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From evidence to action: The story of cash transfers and impact evaluation in sub-Saharan Africa

Year of publication 2016

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 404 p.

Author Edited by Benjamin Davis (FAO), Sudhanshu Handa (University of North Carolina and UNICEF), Nicola Hypher (Save the Children), Natalia Winder Rossi (UNICEF and FAO), Paul Winters (American University) and Jennifer Yablonski (UNICEF)

Publisher FAO, UNICEF, and Oxford University Press ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Category High-profile

ISBN 978-92-5-108981-1

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Cash transfers have become a key social protection tool in developing countries and have expanded dramatically in the last two decades. However, the impacts of cash transfers programmes, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, have not been substantially documented. This book presents a detailed overview of the impact evaluations of these programmes, carried out by the Transfer Project and FAO’s From Protection to Production project. The 14 chapters include a review of eight country case studies: Keny a, Ghana, Ethiopia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Malawi, South Africa, as well as a description of the innovative research methodologies, political economy issues and good practices to design cash transfer programmes. The key objective of the book is to enhance the understanding of these development programmes, how they lead to a broad range of social and productive impacts and also of the role of programme evaluation in the process of developing policies and implementing programmes.

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