Paper short abstract:

The paper seeks to explore how social protection affects sexual abused children in Botswana. The paper aims to assess what are the channels that have to be taken into account to understand how the benefits of social protection could be maximized with specific regard to sexually abused children.

Paper long abstract:

In Botswana there has been some perceptions that social protection's focus is only on the economic side of the world leaving out the social and equity part. This was mainly because of the popularly known government programs where there is distribution of food basket to the less privileged. Nevertheless, over the last few years the society has come to terms with the fact that social protection is broad and yet very important to the children especially taking into consideration that they are the most vulnerable group as compared to adults. There has been an increase in the number of child sexual abuse cases in Botswana. This is despite Botswana's efforts of introducing the rectified Childrens Act of 2009 and social protection programs which aims to address several areas of the wellbeing of a child. The paper seeks to explore how social protection affects sexual abused children in Botswana. The paper aims to assess what are the channels that have to be taken into account to understand how the benefits of social protection could be maximized with specific regard to sexually abused children.