This document includes the following chapters:

• Chapter 1: Introduction 

• Chapter 2: Analysing the policy context for social transfers

• Chapter 3: Rooting social transfers within an evidencebased approach

• Chapter 4: The institutional framework for social transfers

• Chapter 5: Gender 

• Chapter 6: Selecting social transfer instruments

• Chapter 7: Programme design

• Chapter 8: Targeting social transfer instruments

• Chapter 9: Designing conditional cash transfer schemes

• Chapter 10: Design issues for public works programmes

• Chapter 11: Available resources, affordability and sustainability

• Chapter 12: Delivery systems

• Chapter 13: Payment arrangements for cash transfers

• Chapter 14: Managing fiduciary risk and protecting programme success

• Chapter 15: Monitoring and evaluation