Where women do not have control over income, providing cash may result in increased poverty, when they lose the battle on what to use the cash on, at family and household level. However, some best practices have been seen by agencies where the cash transfers are used by beneficiaries to participate in the so-called round robins, where little income is increased by being shared among many people.
This is one of a series of articles analysing progress on gender equality and women's empowerment in the year of review of the SADC Gender Protocol, 15 years post the adoption of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and ahead of adoption of their successor, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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