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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. -
Book (stand-alone)Local economy-wide impact evaluation of Lesotho’s Child Grants Programme and Sustainable Poverty Reduction through Income, Nutrition and Access to Government Services Project 2021
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No results found.This report presents findings from a study of the local-economy impacts of one of Lesotho’s largest social programmes, the Child Grants Programme (CGP), and a rural development intervention, the Sustainable Poverty Reduction through Income, Nutrition and Access to Government Services (SPRINGS) programme. The CGP provides cash transfers to eligible poor households, while SPRINGS was a multi-faceted productive intervention targeting areas reached by the CGP, that provided support in various forms. The study is part of a larger project - a partnership between FAO, IFAD and the Universidad de los Andes (UNIANDES) and its Centro de Estudios en Desarrollo Económico (CEDE) - that seeks to identify factors that lead to better articulation between social protection interventions and rural productive inclusion strategies. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetImpacts of the Child Grant Programme and Sustainable Poverty Reduction though Income, Nutrition and Government Service Support in Lesotho
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No results found.This impact evaluation adopts a mixed-method approach combining quantitative and qualitative methods to the analysis of the impact of CGP and SPRINGS. Qualitative and quantitative methods have complementary roles. The quantitative method allows to quantify the size of the impacts on a large set of outcomes. The qualitative method allows to capture contextual and subjective meanings of social and economic phenomena. It complements quantitative research by broadening the understanding of impacts on different actors and capturing the types and complexity of processes leading to decisions and impacts. We investigated the impact of the programmes on three key areas of inquiry, following the main goals of the programmes, namely increase in income and economic security through productive activities and market engagement; financial inclusion and greater willingness to take risk; improvement of dietary practices and nutrition for adults and children.
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