Contains the proceedings of a tripartite conference held in Johannesburg with the aim of discussing the ILO Social Protection Floors Recommendation (No. 202). The Report focuses particularly on: scoping and defining national social protection floor (SPF...
Instituciones y agencias involucradas: International Labour Organization, ILO, Southern African Development Community, SADC, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, FES (Friedrich Ebert Foundation)
The aim of this study is to assess whether the Government of Kenya's Cash Transfer for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (Kenya CT-OVC) can reduce the risk of HIV among young people by postponing sexual debut. The program provides an unconditional transfer...
The Lesotho Child Grants Programme (CGP) is an unconditional social cash transfer targeted to poor and vulnerable households. The primary objective of the CGP is to improve the living standards of Orphans and other Vulnerable Children (OVC) so as to...
Instituciones y agencias involucradas: United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, Transfer Project
This brief brings together the critical mass of evidence that has emerged from recent rigorous impact evaluations of government-run cash transfer programmes in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Most, but not all of the evidence presented here comes from the...
Instituciones y agencias involucradas: United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, Save the Children, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Transfer Project
This brief describes key findings of a four-year research project, From Protection to Production (PtoP), which is implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in collaboration with UNICEF. Oxford Policy Management partnered with FAO to...
Instituciones y agencias involucradas: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, From Protection to Production, PtoP
This report synthesizes the analysis and findings of a set of six country case studies that explore the impact of cash transfer programmes on household economic decision-making and the local economy in sub-Saharan Africa. The six countries are Ethiopia,...
Instituciones y agencias involucradas: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, From Protection to Production, PtoP
This report is a complement study to the Malawi Social Cash Transfer Programme Baseline Evaluation Report, released by the Carolina Population Centre at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Handa et al., 2014). Along with information on the...
Instituciones y agencias involucradas: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, From Protection to Production, PtoP
This report forms one of a set of six country case studies that explore the impact of cash transfer programmes on household economic decision-making and the local economy in sub-Saharan Africa. The research is being carried out under the auspices of the...
Instituciones y agencias involucradas: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, From Protection to Production, PtoP
The Ethiopia Social Cash Transfer Pilot Programme (SCTPP) was introduced in 2011 in two woredas of the Tigray region by the regional Government with the support of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The goal of the SCTPP is to “improve the...
Instituciones y agencias involucradas: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, From Protection to Production, PtoP
Local economy-wide impact evaluation (LEWIE) simulation methods are used to assess the likely impacts of cash transfers on the local economy. When the Social Cash Transfer Pilot Programme (SCTPP) gives money to beneficiary households, they spend it,...
Instituciones y agencias involucradas: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, From Protection to Production, PtoP