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Evaluating the impacts of the FAO’s Cash+ Programme in Mali

Year of publication 2021

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 60 p.

Author Dao, T.H., Daidone, S., Kangasniemi, M.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-134310-4

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This report presents findings from a study of the economic and food security impacts of the FAO project "Productive safety nets as a tool to reinforce the resilience in the Sahel" (hereinafter referred to as the project/programme Cash+) that took place from April 2015 to February 2017. The project aimed to strengthen the resilience of households vulnerable to shocks and heavily affected by food insecurity and was carried out in two countries: Mali and Mauritania. Unconditional in-cash and in-kind transfers were distributed to the most vulnerable households, which also benefited from other training and technical activities which aimed to strengthen their productive capacity. This report focuses on Mali, where the FAO Cash+ project targeted 36 villages in the Nioro Cercle (“Cercle de Nioro du Sahel”) of Kayes region. Two sets of intervention of equal financial value have been provided to the beneficiaries: i) one called "Cash Only" consisting primarily of a cash transfer and ii) another called "Cash+" associating a cash transfer with distribution of goats, training on good practices of livestock breeding and raising awareness of children's nutrition. The main objective of this report is evaluating the impacts of the FAO’s Cash+ programme in Mali and investigating eventual heterogenous effects of the two types of treatment. Using data collected nine months after the project ended, we analyse its lasting impacts across various livelihood aspects, namely food security, dietary diversity, hygiene practices, food and non-food expenditures, livestock production, non-farm activities, aspirations and expectations.

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Dao, T.H., Daidone, S. and Kangasniemi, M. 2021. Evaluating the impacts of the FAO's Cash+ Programme in Mali. Rome, FAO.

https://doi.org/10.4060/cb4454en

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