Empowering women via social safety nets and service delivery

Social safety Nets (SSNs) are the form of government intervention to assist the “needy” groups including the single mothers.SSNs should be established as a mechanism that can be used to alleviate poverty, especially among single mothers. However, the barrier that restricts SSNs as mechanism to impro...

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Main Authors: Arshad, Rozita, Ahmad Zakuan, Ummu Atiyah
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2013
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Online Access:https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/18520/1/ICAW%202013%201-14.pdf
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Ahmad Zakuan, Ummu Atiyah
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description Social safety Nets (SSNs) are the form of government intervention to assist the “needy” groups including the single mothers.SSNs should be established as a mechanism that can be used to alleviate poverty, especially among single mothers. However, the barrier that restricts SSNs as mechanism to improve the quality of life for single mothers is a failure of service delivery functions. The single mothers can be empowered through good delivery system of SSNs because it can support their social development. Basically, SSNs is used as short term supporting system to generate independent nature of life and consciousness among women (single mothers).Thus this study aims to explore how the delivery of SSNs services or assistance to single mothers operates and whether SSNs empowered them.
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spelling uum-185202016-08-11T03:18:10Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/18520/ Empowering women via social safety nets and service delivery Arshad, Rozita Ahmad Zakuan, Ummu Atiyah HQ The family. Marriage. Woman Social safety Nets (SSNs) are the form of government intervention to assist the “needy” groups including the single mothers.SSNs should be established as a mechanism that can be used to alleviate poverty, especially among single mothers. However, the barrier that restricts SSNs as mechanism to improve the quality of life for single mothers is a failure of service delivery functions. The single mothers can be empowered through good delivery system of SSNs because it can support their social development. Basically, SSNs is used as short term supporting system to generate independent nature of life and consciousness among women (single mothers).Thus this study aims to explore how the delivery of SSNs services or assistance to single mothers operates and whether SSNs empowered them. 2013-12-10 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/18520/1/ICAW%202013%201-14.pdf Arshad, Rozita and Ahmad Zakuan, Ummu Atiyah (2013) Empowering women via social safety nets and service delivery. In: International Conference on Asean Women (ICAW2013), 10th-12th December 2013, Bandung, Indonesia.
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title_short Empowering women via social safety nets and service delivery
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