This policy review has been undertaken as part of a broader project conducted by the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII). The objectives of the larger project are to investigate the manner in which policy making to expand access to socio-economic rights in fact aligns with the jurisprudential guidance handed down by the Constitutional Court, to undertake baseline policy studies and to develop an indicative matrix for the monitoring of the progressive or regressive measures of current and future policies. Such a matrix, it is envisioned, will become a useful tool for policy makers, for those that exercise oversight over the executive, including Parliament and Chapter Nine institutions (notably the South African Human Rights Commission), and civil society.
Full document: Monitoring the Progressive Realisation of Socio-Economic Rights – a Review of the Development of Social Security Policy in South Africa
