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Title:Poverty alleviation strategies in Botswana: the case of labour-intensive public works programme (LIPWP)
Author:Gobotswang, Kesitegile S.M.ISNI
Year:2004
Periodical:Botswana Notes and Records (ISSN 0525-5090)
Volume:36
Pages:27-36
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:Botswana
Southern Africa
Subjects:poverty reduction
employment creation
households
livestock
nutrition
Economics, Commerce
poverty
public works
income
research
Labour Intensive Public Works Programme (Botswana)
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/40980357
Abstract:A common criticism of income transfer schemes in general, and labour-intensive public works programmes (LIPWP) in particular, is that they can have a negative effect on other forms of household investments as participants become dependent on employment provided by the scheme. There is also a concern that participation in LIPWP can result in poor health and nutrition of individual participants since the tasks performed are physical and often strenuous. In addition, because it frequently draws principal caregivers away from households, LIPWP could have a negative effect on the nutritional status of dependent household members, especially children below the age of five years. Based on research in Kgatleng District, Botswana, in the 1999-2000 drought year, the author reports on the effect of LIPWP on household livestock assets and describes the impact of participation in LIPWP on the nutritional status of individual participants and under five-year old children from the respective households. The study compares households on LIPWP to those on the temporary labour-based drought relief programme (LBDRP), which involves less hard physical work and pays less. Participation in LIPWP was found to be strongly associated with household livestock asset holding. It reduces the risk of having no livestock assets, although the pathway through which the effect occurs is unclear. Bibliogr. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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