Cash Transfers for Orphans and Vulnerable Children, CT–OVC

2004

The, CT-OVC is an unconditional cash transfer , and thus imposes no conditions for households receiving benefits, although at time of enrolment, beneficiaries are told that they were expected to use the money for the care and development of the OVC resident in the household

353,000 beneficiaries (2018/2019)

Almost 8,000 million KSh (fiscal year 2018)

Geographical targeting was determined by the Government of Kenya at the district level, with selection based on relative poverty and HIV prevalence.

 Orphans and other vulnerable children

1) the presence of at least one orphan or vulnerable child (OVC) under the age of 18 with at least one deceased parent, or whose parent or main caregiver is chronically ill; 2) being ultra-poor, defined as belonging to the lowest expenditure quintile; 3) household must not be enrolled in other CT Programmes

A beneficiary may voluntarily exit or be made to exit the CT programmes under the following circumstances/conditions: 1) Where the economic condition of the household is considered to have improved; 2) When a household voluntarily chooses to withdraw from the programme; 3) When it is discovered that a beneficiary gave false information to get into the programme; 4) Failure to collect payment for three consecutive payments with no valid explanation; 5) When the beneficiary moves from the location where they were receiving the payment to a location that is not covered by the programme they are in; 6) When the beneficiary dies, in which case, the household continues to receive the cash for the next three payments ONLY, after which they are required to exit the programme.( this in particular applies to OPCT and PWSD); 7) When a household is no longer taking care of an orphan or vulnerable child under the age of 18 years ( in the case of CT-OVC)

Cash

The level of the transfer was to Ksh 2000 per household in the 2011–2012 fiscal year, which is equal to approximately 20 per cent of monthly household expenditure.

Bi-monthly

The benefits are paid through the Kenya Commercial Bank and Equity Bank and its Agents.

Since the National Safety Net Programme (NSNP) was created in 2013, considerable progress has been made towards achieving the objectives and key indicators of the programme. With regard to M&E, the four cash transfer programmes have all begun to report on the common indicators as set out in the NSNP monitoring framework. Furthermore, each programme now has a functioning MIS that is able to record and report on all pertinent program-related information. Additionally, there are several monitoring and evaluation activities that have taken place by external independent firms or are currently underway to collect additional information on the progress that the NSNP has been making towards achieving its objectives.

Kenya´s Social Assistance Act 24 of 2013.

 The programme´s MIS contains a registration module for both targeting and enrollment that contains beneficiary data. The MIS also has a payment module to make post-payroll checks and reconciliations more efficient, accurate, and timely. In addition, each MIS has a change management module that can produce beneficiary lists that identify households that no longer meet the eligibility criteria. The MISs also contain modules for registering complaints and grievances, and, as mentioned previously, they are currently being decentralized to the county level to improve the management of incoming data from the local level. Additionally, each MIS is able to support M&E by being able to produce reports on any data of interest. Finally, the programme MISs are able to link to and provide information to the common Single Registry.