Social Safety Nets in African Low-Income Countries: Unfoldment in Benin

Social safety nets as response to extreme poverty alleviation in African low-income countries still strive to fit and reinvent themselves in order to ensure their main goal achievement. The concept‟s definition suffers so far of common stand fluctuating importantly referring to institutions, time, place and circumstances. In the context of African low income countries like Benin, safety nets programs play narrowed functions. They address issue of living conditions of most vulnerable, ensure that households‟ means of subsistence are protected and help them to invest in human capital through children‟ schooling meanwhile in transition and developed economies these programs occur as sophisticated. In cash and in kind transfers can‟t be efficiently achievable owing largely to their unaffordable financial cost, to existing administrative capability concern as well as to significant technical challenges involving managerial, conceptual, monitoring, reporting skills‟ shortage and data availability and reliability. However, such nations dispose likelihood to overcome these undermining challenges simply throughout their rich natural resources‟ re-appropriation and locally transformation.