim…
Social Protection, Covid-19, and Building Back Better
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought sweeping changes for economies and societies, with the most devastating consequences for individuals and groups with pre-existing vulnerabilities. As attention shifts from addressing urgent humanitarian needs to long-term response, it is time to think about the role of social protection as part of a longer-term solution to living with Covid-19, as well as supporting efforts to build back better. This article cons…
Revisiting group farming in a post-socialist economy
Since the end of socialism, Romania’s agricultural landscape has changed notably. In the 1990s, following decollectivisation, many Romanian farmers who received back small individual plots, pooled their land and resources with family and neighbours to cultivate in groups, or joined large agricultural associations for marketing. Subsequent decades have seen an aging population, reverse urban to rural migration, the country’s entry into the EU in 2…
Mapping differential vulnerabilities and rights
In recent years, forcibly displaced populations have attracted enormous media attention as an increasing number of disasters and political conflicts push more and more people to move away from their homes and seek refuge and opportunities in other places. At the same time, political nervousness about the financial and institutional capability of ‘receiving’ locations to adequately respond to the needs of these large-scale population movements con…
Linking Social Rights to Active Citizenship for the Most Vulnerable
Accessing the ‘Right’ Kinds of Material and Symbolic Capital
This article investigates how well South Africa’s Child Support Grant (CSG) responds to the material and psychosocial needs of adolescents, and the resultant effects on schooling and risky behaviour. One driver of schooling decisions is shame related to poverty and the ‘social cost’ of school, where a premium must often be paid for fashionable clothes or accessories. The other driver relates to symbolic and consumptive capital gained through enga…
Challenges of Measuring Graduation in Rwanda
Rwanda demonstrates how a process of community consultation and participation is able to identify and rank community members according to ‘social poverty’, drawing on the Ubudehe tradition which is considered a strength of Rwanda's social fabric. However, with the Ubudehe categorisation now the basis for determining eligibility to a range of social benefits, the process has come under some strain. This article highlights two issues related to tar…
Extortion with Protection
Using a panel data set from Burundi where information on protection payments during the twelve-year civil war was collected, we test the relationship between payments, the nature of extraction by the rebels, and the welfare outcomes. We ask, “Does payment to rebels insure against future welfare loss and does the nature of payment matter? Specifically, does the level of institutionalization of extraction within the rebel governance structure provi…
Implementing Social Protection in Agro-pastoralist and Pastoralist Areas
Sustainable Graduation from Social Protection Programmes
Efforts to reduce extreme poverty by assisting poor people to cross income or asset thresholds are receiving increasing attention in social protection programming. Livelihood-promoting interventions aim to reduce vulnerability, so that participants can manage moderate risk and 'graduate' from social protection provision. This article elaborates the theory of change underpinning the notion of graduation and explores the range of enabling and const…
A child-sensitive approach to social protection
Social protection is increasingly considered a development success story. At the same time, it still does too little to account for social differentiation and to address vulnerability, as opposed to poverty. Child sensitive social protection has gained considerable momentum, particularly in a developing country context, raising questions about its concept and practical implications. We argue that three types of vulnerabilities call for more tailo…
Social Security Regimes, Global Estimates, and Good Practices
Extortion with Protection
Using a panel data set from Burundi where information on protection payments during the twelve-year civil war was collected, we test the relationship between payments, the nature of extraction by the rebels, and the welfare outcomes. We ask, “Does payment to rebels insure against future welfare loss and does the nature of payment matter? Specifically, does the level of institutionalization of extraction within the rebel governance structure provi…
Farm Strategy, Self-Selection and Productivity
Linking agricultural development to school feeding in sub-Saharan Africa
Social protection for migrants
Access to social protection differs widely among international migrants. This article focuses on the issue of earnings‐related contributions to social security programmes and their (frequent) lack of portability across borders — a problem that particularly affects South‐South migrants. Furthermore, attention is drawn to the fact that in many low‐income countries a lack of administrative capacity in the operation of social security programmes is o…
Linking Social Rights to Active Citizenship for the Most Vulnerable
Implementing Social Protection in Agro-pastoralist and Pastoralist Areas
Cash transfers and high food prices
Tackling Poverty-migration Linkages
Transformative social protection programming for children and their carers
Although social protection has gained substantial attention in recent years as a development measure and long-term response to poverty and vulnerability, it is also being increasingly criticised for failing to pay adequate attention to differences between social groups and the different problems they face in terms of access and take-up of provisions and services. In this article, we seek to challenge common aspirations and expectations of social …
Sustainable Graduation from Social Protection Programmes
Efforts to reduce extreme poverty by assisting poor people to cross income or asset thresholds are receiving increasing attention in social protection programming. Livelihood-promoting interventions aim to reduce vulnerability, so that participants can manage moderate risk and 'graduate' from social protection provision. This article elaborates the theory of change underpinning the notion of graduation and explores the range of enabling and const…
A child-sensitive approach to social protection
