Holistic correlation of world’s largest social safety net and its outcomes with Sustainable Development Goals

Giribabu, D.; Mohapatra, Chandrika; Reddy, C. Sudhakar; Rao, P. V. Krishna

doi:10.1080/13504509.2018.1519492

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“…In words of one of the experts, 'If we ignore the rural mass and communities, than we already fail on SDG achievement as it is them who will actually determine its success and most of them are illiterate and lack basic amenities'. According to Giribabu et al (2019), community-based participation in planning and development can provide huge impetus to sustainability initiatives at the national level. It is also recommended that Government of India should mandate compulsory education or courses on SDGs in all the schools, and colleges just as environmental education is mandatory by law 4 in India.…”

Section: Coordination Partnership and Capacity Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Concerns of developing countries and the sustainable development goals: case for India

Khalid

Sharma

Dubey

2020

International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ec

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The sustainable development goals (SDGs) were result of extensive stakeholder participation and global consensus. Despite large promises, there is an increasing concern among the member states whether SDGs address real problems of nations, particularly the developing world. This study discusses key issues raised by developing countries with respect to the SDGs. Using opinion of experts on SDGs regarding its implications and future, a case study for India is presented. The study with its findings and policy recommendations intend to benefit SDG implementation efforts and planning at the national and sub-national level in India and other developing countries, helping them redesign and investigate their national SDG implementation strategies on similar lines as India to improve its reach and effectiveness.

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Section: Coordination Partnership and Capacity Developmentmentioning

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Concerns of developing countries and the sustainable development goals: case for India

Khalid

Sharma

Dubey

2020

International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ec

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“…In recent times, researchers have begun to assess MGNREGA spillover benefits focusing on environmental services, land, and water resources (Verma, & Shah, 2012;Esteaves, Rao, Sinha, & Roy, 2013;Ranaware, Das, , Kulkarni, & Narayanan, 2015;Giribabu et al, 2019). Till now, approximately 41 million assets were built in the process of MGNREGA covering 691 districts of India.…”

Section: Mgnrega As a Successful Social Safety Net And Its Spillover mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Studies conducted by Desai, Vashishtha, & Joshi (2015) shows that due to MGNREGA there is a poverty reduction overall by 32 per cent and has helped 14 million people from falling into poverty. Giribabu, Mohapatra, Reddy, & Prasada Rao (2019) correlated the phenomenon of MGNREGA with SDGs and summarised that the MGNREGA helps in the process of reducing poverty, protecting the environment, and ensures that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. This paper emphasizes the use of geospatial technology for monitoring the community level development works and synthesizes the yield of SD at a district level.…”

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Geospatial Evaluation of Sustainable Development: Analysing a Sample of a Successful Social Safety Net

Dandabathula¹,

Reddy²,

Mohapatra³

et al. 2019

JSD

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Sustainable Development (SD) not only ensures addressing the root cause of poverty but also helps in achieving the wellness of society. Protecting the natural resources for current and future generations is the main goal of the SD process. In recent times, developing countries have initiated social safety nets (SSNs) for poverty elimination and to achieve the SD goals through public works. The Government of India has initiated numerous development projects aimed to achieve SD and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is one of them. The research objective of this article is to harness the power of geospatial technology for evaluating the public works under MGNREGA at a district level. The proposed research method utilizes the power of remote sensing data with a very high spatial and temporal resolution to monitor the development activities at the grass root level. Satellite based land-use maps, indices, and publicly available web based geospatial information systems have been used in this investigation to assess the changes that have occurred due to the community-level planned activities. The findings from this research confirm that MGNREGA has the potential to accrue multiple dividends at all the three pillars of SD, i.e., economic development, social development, and environmental protection. It was proved from this research that public works under MGNREGA besides providing the wage based employment to the beneficiaries resulted in improved water conservation and harvesting facilities in the study area and in return, these facilities acted as a catalyst for improved agricultural productivity.

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“…They have done so by spending on labour for local environmental public works and also by providing incentives for better natural resource management, e.g. by allowing programme funds to be used for water conservation and flood control infrastructure improvements on private lands as is the case for MGNREGS in India [36].…”

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Harnessing employment-based social assistance programmes to scale up nature-based climate action

Norton

Seddon

Agrawal

et al. 2020

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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As the severity of the triple challenges of global inequality, climate change and biodiversity loss becomes clearer, governments and international development institutions must find effective policy instruments to respond. We examine the potential of social assistance policies in this context. Social assistance refers to transfers to poor, vulnerable and marginalized groups to reduce their vulnerability and livelihood risks, and to enhance their rights and status. Substantial public funds support social assistance programmes globally. Collectively, lower- and middle-income countries spend approximately 1.5% of their GDP on social assistance annually. We focus on the potential of paid employment schemes to promote effective ecosystem stewardship. Available evidence suggests such programmes can offer multiple benefits in terms of improvements in local ecosystems and natural capital, carbon sequestration and local biodiversity conservation. We review evidence from three key case studies: in India (the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme), Ethiopia (the Productive Safety Nets Programme) and Mexico (the Temporary Employment Programme). We conclude that, to realize the potential of employment-based social assistance for ecosystem benefits it will be necessary to address two challenges: first, the weak design and maintenance of local public works outputs in many schemes, and second, the concern that social protection schemes may become less effective if they are overburdened with additional objectives. Overcoming these challenges requires an evolution of institutional systems for delivering social assistance to enable a more effective combination of social and environmental objectives. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions’.

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Holistic correlation of world’s largest social safety net and its outcomes with Sustainable Development Goals

Cited by 17 publications

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Concerns of developing countries and the sustainable development goals: case for India

Concerns of developing countries and the sustainable development goals: case for India

Geospatial Evaluation of Sustainable Development: Analysing a Sample of a Successful Social Safety Net

Harnessing employment-based social assistance programmes to scale up nature-based climate action

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