‘To be a woman is to make a plan’: a qualitative study exploring mothers’ experiences of the Child Support Grant in supporting children’s diets and nutrition in South Africa
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Date
2018
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BMJ Publishing Group
Abstract
Food security and good nutrition are key determinants
of child well-being. There is strong evidence that cash
transfers such as South Africa’s Child Support Grant (CSG)
have the potential to help address some of the underlying
drivers of food insecurity and malnutrition by providing
income to caregivers in poor households, but it is unclear
how precisely they work to affect child well-being and
nutrition. We present results from a qualitative study
conducted to explore the role of the CSG in food security
and child well-being in poor households in an urban and a
rural setting in South Africa.
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Keywords
Child Support Grant, Feeding, Nutrition, Diet, South Africa
Citation
Zembe-Mkabile, W. et al. (2018). ‘To be a woman is to make a plan’: a qualitative study exploring mothers’ experiences of the Child Support Grant in supporting children’s diets and nutrition in South Africa. BMJ Open, e019376.