About Us

We are the leading consultancy in designing and developing social protection systems – one fundamental way that governments can guard people from poverty and vulnerability.

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Our story

A British-Kenyan company, we’ve advised on and delivered inclusive programming for governments and multilaterals globally since 2010.

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Software development

Our developers code custom-built management information systems for social protection registries.

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Working with governments

We aid governments in enhancing their social protection systems by developing policies and strengthening pre-existing systems.

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Our findings and perspectives

Creative thinking grounded in evidence and rooted in countries' realities.

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BLOGS

28/07/2025

Superfluous, pernicious, atrocious and abominable: the case against Conditional Cash Transfers

Originally published on May 31, 2007. A version of this blog was also published in...

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19/05/2025

The World Bank’s State of Social Protection Report 2025: The 2-Billion Person Challenge shows that it is not learning its own lessons

By Matthew Greenslade The World Bank’s long-term advocacy of poverty targeting social protection schemes has...

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07/04/2025

The pitfalls of poverty targeting: Systemic exclusion from a South African social assistance transfer

Siyanda Baduza, Kelle Howson, Thato Setambule and Thobani Khumalo (Institute for Economic Justice) More than half...

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Latest Publications

Ensuring Income Security in Old Age for All Jordanians: Building a Comprehensive Pension System That Leaves No-One Behind

Ensuring Income Security in Old Age for All Jordanians: Building a Comprehensive Pension System That...

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Building a Comprehensive Social Security System Fit for a Modern Jordan

Our Shamil team has prepared the paper Building a Comprehensive Social Security System Fit for...

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Continuing the debate: a response to the ILO’s defence of their social security financing estimates 

In March, Stephen Kidd, Diloá Athias and Olivia Claxton wrote a critique of the ILO’s...

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OUR WORK SNAPSHOTS

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Pacific Islands

Partnerships for Social Protection

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Malawi

Developing a Nutrition-Sensitive Social Protection Operational Framework (NSSP-OF) for the Government of Malawi

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Asia-Pacific

Social Protection Advice, Research, and Capability Building (SPARC)

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POLICY ADVICE

We provide evidence-based policy and strategic advice on social and economic challenges to Governments, international organisations, and other development partners. We support social development and work on ageing, child rights, gender, disability and in humanitarian contexts.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

We develop custom-built management information systems for social protection schemes. Our team understands the code as well as the context, so that we can take our clients through the whole journey – from design, all the way to user training and support.

DATA & RESEARCH

We develop evidence on poverty, vulnerability and on humanitarian issues, and solutions to address them. Our analyses are always grounded in data and innovative methodologies. They inform policy dialogue and help shape social and economic programmes.

PROGRAMME DESIGN

In designing cash transfer programmes, we generate practical and feasible solutions and take a rights-based approach. We have global experience in the technical and operational design of cash transfers, building blocks towards inclusive life-cycle social protection.

INCLUSIVE SOCIAL PROTECTION TRAINING

Convincing policymakers and development partners to invest in inclusive, lifecycle social protection can be challenging.

EVALUATION

We support governments and their development partners to monitor and evaluate their policies in order to accurately measure impacts and accountably track progress towards national and global goals.

UK OFFICE

Tel +44 (0)20 4526 6267

admin@developmentpathways.co.uk

First Floor, Marlesfield House, 114-116, Main Road, Sidcup, DA14 6NG, United Kingdom.

 

Registered in England and Wales, Company number 07408331

KENYA OFFICE

Tel +254 796 037548

Development Pathways Kenya Ltd
P.O Box 22473-00505 Ngong Road

F6, Third Floor, Wood Avenue Park Apartments

Wood Avenue, Kilimani

Nairobi, Kenya

 

Registered in Kenya as a subsidiary of Development Pathways Ltd, Incorporation number PVT/2016/018014

 

ASIA PACIFIC OFFICE

Level 13, 60 Castlereagh Street Sydney NSW 2000
GPO Box 5138 Sydney NSW 2001

 

Registered in Australia as a branch of Development Pathways Ltd, ABN 31 848 118 656.