Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of conditional cash transfer programmes as a social policy intervention.

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of conditional cash transfer programmes as a social policy intervention

Design and implementation features of cash transfer programmes

Transfer value, frequency and duration?
Conditionality?
Payment/delivery mechanisms?
Target groups? Targeting strategies?
Who is funding it?
Other observations?
Shortcomings/benefits of programme?

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South Africa – Child Support Grant (CSG)

https://www.gov.za/services/child-care-social-benefits/child-support-grant
https://www.sassa.gov.za/Pages/Child-Support-Grant.aspx
https://www.unicef.org/evaldatabase/files/The_South_African_Child_Support_Grant_Impact_Assessment.pdf

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Ethiopia –Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP)

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/575366/Ethiopia-PSNP4-Dec-2016.pdf
https://www.odi.org/projects/1144-productive-safety-net-programme-psnp-ethiopia
http://www.moa.gov.et/documents/20181/55322/PSNP5+ESMF++Sept+30+.pdf/73f5aaf0-24f4-48db-805b-3bc6a9dd1a71

 

Cash transfers promoted as the preferred mechanisms for delivery of social protection

– Conditional – i.e. subject to the beneficiaries meeting certain pre-specified conditions such school

attendance, families visiting health clinics, immunisation, etc.

– Unconditional – often to categories (i.e. pensions for the elderly, child support grants, etc.)

– https://stijnbruers.wordpress.com/2019/01/15/the-effectiveness-and-ethics-of-unconditional-cash-transfers/

– https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2779574/

 

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