Question

indentify three social protection mechanisms used in South Africa and discuss the impact of the mechanisms on young people ​

Answer 1

Answer:

Social protection is a set of interventions whose objective is to reduce social and economic risk  and vulnerability, and to alleviate extreme poverty and deprivation. A comprehensive social  protection system should include four broad sets of interventions:  

Protective programs that offer relief from economic and social deprivation, including alleviation of  chronic and extreme poverty. These interventions include humanitarian relief in emergencies, and  targeted cash transfer schemes;  

Preventive programs are put in place before a shock (ex-ante) and are designed to avert deprivation  or to mitigate the impact of an adverse shock, and include mechanisms such as health and  unemployment insurance and non-contributory pension schemes;  

Promotive programs enhance assets, human capital and income earning capacity among the poor  and marginalized, such as skills training and active labor market programs;

Transformative interventions are those aimed at addressing power imbalances that create or sustain  economic inequality and social exclusion, and include legal and judicial reform, budgetary analysis  and reform, the legislative process, policy review and monitoring, and social and behavioral/attitudinal  change