Interventions in highly insecure and fragile contexts are always confronted with the latent risk of not being able to implement the program as intended. Despite its high policy relevance, little is known about the impacts of program disruption or cancellation on beneficiaries. This study uses the unplanned cancellation of the South Sudan Youth Business Start-Up Grant Program to assess the socioeconomic, behavioral, and psychological consequences of a program that fails to be implemented as intended.

This paper investigates the interplay between the Social Cash Transfer Programme (SCTP) and the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) in Malawi. We take advantage of data collected from a seventeen-month evaluation of a sample of households eligible to receive SCTP, which also provided information about inclusion into FISP. We estimate two types of synergies: i) the complementarity between SCTP and FISP, i.e.

The paper explores whether one of the largest programs in the world for Women's empowerment and rural livelihoods, the Indira Kranti Patham in Andhra Pradesh, India, has had an impact on the economic and social wellbeing of households that participate in the program. The analysis usespanel data for 4,250 households from two rounds of a survey conducted in 2004 and 2008 in five districts. Propensity score matching was used to construct control groups and outcomes are compared with differences-in-differences. There are two major impacts.

This report provides results of an impact evaluation of the first phase of the Fiavota cash transfer programme for drought-affected households in southern Madagascar. In 2016, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in partnership with the World Bank and Ministry of Population, Social Protection, and Support for Women (MPPSPF) started giving cash transfers to households with young children. The first phase of the transfer covered 56,729 households and ended in March 2018. A monitoring and evaluation system consisting of a series of surveys (baseline, midline and endline) has

Safety nets in Africa are a popular policy instrument to address the widespread chronic poverty and encourage human capital investments in the education and health of children. Although there have been considerable analyses on the impacts of safety nets globally, particularly in Latin America, less been done on synthesizing results across Sub-Saharan African programs. This study fills this gap by systematically extracting and standardizing the results across impact evaluations for better understanding of what has been achieved using this policy instrument in the continent.

With more than one-fifth of Bangladesh's population living in extreme poverty, surmounting it still remains a substantial predicament for development practitioners. To combat this issue, BRAC initiated the multifaceted Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction programme with a grant-based approach, reinforcing its efficacy with background services such as health and social development. Using propensity score matching, this paper analyses a three-round panel dataset (2002–2005–2008) to evaluate the impacts of the programme.

‘Graduation programmes’ are anti-poverty interventions that aim to set its participants on a virtuous cycle out of poverty. They provide a comprehensive package of support that often includes consumption transfers, asset transfers, access to savings and credit, training and coaching. Training and coaching are mostly focused on income generating activities but also include messaging regarding health, sanitation and nutrition. Existing research suggests that programmes have positive effects on household living standards and assets, including consumption, food security and asset holdings.

It is widely understood that poverty undermines early childhood development (ECD). In turn, poor ECD reinforces intergenerational transmission of poverty. Comprehensive economic strengthening and social protection programmes, such as ‘graduation programmes’, may offer a ‘double boon’: they can improve ECD in the short term and break the intergenerational cycle of poverty in the long run.

To reduce extreme poverty and break its intergenerational transmission, the Government of Tanzania created the productive social safety net (PSSN). The specific objective of the PSSN, which is implemented by the Tanzania social action fund (TASAF), is to increase income and consumption and improve the ability to cope with shocks among vulnerable populations, while enhancing and protecting the human capital of their children.

An ongoing and highly politicised debate concerns the relative efficacy of cash transfers versus food aid. This paper aims to shed light on this debate, drawing on new empirical evidence from Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP). Our data derive
from a two-wave panel survey conducted in 2006 and 2008. Ethiopia has experienced unprecedented rates of inflation since 2007, which have reduced the real purchasing power of PSNP cash payments. Our regression

It is frequently claimed that the most innovative feature of social protection, in contrast to safety nets, is that it has the potential to reduce the vulnerability of poor people to the extent that they can manage moderate risk without external support. This has led to an expansion of large-scale ‘productive safety net’ programmes.

We use a data set from a graduation programme in Rwanda to explore the heterogeneous
livelihood pathways that programme participants follow during and after the programme period. We
show that household characteristics, such as gender of household head and labour availability, will
affect trajectories of change; yet, the impact of initial resources will depend on what outcomes are
being measured and possible complementarities between them. This reinforces the importance of a

Can training and mentorship expand the economic impact of cash transfer programs, or would such extensions waste resources that recipients could allocate more impactfully by themselves? Over the course of two years, a Ugandan nonprofit organization implemented alternative poverty alleviation approaches in a randomized manner.

In 2006 CGAP and Ford Foundation launched the CGAP-Ford Foundation Graduation Program, a global effort to understand how safety nets, livelihoods and microfinance can be sequenced to create pathways for the poorest out of extreme poverty, adapting a methodology developed by BRAC in Bangladesh. The CGAP-Ford Foundation Graduation Program is helping to implement ten Graduation Pilots in eight countries including in Ethiopia, in partnership with local organizations. Impact assessments and/or qualitative research are being implemented in all sites.

Fonkoze’s ‘Graduation’ programme, Chemin Lavi Miyo (CLM), targets extremely poor households in rural
Haiti and provides a comprehensive package of inputs designed to support their ascent out of poverty.
CLM does this through a multi-pronged livelihoods protection and promotion scheme that combines
livelihoods support, social protection, financial inclusion, and the guidance of regular case-manager
visits over 18 months. While the CLM programme has demonstrated high rates of graduation and

The Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement and Market Expansion (PRIME) project, funded under the United States Government’s Feed the Future initiative, was launched in October 2012 in one of the most shock-prone areas of the world, the drylands of Ethiopia. A key objective of the project is to enhance the resilience of households to shocks. In particular, it aims to enable households to withstand and recover from the recurrent climate-related

Social protection policies aim to reduce socio-economic risks, vulnerability, extreme poverty and deprivation, while smallholder agricultural policies focus on improving productivity in crops, fisheries, forestry and livestock and improving access to markets. Both areas of policy are important in poverty reduction strategies, but little attention has been paid to the interaction between them and how that influences their design and implementation.

This study focus on the impact of linking conditional cash transfers to agricultural credit on productive assets accumulation of rural households in Peru

This study seeks to identify synergies and complementarities between conditional cash transfer
programs (CCTs) and productive projects (or rural development programs, RD), such as those
promoted by IFAD, in order to better understand how households react to intervention by both
programs simultaneously, compared to participation in only one program or none at all, in terms
of key variables such as productive factors, poverty reduction, gender equality and financial inclusion. If these synergies are identified, rural development projects could be made more effective in

In this study, authors specifically assess the synergetic effect between Ingreso Ético Familiar (IEF)
and a limited set of productive development programs (PDP) executed by the Solidarity and
Social Investment Fund (Fosis) in Chile, based on the assumption that the collective execution
of these programs has a positive effect on the well-being of the beneficiary households. We also
carried out an institutional level qualitative assessment of the constraints and opportunities in
terms of moving forward towards greater articulation between them