| Table of contents |
Foreword............................................................ i
Acknowledgements ............................................................iii
Methodological notes for readers............................................................ v
Abbreviations ............................................................xiii
1 Introduction ............................................................1
2 The nature of vulnerability ............................................................3
2.1 Perceptions of vulnerability ............................................................3
2.2 Households and dependants - elderly and young household members............................................................ 4
2.3 To what extent are children and the elderly vulnerable to poverty? ............................................................5
2.4 Differences in well-being by orphan status............................................................ 7
2.5 Differences in well-being by characteristic of household head ............................................................10
2.6 Differences in well-being by disability status ............................................................12
2.7 Differences in well-being between urban and rural households ............................................................13
3 The Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme (VUP) ............................................................17
3.1 Outline of the three VUP components ............................................................17
3.2 The VUP sample ............................................................17
3.3 Participation in the VUP ............................................................18
3.3.1 Who is participating in the VUP?............................................................ 18
3.3.2 Reasons for leaving the programme ............................................................19
3.4 Demographic characteristics of current VUP beneficiaries ............................................................21
3.5 Socio-economic characteristics of current VUP beneficiaries ............................................................22
3.6 VUP Direct Support ............................................................26
3.7 VUP Public Works ............................................................27
3.8 VUP Financial Services ............................................................29
4 Other social protection programmes ............................................................31
4.1 Public income support ............................................................31
4.2 Agricultural social protection schemes ............................................................32
4.3 Health insurance ............................................................36
4.4 Employment-based social security ............................................................37
Annex A Standard errors and design effects for selected indicators, EICV4 ............................................................39
Annex B Standard errors and design effects for selected indicators, EICV3 ............................................................44 |
