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Advancing Child-Sensitive Social Protection: Joint Statement
The joint statement aims to build greater consensus on the importance of child-sensitive social protec-tion. It lays out the particular vulnerabilities that children and families face, the ways that social protec-tion can impact children even when not focused on them, and outlines principles and approaches for undertaking child-sensitive social protection. For information: ww.unicef.org/socialpolicy

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	Actions for Children - Social Protection in a Landscape of AIDS Unicef newsletter on Social Protection, September 2009.
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Manifesto for Social Protection of vulnerable children in Africa
The Dutch Government is at present developing a strategy to make up arrears in attaining the Millennium Development Goals, in particular in the poorest countries. AWEPA, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), STOP AIDS NOW! and UNICEF appealed to the Government to include this Social Protection in that strategy. Archbishop Desmond Tutu presented this Manifest on Social Protection to Bert Koenders the Dutch minister of Development Aid.

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	CSOs and their role in creating conditions for an effective social cash transfer programme This article on social cash tranfer programmes has been publised in the SafAIDS newsletter (Volume 15, 2009). The article has a special focus on Malawi and specifically looks into ways in which CSOs can contribute to making the national programme more effective.
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	Social Cash Transfers: an answer to child poverty in times of HIV/AIDS This report gives the different definitions of social protection, explains the concept of social cash transfers and outlines the results of pilot projects as well as the advantages and disadvantages of social cash transfers. SOURCE: STOP AIDS NOW!
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	Report: Social Protection This report aims to make the connection between social protection in the form of social cash transfers and protection against abuse and neglect. Source: STOP AIDS NOW!
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	Working together for children affected by AIDS The impact of HIV and AIDS on children in developing countries is enormous. Because of the immense impact on children’s lives, action is needed to make sure these children’s needs are met. Social cash transfers, to households in which these children live, can be part of the solution. This reports gives insides on the pilot social cash transfer scheme that the government of Malawi is implementing to reach out to these households, and about the ways Malawian civil society can contribute to this Scheme.
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	Extract from Richter & Desmond - Emerging Issues A number of issues come to the fore in connection with cash transfers for vulnerable children. This paper exemines one issues in more detail, namely: how the introduction of a state-led cash transfer programme affects the role of other actors. In other words, "Who does what?".
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Children in communities affected by HIV and AIDS - emerging issues
The world is beginning to heed the call for ‘more’ to be done for children. We now have to be specific about what ‘more’ involves. There are a number of central issues to be grasped if we are to respond to children in the context of HIV and AIDS in a coherent, efficient and sustainable manner. This paper identifies some of these issues and lays out the arguments for prioritising, at this juncture, strengthening families, the role of the state, social protection and coherence in the roles of the variety of actors needed to achieve measurable gains.

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