Social protection is increasingly considered a development success story. At the same time, it still does too little to account for social differentiation and to address vulnerability, as opposed to poverty. Child sensitive social protection has gained considerable momentum, particularly in a developing country context, raising questions about its concept and practical implications. We argue that three types of vulnerabilities call for more tailo…
Introduction
The articles in this IDS Bulletin are drawn from a conference hosted by the Centre for Social Protection at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton, UK, in April 2011. The conference brought together academics and practitioners who understand social protection to be more than a palliative agenda for alleviating poverty and vulnerability, believing instead that social protection should be fundamentally interested in realising economic…
Successes in social protection
The recent food, fuel and financial crises have triggered innovation in social protection programmes around the world. Existing evidence suggests that such programmes both protect people from shocks and enable them to participate in economic growth. This paper explores lessons learned in social protection initiatives across countries and contexts, and identifies a set of ‘success conditions’ for social protection programmes, focusing mainly on su…
Great Expectations and Reality Checks
Too Much Inequality or Too Little? Inequality and Stagnation in Ethiopian Agriculture
The agricultural sector remains our Achilles heel
Mapping differential vulnerabilities and rights
In recent years, forcibly displaced populations have attracted enormous media attention as an increasing number of disasters and political conflicts push more and more people to move away from their homes and seek refuge and opportunities in other places. At the same time, political nervousness about the financial and institutional capability of ‘receiving’ locations to adequately respond to the needs of these large-scale population movements con…
Social Protection for Transformation
Breaking out of the policy enclave approach to child labour in sub-Saharan African agriculture
This article is framed by the tension between a substantial universalising framework of global instruments on workers’ rights and child labour on one hand, and their outsourced implementation through the social policy enclaves of transnational corporations on the other hand. It uses the concept of ‘social policy enclaves’ to explore this tension and how it might be resolved to the benefit of children who work in African agriculture. To do this, t…
Insights into smallholder capacity for agricultural commercialisation
Over the last 15 years, the agricultural economics and development literature has amply highlighted success stories of smallholder farmers in developing countries, illustrating their increased engagement and integration with markets, in other words, higher rates of commercialisation. Yet, this seeming ‘success’ should not detract from the large proportion of farmers who, through engaging in high-value market chains, face high risks that often lim…
Avoiding Repetition
The rapid pace at which the climate change agenda is permeating wide-ranging arenas of established development practice and theory leaves little space and time for reflection on the implications this has for learning across agendas and literatures. 'Adaptation' is a term that is increasingly reserved for processes that build the resilience of households, communities and sectors to changes in the climate. But, 'adaptation' always has, and arguably…
Beyond rights-based social protection for refugees
The use of social protection measures has garnered increasing attention in recent years from academics and policymakers aspiring to unite the humanitarian origins and development ambitions of displacement governance regimes. Much of this attention has been focused on establishing and strengthening national systems of social protection provision. Analysis of policy approaches to social protection has become increasingly detailed, but typically doe…
The place of religious inequalities within international development and humanitarian response frameworks
Within the international development and humanitarian arenas no one disagrees with the language and aspirations of inclusion, protection, rights and equality. Yet, most development framings – policy and operational – have still to develop meaningful ways to attend to the specific advantages or disadvantages associated with religious views or beliefs that shape the way people and communities function and behave within society. This paper explores …
Revisiting group farming in a post-socialist economy
Since the end of socialism, Romania’s agricultural landscape has changed notably. In the 1990s, following decollectivisation, many Romanian farmers who received back small individual plots, pooled their land and resources with family and neighbours to cultivate in groups, or joined large agricultural associations for marketing. Subsequent decades have seen an aging population, reverse urban to rural migration, the country’s entry into the EU in 2…
Taking the Long View
Recognising that many indicators of vulnerability among children, such as malnutrition or poor educational performance, might reflect intergenerational problems has profound implications for the design and implementation of social protection programmes. Treating the symptoms of these problems is of course essential: a malnourished child needs immediate nutritional support and a child who is failing at school needs special attention. But the argum…
Land Reform and Farm Choice in Romania
Individual and small-scale cooperative farming can be attractive options for new landholders in Romania. However, it is likely that many are locked into less-productive collective arrangements
Farm Strategy, Self-Selection and Productivity
Too Much Inequality or Too Little? Inequality and Stagnation in Ethiopian Agriculture
The agricultural sector remains our Achilles heel
Safety in small numbers
Using a comparative study of farm households from poor rural communities in Kyrgyzstan and north-east Romania this paper explores the intricacies of a variety of forms of cooperation in agriculture. The findings highlight the safety net, labour specialisation, asset-pooling and service delivery functions of different groups that enable rural livelihoods to, at times, cope and at times improve in situations of imperfect information, sluggish labou…
