"Unconditional cash transfers are rapidly gaining support as a response to chronic poverty, food insecurity and AIDS ... The African Union (AU) has no strategy specifically related to social protection, although a number of its plans of action and declarations call for support and financial assistance to marginalised and vulnerable people ... Barriers ... to [this] and cash transfers include a lack of dedicated resources, the need for improved governance, persistent conflict ... and lack of political will." (Quoted from paper)