Social protection is widely considered to have a positive effect on children, including supporting improvements in nutritional, educational and health outcomes. Much less is known, however, about the impact of interventions on children’s care.
This article considers the impact of a social cash transfer targeted at poor households – Ghana’s Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme – on child well-being, quality of care and preventing children’s separation from their parents as perceived by programme and non-programme beneficiaries in a context of vulnerability, large households and widespread informal kinship care.
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