Rapid Appraisal of Social Inclusion Policies in Selected Sub-Saharan African Countries

Exploring the notion of social exclusion in sub-Saharan Africa, this monograph summarizes available baseline indicators of the scale of inequality. Focusing upon five selected countries—Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Ethiopia, and Nigeria—this study highlights the World Health Organization’s Commission on Social Determinants of Health and its most important objective: to leverage policy change by turning existing public health knowledge into actionable global and national agendas. Summarizing policy and program appraisals conducted by the Social Exclusion Knowledge Network, this analysis outlines the factors that enable and hinder policy implementation, offering useful insights on how this same implementation can be made more effective.