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DocumentLocal Economy-wide Impact Evaluation (LEWIE) of Ghana’s Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme 2014
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No results found.The Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme provides cash and health insurance to extremely poor households with the goal of alleviating short-term poverty and encouraging long-term human capital development. The LEAP provides a significant infusion of cash into Ghana’s rural economy. When beneficiaries spend the cash transfer they transmit the impact to others inside and outside the local economy, more often to households not eligible for the cash transfer who tend to own most o f the local businesses. The impact on the local economy was simulated using a LEWIE (Local Economy Wide Impact Evaluation) model, focusing on the communities in seven districts included in the LEAP impact evaluation. The LEWIE model for the LEAP programme found that the transfers could lead to relatively large income multipliers of GHS 2.50. That is, every cedi transferred to poor households had the potential to raise local income by GHS 2.50. Eligible households receive the direct benefit of th e transfer while ineligible households the bulk of the indirect benefit. However, if labour, capital and land markets do not function well, upward pressure on prices could result. This would raise consumption costs for all households and lead to a real income multiplier as low as GHS 1.50. Complementary programmes that increase the supply response (such as access to credit to invest in capital) could increase the real-income and production impacts of the programme. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetThe broad range of impacts of the Social Cash Transfer Pilot Programme in Ethiopia 2016
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No results found.This brief describes the broad array of impacts arising from a cash transfer programme that was piloted in the Tigray region of Ethiopia from 2011 to 2014. About 80 percent of Tigray’s population of 4.3 million live in rural areas and depend on rain-fed subsistence agriculture for their livelihoods. Farm families in Tigray tend to have small land holdings and limited productive inputs such as labour, oxen, seeds and fertilizers. Severe drought has repeatedly struck the northern Tigray region and has had a major effect on agricultural productivity. In 2011, BOLSA launched the Social Cash Transfer Pilot Programme (SCTPP) in Tigray with support from UNICEF. The programme particularly aimed to improve the lives of orphans and vulnerable children, the elderly and disabled people. -
DocumentThe broad range of impacts of the Child Grant Programme in Lesotho 2014
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No results found.The Lesotho Child Grants Programme (CGP) is an unconditional social cash transfer targeted to poor and vulnerable households. The objective of the CGP is to improve the living standards of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) so as to reduce malnutrition, improve health status, and increase school enrolment among OVC. Households are selected through a combination of proxy means testing and community validation and registered in the National Information System for Social Assistance (NISS A). The programme is run by the Ministry of Social Development, with financial support from the European Commission and technical support from UNIC EF-Lesotho. As of March 2014, the CGP reached 19 800 households and provided benefits for approximately 65 000 children across 10 districts in Lesotho. Since 2009 the nature of the CGP has been transformed. From an exclusively donor-supported pilot, the CGP has developed institutional and operational systems for roll-out at a national scale. Funding has bee n taken over by the government, which is now considering nationwide expansion of the CGP and the NISS A, with the latter serving as a platform for better harmonizing social protection interventions in the country.
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