|
Child Poverty: A Role for Cash Transfers? |
|
|
|
|
|
This report presents the international evidence on the positive impacts of cash transfers as a mechanism for reducing child poverty and vulnerability, provides information on the pilot cash transfer programs launched in West and Central African countries, and discusses the challenges that need to be addressed in designing, implementing and scaling up such programs in the region. Particular attention is given to targeting in countries where poverty rates are very high, direct means testing is impossible and administrative capacity is low. The report also discusses issues concerning the politics of cash transfers, affordability, the linkages between cash transfers and basic social services, the use of beneficiary conditionality, capacity building for program delivery, and monitoring and evaluation mechanisms to learn lessons and generate the evidence needed to marshal political and budgetary support for scale-up. |
|
|
|
|
|
| child rights, children's rights, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), 20th anniversary CRC, child poverty, child protection, social protection, cash transfers, africa |
|
 Recommend this article to a friend |
|
Last Articles at Social Policy
|
|
| See all articles at Social Policy |
|
|
|
 0 Comments of Child Poverty: A Role for Cash Transfers? |
|
|
| | |
|
Translate this page
Facebook
Twitter
delicio.us
Digg
Enchilame
Fresqui
Google Bookmark
Meneame
Technorati
Yahoo!