The Child Allowance Webinar Series: South Africa’s Child Support Grant

The South African Child Support Grant (CSG) features among the world’s most comprehensive social protection programmes and has substantially contributed to a reduction of child poverty rates in South Africa over recent years. The programme today reaches over 11 million children from poor and vulnerable families.

The webinar will provide first-hand insights on the programme and will discuss several aspects related to the CSG’s design and implementation. The webinar is supported by the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG/UNDP) and UNICEF and is hosted by the socialprotection.org, which is a recently launched social protection knowledge sharing platform, supported by the Development Working Group of the G20 and financed by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).

Presenter: Brenton Van Vrede (Acting Director General, Social Security, Department of Social Development, South Africa)

Moderator: Alejandro Grinspun (Chief for Social Policy, UNICEF South Africa)

Audience members can submit their comments and questions concerning South Africa’s Child Support Grant Webinar for the Presenter answer them. Following the webinar, the recording of the entire webinar will be available for download on The Child Allowance Online Community, accessible on socialprotection.org.