The Decent Standard of Living project is a contribution to the better understanding of how multiple dimensions of poverty impact on people’s lives and of inequalities between people. It is about asking ordinary able to define what a decent life, or a life lived with dignity looks and feels like, and trusting in the collective vision, which is after all what built South Africa’s liberation. It is intended to do more than measure how many people fall below the basic costs of meeting the survivalist nutritional intakes of food poverty lines
This report is the latest in a long-standing collaboration between three progressive research institutes, the Social Policy Initiative (formerly known as the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute), the Southern African Social Policy Research Institute and the Labour Research Service. Support for this work has generously come from UNICEF SA, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, as well as the Department of Social Development through its collaboration with its the Wits Chair of Social Security.
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