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"In the last few years, social policy has been rediscovered as an important tool when addressing poverty and social inequality in development contexts. After decades of structural adjustment policies and cutting back of national social programs, international organizations, such as the World Bank, the ILO and UNDP, increasingly recognize social protection as one of the main contributors to social cohesion and development. In this chapter the authors analyze the interplay between formal and informal social protection institutions. They look at the wide range of social protection mechanisms available in sub-Saharan African countries, namely formal social security arrangements, the provision of basic social goods and informal community-based and family-based mechanisms. In analyzing their strengths and weaknesses, the authors assess how these mechanisms complement each other to contribute to the overall social protection of the population." (author's abstract)