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Book (stand-alone)The household- and individual-level economic impacts of cash transfer programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa 2017
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No results found.This report synthesizes the analysis and findings of a set of seven country impact evaluation studies that explore the impact of cash transfer programmes on household economic decision-making, productive activities and labour allocation in sub-Saharan Africa. The seven countries are Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Results from seven recently completed rigorous impact evaluations of government-run unconditional social cash transfer programmes in sub-Saharan Africa s how that these programmes have significant positive impacts on the livelihoods of beneficiary households. In Zambia, the Child Grant programme had large and positive impacts across an array of income generating activities. The impact of the programmes in Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi and Zimbabwe were more selective in nature, while the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty programme in Ghana had fewer direct impacts on productive activities, and more on various dimensions of risk management . -
DocumentThe Impacts of the Social Cash Transfer Pilot Programme on community dynamics in Tigray, Ethiopia 2014
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No results found.This report presents analysis and findings from a qualitative research case study conducted in March 2014 in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, the last of a six country study of the economic impact of cash transfer programmes in Sub Saharan Africa. Starting in 2011, the Social Cash Transfer Pilot Programme (SCTPP) provides a social protection system through regular and predictable monthly cash transfers (a basic transfer of US$ 7.88) to extremely poor and labour constrained households. By 2014 the SCTPP was reaching over 3,700 beneficiary households in the two woredas (districts) targeted by the programme in the Tigray region, Hintalo Wajirat - a rural woreda-, and the town of Abi Adi. -
DocumentThe impacts of the Social Cash Transfer Programme on community dynamics in Malawi 2014
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No results found.This brief is based on data collected during qualitative field work in March 2014 and forms part of an overall impact evaluation implemented by the University of North Carolina, UNICEF, the Center for Social Research and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The qualitative research is part of a comparative six-country study that explores the impact of cash transfer programmes on household economic decision-making, the local economy and social networks in sub-Saharan Africa as part of the From Protection to Production (PtoP) project. Districts sampled for this study included Salima in the central region, and Phalombe in the south. The study was carried out through focus groups and key informant interviews using participatory methods. A range of selected tools was employed, including social mapping, livelihood analysis, institutional analysis (Venn diagrams) and household income and expenditure analysis.
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