Community-Based Conditional Cash Transfer

2009

To ensure that children are properly educated and that children and elderly people are healthy: children aged 0–5 had to visit a health clinic six times per year and those aged 7–15 needed to be enrolled in school with attendance rates of at least 80 per cent; elderly people had to visit a health clinic once per year.

5,000 households or 13,000 beneficiaries (2013)

By 2011, TZS900,872,500 had been disbursed for this pilot.

TASAF covers villages in the districts of Bagamoyo, Chamwino and Kibaha, which were the poorest and most vulnerable districts, selected by ranking the following indicators: poverty level, food insecurity, primary school gross enrolment ratio, access to safe water, access to health facilities, AIDS case rates and road accessibility.

Children and the vulnerable elderly people.

Eligible households had an orphan and/or vulnerable child or an elderly person (60 years or older). The selection criteria were based on household characteristics of very poor people, as determined by the local communities. Vulnerable children were those who were abandoned, or were chronically sick, or were orphans (one or both parents deceased), or who had one or two chronically sick parents. Vulnerable elderly people were those with no caregivers, or who were sick or very poor. Priority was given to the following categories: first to child-headed households; second to households headed by an elderly person; and third to households composed solely of elderly persons.

Cash

The amount of benefits varied according to the number of elderly people and vulnerable children in each household, from a minimum transfer of USD12 to a maximum transfer of USD36. A transfer of USD6 was granted for each child and USD12 for each elderly person, leading to an average payment of USD14.50 per household.

Bi-monthly

Community management committees were responsible for making payments to the beneficiary households.

Usually the mother of the children in the household—if present—was the recipient

Community organisations were expected to conduct all activities related to the programme’s implementation. The programme’s evaluation was composed of a baseline survey administered in 40 treatment and 40 control villages in February 2009, a follow-up survey (July–September 2011) and a final assessment (October 2012).