ODI has been commissioned by the European Commission to prepare a paper for the European Report on Development (ERD) 2010 project to be presented as the conference "Social protection as a response to vulnerability: what is feasible for Africa?" to be held in Dakar on the 27 and 30th June 2010. The title of the commissioned paper is "Differing government and donor perspectives on Cash Transfers based social protection in sub-Saharan Africa".