Praxis: learning through Action Applied Research to Enhance Oversight.

Fact sheet about social security in South Africa.

An analysis of the content, policy effort, resource allocation and enjoyment of the constitutional right to food.

This research report has two broad thrusts. It firstly reviews some of the main policies which seek to alleviate and eventually eradicate poverty and its causes and , secondly , the report provides a budget and benefit incidence analysis which puts a spotlight on the figures behind the policies. Five departments were chosen as the subject of the poverty audit review and they are the national and provincial departments of education, health, housing , social development and transport. The reasons for the choice of the latter department are set out elsewhere in this report.