Whose (Transformative) Reality Counts? A Reply to Aoo et al
Social Protection for Transformation
A Universal Social Minimum
Tackling Poverty-migration Linkages
Great Expectations and Reality Checks
Social Security Regimes, Global Estimates, and Good Practices
Avoiding Repetition
The rapid pace at which the climate change agenda is permeating wide-ranging arenas of established development practice and theory leaves little space and time for reflection on the implications this has for learning across agendas and literatures. 'Adaptation' is a term that is increasingly reserved for processes that build the resilience of households, communities and sectors to changes in the climate. But, 'adaptation' always has, and arguably…
Taking the Long View
Recognising that many indicators of vulnerability among children, such as malnutrition or poor educational performance, might reflect intergenerational problems has profound implications for the design and implementation of social protection programmes. Treating the symptoms of these problems is of course essential: a malnourished child needs immediate nutritional support and a child who is failing at school needs special attention. But the argum…
Cash transfers and high food prices
Context-specific and Project-induced Risk
Agriculture-based projects can rarely operate without having a significant impact on their participants' exposure to risk. If participant risk is not adequately considered and addressed in a project's design, there can be negative implications for the project's outcome. To avoid this, identifying and establishing mechanisms that will minimise project-induced risk is essential during the design process. In this article we examine the importance of…
Social protection for migrants
Access to social protection differs widely among international migrants. This article focuses on the issue of earnings‐related contributions to social security programmes and their (frequent) lack of portability across borders — a problem that particularly affects South‐South migrants. Furthermore, attention is drawn to the fact that in many low‐income countries a lack of administrative capacity in the operation of social security programmes is o…
Structures of Access to Social Provision for Migrants
Low-income migrants are often more vulnerable and have poorer access to social provisioning than low-income non-migrants. The ethical and legal arguments for the right or entitlement of migrants to social provision have been discussed in Chapter 1. In this chapter we start from the hypothesis that being entitled or having a right to social provision does not guarantee that it is actually received. Of course, receiving welfare provision depends on…
Transformative social protection programming for children and their carers
Although social protection has gained substantial attention in recent years as a development measure and long-term response to poverty and vulnerability, it is also being increasingly criticised for failing to pay adequate attention to differences between social groups and the different problems they face in terms of access and take-up of provisions and services. In this article, we seek to challenge common aspirations and expectations of social …
Linking agricultural development to school feeding in sub-Saharan Africa
(Re)distribution and Growth
Considerations of social justice, as opposed to growth, must provide the linchpin of a social protection agenda because the chronically vulnerable and poor are typically in their predicament because of institutionalised patterns of disadvantage. Furthermore, if the primary purpose of social protection programming is to transform the lives of large numbers of vulnerable people, only a radical agenda based on considerations of (re)distribution, rec…
Introduction
The articles in this IDS Bulletin are drawn from a conference hosted by the Centre for Social Protection at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton, UK, in April 2011. The conference brought together academics and practitioners who understand social protection to be more than a palliative agenda for alleviating poverty and vulnerability, believing instead that social protection should be fundamentally interested in realising economic…
Successes in social protection
The recent food, fuel and financial crises have triggered innovation in social protection programmes around the world. Existing evidence suggests that such programmes both protect people from shocks and enable them to participate in economic growth. This paper explores lessons learned in social protection initiatives across countries and contexts, and identifies a set of ‘success conditions’ for social protection programmes, focusing mainly on su…
A child-sensitive approach to social protection
Social protection is increasingly considered a development success story. At the same time, it still does too little to account for social differentiation and to address vulnerability, as opposed to poverty. Child sensitive social protection has gained considerable momentum, particularly in a developing country context, raising questions about its concept and practical implications. We argue that three types of vulnerabilities call for more tailo…
Implementing Social Protection in Agro-pastoralist and Pastoralist Areas
Sustainable Graduation from Social Protection Programmes
Efforts to reduce extreme poverty by assisting poor people to cross income or asset thresholds are receiving increasing attention in social protection programming. Livelihood-promoting interventions aim to reduce vulnerability, so that participants can manage moderate risk and 'graduate' from social protection provision. This article elaborates the theory of change underpinning the notion of graduation and explores the range of enabling and const…
Extortion with Protection
Using a panel data set from Burundi where information on protection payments during the twelve-year civil war was collected, we test the relationship between payments, the nature of extraction by the rebels, and the welfare outcomes. We ask, “Does payment to rebels insure against future welfare loss and does the nature of payment matter? Specifically, does the level of institutionalization of extraction within the rebel governance structure provi…
Economics (35 works) · Political science (33 works) · Economic growth (26 works) · Geography (24 works) · Social protection (23 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Business (20 works) · Law (18 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (17 works) · Livelihood (15 works)