For example, most of the single women in the area had additional off-farm income streams, including monthly stipends from a national social safety net programme.
They found that most of these children's families had fallen through cracks of the social safety net programme because they were homeless and did not have a proper address.
This happens, ironically, at a time when some of Tanzania's development partners have agreed to support the implementation of a national social safety net programme and when consensus on the critical contribution of social protection is at its peak around the world, including in sub-Saharan Africa.
On Wednesday, John Boehner, the speaker of the House, did at least signal a degree of suppleness, noting for the first time that some revenue increases may be tolerable to his party, though signalling that in return Mr Obama would have to swallow cuts in funding for social safety net programmes.
Appropriate measures to minimise the catastrophic effects may include, but are not limited to, community-based health insurance, credit to cushion income loss, and social safety net programmes.
Information on household composition, source of drinking water and sanitation facility, socioeconomic status, and utilisation of social safety net programmes was also collected.
The Government has introduced a range of measures in the form of health and education social safety net programmes, as well as cash and conditional cash transfer programmes to offset the worst impacts of the crisis for the most vulnerable populations - the poor and the children.
The report estimates that the total budget directly allocated for children, including allocations for children's social safety net programmes as well as the ADP Annual Development Plann), has been roughly constant over the years and amounts to a mere 4.1 per cent of the national budget of FY (Fiscal Year) 2010-2011.
Implementation of an integrated national social safety-net programme, with clear operating rules and a sustainable financing strategy that increasingly draws on domestic sources of funding.
With support from UNICEF, international donors and other partners, the Government of Ethiopia has set up a social safety net and health extension programme providing support to the country's most vulnerable women and children.
But teachers and schools will suffer, which hurts children and thus parents.The next largest part of the budget is the state's social safety net, including its health-care programme for the poor.
