| dc.description.abstract | The current conversation is one of global citizenship, which binds together national and international actors in the field of development to work towards realizing a full set of rights for all global citizens. International donors in the Global North are now funding social assistance programmes targeting vulnerable groups such as the elderly in the Global South. Therefore, improving the living conditions of the elderly in addition to enhancing capabilities of older persons to enable them actively participate in the development process, is no longer a sole responsibility left to national government bodies and market forces.
By focusing on the Senior Citizen Grant (SCG) programme piloted in one rural district of Uganda, this study aims at contributing towards existing evidence of the social assistance impacts on wellbeing of elderly grant beneficiaries by mainly applying qualitative methods of research (semi-structured interviews, focus groups, direct observations, researcher’s diary and secondary data). Despite, the positive grant impacts on easing impoverishment of the elderly beneficiaries, alternative approaches to maximizing elderly grant beneficiaries’ wellbeing still need to be actively examined. Hence an analysis consistent with the following key words was conducted: Social assistance, Elderly, Wellbeing, Rights, Indigenous practices, Poverty. This study’s findings reveal how my conceptual framework can guide understanding of the ways social assistance impacts the elderly in rural Uganda, and provide alternate ways to maximizing wellbeing for older people through social assistance. | nb_NO |
