Indigenous Welfare and Community-Based Social Development: Lessons from African Innovations

Patel, Leila; Kaseke, Edwell; Midgley, James

doi:10.1080/10705422.2012.644217

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“…Membership characteristics, modalities of support, condition for membership, norms and rules governing membership and reciprocities/reinforcement mechanisms, type of insurance (partial and complete), membership contributions, and membership composition were among the variables used to characterize mutual support groups. The same information has been utilized in order to categorize and characterize mutual support groups in different typologies (drawing on [33] and [34]). Household interview on mutual support groups was preceded by a KII with the local elders, leaders of mutual support groups.…”

Section: International Journal Of Population Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Harnessing Social Capital for Resilience to Livelihood Shocks: Ethnographic Evidence of Indigenous Mutual Support Practices among Rural Households in Eastern Ethiopia

Endris

Kibwika

Hassan

et al. 2017

International Journal of Population Research

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In the absence of adequate support from formal social safety nets, rural households in Ethiopia have developed collective risksharing strategies to buffer them against adverse livelihood shocks, thus building their resilience capacities. Social capital and network based indigenous mutual support arrangements are the most important strategies that are institutionalized and widely practiced among rural households for centuries in Ethiopia to support households to cope with shocks. Nonetheless, resilience research and rural poverty alleviation policies have yet to fully recognize and embrace social capital as a tool to tackle poverty and vulnerability. Robust policy and academic studies on the role of indigenous welfare system with implications for social development policy making in Ethiopia are lacking. Using ethnographic techniques and simple descriptive statistics, we studied indigenous mutual support systems and how they shape the resilience trajectories of rural households against livelihood shocks within two selected PAs of Babille district of Oromia region. We found that mutual support practices are very effective in building coping resilience of households by smoothing consumption shocks. However, the traditional coping mechanisms often fail when the shock is systemic or covariate, when shocks last longer, and when a household has low level of human or finical capital.

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Section: International Journal Of Population Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Drawing on a typology developed by [33,34] for the study of indigenous mutual support system in Sub-Saharan Africa, indigenous mutual support practices can be further subdivided into four general categories. The first typology is family and kin based networks.…”

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Harnessing Social Capital for Resilience to Livelihood Shocks: Ethnographic Evidence of Indigenous Mutual Support Practices among Rural Households in Eastern Ethiopia

Endris

Kibwika

Hassan

et al. 2017

International Journal of Population Research

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“…The non-formal system includes what Patel et al (2012) refer to as indigenous practices: essentially community-based welfare practices that historically have promoted social welfare. The Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme (RHVP, 2010) refers to the non-formal system as 'informal insurance', explaining that it comprises two main features, social reciprocity and household asset building, and argues that formal and non-formal systems can co-exist to provide more comprehensive social protection.…”

Section: Contribution Of Non-formal Social Protection To Social Develmentioning

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“…Although research has shown that ruralurban migration, and famine, HIV/AIDS and other shocks, have weakened the effectiveness of such support (Apt, 2002;Emmanuel et al, 2011), indigenous welfare practices still operate in many African countries, Botswana included, and will continue to provide support to the poor and vulnerable (Shaibu & Wallhagen, 2002;Maes, 2003;Foster, 2007;Ntseane & Solo, 2007;Mpedi, 2008;Patel et al, 2012).…”

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The contribution of non-formal social protection to social development in Botswana

Mupedziswa

Ntseane

2013

Development Southern Africa

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This article documents the non-formal system of social protection in Botswana, identifies opportunities for synergies between the non-formal and formal systems, and considers the challenges of integrating the two. Non-formal initiatives depend on traditional forms of social protection such as self-help, self-organisation, membership of a social group and cultural norms of community solidarity, reciprocity and obligations; whereas the formal social protection system is undergirded by statutes and laws, institutionalised in policy and legislation, publicly funded and delivered within national norms and eligibility criteria. The article argues that integrating the two could produce a complementary and responsive system of social protection that takes account of indigenous and other non-formal systems of support and enhances the delivery of social protection services, and that other countries in the region might derive lessons from Botswana's experience.

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“…The economic development in a certain area is an opportunity to increase economic growth and improve the welfare of the community. In general, the term of welfare refers to a condition where the communities meet their needs both in social and economic activities (Patel et al, 2012). In addition, Jäntti et al (2014) mentioned that the economic welfare is associated with poverty, equality and economic growth.Indonesia needs an obvious high economic growth, because it is expected to boost the production of goods and services in the country.…”

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Human Development Index, Poverty and Gross Regional Domestic Product: Evidence from Malang, Indonesia

Wulandari

Narmaditya

Prayitno

et al. 2019

JPEB

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This study aimed at analyzing the relationship between human development index, poverty level and gross regional domestic product in Malang Regency in Indonesia. This research was initiated by the poverty level which shows a moderate level in Malang Regency and how its impact on gross regional domestic product after the Development of Southern Cross Lane (JLS) in Malang. The study applied an explanatory research using time series data between 2014 and 2018. For the analysis, Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) was applied to understand the relationship between variables both in the short-term and in the long-term. The findings showed that in the short-run both variables have a negative correlation with gross regional domestic product. Meanwhile, in the longrun, human development index has a negative relationship to gross regional domestic product, whilst poverty variables positively affects gross regional domestic product. AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis pengaruh index pembangunan manusia, tingkat kemiskinan dan produk domestik regional bruto (PDRB) di Kabupaten Malang, Indonesia. Studi ini didasari pada tingkat kemiskinan di Kabupaten Malang yang tergolong sedang dan bagaimana dampak PDRB setelah adanya pembangunan Jalur Lintas Selatan (JLS) di Kabupaten Malang. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian eksplanatoris dengan menggunakan data time series selama 2014-2018. Lebih lanjut, data dianalisis dengan menggunakan Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) untuk mengetahui hubungan jangka pendek dan jangka panjang antar variabel. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa dalam jangka pendek kedua variabel memiliki hubungan yang negatif terhadap PDRB. Hasil lain menunjukkan bahwa pada jangka panjang, indeks pembangunan manusia memiliki pengaruh yang negatif terhadap PDRB sedangkan kemiskinan secara positif berpengaruh terhadap PDRB.

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Indigenous Welfare and Community-Based Social Development: Lessons from African Innovations

Cited by 38 publications

References 18 publications

Harnessing Social Capital for Resilience to Livelihood Shocks: Ethnographic Evidence of Indigenous Mutual Support Practices among Rural Households in Eastern Ethiopia

Harnessing Social Capital for Resilience to Livelihood Shocks: Ethnographic Evidence of Indigenous Mutual Support Practices among Rural Households in Eastern Ethiopia

The contribution of non-formal social protection to social development in Botswana

Human Development Index, Poverty and Gross Regional Domestic Product: Evidence from Malang, Indonesia

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